Battle Royale

Kawada Shougo

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Boy #5 Shougo Kawada, portrayed as a loner within the class ranks, is a transfer student. He is put in Class B about two months before the program takes place. He is the winner of a previous program, 2 years prior.Shougo is a transfer student in all three...

Kiriyama Kazuo

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The mangas primary antagonist, Kazuo Kiriyama is a ruthless killer, who is also a savant with no feelings of remorse. He also possesses a genius level I.Q., mastering things such as playing the violin in minutes, and has an uncanny ability to adapt to sit...

Mimura Shinji

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Boy #19 Shinji Mimura uses his intellect to invent an escape plan. His first plan is to hack into the government's computer and disable their collars, and then bomb the school. He is unsuccessful at hacking into the computer, since he discusses his plan w...

Nakagawa Noriko

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Girl #15 Noriko Nakagawa is the story's primary female character and Shuuya's first companion. She is a quiet, reserved girl.She is shot in the lower leg by Yonemi for attempting to help Nobu, and also gets ill. Although she does not realize it, she manag...

Nanahara Shuuya

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Boy #15 Shuuya Nanahara is the primary protagonist. He has witnessed a good deal of troubling events throughout his life. His father was killed by the government for struggling against the regime, and his mother died when he was in third grade. When the r...

Souma Mitsuko

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Girl #11, Mitsuko Souma is beautiful and seductive on the outside yet inside, shes a hollow shell, having been left damaged after suffering years of physical and sexual abuse from her stepfather. She is said to be the most beautiful girl in school with he...

Sugimura Hiroki

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Boy #11 Hiroki Sugimura has a black belt in Kung Fu and spends most of the program time looking for Takako Chigusa, his best friend, and Kayoko Kotohiki, the girl he loves.When he finds Takako, she is near death, and he comforts her. He does find Kayoko, ...

Akamatsu Yoshio

Supporting

Boy #1 Yoshio Akamatsu is the first student to leave the school where they are briefed in all versions of the series.The novel describes Yoshio, the largest student in Class 3-B, as "the timid type." Prior to the game, many students targeted Yoshio with p...

Anno Ryouko

Supporting

Ryouko Anno is the superintendent of the Charity House, a Roman Catholic orphanage. She acts as guardian to Yoshitoki and Shuuya. In the manga and novel, the teacher (Sakamochi in the novel, Yonemi in the manga) says that he raped her when she objected to...

Chigusa Takako

Supporting

Girl #13 Takako Chigusa is a character in the novel Battle Royale, and the film and manga of the same name. In the English-language manga she is nicknamed Taka. Chigusa has B-type blood.Takako is one of the class of third-year students at the fictional Sh...

Etou Megumi

Supporting

Megumi Eto is Girl #3.In the novel and manga Megumi is often bullied (especially Hirono Shimizu). During the game, she hides in an abandoned house. She tries to use her cellular phone to call her parents, but the teacher answers instead.In the novel, Megu...

Fujiyoshi Fumiyo

Supporting

Girl #18 Fumiyo Fujiyoshi is the quiet, caring nurse's aid.She is caught whispering during the presentation, and Kamon throws a knife into her forehead. She is the second student to be killed. She is good friends with Yukie Utsumi. Yutaka has a crush on h...

Hatagami Tadakatsu

Supporting

Boy #18 Tadakatsu Hatagami is a tall, athletic boy who is friends with Yuuichirou. The two hide together.In the novel, Tadakatsu played on the baseball team. Shuuya was Tadakatsu's friend. The two stopped seeing each other after Shuuya quit baseball and b...

Hayashida Masao

Supporting

Masao Hayashida is the teacher of Class 3-B at Shiroiwa Junior High School.He is executed when he pleads for the lives of the 3-B students.He is nicknamed "Dragonfly" because of his glasses.(Source: Wikipedia)...

Iijima Keita

Supporting

In the novel and manga, Boy #2 Keita Iijima is a loner who is a former friend of Shinji Mimura. The two have had a falling out, due to Keita's spite in refusing to help fight street gang harassing Shinji.When Keita wishes to join Yutaka Seto and Shinji, S...

Inada Mizuho

Supporting

Girl #1 Mizuho Inada spends most of her time living in a fantasy world, thinking of herself as a beautiful warrior. On the island, her mind breaks down and she begins to actually believe in the fantasy.In the novel, while believing she is an enlightened w...

Kamon Yonemi

Supporting

Yonemi Kamon is a government employee who is the administrator of the current Battle Royale program. He briefs the students on the rules of Battle Royale. He is a vile and sadistic man, as he kills two students because they annoy him. He is also overtly l...

Kanai Izumi

Supporting

Girl #5 Izumi Kanai is a student.In the novel, Izumi is a girl who is part of a non-distinct group of girls referred to by the novel as "the neutrals." Izumi's father is a town representative. The novel describes her as a "preppy."In the novel and the Jap...

Kitano Yukiko

Supporting

Girl #6 is a feminine, domesticated girl who likes to bake cakes for her best friend Yumiko.She has a crush on Shuuya. On the island, she and Yumiko decide to use Yumiko's megaphone to call the other students and discuss things as a group. However, this a...

Kotohiki Kayoko

Supporting

Girl #8 Kayoko Kotohiki is a playful, energetic girl who is a member of a flower arrangement class. She is unaware that Hiroki has a crush on her. She hides during most of the game, avoiding confrontation, until Hiroki finds her.In the novel and film, the...

Kuninobu Yoshitoki

Supporting

Boy #7, Yoshitoki Kuninobu, is Shuuya's best friend. He is cheerful and does not lose his temper easily.He is killed by Kamon/Sakamochi/Kitano before the game begins.In the novel and manga, after the teacher reveals that he has raped Yoshitoki's guardian ...

Kuramoto Youji

Supporting

Boy #8 Youji Kuramoto is a quiet boy in a relationship with Yoshimi Yahagi.In the manga, they first met at a cinema.In the novel and manga, during the program they have a dispute (Youji claiming he never loved her) and then reconcile, only to both be kill...

Kuronaga Hiroshi

Supporting

In the novel and manga, Boy #9 Hiroshi Kuronaga is a member of Kiriyama's street gang.After being told told by Kiriyama to meet with the other gang members at a certain point on the island, he, along with the other gang members, is killed by Kiriyama. He ...

Kusaka Yumiko

Supporting

Girl #7 is an athletic tomboy and Yukiko's best friend. She has a crush on Shuuya, but does not want to admit it to Yukiko, since Yukiko likes him, too.On the island, she and Yukiko decide to use her megaphone to call the other students and discuss things...

Matsui Chisato

Supporting

Girl #19 Chisato Matsui is one of the class of third-year students at Shiroiwa Junior High School in Shiroiwa, Kagawa Prefecture. The novel describes Chisato, a member of a non-distinct group of girls referred to by the novel as "the neutrals," as "always...

Minami Kaori

Supporting

Girl #20 Kaori Minami is a girl with pimples who likes the pop idol Junya Kenzaki. She is friends with Megumi and Mizuho, although Mizuho's fantasy games annoy her.On the island, Kaori loses her sanity after killing a cat, and she gets into a gun fight wi...

Motobuchi Kyouichi

Supporting

Boy #20 Kyouichi Motobuchi is an intelligent but stuck-up student. He is the class representative and the son of a government official (he thought that he could not be selected for a Battle Royale because of his father's station).He attacks Shuuya, but is...

Nakagawa Yuka

Supporting

Girl #16 Yuka Nakagawa is a chubby, cheerful girl who hides in an abandoned lighthouse with Yukie Utsumi, Haruka Tanizawa, Chisato Matsui, Yuuko Sakaki, and Satomi Noda.They then find Hiroki holding Shuuya. Shuuya's injured.They take in Shuuya and prepare...

Niida Kazushi

Supporting

Boy #16 is a sleazy, awkward boy.In the novel he is a member of the soccer (football) team.Kazushi kills Yoshio after finding him unconscious, and then comes upon Takako Chigusa. In the novel and manga, aside from desiring to rape Takako Chigusa, he attem...

Noda Satomi

Supporting

Girl #17 Satomi Noda is a model student. Satomi wears wire-rimmed glasses which the novel says fits her "calm, intelligent face."Satomi hides in a lighthouse with several other girls. After Yuuko Sakaki tries to poison Shuuya Nanhara, but accidentally kil...

Numai Mitsuru

Supporting

In the novel and manga, Boy #17 Mitsuru Numai is Kiriyama's loyal second-in-command in the street gang.He was a harsh classmate, After Kiriyama tells the gang to meet at a certain point on the island, Mitsuru happens upon the dead bodies of his fellow gan...

Oda Toshinori

Supporting

Toshinori Oda is Boy #4.In the novel and manga, little more than an ugly rich kid (his father owning a successful produce company) with high views of himself, Toshinori sets out to preserve his talents with the violin. Toshinori hates the students in his ...

Ogawa Sakura

Supporting

Girl #4 Sakura Ogawa is one of the most attractive girls in the class, and Kazuhiko's long-term girlfriend. The novel describes Sakura and Kazuhiko as "the most intimate couple in the class."She and Kazuhiko meet on the island and decide to kill themselve...

Onuki Keiko

Supporting

Keiko Onuki is Shougo Kawada's girlfriend from his previous school in Kobe; Keiko was in Shougo's class when the two were in a Battle Royale.In the novel, Shougo loses track of Keiko; Shougo believes that Keiko felt afraid of him. Shougo later discovered ...

Ooki Tatsumichi

Supporting

Boy #3 Tatsumichi Ooki cracks under the pressure of the situation in all of the versions.Ooki is a member of the school's handball team. After the game starts, he attempts to kill Shuuya and Noriko. After a fall with Shuuya, his weapon becomes lodged in h...

Sakaki Yuuko

Supporting

Girl #9 Yuuko Sakaki is a troubled girl with big ears, who witnesses Ooki's accidental death and blames Shuuya for it. Later, she joins up with several other girls and hides in an abandoned lighthouse.When the girls find Shuuya and bring him in, she poiso...

Sasagawa Ryuuhei

Supporting

In the novel and manga, Boy #10 Ryuuhei Sasagawa is a member of Kiriyama's street gang with long hair.After being told told by Kiriyama to meet with the other gang members at a certain point on the island, he, along with the other gang members, is killed ...

Seto Yutaka

Supporting

Boy #12 Yutaka Seto, the class clown and the shortest boy, allies with Shinji Mimura and helps him gather the materials for the bomb plan.In the novel, Yutaka has a crush on Izumi Kanai.In the manga, because the teacher killed Fumiyo Fujiyoshi, his crush,...

Shimizu Hirono

Supporting

Girl #10 Hirono Shimizu is a rebellious girl.In the manga and novel, the girl with spiked hair has been involved with prostitution and drugs. On the island, she is attacked by Kaori Minami, and it is briefly stopped by Shuuya.In the novel, she shoots Kaor...

Takiguchi Yuuichirou

Supporting

Boy #13 Yuuichirou Takiguchi, an otaku, is very nave and a bit too friendly. He hides with his friend Tadakatsu.In the novel and manga, when Mitsuko attempts to kill Tadakatsu, they capture her. Yuuichirou sympathizes with Mitsuko, and intervenes wh...

Tanizawa Haruka

Supporting

Girl #12 Haruka Tanizawa is Yukie's best friend. The novel describes Haruka, a member of a non-distinct group of girls referred to by the novel as "the neutrals," as "exceptionally tall."She hides with Yukie and several other girls in an abandoned lightho...

Tendou Mayumi

Supporting

Girl #14 Mayumi Tendou is an attractive girl who is friends with Izumi Kanai and Yukie's gang.She is quickly killed by Yoshio as she exits the school. Perched on the roof, he shoots her with an arrow through the head. Her corpse is the first thing Shuuya ...

Tsukioka Akira

Supporting

Boy #14 Akira Tsukioka is the sole homosexual in the class.In the novel and manga, he is member of Kiriyamas street gang. His father owns a gay bar and he often entertains in it. He views himself as if he is a woman inside, and is incredibly narcissistic....

Utsumi Yukie

Supporting

Girl #2 Yukie Utsumi is an intelligent, caring girl. She is best friends with Haruka. In the novel she is a member of a non-distinct group of girls referred to by the novel as "the neutrals."During the game, she gathers Haruka and several other girls and ...

Yahagi Yoshimi

Supporting

Girl #21 Yoshimi Yahagi is a rebellious girl with wavy, long hair and is in a relationship with Youji Kuramoto (they met while watching a movie).Yoshimi Yahagi is one of the class of third-year students at the fictional Shiroiwa Junior High School. She wa...

Yamamoto Kazuhiko

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Boy #21 Kazuhiko Yamamoto is Sakura's long-term boyfriend. The novel describes Kazuhiko and Sakura as "the most intimate couple in the class."The two decide to kill themselves by jumping off a cliff. In the novel the two jump when they hear a person appro...