Battle Royale
Tokyopop · 2003–2006 · 15 issues
About the series
In 2003, Tokyopop brought Koushun Takami's dystopian novel to American comics, adapting the brutal story of a class of students forced to fight to the death on a remote island. Writer Keith Giffen joined original author Takami and artist Masayuki Taguchi to translate the visceral, high-stakes manga into a 15-issue series that captured the source material's relentless tension and social commentary. Taguchi's detailed, kinetic artwork drives the horror, making this a landmark translation of a modern survival-horror classic for English-language readers.
