Thursday 22 March 2012

Did 'The Hunger Games' really rip off 'Battle Royale'?


Its inevitable: Every time we start a conversation about Hunger Games, someone always starts a "Battle Royale did it first" argument. It's unavoidable. So we decided to compare both series, to settle this debate once and for all.
Both stories originated as books. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins came out in 2008 and Battle Royale by Koushun Takami was published in 1999. While we didn't have a copy of Takami's book handy, we did get a chance to screen the Battle Royale Blu-Ray release, which is what we're using as basis for most of this debate. So please, if we've missed something vital from Takami's original book, let us know.
Now let's get started, here are all the similarities between the two...
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