![]() ![]() ![]() While most of the students receive guns and knives, some students acquire relatively useless items like boomerangs, some common dartboard darts, or a fork. After being briefed about the program, the students are issued survival packs (along with a random weapon or a tool) and sent out the island one by one. Under the guise of a 'study trip', a group of students from Shiroiwa Junior High School (城岩中学校 Shiroiwa Chūgakkō), a junior high school operated by the fictional town of Shiroiwa (in Kagawa Prefecture), are corralled onto a bus and gassed, only to awaken in a school on an isolated, evacuated island, wearing metal collars around their necks. In theory, after seeing such atrocities, the people will become paranoid and divided, preventing an organized rebellion. ![]() A character discovers that the program is not an experiment at all, but a means of terrorizing the population. The program was created, supposedly, as a form of military research, though the outcome of each battle is publicized on local television. From time to time, fifty randomly selected classes of secondary school students are forced to take arms against one another until only one student in each class remains. Battle Royale takes place in an alternate timeline according to the book's prologue, Japan is a police state, known as the Republic of Greater East Asia (大東亜共和国 Dai Tōa Kyōwakoku). ![]()
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