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18: Fumiyo Fujiyoshi 11: Mitsuko Souma 4: Sakura Ogawai 18: Tadakatsu Hatagami 11: Hiroki Sugimura 4: Toshinori Oda

MfMIfl 19: Chisato Matsui 12: Haruka Tanizawa S: Izumi Kanai 19: Shinji Mimura 12: Yutaka Sato 5: Stiogo Kawada

BATTLE ROYALE BY

KOUSHUN TflKAMI C MASAYUKI TAGUCHI

VOL. 12

ÎDKYOTOP HAMBURG LONDON LOS ANGELES TOKYO

Battle Royale Mol 12

Created by Koushun Takami Written by Koushun Takami and Masayuki Taguchi

Illustrated by Masayuki Taguchi

Translation -

English Adaptation -

Associate Editor -

Retouch and Lettering -

Production Artist -

Cover Design -

Tomo Iwo

Keith Giffen

Troy Lewter

Joseph Mariano

Vicente Rivera, Jr.

Gary Shum

Editor -

Digital Imaging Manager -

Pre-Press Manager -

Production Managers -

Art Director -

Managing Editor -

VP of Production -

Editor-in-Chief -

President and C.0.0. -

Publisher and C.E.O. -

Rob Tokar

Chris Buford

Antonio DePietro

Jennifer Miller and Mutsumi Miyazaki

Matt Alford

Jill Freshney

Ron Klamert

Mike Kiley

John Parker

Stuart Levy

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Battle Royale Vol. 12 © 2004 Koushun All rights reserved. No portion ot this book may be Takami/Masayuki Taguchi. All rights reserved First reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means

published in Japan in 2004 by Akita Publishing Co, Ltd. without written permission Irom the copyright holders. English publication rights arranged with Akita This manga is a work ot fiction. Any resemblance to

Publishing Co., Ltd. through Tuttle-Mori Agency. Inc. actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

English text copyright © 2005 TOKYOPOP Inc.

ISBN: 1-59532-446-1

First TOKYOPOP printing: April 2005

10 987654321

Printed in the USA

4hh BATTLE ROYALE KOUSHUNTAKAMI&MASAYUKITAGUCHI

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 88: Despair

CHAPTER 83: Awakening

CHAPTER 90: Transcendental

CHAPTER 91: Copy

CHAPTER 92: Inversion

CHAPTER 93: Promise

CHAPTER 94: Incubation

CHAPTER 95: Reason

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'Royale hits all the manga bases (martial arts, creepy old men. panty shots) without being Sailor Moon silly... A-'

- Marc Bernardin, Entertainment Weekly

You cannot fight what you cannot see. You cannot kill

someone who is dead on the inside. It is the defiantly

human animal that is forced to kill without purpose....

When Sugimura realizes that he can’t beat Kiriyama, he

turns to protecting Kotohiki at all costs. But Kiriyama

might Just beat him to the kill, because he has an ace up

his sleeve: Oda’s Kevlar vest!

Meanwhile, Kawada and Shuuya discuss just how dangerous

Kiriyama really may be. But how can you fight

someone who is barely human?

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VOU VERY MUOH.

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THOSE SAME / KIPS ARE N__

60F6 NOW.

PUT I THINK

KIRIYAMA MI6HT PE

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EVEN MAP POOS PO WHAT THEY POPORA

REASON. PAIN, ILLNESS... WHATEVER.

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MEROI' LESS,

AMORAL ANP OOMPLETELY

PISOON- , NEOTEP. i

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BATTLE ROYALE SHIRO IWA Junior High School - Grade 9/Class B - Student Roster

Boys: 21 - Girls: 21 - Total: 42

15: Noriko Nakagawa 8: Kayoko Kotohiki 1: Mizuho Inada 15: Shuuya Nanahara 8: Yoji Kuramoto 1: Yoshio Akamatsu

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16: Yuka Nakagawa 9: Yuko Sakaki 2: Yukio Utsumi 16: Kazushi Niida 9: Hiroshi Kuronaga 2: Keita lijima

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