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 | | A Battle Royale fansite Battleroyalefilm.net reported that the creators of the sequel postponed the release of the DVD (originally scheduled for June 9, 2004) to later that year due to "current events" which at the time was the killing by an 11-year-old Japanese schoolgirl known as Nevada-tan, of her classmate Satomi Mitarai. |
 | | Battle Royale takes place in an alternate timeline or future (The book specifies the year as 1997, suggesting an alternate present) where Japan is a police state known as the Republic of Greater East Asia. |
 | | The major difference between the Japanese and TOKYOPOP version is that Giffen rewrote the BR program as a Reality TV show program, rather than keeping it in tune with the BR Act, which leaves plotholes thru the panels of the manga, especially in Volume #15. |
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