Battle Royale cover art

Battle Royale

Preview

£0.00 for first 30 days

Try for £0.00
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Battle Royale

By: Koushun Takami, Yuji Oniki - translator
Narrated by: Mark Dacascos
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £16.99

Buy Now for £16.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

Battle Royale, a high-octane thriller about senseless youth violence in a dystopian world, it is one of Japan's best-selling - and most controversial - novels. As part of a ruthless program by the totalitarian government, ninth-grade students are taken to a small isolated island with a map, food, and various weapons. Forced to wear special collars that explode when they break a rule, they must fight each other for three days until only one "winner" remains. The elimination contest becomes the ultimate in must-see reality television.

A Japanese pulp classic available in English-language audio for the first time, Battle Royale is a potent allegory of what it means to be young and survive in today's dog-eat-dog world. The first novel by small-town journalist Koushun Takami, it went on to become an even more notorious film by 70-year-old director Kinji Fukusaku.

©1999 Koushun Takami; Translation copyright 2009, Yuji Oniki (P)2012 Simon & Schuster
Literature & Fiction Suspense
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

Listeners also enjoyed...

Batman: Resurrection cover art
The Invasion of the Body Snatchers cover art
If We Were Villains cover art
We Have Always Lived in the Castle cover art
The Sword of Kaigen: A Theonite War Story cover art
Jurassic Park cover art
A Simple Plan cover art
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes cover art
The Children of Hurin cover art
Mortal Engines cover art
The Colour of Magic cover art
Soul Hunter cover art
The Silmarillion cover art

What listeners say about Battle Royale

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    2
  • 4 Stars
    2
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    2
  • 4 Stars
    1
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    3
  • 4 Stars
    2
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

A literary masterpiece, let down by poor narration.

I like Mark Dacascos, I really do. He's not the world's greatest actor, but enjoyable to watch, nonetheless. That being said, he was the absolute wrong choice to narrate this. Battle Royale is an absolute masterpiece - literally Takami's only work, and Dacascos delivers it like he's got to read it out loud in detention and half-heartedly reads it begrudgingly every time the teacher leaves the room. It... it is not great. He doesn't seem to put any effort into it at all, which is a shame because Battle Royale is spectacular. Oh, well, top novel, though.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Outstanding book well narrated

Such a great book with awesome characters. It has a strange mix of teenage innocence and violence that work brilliantly.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!