バトル・ロワイアル [Batoru Rowaiaru / Battle Royale]

In this manga adaptation of Koushun Takami's novel, forty-two junior high students are forced onto a remote island and ordered to fight to the death. Drawn by Masayuki Taguchi and serialized in Young Champion from 2000 to 2005, the series translates the novel's brutal social experiment into a starkly violent, visually charged comic. Published by Akita Shoten, it remains a defining work of survival horror manga that helped popularize the genre in the early 2000s.