I honestly stopped reading the article once you stated that you used the movie script of Battle Royale for comparison against the books of the Hunger Games. This was because you "didn't have a copy of Takami's book handy", was the $11 on Amazon going to break the budget? This article holds about as much validity as…

You've forgotten a bunch of things. Like the protagonists never killing anyone out of any other reason but self-defense. Like heavily relying on very competent sociopathic competitors so the protagonists never have to kill anyone "nice" and lose the audience's sympathy. Like that both stories end with more than one…

I haven't seen The Hunger Games, but if this list is to be believed, The Hunger Games derives a lot more from Battle Royale the book, rather than the movie. There is no semi-sympathetic Kitano in the book, but absolutely vile Kinpatsu Sakamochi, a self-alledged killer and rapist who runs the game. The purpose of the…