There are usually two problems with works of battle royale genre. One is that most of characters only serve as cannon fodder and are seldom developed in any way. The other one is that my designating the protagonist, the reader can very much assume who is likely to survive until the end (spoiler: it would be the protagonist).
Juuni Taisen dodges both of these problems by one decision – there isn’t a central protagonist. Rather than that, the narration is switching from character to character. Not only this makes it likely that even the current narrator might get killed and increases the stakes and unpredictability ...
Alternative TitlesJapanese: 十二大戦 InformationType: Novel Volumes: 1 Chapters: 12 Status: Finished Published: May 19, 2015 Genre: Action Theme: Survival Serialization: None Authors: NISIO, ISIN (Story) StatisticsScore: 6.791 (scored by 140 users) 1 indicates a . Ranked: #119312 2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #23925 Members: 448 Favorites: 6 Resources |
|