Were the authors trying to create an honest portrayal of childhood sexual abuse as they pencilled in all the panty shots? In reality, this volume returns the focus to the fifteen-year-old prostitute (see the cover) with even more gratuitous and whole unnecessary flashbacks to her rape as an even younger child, all illustrated as if the manga is a pornographic magazine. It's so pretentious and bizarre, reading about them talking about honesty through art and what the novel and manga meant to young high schoolers and middle schoolers, acting like they've really, you know, created something momentous and groundbreaking. What makes this volume especially weird is that there's an interview with both authors talking about Battle Royale as if it really is something.
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