Btooom!

Btooom! (stylized as BTOOOM!) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Junya Inoue. It was serialized in Shinchosha's seinen manga magazine Comic Bunch, where it ran from 2009 until 2018, with its chapters collected into 26 tankōbon volumes. Btooom! follows the adventures of Ryōta Sakamoto, an unemployed and isolated young man who is one of the world's top players in the titular video game. After Ryōta is nominated to participate in the real-life version of the game, he becomes trapped inside it and meets his love interest Himiko, who was his in-game wife. With the help of their fellow players, Ryōta and Himiko must find a way to return home.

Btooom!
Cover of the first manga volume
Genre	Action, survival[1]
Manga
Written by	Junya Inoue
Published by	Shinchosha
English publisher	NA: Yen Press
Magazine	Comic Bunch
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	June 19, 2009 – March 20, 2018
Volumes	26 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by	Kotono Watanabe
Written by	Yōsuke Kuroda
Music by	Keiji Inai
Studio	Madhouse
Licensed by	AUS: Hanabee NA: Sentai Filmworks[1] UK: MVM Films
Original network	Tokyo MX, AT-X, Sun TV, KBS, TV Aichi, BS11
English network	SEA: Animax Asia
Original run	October 4, 2012 – December 20, 2012
Episodes	12 (List of episodes)
Manga
Btooom! U-18
Written by	Hiroki Ito
Published by	Shinchosha
Magazine	Comic Bunch
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	April 2018 – December 2022
Volumes	6

An anime adaptation covering the first 50 chapters of the manga was produced by Madhouse and aired in Japan on Tokyo MX from October 4 to December 20, 2012 and was streamed with English subtitles by Crunchyroll.^[2] The manga series was licensed for an English-language release in North America by Yen Press. The anime series has been licensed by Sentai Filmworks for an English-language release in North America.

Plot

Ryōta Sakamoto is an unemployed 22-year-old young man who lives with his mother Yukie. He is one of the world's top players of the combat video game called Btooom!^[3] One day, he awakes in what appears to be a tropical island, though he does not remember how or why he has been transported there. While wandering around, Ryōta sees someone and calls out for help. The stranger responds by throwing a bomb at him. Ryōta soon realizes that his life is in danger and that he has somehow been trapped in a real-life version of his favorite game. In the game Ryōta meets Himiko, who is another Btooom! player — and Ryōta's in-game wife.

As the series progresses during Iida's investigation with the government agents like Matthew Percier, along with the help from Ryōta's step-father and step-uncle Hisanobu and Mitamura, it is revealed that the developer of Btooom!, Tyrannos Japan, has been associated with the Illuminati-like organization called Schwaritz Foundation, led by Longer Schwart, who is none other than Himiko's biological father, in an attempt to use the players as their test subjects for Project Themis to conquer the entire world through the domination of the virtual world and getting rid of the evidence of their exposed crimes they are currently committing.

It also contains two separate endings for Chapter 121: a good ending and a bad ending. In the good ending, Ryōta survives and plans a marriage with Himiko while the organization is forced to retreat into obscurity, while in the bad ending, Ryōta sacrifices himself for Himiko and the remaining players to survive the game. Both endings contain the same event; after the game the victors are called to the HQ of Tyrannos for a victory ceremony and 10,000,000 yen reward for each player but both outcomes differ. Himiko eventually met her father and he reveals her true heritage, imploring her to rule the world from the shadows alongside him and her chosen half-siblings. Disgusted with her father's actions in creating the death game and causing misery and death throughout the world, Himiko detonates the gas bomb, which she hid after making it back to the mainland, killing her father and ending his organization for good.

Characters

Main characters

Ryōta Sakamoto (坂本 竜太, Sakamoto Ryōta)

Voiced by: Kanata Hongō (Japanese); Tyler Galindo (English)

Ryota is a hikikomori, who was forced to play the game after his mother consented.

Himiko (ヒミコ) / Emilia (エミリア, Emiria)

Voiced by: Suzuko Mimori (Japanese); Brittney Karbowski (English)

Himiko is a high school girl who is also Btooom! player and was Ryōta's in-game wife, though they did not notice this at first. Her real name is Emilia and she is a biological daughter of Lord Longer Schwart, the main antagonist of the series and leader of the Schwart Foundation.

Opponents

Kōsuke Kira (吉良 康介, Kira Kōsuke)

Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro (Japanese); Chelsea McCurdy (English)

Kōsuke Kira is one of the Btooom! players. He is believed to be a three-star player in the world of Btooom!. He was with his father and attorney on the game, until he killed his own father. A yangire, he was arrested for rape and multiple murder. He was sentenced lightly.

Nobutaka Oda (織田 信隆, Oda Nobutaka)

Voiced by: Yūichi Nakamura (Japanese); Crash Buist (English)

Oda is portrayed to be one of the most dangerous Btooom! players. He was once Ryota's friend back in high school, until a recent incident caused them to be expelled.

Ken'ya Uesugi (上杉 謙也, Uesugi Ken'ya)

Ken'ya Uesugi is one of the Btooom! players.

Kaguya (輝夜, Kaguya)

Kaguya is one of the Btooom! players.

Masashi Miyamoto (宮本 雅志, Miyamoto Masashi)

Voiced by: Takaya Kuroda (Japanese); Jovan Jackson (English)

Masashi was a Btooom! player and a war veteran. Dislikes using his BIM, preferring to use his knife. Dies after being exploded using Natsume's BIM, and exposed to a corrosive BIM.

Masahito Date (伊達 雅仁, Date Masahito)

Voiced by: Ken Narita (Japanese); David Matranga (English)

Masahito was a doctor who worked at the same hospital as Shiki Murasaki. He blamed her for his failure, and played her feelings while on the island.

Kiyoshi Taira (平 清, Taira Kiyoshi)

Voiced by: Tōru Ōkawa (Japanese); Andrew Love (English)

Kiyoshi is one of the Btooom! players who speaks in the Kansai dialect. An old man, he initially aligned himself with Ryota.

Hidemi Kinoshita (木下 秀美, Kinoshita Hidemi)

Voiced by: Yōko Hikasa (Japanese); Shelley Calene-Black (English)

Hidemi is a selfish and frivolous Btooom! player who joins forces with Nobutaka until he abandons her.

Yoshiaki Imagawa (今川 義昭, Imagawa Yoshiaki)

Voiced by: Tōru Nara (Japanese); Joshua Sheltz (English)

Yoshiaki was a Btooom! player, who was killed by Ryōta after trying to chase and corner him.^{[importance?]}

Sōichi Natsume (夏目 壮一, Natsume Sōichi)

Voiced by: Issei Futamata (Japanese); Patrick Poole (English)

Kōsuke's lawyer. Soichi has a large forehead and a fair amount of wrinkles. Suffers from drug addiction. Dies when Sakamoto thrown a BIM on him.

Yoshihisa Kira (吉良 義久, Kira Yoshihisa)

Voiced by: Hisao Egawa (Japanese); Christopher Ayres (English)

Yoshihisa was one of the Btooom! players and the father of Kōsuke Kira who he abused, only to be killed by his son.

Mitsuo Akechi (明智 光男, Akechi Mitsuo)

Voiced by: Yasuhiro Mamiya (Japanese); Mark X. Laskowski (English)

Mitsuo is one of the Btooom! players. He tried to rape Himiko, which made the latter kill him.

Other characters

Shiki Murasaki (村崎 志紀, Murasaki Shiki)

Voiced by: Rica Fukami (Japanese); Maggie Flecknoe (English)

A player from the previous round of Btooom!, a year and a half prior to the start of the series and a former associate of Masahito. She lost her arm and lived off the island.

Isamu Kondō (近藤 勇, Kondō Isamu)

Voiced by: Yasumichi Kushida (Japanese); Parke Fech (English)

Kondō is one of the Btooom! players who constantly spoke his mind and argued with Masashi Miyamoto. Killed by Masashi by slitting his throat.

Misako Hōjō (北条 美沙子, Hōjō Misako)

Voiced by: Mai Tōdō (Japanese); Brittany Deans (English)

Misako was a Btooom! player. She was killed by Nobutaka Oda.^{[importance?]}

Tsuneaki Iida (飯田 恒明, Iida Tsuneaki)

Voiced by: Junpei Asashina (Japanese); Leraldo Anzaldua (English)

A former senpai of Ryōta's who works in Tyrannos Japan.

Yukie Sakamoto (坂本 幸恵, Sakamoto Yukie)

Voiced by: Ayumi Kida (Japanese); Shelley Calene-Black (English)

Ryōta's mother. Committed suicide after she sold her own son. Depressed due to her own son's NEET habits, and her partner's company is bankrupt.^{[importance?]}

Hisanobu Sakamoto (坂本 久信, Sakamoto Hisanobu)

Voiced by: Mitsuaki Madono (Japanese); Jay Hickman (English)

Ryōta's stepfather. He learnt that his partner sold her own son and committed suicide, just to give him money.^{[importance?]}

Yoshioka (吉岡)

Voiced by: Hiroyuki Iwasaki (Japanese); Johnny De La Cerda (English)

A young man Himiko knew and trusted. He was part of a band and convinced Himiko to introduce her friends to them, raping them.

Miho (ミホ)

Voiced by: Shiori Mikami (Japanese); Margaret McDonald (English)

Formerly the best friend of Himiko. She betrayed Himiko for the money, and she was raped by the group.

Arisa (アリサ)

Voiced by: Noriko Ueda (Japanese); Rachel Logue (English)

Formerly a friend of Himiko. Betrayed Himiko for money, and her abandoning them.

Yuki (ユキ)

Voiced by: Yukiyo Fujii (Japanese); Brittany Deans (English)

Formerly a friend of Himiko. Betrayed Himiko for money, and her abandonment of them.

Matthew Percier (マシューペルシェ, Mashū Perushe)

A government agent who helps Ryota to expose the dark secret behind Tyrannos Japan's Btooom! "beta test", then led an operation to rescue him along with other remaining Btooom! survivors on behalf of Iida and Hisanobu.

Media

Manga

Junya Inoue began publishing Btooom! in Shinchosha's weekly magazine Comic Bunch in 2009. Comic Bunch ceased publication on August 27, 2010, but returned on January 21, 2011 as a monthly magazine.^[4][5][6] It was announced in the May 2014 issue of Comic Bunch, released on March 20, that the manga would enter its final arc in the June issue, released on April 21, 2014.^[7] Inoue revealed on Twitter that the series will end with the release of its 26th volume,^[8] publishing its final chapter in the May issue of Bunch in March 2018.^[9] In an unusual twist, the author made two unique endings, providing "the dark" and "the light" versions of the ending, so that the readers are able to choose what protagonist Ryota Sakamoto will do at a pivotal point in the manga's story.^[10]

The series is published in tankōbon form by Shinchosha,^[4] and has been licensed for release in North America by Yen Press, who released it between February 2013 and August 2018.^[11][12][13]

With the Btooom! manga ending in 2018, a manga spin-off called Btooom! U-18 was announced in February 2018.^[10] The spin-off is written by Hiroki Ito, who is known for Ouroboros and Impossibility Defense (Funouhan).^[14] The new manga is a sequel to the main story and launched in the same magazine issue that featured the original manga's light ending.^[14][10] The spin-off ended serialization in December 2022.^[15]

Volume list

The series has been collected into twenty-six tankōbon volumes as of August 2018.^[16] All twenty-six volumes have been published in English, with the final volume published in April 2020.^[17] The final chapter was released on March 20, 2018, and the final volume was released on August 9, 2018.^[3]

No.	Original release date	Original ISBN	English release date	English ISBN
1	October 9, 2009[12]	978-4-10-771516-6	February 26, 2013[18]	978-0-316-23267-8
2	January 9, 2010[19]	978-4-10-771537-1	May 28, 2013[20]	978-0-316-24534-0
3	May 8, 2010[21]	978-4-10-771563-0	August 20, 2013[22]	978-0-316-24535-7
4	October 9, 2010[23]	978-4-10-771593-7	November 19, 2013[24]	978-0-316-24536-4
5	June 9, 2011[25]	978-4-10-771622-4	February 18, 2014[26]	978-0-316-24542-5
6	September 9, 2011[27]	978-4-10-771633-0	May 27, 2014[28]	978-0-316-24543-2
7	January 7, 2012[29]	978-4-10-771647-7	August 26, 2014[30]	978-0-316-24544-9
8	June 8, 2012[31]	978-4-10-771665-1	November 18, 2014[32]	978-0-316-33623-9
9	September 7, 2012[33]	978-4-10-771680-4	February 24, 2015[34]	978-0-316-33625-3
10	January 9, 2013[35]	978-4-10-771693-4	May 19, 2015[36]	978-0-316-38047-8
11	May 9, 2013[37]	978-4-10-771708-5	August 18, 2015[38]	978-0-316-25885-2
12	September 9, 2013[39]	978-4-10-771718-4	November 17, 2015[40]	978-0-316-33957-5
13	January 9, 2014[41]	978-4-10-771733-7	February 23, 2016[42]	978-0-316-33966-7
14	May 9, 2014[43]	978-4-10-771746-7	July 26, 2016[44]	978-0-316-27059-5
15	September 9, 2014[45]	978-4-10-771773-3	November 22, 2016[46]	978-0-316-50281-8
16	January 9, 2015[47]	978-4-10-771794-8	February 21, 2017[48]	978-0-316-50283-2
17	May 9, 2015[49]	978-4-10-771819-8	May 23, 2017[50]	978-0-316-50285-6
18	September 9, 2015[51]	978-4-10-771843-3	August 22, 2017[52]	978-0-316-50287-0
19	January 9, 2016[53]	978-4-10-771871-6	November 28, 2017[54]	978-0-316-41278-0
20	May 9, 2016[55]	978-4-10-771895-2	February 27, 2018[56]	978-0-316-52058-4
21	September 9, 2016[57]	978-4-10-771918-8	May 22, 2018[58]	978-0-316-52061-4
22	January 7, 2017[59]	978-4-10-771949-2	August 21, 2018[60]	978-0-316-52065-2
23	May 9, 2017[61]	978-4-10-771980-5	January 22, 2019[62]	978-1-975-32892-4
24	September 8, 2017[63]	978-4-10-772011-5	March 19, 2019[64]	978-1-975-32895-5
25	February 9, 2018[65]	978-4-10-772051-1	June 18, 2019[66]	978-1-975-32898-6
26	August 9, 2018[67][13]	978-4-10-772109-9 (light) 978-4-10-772110-5 (dark)	April 14, 2020[68][69]	978-1-975-30425-6 (light) 978-1-975-30551-2 (dark)

Btooom! U-18

No.	Original release date	Original ISBN	English release date	English ISBN
1	November 9, 2018[70]	978-4-10-772128-0	—	—
2	July 9, 2019[71]	978-4-10-772197-6	—	—
3	May 9, 2020[72]	978-4-10-772283-6	—	—
4	December 9, 2020[73]	978-4-10-772347-5	—	—
5	December 9, 2021[74]	978-4-10-772452-6	—	—
6	March 9, 2023[75]	978-4-10-772580-6	—	—

Anime

See also: List of Btooom! episodes

In June 2012, it was announced that the manga will be adapted into an anime television series by Madhouse, director Kotono Watanabe, and scriptwriter Yōsuke Kuroda.^[4][10] The 12-episode series premiered in Japan on Tokyo MX from October 4 to December 20, 2012 and was streamed with English subtitles by Crunchyroll in North America, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia, the Netherlands and South Africa.^[2] The anime has been licensed for a 2013 home video release by Sentai Filmworks in North America.^[1] The opening theme song is "No pain, No game" by Nano and the closing theme song is "Aozora" (アオゾラ) by May'n. The anime covers the first 50 chapters of the manga (up to Volume 9).

At the beginning of November 2019, the company Televisa through BitMe announced the premiere of 3 new series to its program bar, Among those series was Btooom, the same series was released on November 28, 2019 being dubbed 12 episodes in Latin Spanish and distributed by its video game channel and anime bitme by a large part of South America.

Game

In late February 2017, the BTOOOM! game produced by Masato Hayashi was launched and immediately shot to the top of the charts for free game apps. Despite early success, the game stayed in Japan's top five only for several weeks, and by April 2017 Goboiano reported that the app had “fallen below the top 50”.^[76] The game was last updated in July 2017 and never received an English port for Android and iOS/iPhone.^[10]

Also called Btooom Online, originally developed in 2016, it was a battle royale game, predating PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and Fortnite. The original BTOOOM! manga itself also features a fictional battle royale video game. The manga was in turn inspired by the 2000 Japanese film Battle Royale.^[77]

Reception

Theron Martin from ANN reviewed the first few episodes by making comparisons with Sword Art Online which has similar plot theme but differs in style and takes a "darker, grittier, and entirely more visceral approach" as well as displaying combat "ingenuity" rather than SAO's "powermongering approach". Despite the similarities, Btooom! has fairly typical weaponry that produces "a novel twist which dramatically shapes the strategic moves of the players in interesting ways" and the character choices that sway the audience's impressions of them. Overall, he praised the consistency of thrilling action scenes, the efforts on developing the protagonist and its effective dramatic, intense moments.^[78]

Even though the anime series became popular internationally, the BTOOOM! Blu-ray/DVD discs only sold 338 copies in Japan.^[10][79]

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External links

• Official manga website (in Japanese)
• Official anime website (in Japanese)
• Btooom! (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia