Ultimate Dystopian Showdown: Battle Royale vs. The Hunger Games

Originally posted on The Spectatorial:
With the popularity of its movie series, the infamous rumour has resurfaced that Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games is a (*cough cough*) rip-off of Koushun Takami’s Battle Royale. Rather than nitpick all the similarities (of which there are many), however, let’s just pit them against each other in an ultimate…