Btooom!, Vol. 1

Biographical Note:
Junya Inoue is the manga artist behind a number of horror series for young men, including survival drama "BTOOOM!" and horror mysteries "Otogi Matsuri" and "Youkai Hunter: Yami no Kyakujin."

Marc Notes:
Originally published: Tokyo, 2009.;Reads from right to left.;Ryouta Sakamoto spends most of his time holed up in his room, bombing things into oblivion in his favourite online action RPG. His life is blown to pieces when he is abducted and taken to an uninhabited island, where he soon learns the hard way that he's being pitted against others in an explosives-riddled death match!;Warning: parental advisory, explicit content.;Translated from the Japanese.

Publisher Marketing:
By all counts, Ryouta Sakamoto is a loser when he's not holed up in his room, bombing things into oblivion in his favorite online action RPG. But his very own uneventful life is blown to pieces when he's abducted and taken to an uninhabited island, where he soon learns the hard way that he's being pitted against others just like him in a explosives-riddled death match! How could this be happening? Who's putting them up to this? And why!? The name, not to mention the objective, of this very real survival game is eerily familiar to Ryouta, who has mastered its virtual counterpart-BTOOOM! Can Ryouta still come out on top when he's playing for his life!?