So I finally saw battle royale (the first movie not the sequel), and it made me wonder what on earth I was doing in high school English class, debating the symbolism of the conch shell in Lord of the Flies, when I could have just watched battle royale instead. I learned the valuable lesson that if I ever have a kid whose high school teacher looks like ‘Beat’ Takeshi, I should enroll that kid in survival/weapons training right away.

I also wondered how to extend the set-up of battle royale to the library. Perhaps instead of teaching a class on research, you could strip mine the library, give each student a randomly selected resource (one would get a volume of the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, one would get a Hungarian-English dictionary, one would get an obscure congressional hearing) and then they would be told to RESEARCH OR DIE! I think that the students who survived would be very information literate, if somewhat traumatized.

Which Battle Royale Character are you?

I’m Mimura, hacker and chemical weapons expert

“It’s time we started our own struggle.”
- #19 Mimura

Which Battle Royale Character are You?
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