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Btooom!

2012 · 1 season

A tense, gory survival game where every alliance is fragile and the island itself feels like a trap.

Created by: Hitomi Ezoe, Kazuo Nogami
Genres: Animation, Action & adventure, Sci-fi & fantasy
Starring: Kanata Hongo, Suzuko Mimori, Toru Okawa

Overview: Sakamoto, an unemployed young man, is one of the world's top players of an online fighting game called Btooom! One day, he wakes up on what appears to be a tropical island, although he doesn't remember how or why he got there.

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Created by: Hitomi Ezoe, Kazuo Nogami
Genres: Animation, Action & adventure, Sci-fi & fantasy
Starring: Kanata Hongo, Suzuko Mimori, Toru Okawa

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Tone: tensestrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: relentless, 4 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: survival
violence
betrayal
obsession
death
Places: wilderness
sea
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	8
Horror	5
Humour	2
Realism	3
Romance	3
Tension	8
Darkness	8
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: animation, action & adventure, sci-fi & fantasy
Created by: Hitomi Ezoe, Kazuo Nogami, Kotono Watanabe, Hideki Hosokawa, Makoto Kato, Noriaki Saito
Written by: Yosuke Kuroda
Starring: Kanata Hongo, Suzuko Mimori, Toru Okawa, Miyuki Sawashiro, Yuichi Nakamura, Meijin Takahashi
Music: Keiji Inai
Cinematography: Kenji Fujita
Length: 1 seasons, 10 episodes, 24 min each
Network: TOKYO MX
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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