Btooom!
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Cover of the first manga volume
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ブトゥーム! (Butūmu!) |
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| Genre | Action, Psychological, Romance |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Junya Inoue |
| Published by | Shinchosha |
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| Demographic | Seinen |
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Weekly Comic Bunch (June 2009 – August 2010) Monthly Comic @BUNCH |
| Original run | June 19, 2009 – present |
| Volumes | 22 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Kotono Watanabe |
| Written by | Yōsuke Kuroda |
| Music by | Keiji Inai |
| Studio | Madhouse |
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| Original network | Tokyo MX, AT-X, SUN, KBS, TVA, BS11 |
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| Original run | October 4, 2012 – December 20, 2012 |
| Episodes | 12 |
Btooom! (Japanese: ブトゥーム! Hepburn: Butūmu!?), stylized as BTOOOM!, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Junya Inoue. It has been serialized in Weekly Comic Bunch since 2009 and later in Monthly Comic Bunch, with chapters collected into 21 tankōbon volumes as of 2016[update]. 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 to the real world.
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. 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.
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!. 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.
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