‘It’s a lottery. But in this lottery, there’s no multimillion-dollar check to turn your life around. No, this is the worst thing that could happen to you if you’re a ninth grader in the economically and sociologically bankrupt future that creators Koushun Takami and Masayuki Taguchi have dreamed up. Their controversial series about “The Program” - a game that picks random classes and puts them on an abandoned island for a televised fight to the death - has drawn an incredible following in Japan. Is America ready for it? Are you ready for it?’

Volume one of the manga series based on Koushun Takami’s 1999 dystopian horror novel. Collects chapters 1-8.

Read once and stored on a bookshelf since. In practically new condition.

Fourth TokyoPop printing, adapted to English by American comic legend Keith Giffen (co-creator of Lobo and Rocket Raccoon).