Btooom!
Btooom! (stylized as BTOOOM!) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Junya Inoue. It was serialized in Shinchosha's seinen manga magazine Comic Bunch, where it ran from 2009 until 2018, with its chapters collected into 26 tankōbon volumes. 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 home.
| Btooom! | |
Cover of the first manga volume | |
| Genre | Action, survival |
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| Manga | |
| Written by | Junya Inoue |
| Published by | Shinchosha |
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| Magazine | Comic Bunch |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | June 19, 2009 – March 20, 2018 |
| Volumes | 26 |
| 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 TV, KBS, TV Aichi, BS11 |
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| Original run | October 4, 2012 – December 20, 2012 |
| Episodes | 12 |
| Manga | |
| Btooom! U-18 | |
| Written by | Hiroki Ito |
| Published by | Shinchosha |
| Magazine | Comic Bunch |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | April 2018 – present |
| Volumes | 6 |
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.