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Shuya Nanahara or Shuuya as it is spelt in the manga adaptation, is one of the three main protagonists of Battle Royale.

Personality

Shuya is deeply emotional and fairly sentimental, he runs on impulse and is quick to trust people which is not always a good thing and this almost results in his death several times. He is also very caring and honorable and he is also very easygoing and likable and it is more than once said it is hard to be sad around him even in sad times. He is a dreamer and likes Rock music and playing his Guitar.

Background

In all versions Shuya is an orphan due to different circumstances. In the novel, his parents were killed in a car accident; in the film, his mother left him and his father committed suicide; in the manga they both died of AIDS. He was put into an orphanage where he met his best friend Yoshitoki Kuninobu.

He has seen some nasty things in his past although quite what alternates between versions. He is sporty and over versions has been seen playing Basketball, Baseball and Football. While in the orphanage, in the novel and manga, he sees a Program update and is told its a bad lottery.

He is young when he goes into care in the novel and manga, but he is already 14 in the film. He meets his other friends Shinji Mimura, Hiroki Sugimura, Yutaka Seto, and Noriko Nakagawa in different ways in all the versions but in all he thinks very highly of them and is thought highly of before the Battle Royale program.

He also learns how to play the guitar while in the orphanage, and has a serious dream of becoming a rock star even though Rock n roll is outlawed.

Soon before the Program, Yoshi tells Shuya he has found a girl he likes. In the novel and manga he means the care worker Ms Ryoko, but in the film he actually says it's Noriko.

Story

In the story, Shuya is in the class picked to go on The Program, and is gassed on the supposed school trip like the others. Shortly afterward, he wakes up, and the psychotic teacher and organizer of the program reveals that the class are the latest participants of The Program. Shuya is supplied with an Army knife to begin with and as he leaves the classroom, he tells Noriko he will wait for her. While walking through the school he is thinking of the best people he can rally to help him escape and avenge his best friend Yoshi, who was killed by the teacher. All he finds when outside is Girl 14, Mayumi Tendo, dead and Boy 1, Yoshio Akamatsu, who has gone mad thinking all the people who used to pick on him would try to kill him. After almost persuading Akamatsu not to shoot him with his crossbow and to come with him, Noriko comes out and Akamatsu tries to kill her. Shuya saves her and they run off into the woods where Shuya dresses the wound to Noriko’s leg and they then agree that they trust each other and they will stick together. Unfortunately the way in which Shuya saves Noriko from Akamatsu results in Akamatsu’s death at the hands of Boy 16, Kazushi Niida.

Over the next few hours Shuya and Noriko team up with Boy 5, Shogo Kawada, and Shuya witnesses the deaths of:

Boy 3: Tatsumichi Ooki, who tries to kill Shuya and Noriko but ends up having his face cut in half with his own machete when he and Shuya fall down a hill.

Boy 20: Kyoichi Motobuchi who has gone mad and is trying to win for his father and almost kills Shuya with his revolver, but is shot twice by Shogo Kawada with his shotgun before he can.

Girl 6 Yukiko Kitano and 7 Yumiko Kusaka: They are gunned down from behind by Kazuo Kiriyama while trying to tell everybody not to play.

Noriko then falls ill and Shuya starts to take her to the island clinic when he sees Girl 10, Hirono Shimizu, and Girl 20, Kaori Minami, having a shoot out. Kaori has gone mad but Hirono expresses an interest in going with Shuya before she is shot by Kaori, who then turns the gun on Shuya after Hirono runs off.

Kawada saves Shuya by shooting and killing Kaori. He and Shuya then treat Noriko at the clinic. Fortunately, Kawada’s father was a doctor so he knows how to treat her.

This event in the book though, occurs with Shuya calling out to both Kaori and Hirono, but Kaori leaves herself without cover as she hears him, allowing Hirono to shoot her and run away.

When leaving the clinic Boy 11, Hiroki Sugimura, turns up and he and Shuya agree that they are on the same side and that Sugimura will come with them later but he is looking for Girl 11, Kayoko Kotohiki. They agree when he finds her he will light 2 fires so that Shuya and the others can see the smoke and then Shogo will use a birdcall device and they will home in it and hook up.

Shuya gets separated from the others shortly after they leave the clinic when Kazuo Kiriyama fires at them. Shuya leads him away from the others but is shot and almost killed. He is saved by Boy 11, Hiroki Sugimura, who turns up just in time to help him. He then leaves him with Girl 2, Yukie Utsumi and the group she has formed in the lighthouse.

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