Top 17 Battle Royale manga you should read right now. [2025 List]

17. Ppalligamgi

The final goal is to be the master of time. But in order to become the master, you must kill and steal. The universe has given powers to a select number of people. The only problem is, you can get your powers taken away... along with your life. The keepers of time will need to protect their powers or pay the ultimate price.

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Fast Forward is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Ppalligamgi

16. Majo Taisen: 32-nin no Isai no Majo wa Koroshiau

32 witches from across history fight to the death on Walpurgisnacht to have their desires fulfilled. Featuring Jeanne d'Arc, Cleopatra, Tomoe Gozen, Marie Antoinette, and more.

The War of Greedy Witches is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 魔女大戦 32人の異才の魔女は殺し合う, Majo Taisen: 32-nin no Isai no Majo wa Koroshi Au, Majo Taisen, Majo Taisen - The War of Greedy Witches

15. Darwin's Game

An unknowing Sudou Kaname is invited to try out a new mysterious mobile app game called Darwin's Game, but later realizes that he's in for more than he's bargained for when he finds out that there's no way to quit the game.

Darwin's Game has finished publishing and it has 125 Chapters. It is also Known as: ダーウィンズゲーム, Darwin's Game

14. Btooom!

Sakamoto Ryuuta is an unemployed 22-year-old who lives with his mother. In the real world, there may be nothing really special about him, but online, he's one of the world's top players of the combat game "BTOOOM"!

One day, he awakes in what appears to be a tropical island, though he has no memory of how or why he has come to be there. While wandering around, Ryuuta sees someone and calls out for help. The stranger responds by throwing a bomb at him! Now Ryuuta realizes both that his life is in danger, and that he has somehow been trapped in a real-life version of his favorite game! Will Ryuuta be able to survive long enough to figure out how and why he ended up here?

has finished publishing and it has 125 Chapters. It is also Known as: BTOOOM!, Btooom!

13. Battle Royale

Under the guise of a "study trip," a group of students from Shiroiwa Junior High School in the fictional town of Shiroiwa (Kagawa Prefecture) are gassed on a bus. They awaken in the Okishima Island School on Okishima, an isolated, evacuated island. They learn that they have been placed in an event called the Program.

According to the rules, every year since 1947, 42 third-year high school students are isolated, and each student is required to fight to the death until one student remains. Their movements are tracked by metal collars around their necks, which contain tracking and listening devices; if any student should attempt to escape the Program, or enter declared forbidden zones, a bomb will be detonated in the collar, killing the wearer. If no one dies in a 24 hour time period, there will be no winner and all collars will be detonated simultaneously.

Battle Royale has finished publishing and it has 119 Chapters. It is also Known as: バトル・ロワイアル, Battle Royale

12. Fate/Zero

Merely recited in fragments in Fate/Stay Night, this is the Fourth War of the Holy Grail 10 years ago. The truth which unfolded behind the battle between Shirou's foster father, Rin's father, and the younger Kotomine Kirei, is finally revealed...

Fate/Zero has finished publishing and it has 79 Chapters. It is also Known as: Fate/Zero

11. Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel

The story takes place in an ordinary Japanese town, Fuyuki City. Hidden from society, there has been a deadly war going on in this town. Seven sorcerers known as "Masters" summon powerful familiars called "Servants," and they all fight each other till the last one. The last one is said to attain the Holy Grail, which will grant them a wish. Only a few know when this War started and what the Holy Grail is, but the war is about to begin again this year.

The main character is Emiya Shirou, who lost his parents in a fire and was adopted by a man who called himself a sorcerer. Admiring his stepfather, he has been training himself to be a sorcerer. However, he had no talent and he could barely use even one type of sorcery. His stepfather has already passed away, and today he's a sorcerer without any skills or knowledge. He is involved in the War of the Holy Grail when he accidentally summons Saber, who is said to be the strongest servant of all...

Heaven's Feel is one of the routes in Fate/stay night. The heroine of this route is Sakura Matou.

Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel], Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel

10. Fate/stay night

The story takes place in an ordinary Japanese town, Fuyuki City. Hidden from society, there has been a deadly war going on in this town. Seven sorcerers known as "Masters" summon a powerful familiar called "Servants" and they all fight each other till the last one. The last one is said to attain the Holy Grail which will grant them a wish. Only a few knows when this War started and what the Holy Grail is, but the war was about to begin again this year.
The main character is Emiya Shirou, who lost his parents in a fire and was adopted by a man who called himself a sorcerer. Admiring his step father, he has been training himself to be a sorcerer. However, he had no talent and he could barely use one type of sorcery. His step father has already passed away, and today he's a sorcerer without any skills or knowledge. He is involved in the War of the Holy Grail when he accidentally summons Saber, who is said to be the strongest servant of all...

Fate/stay night has finished publishing and it has 82 Chapters. It is also Known as: Fate/stay night

9. Juuni Taisen

Twelve warriors based on the Chinese zodiac hold a bloody battle to the death. The last person standing gets to wish for anything they want--riches, fame the sky's the limit.

Juni Taisen: Zodiac War has finished publishing and it has 29 Chapters. It is also Known as: 十二大戦, Juuni Taisen

8. Fate/Prototype: Sougin no Fragments

Prequel to Fate/Prototype.

Young Ayaka Sajyou wakes up to a normal morning breakfast with her father and older sister, Manaka, unaware that a battle of frightening proportions has now begun in Tokyo. This battle is the Holy Grail War, the first of a series of mutual slaughters where seven Magi and seven Servants team up together to fight in a battle royale to win the Holy Grail, a mystical omnipotent wish-granting device to have their own wishes granted.

As each of the Seven Masters summon their Servants and fight, more of the mysteries surrounding the Holy Grail are revealed, culminating in a epic battle that will test loyalties, forge new alliances, and makes one question, who is the real Master in this Holy Grail War?

Fate/Prototype: Fragments of Sky Silver is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Fate/Prototype 蒼銀のフラグメンツ, Fate/Prototype: Sougin no Fragments

7. Imawa no Kuni no Alice Retry

Alice Ryouhei, now a grown adult and married to Yuzuha, who is expected to give birth to their first child any day now, suddenly finds himself back in the Borderlands, the land between Life and Death, after getting into an accident. Will he be able to make it out of the Borderlands once more...?

Alice in Borderland Retry has finished publishing and it has 13 Chapters. It is also Known as: 今際の国のアリス RETRY, Imawa no Kuni no Alice Retry

6. Teito Seihai Kitan: Fate/type Redline

A remake of the comedy spin-off manga Koha-Ace GO: Teito Seihai Kitan.

Teito Seihai Kitan: Fate/type Redline is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 帝都聖杯奇譚 Fate/type Redline, Teito Seihai Kitan: Fate/type Redline

5. Villain Derby

Villain Derby has finished publishing and it has 1 Chapters. It is also Known as: ヴィランダービー, Villain Derby

4. Killing Bites

People have been created that are human-animal hybrids, and powerful businesses bet on the outcome of their duels. College student Nomoto Yuuya's casual acquaintances ask him to drive them around to pick up girls one day, which he soon finds out means by force. The girl they kidnap is an animal-human hybrid named Hitomi, who slaughters all of them except Yuuya. Hitomi is a honey badger, which has been called the most fearless of all animals. Now Hitomi is assigned to stay with Yuuya, for his protection!

Killing Bites is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: キリングバイツ, Killing Bites

3. 100

Armed only with a gun and a frying pan, Ho-Yeong Cheon must survive Battlegrounds: a battle-royale style game with 100 participants, where there’s only one way to win: kill the 99 other players, all of them death-row convicts. Ho-Yeong has another objective besides survival, though -- he must find an assemblyman who was captured while investigating the game, and is now an unwilling participant. Can Ho-Yeong complete his mission on an island with 99 people willing to kill to survive, and emerge the last one standing?

100 has finished publishing and it has 50 Chapters. It is also Known as: Battleground, Battleground: The Sole Survivor

2. Battle Royale II: Blitz Royale

This manga was released straight to tankobon (graphic novel) format, therefore there was no serialization. However, a thirty page preview ran in Akita Shoten's Young Champion Magazine. The problem with straight to tankobon manga is that there is no indication whatsoever of when the next volume might be released.
Though the author is the same, the artist has changed from the original manga. The realistic grit of Masayuki Taguchi has been replaced by the lighthearted cartooniness of Hitoshi Tomizawa. Also, though it is still written by Koushun Takami, the original story is based on the universe of the films rather than that of the original novel.

Battle Royale II: Blitz Royale has finished publishing and it has 19 Chapters. It is also Known as: BRII／ブリッツ・ロワイアル, Battle Royale II: Blitz Royale

1. Shoujo Shikkaku

A mysterious transfer student arrives to the third year, class C for Hanazono Girl's Middle School.
Akane is a plain and simple girl who was tired of her over bearing Friends, and silently thinks that it is o.k for the world to be destroyed. However, all the girls of the class wake up to find themselves in a desolated school, with count down timers. Every girl is tied to another one, and this pair must survive a 7 day Battle Royal. As it turns out, Akane is tied down to the mysterious transfer student.

Friendships crumbles, hopes are lost and sanity is tested as the game starts of with a bang!

Shoujo Shikkaku has finished publishing and it has 9 Chapters. It is also Known as: 少女失格, Girls' Disqualifications