Btooom!
Sign in to saveBtooom! (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 f
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- Btooom!
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- Btooom! manga vol 1.jpg
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- Cover of the first manga volume
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- Action, survival
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- manga
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- Hiroki Ito
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- Shinchosha
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- Comic Bunch
- Animanga/Print.first
- April 2018
- Animanga/Print.last
- December 2022
- Animanga/Print.volumes
- 6
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- Volume list
- Animanga/Video.type
- tv series
- Animanga/Video.director
- Kotono Watanabe
- Animanga/Video.writer
- Yōsuke Kuroda
- Animanga/Video.music
- Keiji Inai
- Animanga/Video.studio
- Madhouse
- Animanga/Video.network
- Tokyo MX, AT-X, Sun TV, KBS, TV Aichi, BS11
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- name in kana
- ブトゥーム
- title
- BTOOOM!
- number of parts of this work
- 27
- start time
- 2009-06-19
- end time
- 2018-03-20
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- Plot
- Characters
- Main characters
- Opponents
- Other characters
- Media
- Manga
- Volume list
- ''Btooom! U-18''
- Anime
- Game
- Reception
- References
- External links
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.
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. A sequel, Btooom! U-18, written and illustrated by Hiroki Ito was serialized from 2018 to 2022, and was collected into 6 tankōbon volumes.