Reads from back to front and from right to left.

"Parental advisory explicit content" -- p. [1] of cover.

In a dystopian future Japan, forty-two junior high school students are outfitted with weapons and bid to kill one another until there is only one left standing.

The Program is a brutal military experiment that pits junior high students against each other every year in a brutal battle to the death. Most of the students f

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