Btooom!

Btooom! is a Japanese manga series written by Junya Inoue and serialized in Weekly Comic Bunch and later in Monthly Comics Bunch.

Story

Sakamoto Ryōta 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, Ryōta sees someone and calls out for help. The stranger responds by throwing a bomb at him! Now Ryōta 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 Ryōta be able to survive long enough to figure out how and why he ended up here?

Characters

This is a list of all characters in the Btooom! manga series

Protagonists

• Ryōta Sakamoto

Ryōta Sakamoto is the protagonist of the manga Btooom!. He is an elite player of the Btooom! game and has been nominated to participate in the real life Btooom! game.

• Himiko(Emilia)

Himiko is a Btooom! player and the female protagonist of the Btooom! manga series. She has a crush on Sakamoto and cooperates with him in the Btooom! game. Her real name is Emilia.

• Kiyoshi Taira

Kiyoshi Taira is one of the Btooom! players.He was a Real estate agent before his participation in the game.

Antagonists

• Kōsuke Kira

Kōsuke Kira is one of the Btooom! players. He is Yoshihisa Kira's son.

• Masashi Miyamoto

Masashi Miyamoto was a Btooom! player. He was killed by Ryōta Sakamoto.

• Nobutaka Oda

Oda is an old school-pal of Sakamoto. He was his best friend in high school and they often hung out together. Back then, he was competitive, good at everything, whether it be sports or grades, extremely popular with both guys and girls and always cheerful

• Masahito Date

Date was a doctor who worked at the same hospital as Shiki Murasaki. He was involved in a medical malpractice in the hospital and, after realizing Murasaki was willing to assist with the cover up out of her respect for him, manipulated the hospital management into making her a scapegoat in order to further protect himself.

• Hidemi Kinoshita

Hidemi Kinoshita is a Btooom! player who affiliated with Nobutaka Oda.

• Yoshiaki Imagawa

Yoshiaki Imagawa was a Btooom! player. He was killed by Ryōta Sakamoto.

• Sōichi Natsume

Natsume-san has a large forehead and a fair amount of wrinkles. He has small eyes and wears rectangle glasses. His hair is short and sided to the right. He wears like a stereo-typically lawyer, with a white, buttoned shirt and black pants, accompanied by black suspenders.

• Yoshihisa Kira

Yoshihisa Kira was one of the Btooom! players and the father of Kōsuke Kira. He was killed by his son.

• Mitsuo Akechi

Mitsuo Akechi was a Btooom! player and the man who sexually assaulted Himiko. He was killed by Himiko.

Other characters

• Shiki Murasaki
• Isamu Kondō
• Unnamed woman
• Tsuneaki Īda
• Yukie Sakamoto
• Nobuhisa Sakamoto
• Yoshioka-senpai
• Miho
• Arisa
• Yuki

Trivia

• Many, if not all, names of the characters are taken from historical figures from Feudal Japan, mostly of the Edo or Sengoku period.