Junya Inoue

With multiple forces at work, the situation surrounding "BTOOOM! GAMERS"takes a turn for the complicated. In the control room, a psychological battlebetween Tyrannos Japan and Iida heats up. Online, cyber warfare ensues betweenthe foundation, which is attempting to hack the system, and Perrier, who erectsa firewall. And then on the island, the drone unit, led by Xaviera, clashesexplosively with Sakamoto and his team, which holds the line with BIMs. In threebattles that won't easily be won, who holds the key to the overall war...?

A new menace attacks the players... Even as Oda severs his ties to the past and splits up from him, Okita stands his ground. However, an unexpected ending awaits them both. The stage once again returns to the final day of the game, and a new battle breaks out!! The surviving players are few, a new weapon is deposited along with its operator, and a new item may be acquired upon the destruction of the new weapon... On the island, fate and fighting intersect. And there's a new development off the island as well!! One more battle enters its next stage...thanks to the actions of a single, precious sacrifice...

Limiters down... Soga's death crushes Ryouta, freeing him from whatever was subconsciously holding him back. With thoughts of kindness and humanity left by the wayside, he zeros in on what it will take to beat the game most efficiently. In the process, he faces off against the duo of Kira and Tougou. How will Kira handle having his back to the wall now that he's grown up a little?! The dust settles on the island following the rule change, and a new team is formed! And the veil is lifted on Oda's unspoken past, as a new arc begins and an old face from Oda's past joins the fray!

The equilibrium on the island has been greatly thrown off by Takanohashi's sudden announcement. There's only one day to go before the game is up, and only three people left who can beat it...leaving the players bewildered by this sudden rule change. But that bewilderment turns into anger and leads to suspicion, causing the bonds between players start to fray. And when Himiko is wandering around the island, looking for Ryouta, another stray catches sight of her... Will Himiko ever be reunited with Ryouta?! Meanwhile, Ryouta himself is assaulted by a tragedy born out of suspicion!!

One wrong move, and it's all over!! The death game 'BTOOOM!' charges headlong into the final phase!! Ryouta survives a fierce battle against his sworn ally, Kiyoshi Taira, but the scars left on his heart run deep. Meanwhile, Kousuke Kira, hungry for a rematch with Ryouta, wanders the island looking to get back into the game. But when he's cornered by a mysterious group with unfamiliar BIMs and a merciless team strategy, the devious junior high schooler will have to think fast if he wants to live long enough to settle the score with world ranker SAKAMOTO...!!

The demonic death game finally reaches a climax!! Sakamoto and Himiko have thus far succeeded in hanging on to their lives on the mysterious island battlefield, using their BIMs to compete in the murderous gameplay of live-action 'BTOOOM!' The two find themselves pitted in a life-or-death struggle with Date, a victor from an earlier round, who has all sorts of knowledge about the game unfolding around them. After being cornered by Date, they escape his clutches and rush to the side of their third ally, Kiyoshi Taira, only to find that his state of terror and his horrific wounds have caused him to lose his mind...?!

How will Sakamoto confront the demon doctor?! In 'BTOOOM!', a twisted live-action game of survival underway on a mysterious deserted island, actual people must use bombs to murder their opponents in order to live. Ryouta Sakamoto has overcome countless near-deaths in this game, while finding allies in Himiko and Kiyoshi Taira as he searches for a way out. But after Masahito Date, a former doctor who treats the injured Taira, is welcomed to the group, Ryouta begins to see the doctor's true colors...!! Combining his past experience of having already beaten the game once with his wicked shrewdness, this demon doctor starts to eat away at the trust between Ryouta and Himiko. How will they beat Date and his sinister scheme?!

By all counts, Ryouta Sakamoto is a loser when he's not holed up in his room, bombing things into oblivion in his favorite online action RPG. But his very own uneventful life is blown to pieces when he's abducted and taken to an uninhabited island, where he soon learns the hard way that he's being pitted against others just like him in a explosives-riddled death match! How could this be happening? Who's putting them up to this? And why!? The name, not to mention the objective, of this very real survival game is eerily familiar to Ryouta, who has mastered its virtual counterpart-BTOOOM! Can Ryouta still come out on top when he's playing for his life!?

Ryouta casts aside his longacquaintance with Oda, and with it his hesitation, as he goes alone to confronthis former friend and rival, who has taken Kaguya and Uesugi hostage. Meanwhile,Himiko and Kira hatch a plan to save their captured allies. But the choiceRyouta makes will have dire consequences for everyone involved, and even hemight not emerge from this final battle unscathed... Who will be left standing asthe curtain falls on this explosive drama?!

Oda has taken Kaguya andUesugi hostage, and it's up to Ryouta to persuade him into believing there's noneed to fight. Making his job harder, however, is Takanohashi, who fans theflames of their rivalry by declaring their duel a proxy war between the East andthe West. Meanwhile, Perrier attempts to rescue the hostages, but approachingUesugi only leads to disaster... The fate of the players and the destruction ofthe THEMIS Project hinges on Ryouta, but will his ideals be enough to make ahappy ending reality?

The battle between TyrannosJapan and the players rages on dual fronts! As Perrier clashes with Tomie forcommand over the game, the Queen's elite combat unit bears down on Iida andRyouta's stepfather, who struggle to maintain their hold on the control room. The players on the island are up against it too, sustaining a barrage from yetanother type of drone with unique weaponry that yields major losses to theirdwindling numbers. Regrouping afterward proves no easy task, especially whenRyouta squares off with his greatest rival and is left with agonizingly fewchoices...

The calm before thestorm... It's the beginning of the endas Perrier's troops arrive on the island to rescuethesurviving players. Sakamoto and hisfriends are relieved the killing is finallyover...oris it? An unidentifiedaircraft is approaching the island, carrying the US Army'sdronetroops. Xaviera is looking for arematch--will the island become their collective grave afterall?!

The explosive free-for-all continues in Volume 22 of BTOOOM!!

As things get worse forSakamoto and Himiko, Sakamoto finally accepts the truth! But with Kira chasinghim down, will he even be able to survive?

A hero's laststand... Years ago, Tougou lost theentire team under his command in the line of duty. Carrying the weight of theirsouls on his back, he's tried to make it through the Game with honor whileprotecting those most vulnerable. Now, back up against the wall, he'll risk itall for a chance at redemption. Only one man is walking away from this battle tothe death...