User blog comment:BloodHunter99/The Hunger Games = Battle Royale/@comment-5480819-20120915092514/@comment-5480819-20120917132307

2. The characters are hardly alike.

3. That is knowledge from the future books. We're talking about the first book here, and about the arena, obviously. Katniss' feelings hardly turn into love at the end of the first book.

4. What are you talking about? Is he alive on the boat? Then it's 3.

5. But there is no such thing as a bloodbath in Battle Royale. Bloodbath is a term significant only to The Hunger Games. Feel free to give me an example of a scene in BR and I will tell you why it's not a bloodbath.