If you really stretch, Charlie and the Chocolate factory is a death tournament

I was disappointed you didn't say, "If you hear screaming in the background, that's the death tournament I'm running this weekend".

Hunger games copies tend to forgive their own "battle royales". It's either a magical coming of age ritual, a test to prove oneself, a necessary game to weed out the weak, etc. The hunger games were explicity an evil tool created by evil people who wanted to control the districts. Every single tribute was a victim of the games whether they were a victor or not. In these copies, the evil people are the enemies in the arena and the battle royale is just a fact of life that everyone accepts.

The hunger games really isn’t a rip off of Battle Royal basically because Battle Royal is a critique of Japanese society and Hunger Games is a critique of American society. The only similarity is the death tournaments

I will literally never let The Hunger Games books OR movies die. The series itself is so brilliantly, beautifully crafted. Catching Fire will never be topped.

I think what makes the Hunger Games so good, is that the cost of life has impact on the characters and story. I've only seen the movies, but the start of the tournament was gnarly. I wasn't entertained, it was actually pretty hard to watch. The fact that the rich people are entertained by seeing dead children, really says something about the world. And it also makes the story more realistic. In a lot of action genres, people dying is nbd (unless it's like a best friend, mentor or lover). It gives people the appearance of desensitisation to death. But what if you're actually standing there, seeing it, being in danger yourself? I think the Hunger Games really succeeded in communicating that fear and desperation.

You should definitely do one on Villain Redemption Arc and Hero Corruption Arc. Its amazing and there is so much to explore

Actually both Cato and Clove (Tributes from District 2) volunteer in Hunger Games for fame and honor.

The Hunger Games and Battle Royale came from the same source, simple, The concept of there being only one "winner" has existed since the ancient Romans,the era of the gladiators. + Suzanne tells us she was inspired by the The Tale of the Minotaur,her father used to tell ancient greek stories to her as a child(he was a soldier too) So all of these experiences impacted on her work And this is very clear in Susanne's work,from the names of people to the concepts The Hunger Games is not just another gratuitous bloodbath, it goes further, it is pure social criticism

I think you overlooked one very big reason why Battle Royals are so popular: people love to imagine how well would they do in these tournaments. This is exactly why Squid games and Battle Royal exist in the public consciousness less like "stories about certain characters", and more like a "tournament with certain rules". People love to recreate SG challenges during Halloween bcs they want to know how would they do it (the fact that this one doesn't force you to outright murder people but just asks you to win games makes it easier to imagine yourself in their place). Meanwhile other settings coerce the reader into Raskolnikov's dilemma of "am i cut out for the murder? can i do it?". That brings me to another point about what makes this trope shine: you really have to spend a lot of time with your characters, their feelings, their motivations, and with the world itself before you move onto the game itself. Because if characterization of your MCs isn't strong enough, their personal tragedy will be overshadowed by the games. Yeah, we do talk about Hunger Games as a tournament with its rules, we love playing in Hunger Games simulator and make our blorbos fight to death. But we remember as much of both Katniss and Panem, because we spend a lot of time with both of them before and after the games. Because good death tournament the book has to make sure that personal tragedies and the world-building isn't overshadowed by the game.

In multiple interviews I have seen with Suzanne Collins, she states that the inspiration for the hunger games concept actually came from a story from Greek mythology.

On the whole power dynamic aspect, I never hear anyone talk about how Katniss in the books is actually Indigenous. Her father was. How most of the residents in district 11 are mostly Black and how that district is heavily policed and guarded, and how district 12 is mostly Indigenous people and it's basically abandoned and forgotten. Also, how Peeta, who lives in the "richer" part of town and is white, does have more privilege than Katniss and they have their own power dynamic between them because of this with the bread. It's not just about money, it's about race. It would have been interesting to see all of that explored in the films.

It's been a hot minute since I read Hunger Games, but I'm pretty sure that in the first book, the richer districts had kids who trained outright for the Hunger Games and volunteered annually, because beyond abducting children and then telling them to fight, the capitol also gave a bunch of perks to the entire district of the winner to incentivize compliance from the tributes, such that winning districts faced less starvation and scarcity. It was a combination both of tyranny and exploiting desperation. Without the incentive, you can force kids to fight for their lives, but you risk having too many who would choose to sacrifice themselves rather than turn into a killer just to die before the end anyway. With the incentive, you get a lot of kids who find moral justification in what they're doing.

i remember realising that the greek myth of the minotaur was sort of a battle royale and then assuming that the hunger games was based on that... i actually don't think anyone survived those until Theseus had Ariadne's string but basically a bunch of teens (seven youths and seven maidens) were sent into the labyrinth to appease the appetite of the minotaur once every nine years. i only have a rough idea of the myth lol but i just thought it was a similar sort of story. King Minos's son was killed by Athenians so 'to avenge his death' he commanded that they give 14 of their youths as sacrifices to the minotaur.

I actually very rarely read a magical competition book that actually pulls the trope off, but the death tournament is invariably worse as a trope. Partly because since the hunger games most authors don’t have the balls to kill most of or all of the participants.

I’m sorry I shouldn’t laugh because I’m Dutch too, but when you said Danganronpa with that flat Dutch accent I nearly spit out my water

I'd kill for a video about The Bad Boy. In my opinion, bad boys first started out as Greasers (example: The Fonz from Happy Days). They had a similar feeling to punks in the way that they broke rules and were pretty counter culture. The Bad Boy, was a guy that was poor or from the "bad part of town". He's anti-authoritarian, anti-establishment, and cares more about people than the laws. They wear leather cuz they ride bikes and that's just biker gear. Bad Boys, when done correctly, are supposed to be the rough guy that will risk harm and arrest in order to do the right thing. Bad boys are NOT bigots and definitely not wealthy. If he's toxic, he's not a bad boy. The "bad boy with a heart of gold" isn't "he mistreated me but he loves me" it's "he get's his hands dirty and is rough around the edges but he always stands up for the little guy and does what's right (not what's lawful)." Edit: what people think of nowadays as The Bad Boy is a severely mishandled and bastardized version.

21:56 Great video! One small thing though that does change a bit of the dynamic (its been a long time since Ive read this series so the details are fuzzy) but Katniss isnt the only one to volunteer. Shes just the only one to do so from her district. The higher districts get volunteers because the kids train their entire lives just to compete. Its a money/wealth thing.

Actually in the hunger games there's this thing called the career tributes, which are from the wealthier districts (1, 2 and 4), that prepare themselves in academys and that sort of things all their life, and then they do volunteer and it's really common. They do that because of the prestige they bring if they win and the resocurces they have (much more chances to win), and the treat the capitol gives the tributes; but in the beginning tributes where treated like animals and the hunger games where only promoted as punishment so back then no one would actually volunteer

such relevant commentary cause i see many writers use tools of death, murder, sa and various crimes within their universe/ by characters and don't write on the impact of it all. readers can feel it when authors are just tossing around traumatic 'incidents' and bloody 'plot devices' just for the sake of their story and doesn't empathise their characters or even let us have time to process the emotional journey with the characters/ community in their literary universe

i love that the hunger games does a death tournament that shows how hard it is to bring yourself to kill someone, even in a fight to the death. katniss shows mercy to fox face, and thresh shows her mercy when they could easily have killed one another. suzanne collins also explores the mental toll killing someone directly takes on katniss, showing her nightmares, ptsd, and the substance abuse issues other victors experience, creating a very realistic view of what it would actually be like to experience this world for yourself

One difference between The Hunger Games and gladiatorial games is that the Battle Royale genre is all about killing each other off, while gladiators were too expensive to kill casually. Gladiator matches were to submission. If the host of the match demands battle to the death he'll have to pay for the gladiator, including the cost of training and feeding him. While accidental deaths weren't uncommon, deliberate fights to the death were very rare.

"I made this entire video just as an excuse to rant about this book." Relatable.

Katniss isn't the only person who volunteers for the Hunger Games. It's mentioned that certain districts (the more well-off districts) hold their Hunger Games champions in very high esteem, they're like heroes, and they also have a culture around the Hunger Games, where children will be trained in combat from an early age specifically for the Hunger Games (therefore these districts will usually win the Hunger Games each year too, because they have this huge advantage). So people from those districts will volunteer for the honour and glory (I'm not sure if anyone else volunteers for it in Katniss' year though).

I think you have mis-remembered the rationale for the Battle Royale in the eponymous book. The juvenile delinquency thing was created for the movie. In the book, the Battle Royale was initially instituted as a method of military preparedness (I assume to instill into the population the samurai idea that they were already dead - killing off potential conscripts doesn't seem like a very effective way of strengthening an army), then later it morphed into totalitarian social control to remind the population that the government could kill them at any time for any, or no, reason. As for Roman gladiatorial contests, the purpose changed as time went on. They were originally religious rituals as part of Roman ancestor worship. Similar to many civilizations that killed wives, slaves or guards to serve a potentate in the afterlife, the gladiators were essentially human sacrifices to the deceased to accompany him in death as a sort of bodyguard. The combat part of it was designed to make sure that said bodyguard were good warriors (which is why gladiators were trained for combat). Julius Caesar, for example, held a gladiatorial contest involving more than 300 men for his father's funeral - so many that the Senate imposed a ceiling on the number of people who could be involved because they were concerned that Caesar might have been raising an army (remember, M. Licinius Crassus who defeated Spartacus in the Servile wars was part of the First Triumvirate with Caesar). The bread and circuses aspect of these events likely arose during the Punic wars based upon the idea that having captured Carthaginian soldiers getting killed, or killing each other, in the arena was good for morale, since the actual army was having difficulties with Hannibal in the field. By the time of Imperial Rome, the spectacle had become the point of the thing, and an event no longer needed to be justified by a funeral. Arguably, the early Christians revived the religious aspect of dying in the arena, but for a different reason than, and with a different form of "combat" to, the Republican Romans.

It would be great if Leo started a podcast. I wouldn't mind listening to her voice for hours

I think an interesting trope to explore would be “being transported to another world”, specifically how the protagonists handle this. I feel like a lot of authors don’t realize the weight of the situation of not knowing where you are or how to get home after being isekai’d. I usually see examples of this in visual media, so I wonder how it differentiates with written media.

I read battle royale two months ago and I was WOWED by the similarities to the hunger games, just with amped up gore and more internal character struggles. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes the genre. The intro to the story is the excerpt about the boxing battle royale, and it really sets the stage for the rest of the story as a spectacle for those running it. It’s a genius work, the only downside is the 700 page length… but it’s so worth it!

I appreciated the Battle Royale book because we had all these perspectives of the kids that gave them humanizing qualities. (Spoilers)There were some solo boys at first who attacked others out of desperation, the pacifist girls who wanted to protect each other but were sabotaged by one girl's paranoia, the naive bestfriends who thought they could call their class together, the boys who wanted to fight the authority but was also sabotaged by their infighting, the lovers that tried to protect each other, the delinquents who thought they would band together and pick off their classmates, and the main characters who were just lucky enough to meet someone knowledgeable of the game. It wasn't about the world per se, but how these kids approached the games and how children suffered under fascism. The games were an inhumane punishment/warning to society in both the book and manga, and the delinquency issue was the movie-only rationale btw. Hunger Games only focused on Katniss, but we see how she "played the game" in and out of the Hunger Games, from playing to the camera and crowds and appealing via imagery and fashion. She was also a pawn piece to the rebellion, someone to use as a figurehead and "flagbearer", someone they didn't need as a soldier but only gave the impression of one to inspire the masses. The games never really ended for her when she left the arena. She needed to keep playing or was played. I also enjoy battle royale-inspired anime, if only for the action and gore (I enjoyed the Zodiac Wars but it wasn't groundbreaking or anything). I feel like they can also be fun vibes, no thought, head empty, in battle royale books if they were specifically made to be campy. But I haven't seen that yet, and I wish a book like that was real.

If Suzanne Collins tells the truth we will most likely never know, but the 90:s and early 00:s was a high point for more or less deranged game shows/realities, often with an elimination structure, the idea wasn't that far-fetched. The "Deadly game shows" trope was used already in the early 80:s by Stephen King/Richard Bachman with The Long March and The Running Man, quite prophetic at that time, though they were not Battle Royales.

As others have noted, some writers don’t human very well, and that reflects in their writing.

I clicked so fast that actually scared me how much I love this channel ❤

Not really a trope but I would really like a deep dive into the obsession books (and society) have with romance. Not in a romance books are bad way, but on how books always focus on romantic relationships, place them above platonic relationships and it’s kinda impossible to find a fantasy or YA book without a romance (sub) plot.

You have to read The Long Walk by Stephen King. It's so chilling and underrated and perfectly fits the theme

Nothing does tournaments like shounen mangas/animes. Obviously they're not 'death' tournaments but almost every shounen has a "Tournament Arc" and it became a classic trope in the medium and they're always SO MUCH FUN.

I think marriage of convenience could be an interesting trope to go into!

The book Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison begins with the main character being conned into a battle royale for a scholarship. Highly highly recommend this book though. Its really thought provoking and I think is the best book I had to read for high school English.

I love listening to people who go on detailed and passionate rants about subjects that they love. I'm not a reader or into books but I love stories and this channel has me in a choke hold 😅❤

I would like a deep dive of beautiful covers with mediocre story, or worst the only good thing is the cover😅 I’ve been a victim so many times.

Fun Fact: Pro Wrestling is higly reguarded in Japan. Like in america WWE its spectcle and entertainment. In Japan its art and performance. Its crazy how differnet it is. But as a pro wrestling fan, writer, and avid reader never once did I see that connection... BR Boooks, games and film as accosiated with pro wrestling it makes so much sense since the Author of Battle Royale was from Japan. Mind blown lol not gonna lie!

22:26 Besides Katniss there's the Career Tributes from districts 1 and 2 (I guess, not sure about the numbers), but your point stands since there's 12 districts on the competition

The point of the class being put in the death game in Battle Royal was that it was a way for the government to show the adults that it could take their kids and more or less sentence them to death and the parents were absolutely powerless to stop this. But if the parents or someone related to someone in class got on the wrong side of the government that could influence the choice of which class went to the Battle Royal that year. Best keep your head down if you don’t want your kids to suffer.

Okay, but not nearly enough people in the comments have mentioned Red Rising - that series is a masterpiece! Only the first book is of the battle royale variety, and as the story progresses, it moves in a completely different direction, but I've read very few series that have just become so much better with each next book. Cannot recommend it enough - easily the best series I've read this year, and I'm not even into scifi ❤

I studied theater science and I had a seminar that was called “Serious Games” where we would talk exactly about that kind of stuff and I absolutely loved it! Thank you for transporting me back to that 😊

Leonie talking about those hungry tournaments,.while people on the fairground next door are eating white bread and herring 🐟

Thank you for the history class on this trope. Super interesting! Laughed when you said you were 15 and interested in the Hunger Games. I was 11. I should be worried hahhaha

As a person living in literal dictatorship and a colony the hunger games is relatable. I still don't whether I support Gale who believes all Capitolians (children included) deserve to die or Peeta who believes in innocent until proven otherwise. Add to that President Snow and Katniss being enemies. I still don't know why did he ask her to stop the rebellion knowing she won't be able to do it... And a guy who was Gamemaker became new president so no surprise there.

0:00 yeah, in Poland, it was translated to "Igrzyska Śmierci", Death Games, Śmierci means death. And Igrzyska is the exactly same and only word used for sports olympics, or the ancient greece thing.

There is a Wattpad book I can't remember the title of, that I wanted to finish reading where everyone is already dead and they compete in a battle royal to return back to earth alive.

I saw the the serpent and the wings of night cover as you were talking about books that failed this trope and was nervous when I started watching haha

The first ever story (not counting short stories) I ever finished writing was a Death Tournament. Part of the reason I finished it was because it being a Death Tournament gave it a clear plot structure and end goal, along with of course enough tension. Unlike most Death Tournaments though, the participants were mainly rich and popular. There was a way to get disqualified from the tournament without dying by losing all your reputation and influence, but most just settled for killing since it was quicker and simpler

I'd love a Found Family trope dive.

I would love to see a deep dive on the secret identities/alter egos trope. I fall into it every. single. time. (Bonus points if the MC and love interest are enemies and/or lovers with the opposite alter ego.)

i thought 'the hunger games' was about some archery competition that you play while hungry, because of the pics of katniss and her bow

Very nuanced and respectful take on the origins of battle royales, thank you so much for that! I'm a big fan of morbid stories that tend towards bad or bittersweet endings, like death tournaments, so hearing more on where the whole concept could come from and more of it history-wide is very intriguing :) Your video delivery and fun humor is really great and engaging, and your knowledge on these different literary tropes is very insightful! I look forward to more cool stuff from you, and I hope you have a great day :D

Please read Red Rising if you haven’t yet! The first book is a great example of this trope

8:18 - Actually, there were many kinds of gladiator fights, not all of them one on one (and not all of them to the death)! For example, staged naval battles were infamous for being a rare and exceptionally deadly spectacle. Also, fights between trained gladiators were superficially similar to, but not the same as glorified executions, where you basically did the same things you would to trainer, armed fighter to an unfortunate who cannot defend themselves, because, well, they were sentenced to death already. Might as well provide people with some entertainment on your way out, aye?

For all the Hunger Games girlies, if you also happen to like Harry Potter marauders era and fan fiction, the magnum opus or one of them is Crimson Rivers, which is a complete retelling of the Hunger Games with the characters from the Marauders era, aka Sirius and Regulus Black, James Potter, etc. It is amazing and as a huge Hunger Games fan, has become my canon. Leonie, you should do a video on it!

Excellent video - I especially appreciated your deep dive into hidden racist history of the Battle Royale trope. It's for that reason that I can't recommend Chain Gang All-Stars enough. It tackles current issues in America's carceral system using a death tournament as the backdrop - a great novel and highly effective

thank you for going over the history of the battle royal. i had no idea about its origins in the uk or the us, so it was very insightful to learn more about it

21:21 I think that’s one of the great things about “the careers” in Hunger Games, like the reasoning behind all that is really good

This was a fascinating video! I had added Battle Royale to my TBR after watching your video on the timeline of YA dystopian novels (I'm currently in the middle of City of Ember and really enjoying it) and I'm glad I've learned about the original Battle Royale references before diving into it. I agree with everything you said, that trope shouldn't be incorporated lightly into stories. I'm often disappointed in authors when I notice missed opportunities to discuss some important topics that we can all benefit from thinking deeper about.

My favorite death tournament trope book is the All of Us Villians series - it’s so good but not often talked about!!

I love these lecture/essay style videos! Thanks for all the work you put into them

The career districts 1, 2, and 4 have a whole system for people to volunteer and it’s super common in those districts. It’s rare in district twelve though

3% is a great show that does this concept very well

Hunger games was definitely inspired bu coliseum/gladitorial fights. The coliseum was at least as one point intentionally flooded for a naval battle, plus their are so many reference to roman stuff, the whole bread thing with peeta, also fits in. I think you dont know enough about the arena and what went on, could this yave potentially been inspired by Battle Royale, yeah possibly but inspired by doesnt equal plagarized, it definitely has its iwn angle which was inspired a critique of modern American society with callbacks to the roman empire

Steven King (as Richard Bachman) wrote The Long Walk. It was a spectator sport where teenagers entered a contest for ridiculous money. You walked and if you stopped or slowed too much you were shot. Technically same genre, and although I read it as a teen I don’t think it is a young adult book. It was pretty darn good. It’s more of a novelette (like half length standard novel), and it ended before it got boring.

the lack of clear distinction between a "death tournament" and a "battle royale" and a "death game" (as mentionned in the quoted forum post) is very confusing and this video wouldve gained a lot of clarity from properly defining all these. especially when exemples are used that only make it muddier (since when is danganronpa a battle royale? or even a death tournament?? death GAME yes. the others, no) its also too bad running man was not mentionned at all- or the prize of peril for that matter. these are where hunger games gets it from (as well as battle royale, which IS mentionned but really shouldve been required READING to make this vid. teen deliquancy never factors into why the BR takes place) the comparison with sports fiction is very true though i tihnk it's missing the more straight-forward comparison with WAR. battle royale taking place in a totalitarian dictatorship after japan ("the republic of greater east asia") won its imperialist conquests is not a coincidence. a lot of death tournaments are also drawing from, and criticizing, the military death cult. i think missing this is also missing the author's perspective on why the death game is so popular in fiction. its an uniquely powerful allegorical tool- in the case of battle royale its putting these kids in a fight to the death because its what it EMOTIONALLY, FEELS LIKE, to go through school and exams in the japanese education system. exagerating the situation makes it easier to get to the emotional impact of things and what has more emotional impact than literal life or death? this is core to why the genre is so popular. school is a death game. work is a death game. reality TV is a death game, and so on. this allows you to show the fucked up nature of systems that have been normalized to your reader so they can question them again. what was said about where immortal longings failed (i personally havent read the book) reminded me a lot of death race 2000 lol but in a good way death race 2000 is a great movie about the american cult of violence and blood. its important that civilians are casualties to the titular death race, and its important that it happens in the open where its so normal for people to die from this race. people have to carry on with their jobs and put themselves in mortal danger its just their normal. and one of its characters is only participating so they can kill the president, again immortal longings reminded me a lot of this movie

i've been reading this trope a lot lately, what a coincidence! and perfect timing after work! 🥰🥰

So what you touched on about Suzanne Collins copying the Battle Royale. Besides the fact that the plots are similar and it wnds with 2 "winners" the part that stood out to me when i read both back to back, was the 2 fires and a bird call. In Battle Royale the have 2 fires set up that they then had a bird whistle they would blow to lead the guy who was saving his girlfriend back to them. Spoilers, he gets killed by his girlfriend explains the plan to her, but she is then killed by the final villian. In Hunger Games its used by Rue and Katniss to steal the food, they use the fires to distract from the stealing and meet up using the bird call. Then Rue dies. That is the most similar between both books

Honestly if you had a podcast I would listen to it all the time. I already watch your videos multiple times just to hear you talk in the background while I'm studying

I was literally reading the ballad of songbirds and snakes when this video popped up 😳 I wonder if you can do deep dive on the re-incarnation trope! I see it a lot in East Asian media (books and tv) but you'd be hard pressed to find it in the west

To be fair, Red Rising did not feature a death tournament in the same way the hunger games did. Many people survive that tournament, it’s much more about learning how to survive war (without a lot of the tech from that world).

Really appreciated the extra context on Battle Royales. Great video!

Immortal Longings makes no sense, why isn't the battle royale in a specialized arena? The way the tournament works you can get more deaths than the number of tributes that go into the tournament!

I love how educational and entertaining her videos are ✨✨🧚‍♀️💖💗

my introduction to the hunger games I think I must have been 8 or 9. My sister and I were reading Suzanne Collins' much less well known series the underland chronicles, but my sister got her hands on the fourth book before me, and since we weren't allowed to have two copies of the same book out from the library when we were kids, I was absolutely livid. So my much older sister tried to placate me by handing me the hunger games to read. I did not get past 3 pages. I'm very thankful I didn't read it then because while I feel like I could handle some pretty intense violence in my stories, the real plot, themes, and messages of the hunger games would have been entirely lost on me.

Panem et Circenses- bread and circuses- goes back to Roman Empire and gladiators, and probably before then. We still do it, every weekend with football, wrestling, boxing, any organized sports are some form of gladiator-style sport for entertainment to keep masses from rising up against injustice.

I really really want to watch this video but I'm saving it for a rainy day. Adore you and your content Leonie, you always manage to make me feel giddy and relaxed at the same time with all of your videos 💙

honestly death games are one of my favourite genres in media - i find it really interesting the different ways they're portrayed and the tactics displayed (if anyone has reccs please share - ive watched quite a bit of death games in anime but they usually disappoint so im looking to read the genre more)

I remember playing a nes wrestlemania game as a kid and they had the "royal rumble" if i remember right, a game mode where like everyone got in the ring at once anf you just had to toss everyone out and keep from getting tossed. Everyone fought too but really that just was people trying not to get picked up and tossed. XD

I've been enjoying your 'rambles' fora few years now. Thanks, and please continue :)

Just found your channel and I've been obsessed by your vibe. Definitely here for the way you dissect your thoughts and word them. I could listen to you talk about random things for hours. Also your accent is so interesting to me, I figured that you weren't natively english, but would never have guessed Dutch, rather something Scandinavian. It's very nice and pretty.

This video is incredible, I love your deep tropes discussion. I need a redemption and corruption arc videos! 💜💜💜💜

Another example maybe The Long Walk by Stephen King. I know is not a juvenile genre and also not a lot of kids trying to kill each other but it is on its own way a death tournament where even the one that wins faces permanent trauma and psychological damage and the other people participating die from exhaustion or lots of problems on that thing. So, I though it was another example

Tributes from district 1 and 2 volunteer a lot, they train and live for the games.

Good timing on this video. I recently listened to a podcast about Battle Royale, so it's been on my mind. You make a lot of good points.

a HUGE thing you sadly missed about the hunger games and volunteering is that katniss is NOT the only volunteer. the careers from district 1 and 2 have trained their whole lives to participate and volunteer to bring honor to their district and family.

Since tournaments are becoming so popular, what are some of your favorite books without the tournament arc?

i love watching your videos so much you've motivated me to get back into reading more as well as writing

I loved this video I’m a huge Hunger Games fan! Thank you for all your hard work researching this topic ❤

such a good video! Would love to watch more videos in the styles with deep dives in other Genres

Honest question: what was the duration between finished assembly of the desk and riding it like an elevator?

Hey!! LOVE your content, can you make a playlist on your channel with all your deep dive/retrospective videos?

Been binging this videos as well as her vlog channel and I’m so obsessed with the fall vibes ♥️

I’m planning to watch as many as i can of your videos because my english needs improvement and you have a pretty interesting vocabularies + topics ❤

I am really enjoying these videos

I'd want a deep dive in the trope of amnesia/memory loss. Its the one that give me the irks and I cant seem to enjoy, but in the only few examples where I thought it was well done, the manga became my favorite (tokyo ghoul and tokyo ghoul:re)

I love how you handle this topic