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[[Image:Nanaharashuya.jpg|thumb|240px|right|[[Tatsuya Fujiwara]] as Shuya Nanahara in the film ''[[Battle Royale]]''.]]
'''Shuya Nanahara''' (七原秋也 ''Nanahara Shūya'', romanized as '''Shuuya''' in the [[manga]] adaptation) is a fictional Japanese student and one of the three main protagonists of the violent and controversial novel, manga, and film ''[[Battle Royale]]''. He is played by [[Tatsuya Fujiwara]] in the 2000 film and the sequel ''[[Battle Royale II: Requiem]]''.
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==Personality==
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Shuya, who lives in Shiroiwa, [[Kagawa Prefecture]], is deeply [[emotional]] and somewhat [[sentimental]]; he is [[impulsive]] and quick to trust people (this particular aspect often proves to be a [[liability]] during the course of The Program, nearly resulting in his death several times). He is also very [[caring]], [[honorable]], easy going and likable. It is more than once said it is hard to be sad around him even in sad times.
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He is a [[dreamer]] and an [[idealist]], and never remains silent when he feels anyone around him is being [[mistreated]], regardless of the consequences.
Shuya was born in [[Autumn]] (the first character of his given name (秋), which means "autumn," reflects this fact).
Shuya's [[blood type]] is B. Shuya is 171 centimeters tall and weighs 58 [[kilograms]]. His eyesight is 1.2 in his right eye and 1.5 in his left eye. In the novel, Shuya's hair is described as being wavy and long; the hair covers his neck and touches his shoulders.
Shuya's strongest subjects in school were the [[humanities]], [[English language|English]], and literature.
==Background==
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[[Image:BR1 Yoshitoki Shuya Bedroom.jpg|thumb|160px|left|Shuya and [[Yoshitoki Kuninobu]] in their bedroom of their [[boarding house]]]]
In all versions Shuya is an orphan due to different circumstances. In the novel version his parents were killed in a car accident; in the film version his mother abandoned him and his father committed suicide; and in the manga version it is suggested that his father was killed by the government for struggling against the regime and his mother dies from an unknown illness which she caught after giving birth to Shuya (in a flashback another child in Shuya's class says "I bet it's something like [[AIDS]]".) and Shuya's remaining family rejected him, Shuya was put into an orphanage where he met his best friend [[Yoshitoki Kuninobu]]. In all versions he is taken into the Charity House (''Jikeikan''), a [[Roman Catholic]] orphanage run by Ryoko Anno.
In volume 14 of the manga Shuya tells [[Shogo Kawada]] and [[Noriko Nakagawa]] that when, he first went into care, he felt like nobody cared and that he wanted to be noticed. One day he jumped off the roof and when everybody cheered him. He felt accepted and kept jumping off anything he could. This stopped when, one one occasion, he landed on top of a little girl, injuring her. He felt guilty about it and stopped jumping; by then he felt accepted.
He has seen unpleasant events in his past although quite what alternates between versions. He is sporty and over versions has been seen playing [[Basketball]], [[Baseball]] and [[Football]]. While in the orphanage, in the novel and manga, he sees a program update and is told it is "a bad lottery."
He is young when he goes into care in the novel and manga; in the film version he is already 14 years old when he goes into care. He meets his other friends (the athletically gifted [[Shinji Mimura]], the disciplined young martial artist [[Hiroki Sugimura]], the class clown [[Yutaka Seto]], and the quiet and sweet [[Noriko Nakagawa]]) in different ways in all the versions but in all he thinks very highly of them and is held in high regard before the Battle Royale program begins.
He also learns how to play the [[guitar]] whilst in the orphanage, and has a serious dream of becoming a rock star even though [[Rock n roll]] is outlawed. In the novel, a middle-aged handyman who worked at the Charity House gave Shuya his first guitar. The handyman had an upbeat character and hair that formed a "duck's tail." The handyman gave Shuya the guitar before he was placed in a forced [[labor camp]] in [[Sakhalin Island]]. In the film, Yoshitoki Kuninobu taught Shuya how to play the guitar.
In the novel Shuya is a big fan of [[Bruce Springsteen]] and especially likes the song "Born to Run." In the beginning of the manga he is seen singing a song that has similar lyrics to "[[Born to Run]]" (in the Japanese version it is "Born to Run" but it had to be changed for the English translation because of copyright issues).
In the novel, his pre-program nickname is Wild Seven (because his number on the basketball team is 7); he shares this name with a fictional large brand of cigarettes (which [[Shogo Kawada]] is very keen on in the novel and manga). In the first film, this nickname is not mentioned at all. In the 2nd, the terrorist group formed by him is called [[Wild Seven]]. In the manga his basketball number is 7 but the nickname is not used at all.
In the novel, Shuya played for as a shortstop in a little league team when he was in elementary school. When he entered the seventh grade, he joined the baseball team and the music club. Shuya decided to leave the baseball team because of its militaristic "win at all costs" attitude. The coach, Mr. Minato, harrassed players who loved the game and were not very good at the game. In addition, if Japan's national baseball team lost to the U.S., the directors of the National Baseball Federation directors were required to commit [[seppuku]]. Shuya used a four letter diatribe in order to quit the baseball team.
In the novel he is at first smitten with Kazumi Shintani (新谷和美 ''Shintani Kazumi''), a music afficionado who is one year ahead of him. Kazumi, Shuya, and the other members of the Shiroiwa Music Club would play rock music when their supervisor, Mr. Miyata, left the room. Shuya's dreams of being Kazumi's boyfriend ended when Kazumi told him that she had a boyfriend. In one of Shuya's dreams he "encounters" a previous teacher named Kazuko Okazaki, who taught literature. Shuya's 3rd year English teacher was Mr. Yamamoto.
==Story==
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[[Image:BR1 GroupPic Yoshitoki CutOff.jpg|thumb|160px|right|[[Megumi Eto]] takes a photograph of Yoshitoki, Shuya, and [[Noriko Nakagawa]] in the film ''Battle Royale'']]
In the story, Shuya is in the class picked to go on The Program, and is gassed on the supposed school trip like the others. Shortly afterward, he wakes up, and the psychotic teacher ([[Kinpatsu Sakamochi]] in the novel, [[Yonemi Kamon]] in the manga, and [[Takeshi Kitano (Battle Royale)|Takeshi Kitano]] in the film) and organizer of the program reveals that the class are the latest participants of The Program. Shuya is supplied with an Army knife to begin with (A saucepan lid in the film) and as he leaves the classroom, he tells Noriko he will wait for her. While walking through the school he is thinking of the best people he can rally to help him escape and avenge his best friend Yoshitoki, who was killed by the teacher. All he finds when outside is Girl #14, [[Mayumi Tendo]] (in the novel and manga, she is dead, while in the film, she is dying), and Boy #1, [[Yoshio Akamatsu]], who has gone mad thinking all the people who used to pick on him would try to kill him. Akamatsu first shoots [[Mayumi Tendo]], who happens to be the next student out of the school. Two minutes later, when Shuya comes out, he sees Mayumi's corpse on the ground. After knocking out Akamatsu with one of the arrows that Akamatsu shot at Mayumi Tendo, Shuya runs off with Noriko, who has just come out, and they run off into the woods where Shuya dresses the wound to Noriko’s leg and they then agree that they trust each other and they will stick together. The way in which Shuya saves Noriko from Akamatsu results in Akamatsu’s death at the hands of Boy #16, [[Kazushi Niida]].
[[Image:BR1 Yoshitoki Shuya Noriko Classroom.jpg|thumb|160px|left|The students stand after waking up in the classroom.]]
Over the next few hours Shuya and Noriko team up with Boy #5, [[Shogo Kawada]], and Shuya witnesses the deaths of:
*Boy #3 [[Tatsumichi Oki]], who tries to kill Shuya and Noriko but ends up having his face cut in half with his own [[hatchet]] when he and Shuya fall down a hill.
*Boy #20 [[Kyoichi Motobuchi]] who has gone mad and is trying to win for his father and almost kills Shuya with his revolver, but is shot twice by Shogo Kawada with his shotgun before he can.
[[Image:BR1 Yoshitoki Shuya BeforeExplode.jpg|thumb|Yoshitoki's last seconds of living before his necklace detonates and kills him; Shuya witnesses Yoshitoki's death.]]
*Girls #6 [[Yukiko Kitano]] and #7 [[Yumiko Kusaka]]: They are gunned down from behind by Kazuo Kiriyama while trying to tell everybody not to play.
Noriko then falls ill and Shuya starts to take her to the island clinic.
In the novel and manga, he sees Girl #10, [[Hirono Shimizu]], and Girl #20, [[Kaori Minami]], having a shoot out. According to the novel, Shuya intervenes and calls out to both of them to stop fighting. Kaori is distracted, allowing her to get fatally shot by Hirono, who runs off with an injury. In the manga, Kaori has gone mad but Hirono expresses an interest in going with Shuya before she is shot by Kaori, who then turns the gun on Shuya after Hirono runs off. Kawada then saves Shuya by shooting and killing Kaori. He and Shuya then treat Noriko at the clinic. Fortunately, Kawada’s father was a doctor so he knows how to treat her.
When leaving the clinic Boy #11, [[Hiroki Sugimura]], turns up and he and Shuya agree that they are on the same side and that Sugimura will come with them later but he is looking for Girl #11, [[Kayoko Kotohiki]]. They agree when he finds her he will light two fires so that Shuya and the others can see the smoke and then Shogo will use a birdcall device and they will home in it and hook up.
Shuya gets separated from the others shortly after they leave the clinic when [[Kazuo Kiriyama]] fires at them. Shuya leads him away from the others but is shot and almost killed. He is saved by Boy #11, Hiroki Sugimura, who turns up just in time to help him. He then leaves him with Girl 2, [[Yukie Utsumi]] and the group she has formed in the [[The Lighthouse (Battle Royale)|Lighthouse]].
[[Image:BR1 Shuya Rinses Noriko'sArm WithWater.jpg|thumb|160px|left|Shuya rinses Noriko's wounded arm with water.]]Shuya has a dream in which he sees Yoshitoki, Shinji and his mother and father and Noriko at which he wakes up and finds out that Mimura is dead and Yukie also reveals to him she has a crush on him and she kisses him using the excuse that they could be dead the next day and that she had to express her feeliings.
[[Image:Battle royale shuuya nanahara manga.JPG|thumb|100px|right|Shuya (spelled Shuuya in the manga) Nanahara as he appears in the manga.]]
Girl #9 [[Yuko Sakaki]], who witnessed Oki getting killed with the hatchet and believed that Shuya did it, hears that Shuya is well and tries to poison him with her weapon of Hydrocyanic acid ([[cyanide]]), but accidentally poisons Girl #16 [[Yuka Nakagawa]] instead. This leads to the culmination of Girl #17 [[Satomi Noda]]'s paranoia which ends up killing all the girls except Yuko. Shuya breaks out of the room he was locked up in when he hears all the gunshots, believing that Kiriyama has come back but finds a literal blood bath of dead girls and a hysterical Yuko. Shuya tries to calm her down, but she runs to the top of the lighthouse and almost falls over the railing but Shuya catches her. Yuko realizes what her inner demons did to her and how they killed her friends, and so she decided to pay for her mistakes. In the novel and manga, she pries Shuya's fingers open and falls to her death. In the film, she jumps to her death after Shuya runs down to check on the other girls.
In the manga, when looking for Shogo and Noriko, he finds Girl #1, [[Mizuho Inada]], who was ill with [[schizophrenia]] before the Program (her obsession with [[Dungeons and Dragons]] only adds to this, making her believe she is the chosen daughter of the 'Elder Gods') and has been messed up even more and he jumps off a small cliff to escape from her and finds himself standing in the area Shinji's bomb destroyed and he also finds [[Shinji Mimura]]'s dead body.
In the novel, she is only seen once, attempting to kill Kiriyama from behind with a knife, believing she is space warrior Prexia Dikianne Mizuho. She is instantly shot and killed by Kiriyama.
Shuya finds Shogo and Noriko again soon after they see smoke from two fires, which was the sign that Shogo told Sugimura to set up after he had found Kotohiki, but it was actually Kazuo who made the fires after overhearing a dying Sugimura telling [[Kayoko Kotohiki]] how to build the fires to find Shuya, Shogo and Noriko. Kotohiki is killed by [[Mitsuko Souma]] soon after, who in turn is killed by Kazuo.
Kazuo dies soon after Kiriyama attacks Shuya and the others. Shogo Kawada later dies from his injuries and the story ends with Shuya and Noriko alive and on the run.
==Post-Program==
In the novel Shuya and Noriko are given the address of a doctor in Kobe who will help them by Shogo Kawada. Kawada dies after he gives the address. The doctor once knew Shogo's father and he happily helps them and tells them how they can escape to the United States. Later the two are at a train station in [[Umeda]] in the city of [[Osaka]] when a policeman recognises them and chases them. Shuya and Noriko run off and the book ends.
In the manga version, Shuuya (''as his name is romanized in the English manga adaptation'') and Noriko also get given the name of somebody who can help them by Kawada and the two of them stay in hiding at his place for three months. Shuuya goes and checks on the orphanage he grew up in and see's that Ryoko Anno is still alive and that she now seems to have a boyfriend. Shuuya then goes to the point where [[Shinji Mimura]]'s aunt helps them cross over the [[Pacific Ocean]] clandestinely aboard a cargo ship and land in the United States, where they decide to live in [[New York City]].
At the end of the first film Shuya and Noriko return to their home town and take some of their possessions, including the knife Yoshitoki used to stab Kitano, and are last seen running across a street.
===''Battle Royale II''===
[[Image:BR2 WildSeven GroupPose.jpg|thumb|right|240px|Shuya along with other [[Wild Seven]] members in the film ''[[Battle Royale II: Requiem]]''. '''(L-R)''' Sakai, Saki, Kazama, Shuya, Imakire, Maki, Yonai.]]
In the film ''[[Battle Royale II: Requiem]]'', three years after the events of ''Battle Royale'', Shuya becomes the leader of a terrorist organization known as [[Wild Seven]], formed by survivors of previous Battle Royales. With a massive bombing attack on Tokyo's [[Shinjuku]] district, he and his group declares war on the [[government]] that brought about BR, and the adults who support it.
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When a new group of students raid Wild Seven's base, they fire upon the kids unaware of their predicament. It is until they get close that the members of Wild Seven realize they are kids sent to kill them in a Program similar to previous Battle Royales. After hearing one of the [[explosive necklace|collars]] beep, Shuya immediately orders [[Maki Souda|one of his partners]] to activate their [[EMP]] device and shut down the collars (by frying the electronics, in same time disabling the hidden microphones and satellite locators). He then meets with the surviving members of the new BRII Act, who argue over his view of the world and consequences of his actions.
While they are all resting, the Island is once again raided, this time by the [[Anti-Terrorist Attack Team]] (ATAT). The members of Wild Seven, and even some of the BRII students, manage to fend them off after a long battle. Several ATAT soldiers make it into Shuya's room, where he promptly kills all of them. In the confusion, one of the students, [[Shiori Kitano]], attacks Shuya. However, she is unable to kill him. He takes the gun from her, and allows her to live, all the while unaware of her [[identity]]. After the fighting is done, Shuya tells the surviving students to leave with the children while he stays behind with the other Wild Seven members to distract next wave.
[[Image:BR2 Shiori vs Shuya.jpg|thumb|left|[[Shiori Kitano]] points an MP5 submachine-gun at Shuya in the film ''[[Battle Royale II: Requiem]]'']]
Shuya broadcasts a message to all adults around the world, telling them of his [[philosophy|philosophies]] and his reason for his war upon the adults. After the recording, the base is struck by [[missile]]s (presumably from the U.S.). Shuya immediately has his group prepare for battle, and then evacuates the children and the BRII students. The final battle is less promising than the previous, and many of Shuya's comrades fall. In the midst of the attack, [[Saki Sakurai]] and [[Maki Souda]] demand Shuya to escape and keep fighting while they hold off the [[Soldiers (Battle Royale)|soldiers]]. Reluctantly, Shuya leaves with Shiori and [[Takuma Aoi]] (of the students). The trio manages to defeat many soldiers alone, Shiori becomes fatally wounded in the process. As she lay dying, she reveals herself to be the daughter of [[Kitano (Battle Royale)|Kitano]], the previous administrator of the BR Act Shuya had killed in the previous film. Curious about her father's last [[Kitano's painting|painting]], she asks Shuya about [[Noriko Nakagawa|Noriko]]. Shuya briefly explains Noriko's character before Shiori finally dies in his arms. Together, Shuya and Takuma take one final rush at the soldiers, with the Island being [[bombardment|bombarded]] all around them.
At the end of the film, it is revealed the two survived the bombardment. Shuya is reunited with Noriko, who finally welcomes him home.
==Images==
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<gallery>
Image:BR1 Shuya StandingAfterNobuDies.jpg|<center>Shuya stands after Nobu is killed in ''Battle Royale''
Image:BR2 Shuya Memorabilia BR1.jpg|<center>Shuya, with memorabilia from the first BR film: Noriko's/Nobu's knife, a photograph of his entire class, and Kawada's headband
Image:BR2 Noriko And Shuya.jpg|<center>Shuya reunites with [[Noriko Nakagawa]] in ''Battle Royale II: Requiem''
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==External links==
*http://www.battleroyalefilm.net/movie/students/index.html
*http://www.battleroyalefilm.net/sequel/cast.html
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