Himiko gets introduced early with a detailed rape scene of her friends. On that note, this show has a lot of graphic content I wasn’t expecting. She was sent to the island for something that wasn’t her fault, is pretty messed up emotionally, and overall just doesn’t deserve it. She’s the only character I could see anybody plausibly rooting for. The anime tries to skirt around that by introducing you to Himiko, who serves as the female lead and Sakamoto’s love interest. This is Btooom!’s biggest problem because even though I was invested in learning about the game and seeing the tactics people employ, I didn’t really want to root for anybody.
Somehow I am supposed to identify with this guy and want him to win even though he is just as bad, if not worse than, some of the so-called, “villains” he has to defeat. I understand that there are in fact people like this in the world, but they don’t make for a great protagonist of a story like this. I just couldn’t get behind how blatantly, and abjectly horrible Sakamoto was as a human being. She even tried killing herself because of it. He pushed her so far that she felt it was the only option. To no surprise Sakamoto’s mom sent him there to die. You eventually learn that people get sent to this island because they’ve usually done something wrong prior and another person nominated them for it. He’s introduced as a pretty nice and level guy but any time you flashback to his past he becomes worse and worse. Well, easily, according to the show at least. Another scene has him destroying their furniture and beating his stepdad with a chair. In one scene he chucks his controller at her and it embeds itself in the drywall. However, you find out that Sakamoto used to be a NEET with aspirations of working for the company that created Btooom! You then find out that he is the most abusive dick to his mom because she remarried and wants him to get a job anywhere since the video game company won’t hire him. I didn’t know where else to put this, but he really reminds me (visually) of Light from Death Note
There are lots of different types ranging from poison gas, impact grenades, timers, homing, etc… Sakamoto happens to be one of the best players in the world, and number one in Japan, when he finds himself caught up in the game. The basic idea of Btooom! is that a bunch of people get kidnapped and sent to an island to participate in a real life death game modeled after the fictional video game, “Btooom!” In the game you fight using only bombs, or as the show hilariously calls them, BIM’s. This is exactly how I felt watching Btooom! and its protagonist Sakamoto. Have you ever been watching a show and everything is enjoyable enough and then you dive into the main character’s backstory and beliefs only to discover that they are a deplorable human and just abjectly horrible? To make things worse, the show wants this character to WIN and you are supposed to want them to. I’m Supposed to Root for This Guy, Right?
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