Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Cheaper than the dvd... But not better...

If you want an exciting story with great characterization and dark social satire then check out the novel or the movie. If you want to see students slaughtering each other interspersed with brief "Here's what I was like before I died!" vignettes then read the manga.After seeing the hatchet job Keith Giffen did to this book (as well as Battle Vixens) I've come to the conclusion that he must really hate manga. The plot gets boiled down to it's "GOVERNMENT BAD! YOU KILL NOW!!!!" essentials. And the oddly cartoony artwork creates a jarring juxtaposition to the "money shot" moments of violence.