Yonemi Kamon

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Yonemi Kamon (嘉門 米美 Kamon Yonemi?) is a fictional character in the manga version of Battle Royale.

Yonemi Kamon in the first volume of the manga.
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Yonemi Kamon in the first volume of the manga.

Yonemi is the administrator of the Battle Royale Program. Yonemi is almost exactly the same as the novel's Kinpatsu Sakamochi; he is just as, if not more, sadistic, and also takes great pleasure in watching the class die. He appears to be very cocky and arrogant and also proves through some of the things he says that he is quite perverted.

Yonemi, like Sakamochi, is a government employee who has never had anything to do with the class before the Program, and, also like Sakamochi, he never ventures out of the Okishima Island School during the course of the Program. He spends most of his time eating, smoking, watching the monitors and listening in on the students' conversations.

Yonemi also tells Shuya Nanahara and Yoshitoki Kuninobu that he raped the orphanage careworker, Ms. Ryoko Anno, and then, like in the novel, Yoshitoki attacks him and Yonemi shoots Yoshitoki himself for the same reasons that Sakamochi had him shot by three soldiers in the novel.

When Yonemi makes the announcements, he likes to make cruel jokes about the dead students, such as saying "2 for the price of one" when he announces the deaths of Yumiko Kusaka and Yukiko Kitano.

He like Sakamochi places bets on the game and reveals to Shogo Kawada that he bet 20,000 yen on Kazuo Kiriyama to win and also complains that it was a large bet to lose for somebody of his wage bracket.

Yonemi's appearance compared to Sakamochi's description is not too far off, as the clothes Yonemi wears seem to match what Sakamochi is described as wearing, except Yonemi has shorter hair than Sakamochi who is described as having very long hair.

Yonemi, like both the novel's Kinpatsu Sakamochi and the film's Kitano, is killed after the Game is over by Shuya's trio after Shogo Kawada tricks the system by disabling Shuya and Noriko's explosive collars. Yonemi dies when Shogo Kawada impales his neck with a pencil.

Battle Royale (edit)
Novel & mangas Battle Royale (novel) | Battle Royale (manga) | Battle Royale II: Blitz Royale (manga)
Films Battle Royale (film)  | Battle Royale II: Requiem
Soundtracks Battle Royale Original Soundtrack | Battle Royale II: Requiem Original Soundtrack | Composer: Masamichi Amano | Orchestra: Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Main Characters BR: Shuya Nanahara | Noriko Nakagawa | Shogo Kawada | Sakamochi/Yonemi/Kitano (the Teacher) | Kazuo Kiriyama | Mitsuko Souma | Shinji Mimura | Hiroki Sugimura
BRII: Takuma Aoi | Shiori Kitano | Nao Asakura | Riki Takeuchi | Saki Sakurai
Secondary Characters BR: Yoshitoki Kuninobu | Takako Chigusa | Yukie Utsumi | Kazushi Niida | Yuko Sakaki | Megumi Eto | Satomi Noda | Yoshio Akamatsu | Yukiko Kitano | Keita Iijima | Kayoko Kotohiki | Hirono Shimizu | Yuichiro Takiguchi | Tatsumichi Oki | Mitsuru Numai | Yutaka Seto| Yoji Kuramoto | Toshinori Oda | Sho Tsukioka | Mai (smiling winner) | Keiko Onuki (Keiko Inoue) | Lieutenant Anjo | Soldiers (Battle Royale)
BRII: R: Mitsugu Sakai | Shugo Urabe | Maki Souda | Osamu Kasai | Soji Kazama | Kyoko Kakei | Kengo Yonai | Ryo Kurosawa | Haruya Sakurai | Haruka Kuze | Masami Shibaki | Jun Nanami | Makio Mimura (Shinji's uncle) | Prime Minister of Japan
Cast and crew Koushun Takami (novel author) | Kinji Fukasaku (director) | Kenta Fukasaku (screenwriter)
BR: Tatsuya Fujiwara | Aki Maeda | Taro Yamamoto | Masanobu Ando | Kou Shibasaki | Chiaki Kuriyama | Takeshi Kitano
BRII: R: Takeru Shibaki Shugo Oshinari | Ai Maeda | Ayana Sakai | Natsuki Kato | Riki Takeuchi | Yoko Maki
Other topics Battle Royale controversy | Battle Royale merchandise | List of Battle Royale weapons | GPS tracking | Wild Seven
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