It was just a usual morning.
Akira Shiroyanagi, a high schooler who loves games and Konpeito (Japanese sweets), has suddenly been dragged into a battlefield by a mysterious girl who calls herself Mion. The participants are told that they are "erased from the family register, involved in an experiment, and gained certain powers."
Akira is determined to win the game with his newfound powers and destroy the organization. Armed with a power no one expects and his "brain" skills, the new period of intelligence battle begins!
(Source: MU, edited)
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Stark700
The survival game genre feels like a disease that just doesn't seem to go away these days. Sure, they're not as popular in the anime medium compared to the video game industry. Yet, some of them still lands a spot on television. One of them is called Battle Game in 5 Seconds. Now I could argue that the anime industry has been dominated by the isekai trope in recent years. But once in awhile, there's an anime about survival games. Battle Game in 5 Seconds was chosen to be adapted into a 12-episode anime series despite the manga having over 17 volumes and ongoing. Yes, itwould for whatever reason, they wanted to showcase an anime about superpowers that draws the line between fiction and reality. And it all begins with protagonist Akira Shiroyanagi.
Akira isn't your typical protagonist as he is protrayed as a prodigy. He's quick to learn on his feet and has a calm composure despite being thrown into a death game along with others. From the first episode, it became clear that Akira isn't a pushover or someone that can easily be intimidated. To add on to his character attributes, he's also got a clever mind and takes full advantage of his ability, the Sophist. With strategic thinking, it became obvious that Akira possesses intelligence beyond his age. When you have a character thrown into a survival game with all these traits, it makes Akira a key figure to watch out for, both for his allies and enemies.
The rest of the character roster consists a wide range of backgrounds. Among the most prominent is Yuri Amagake, a 17 year old girl with a history of bad luck. And by adding her to show, it really brings in the question how much value she can contribute. To be honest, she's one of the most normal characters in the show with a rather abnormal ability (Wrath of God). It would appear the anime wants to show how a misfortunate girl can fight against bad luck and be who she is. However, the anime does a poor job at developing her character beyond the surface level. She's just too normal, with really nothing unique to describe about her.
With those two out of the way, the rest of the character roster starts to stray from normalcy. For instance, the seductive Rin Kashii is introduced in one of the team battles that shows her manipulative nature. Shin, the quiet giant, is protrayed as an enemy of injustice. We also meet the delinquent Madoka who never lets anyone or anything gets in his way. But perhaps the most unusual among the cast is the catgirl, Mion. She plays the role of the administrator for the survival games. And believe me, she's about as cruel as a character can get in the show. Unfortunately, the anime doesn't adequately develop or reveal her true purpose. It's up to the viewers to decide on why she exists and what she truly wants to put all these characters into survival games with their lives on the line. Yes, that is the main drawback of the show. It seems the anime just drops everything to suddenly and expect us to be invested into the story.
Meanwhile, the anime also appears to forgot or never really wanted to develop its character cast this season. Besides Aki and Yuri, most of the characters in the show are overshadowed by them. The overemphasis on Aki's goal as well as the survival theme itself tarnishes the legacy of this show. Given the survival game context, they should at least try to make one other character in the anime more memorable besides our two leading protagonists. Even for the two main leads, their character development is limited and for what's worth, very underwhelming. That it say, this show can easily be described by one word....underwhelming.
Looking back, I never felt the show was visually appealing from the very start. There's obviously some violence and action given the themes of the series. However, nothing else really stood out whether it's the character designs, settings, or even the backgrounds. Somehow, they made a talking cat-like girl the most distinctive character in the series. While you could say the anime isn't about the art, it certainly deosn't enhance the overall viewing experience. Studios SynergySP and Vega Entertainment need to step it up.
Battle Game in 5 Seconds took a hit for the team and I don't mean that as a compliment. It means it took a hit for itself by creating an underwhelming story with an equally underwhelming cast. With a manga running over 17 volumes, this served little more than an advertisement. It practically wants you to throw money at the franchise. Do yourself a favor and save your money. There's better investments you can make.
TheUnholySausage
The death game genre has reached a pit of mediocrity in modern anime standards. Most shows in this genre usually turns out to be god awful from the start, or has a decent beginning but crashes and burns in the end. So when I saw a new death game anime in this season, my immediate reaction was “Not another one” a saying DJ Khaled would be really offended by. But I’m honestly surprised to see this show hold up pretty well, enough to get me to watch the whole thing, start to finish…or it did at first. Does that mean it’s great? No, not really. Thepremise is pretty straight forward like most death games. Kill or be killed situations, surviving a platoon of super powered people and be the last man standing. It starts off with a giant, 8 foot crocodile ass looking man attacking our mc. Our mc manages to escape his assault and trap him in an abandoned building and manages to kill him. A bit unrealistic, as the more typical reaction would be to shit your pants when you’re attacked by a large menacing figure than to go full Tom Cruise mission impossible on the guy. He then proceeds to get transported by an overtly annoying cat girl with a top hat, and brought into the death game, where he’s given the full explanation of things. Sort off at least.
The remainder of the story we see our mc in various fights and precarious situations. The premise is straightforward and not gunna lie kinda boring. The death battle genre is one that I rarely like, but even without personal dislike, it doesn’t have any uniqueness to it, or any factor that sets itself apart or grabs your attention. The powers and in this show feels unrealistic in the sense that there’s so much flexibility in them. There’s no borderline for how overtly unusual powers could be, and since we as viewers are in the dark about several rules of the game, it gets frustrating to see one dumb power coming out of nowhere. There’s no balance in that sense which leaves you confused and kinda annoyed.
You feel a slight repetitiveness in the shows storytelling. It revolves around a problem being created, mc using his intelligence to solve the problem, everyone else losing their shit tryna figure out how he did it. There’s no opposing force, there’s no “L” to our mcs “Light”. This sets up a rly plain sailing plot with no added tension or suspense. You see a situation occur but you already know it’s going to get resolved with no added consequences. Although, I was dumb to expect proper storytelling in a death game so it’s honestly bad on my end
The best part of the show is the mc. Most death games either have a mc who’s a complete whiny annoying character who’s scared shitless all the time, or someone who’s over confident, unusually strong and has will smith I am legend levels of smartness and survival tactics. The mc here is minimally intelligent and knows how to use his intelligence properly. He dosent have the whole “I can beat you, cause my friends are relying on me” bullshit. He knows a serious fight, plans ahead, and uses his brain to win rather than the friendship rocket launcher. His power compliments his intelligence a lot, which is one of my fav aspects of the show. Since it’s so vague what his power actually is, it gives him the liberty of experimenting and slowly figuring out the limits of his abilities, which is quite entertaining to watch.
Other characters such as Ruri is a recurring presence in the show. She’s a girl with a troubled past, due to lack of parental affection, and she finds solace in caring for her little brother. She has a decent backstory but we don’t see that implemented into her character that much. She’s always cheery, active and loud. We rarely see her past effecting her personality. It would have been refreshing to see her all quiet and anti-social initially, but Akira helps her come out of her shell and makes her bright and cheery.
We also have Walmart Bakugo, blue haired Joe Exotic, nerdy gamer girl, manipulating red head milf and a lot more. There’s an abundance of characters but all of them are super generic and extremely forgettable. They have their own parts to play but feel more like an NPC out of Skyrim than an actual character. The villain has the classic “Im the bad guy, I’ll kill everyone” look and leads the gang green gang of annoying misfits. The only character that’s remotely decent is the glasses guy that looks like he’s paid the subscription for every Onlyfans model in existence. His cunningness is somewhat amusing to watch in the last arc of the show. Besides that, forgettable, generic, annoying side characters.
But we all know the best character is the banana head man
The art in this show is not consistent. It starts off with a fairly vibrant art style, which was one of the things that made me curious about the show. But as more time passes, you notice CGI being used in most places. And if you’re wondering yes the CGI is horrible, almost comical. Im really wishy washy about CG in anime. When it’s well done, it’s actually pleasant to watch, like Beastars. When it’s awful, or combined with animation, it feels disgusting, like an unholy amalgamation of good and evil. It’s like oil and water, it just doesn’t mix. That’s the long term problem in this show, as even main characters start getting CG’d more often than animated. The fight scenes also has more CG than animation in the later parts, and most parts are covered with flashy lights, big explosions or smokescreens to avoid putting effort into their show. Like bruhhh, if a show that has “Battle” in the title dosent have its fight scenes properly animated, it begs the question “what is your budget going towards?” Characters also have their rough times, with disproportional facial animations that makes them look like something outta Resident Evil, and not even the good Resi games, like some shit outta Resi 6.
Not going into details about the sound. OSTs are fine, OP & ED was fine, and voice acting was generic yet well done. Although the cat girl was super annoying, like enough to make my ear drums bleed levels of annoying.
Even with its amplitude of flaws, I honestly think it’s one of the better death games out there. It’s not a good show, but it out runs its predecessors in most factors which is something I can appreciate. It was more like a rocky ride than a constant downhill that I felt watching Darwins Game. The mc is the highlight of the show, and outshines most characters and was the only reason I came back to the show weekly. Fun show overall.
bufi_
So, to keep it short, the dynamic of the show was: bad premise, quite good continuation, and gradually getting worse second half. Despite having one of the most stereotypical and bad premises out of there (and also character introductions), the following episodes got way better and actually interesting, only for the growth to be completely thrown out of a window later, with the story becoming stagnant, typical, and boring. The characters don't really help either, not even the interesting back stories being able to save the show. The fact that it loses its realistic factor, that made the characters feel human, only makes it completelyruined.
The story starts with an arrogant loner gamer boy that's extremely intelligent and thinks other people are not worth his time (that's definitely the first time we hear of this, right?) getting attacked on the street by a buff mummy that gets out of a car right in front of him and starts chasing him. Luckily, because he's smart and an ace at playing games (including startegy games), he manages to defeat him, and a quircky evil catgirl with a high picthed voice abducts him. Where does she take him? In a room full of people where she explains that they are part of a game now and were granted super powers. A set of games, to be precise, with more stages, that put their lives on the line. Pretty basic and used so many times before, isn't it? But here comes the good part: our (male) MC's super power. That's where it starts to get better.
Unfortunately, the good part ends when we have to watch a single stage of the game go on for half of the episodes and it becomes all just a mind game that should have been impossible, actually. It has a little supsense, but not enough and it loses part of its meaning anyway, but I'll stop here for the sake of not giving that many spoilers. Point is, in my opinion the focus in the second half wasn't on what it should have been to make it a good show.
Oh, and the characters. Aside the annoying male MC that I already described, (that gets a little more tolerable after a bit but still could have been a little more original), that has the typical appearance of a brown haired boy with brown eyes as well, we have the female MC that looks exactly like Rei (Highschool of the Dead) and has pretty much the same personality. Her backstory was pretty interesting and her character is tolerable, but her design kinda pisses me off tbh. There are also some interesting characters, and their backstories are pretty interesting most of the time (even for the more boring ones).
To top it off, at the end the animation gets pretty bad on some parts (around episodes 11-12), especially when it comes to fighting scenes and one particular character, where the CCG is pretty obvious and doesn't fit well with the rest of the animation.
The sound is okay, the sound track not exactly what I would listen to. However, I'd say the ED went especially good with the anime.
Well, that's pretty much all I had to say. Too bad it had to go like this, the anime had potential at some point.
AeroGunz
“Battle Game in 5 Seconds” is what happens when You have a pretty nice idea to put a twist on a survival game genre but get lazy almost as soon as You show it off for the first time. The plot follows one Akira Shiroyanagi. One day when he was out and about he got attacked by a mysterious humanoid. Keeping his cool and using his intellect and love of games, he manages to kill it. As a reward he gets killed. He wakes up, fully healed, in a mysterious place, surrounded by other people, where a sociopathic catgirl declares that everyone there was chosen tobe a part of a game. They are given powers and force to take part in fights. Now… no one tells explicitly that people have to kill each other but let’s be honest, it wouldn't be a survival show if everyone played nice. And so our not likely hero finds himself in a death game and it turns out he takes pleasure in being there. Even if he doesn’t admit it out right.
To be honest there are only two characters in this show I actually gave a damn about. They are:
Akira Shiroyanagi - our MC. A 16 year old high schooler who is bored to death. When we meet him he contemplates finding a new game to play and immerse himself in. Well… be careful what You wish for. He ends up in a death game and has to fight to survive.
His intelligent, knowledgeable about sociotechnics (although the show never calls them that for some reason) and able to keep a cool head. Unlike most anime protagonists he has something that could be considered a seed of personality. He’s not a Goody Two Shoes and doesn’t let others push him around. But that’s about it. His main drawback is that he talks a lot. Specifically about what he has done to conquer his opponent. Instead of keeping quiet he just has to brag, and his bragging is cringe af. The fact that most of his plans work is thanks to the fact that he has plot armour thicker than a bowl of oatmeal makes him annoying at times.
He has one of the most interesting powers I’ve seen in a survival game genre. His power is… anything that the other person believes him to have. Pretty cool idea. Shame it’s not utilised more creatively.
Mion - a sadistic, violence loving, cheerful and weirdly sexy cat girl. She appears to be the host of the death games. Having a weird obsession with Akira, she watches him diligently and even sometimes intervenes to help the kid out. Something totally out of character for someone who gets off on violence and death. Yes, she’s a side character but she’s far more interesting than the “love” (and I use this term loosely) interest of the MC.
Seriously, Yuuri Amagake is pretty boring as a character. It appears she develops a crush on Akira after just one joint venture. She has one of the most OP powers in the show, only eclipsed by the MCs power. She can multiply her physical abilities by a factor of five.
Let’s be honest the survival game genre doesn’t exactly have much room for innovation. You take some people, give them some kind of power or gear to make things interesting and just let them go to town. The main way that these kind of shows keep You invested are the way it handles fights between the competitors and the characters themselves.
One of those is handled… adequate. The second one… yeah… mediocre at best.
When it comes to fight choreography… yeah… 90% of the time it’s bad. Not horrendous but bad. Despite having some awesome powers to play and make them fight each other, most of the fights are really generic. Either the fight is over in seconds because someone has a skill that can kill or incapacitate his enemy in an instant, or we get the same boring shit that we’ve seen a million times - screaming, running and waving weapons without a real plan. Even when we get to see a fight between two swordsmen who have the same skill we still don’t get a proper fight. It’s… disappointing. The fact that some powers are more common than others doesn’t help.
The writers got lazy pretty fast. I think episode 3. Instead of finding creative ways for Akira to make use of his powers he just uses the fact that most people know that he has one power and uses that. It makes his fights predictable and boring pretty fast. I get that he fights trash mobs mostly but that’s still not a reason to get complacent with the plot. As long as there is someone who knows that he can use a canon power he can just “tap” into that person (even if it’s an ally) and just shoot the place up. It gets old pretty fast.
The characters aren’t much to write home about but their interactions are pretty fun to watch. The inner monologues in Akiras head give a sense of secrecy, suspense and importance and watching people trying to guess each other's powers and how to get an upper hand in a fight isn’t as tragic as I was afraid of. The problem is that those kind of mind games are reserved for… 2 fights in the whole show.
Another thing that rubbed me the wrong way is that, despite being in a death game, a lot of people just trust him and tell him things they really should keep to themselves. Even when the leader of a faction he joins is wary of him he is still trusted enough to fight alongside their members. Pretty irresponsible.
At the end of the day this show isn’t a tragic one. The interactions between the characters can be fun to watch and moments when Akira manipulates others are pretty entertaining. Even if a lot of those “manipulations” are pure ass pull and some are done retroactively.
It can be enjoyable if You don’t have high standards for writing.
AN_IME_lovers
In terms of the anime's story, it's actually unique because every time there is a fight scene they immediately fight after meeting for 5 seconds. The strength of each character is quite unique. The battle scenes in this anime rely on strategy so I don't get bored while watching them. The opening song in this anime is a banger. For the ending song, I think it's normal and nothing special. What makes this anime less good is the animation that looks stiff and lacks detail so that the battle scenes that should be epic and exciting are now ordinary. Perhaps this is due to rushedproduction and short deadlines. What a pity
KANLen09
What makes a good battle royale show? Is it the story of where and how it all started? Is it the crew of characters that each and everyone of them have their wishes fulfilled? Or is it...a death game where if you die, you're dead forever both in-game and IRL (like in SAO)? For Deatte 5-byou de Battle a.k.a Battle Game in 5 seconds, truly in 5 seconds, you'll come to see that this show is just purely "All according to Keikaku." the Animation in all of its average drabness across the entire anime's run. Death-perception game shows are nothing new in this day and age,the most recent example being of last year's Darwin's Game, and that by itself is a fast and frenetic death game that doesn't take its sweet ass time to develop the settings and such. It just infodumps you right in without any explanation, and does it only after the fact. Think of Hunter X Hunter in the early stages, but there are notable differences across the board once you can start putting two and two together. Deatte 5-byou does just that, but for some reason, executes it a whole lot worse with mangaka Saizou Harawata's writing that does start decently, until it goes straight into "Battle Royale" mode which is a blatant copy-and-paste tactic that fails to measure up to Darwin's Game in both the predictable story and the forced plot (I'll leave the animation part later on).
The "Light Yagami" of this story is the MC Akira Shiroyanagi, the self-proclaimed smart gamer with an ailing health, and that's all he does: play games each and everyday without a care in the world. Just suddenly, a bandaged buff-lord man etches out of a vehicle, catching this 16-year-olf boy by total surprise and having to evade death in 5 seconds. Being someone who's totally out of league in this death battle in both power and physique, Akira just manages to escape at the slightest shave, but yet could not evade death by getting killed from this catgirl loli Mion. In comes this gaming experiment of a death game, and this protagonist (just like Darwin's Game's MC Kaname Suou) more than being forced and hauled into this, vows to destroy this organization for taking his (and others) lives hostage for their fun.
You want to know how bad Deatte 5-byou de Battle can be? Here are the facts:
Aside from coming in with the notion that I (and some of you) have watched Darwin's Game before, I just can't shake the fact that the characters are written TOO simple, more than just having 2 essential things: a goal/objective to get out of this death game, and a personality that lets us be sympathetic to their backstories, no matter how depressing they can be. For one, taking the protag Akira by example, he's just a stone cold-faced boy who tries to act and sound mature, but at times feel disconnected by his actions and words that are meant to be a play on his character. Being the big brain-er of a strategist, you would at least expect him to have some humanity, but nope, he's just a human with a robotized brain. At least the other main character who's standing toe-to-toe with him (Yuuri Amakage) exhibits the human trait, but I just can't help if the author decides to have a fetish that a boy-girl pairing is a must not only in close calls of trusted camaraderie, instead inciting the hints of romance as well (which there're some). The other characters are a complete joke.
The superpowers (or abilities rather) given...are a complete Darwin's Game rip-off. Each and everyone has unique abilities that are only secret to their own unless they decide to tag team and share it across with allies, but even to the point of Akira's ability, none of them have the coolness factor of said series that are just subservience to service the plot. I mean, just to give you an idea, Akira's ability is the Sophist: "Whatever your opponent thinks your power is." which definitely means that there're lots of possibilities to experiment with it. Sadly, it's as best as what you'd think: for example if Akira can <insert your guesses here>, then he will exhibit that according to your POV. It only is a one-trick pony to play Survivor through a death game that requires battle wit, brawls and even brains just to keep your allies alive for your ultimate use. In the end, it's everyone for themselves.
There's the abominable animation, which is the biggest sin of this show. Why in the world would you want to produce a modern-day show when it looks like it came from more than a decade ago? For context, putting this in comparison with the classic Initial D, the first season aged very badly, but subsequent seasons did have better production values that gave the series justice. Compare that to Deatte 5-byou, and I'd reckon that it came out in the mid-2000s with old studios SynergySP (which did Initial D 5th and Final Stages that looked even worse than Studio Gallop's 1st Stage) and Vega Entertainment (which their last work was the IMO abominable 2005 OVA Boku wa Imouto ni Koi wo Suru). Studio A-CAT handles the CGI portion because these 2 studios didn't have the capacity to do that for a modern touch, and it's the same thus far I've seen of badly produced works done. Putting all of that together, and "OK boomer" fans that had this show as their first taste of a battle royale...I'd be like Steve Carrell playing The Office's Michael Scott to shout "No God, Please No!".
I have no sympathy for the music either, because while it fits the themes of this show, it quickly become white noise to me. For one, the OP which was VA Akari Kitou's like what, 2nd or 3rd solo, Tonikaku Kawaii's OP is a certified banger, but Deatte 5-byou's OP just instantly made me think that she CAN act, but she CANNOT sing solo. Thank god for other shows she has done before with others that mask her nice voice though. And also, I'm not the biggest fan of Seiko Oomori, and this ear-blasting ED is a sentiment that only cuts deep to give my ears a good bleeding. Just so bad.
Bring all of these facts with a production team that clearly does not have the experience or talent to back it up (and honestly, having series composer Touko Machida is a foresight that shows will fail under her supervision). With the pacing of the anime faster than the hare can outrun the tortoise, and Deatte 5-byou de Battle is a show that for the Average Joe who, in the words of a good friend: like battle-shounen that pretends to be deep, this might be what you are looking for. Other than that, there is hardly anything unique about this manga. Perhaps, I have been hoping to see something much better than that. So my advice to you is to start reading it, hoping to watch just an average anime. That way, you might enjoy it.
As for me, the prelim reviews are a complete troll of a joke to say that y'all clearly helped people to give Deatte 5-byou a try, but have only your opinions to back it up without years of experience, so why make reviews that are clickbait, algorithm-worthy when clearly the final product shown proves otherwise? (Alright, alright, I'm kidding, but this show is NOT worth higher than a 7.) This show is just average overall, and now I have to go re-watch Darwin's Game again just to refresh my brains of this wack material. It's not pathetic to the point where some will like it, and you do you, but it just is a pain to watch this from start to finish.
moesha10
this was a master piece in its on. i wonder if their is a second season. i was on the edge of my seat the whole time. the part where they ended up back home had me thinking how wicked and weird. I wonder if he negotiated with neon to let them all go back home and be free but still participate in the game. since the game gives them a thrill and different form of life they were all searching for. truly loved this. i like how their where parts of the scene that looked like the game. and i also felt bad formost of the players because of their background story. but at least now they can be at rest. it truly was a beautiful anime with a true story about how we are all trying to survive life and find out place in the world. and how sometimes we lose ourselves to where we no longer see value in this life. we just have to find that special moment or thing that brings value. it funny how it always takes a disaster in order for us to find that value. but this story inspires me to truly value everything whether i found my true calling or not and also i am only human so i will take my own hands and pave a way to what makes me happy.
Slidiiie
This anime has been on the low probably because of his visuals and his overall aspect in my opinion visually didn’t look so bad even tho it looked a bit oldish. But I’ll start by saying I think it deserve atleast a high 6/ low 7. Sure the story is a déjà vu, and the main character act as if he was the kid from kirito on SAO and light yagami in DEATH NOTE. I feel like the anime is getting a lot of low notes from people who doesn’t see all the work behind an anime and can’t get another look from their first impression. I’m sure theArt doesn’t help especially in combat where it sometimes look like you’re having 10 fps and it’s really bad.
But there’s still a good enough effort to make it over the average anime now when you see notes like a 3 or 4 people are just out of their mind,the overall ambiance was putting me in the show without getting me bored so it got to be atleast average.
The musics choice and the voice acting was GOOD!
Sure I can understand some people putting a lower notation because there is already a lot of anime of the same genre and it’s nothing new you can clearly see the inspiration in some characters.
The flow of the scenes is a very HUNTER X HUNTER like especially in the fights scenes, where they love to pause and explain you everything all the way, but you can’t penalize the anime for his genre it’s whether you like it or not.
When I’m comparing him to anime of his genre the visuals and easy path in the story can’t make him above a 8 cause it’s clearly lacking and too many aspects.
I couldn’t put anything lower than 6 cause the music, the voice acting, the effort and the rythm + the consistency in the script, can’t put him near the trash levels 4 and under but I could agree that he is average or above
Considérant the bad notations it gets I’m going to be nice and out seven out it’s really a 6 in my opinion just from the fact that I could watch the 12 épisodes while still being captivated not bored and could watch a next season.
I’ll always say about every anime all depends on what style you,like give it a try and make your own opinion.
_Voyager
I was surprised when this anime was first announced. I thought the survival game / battle royale genre has been left far behind in the early 2010s, since we are deep into the isekai era right now (for better or, probably, for worse). So while the key visual and PVs for this anime did not inspire much excitement, I was cautiously expecting an at least somewhat average palate cleanser with a hint of nostalgia. Well, that's pretty much what I got. I have not read the manga, so I will judge this purely based on the anime. This is pretty much the bog-standard death game animeyou would see bouncing around the seasonal charts a decade ago (with art and animation quality to match). What makes this somewhat more intriguing is the mystery element - whereby the participants in the death game appear to be recruited as part of a broader conspiracy, instead of having straightforward goals and defined rules from the get-go. This mystery is used to a decent effect to drive tension in the early episodes but unfortunately fades over the course of the show's runtime in favor of more bombastic action setpieces and hastily written and poorly executed character backstories.
Speaking of, I would highlight Akira, the MC, as the standout character in the series. Sure, he isn't anything too unique as far as death game MCs go (and at the very least he isn't a sigh-inducing weakling or idiot as these MCs tend to be). His aptitude for tactical and strategic thinking makes the "big brain" moments in the show's climaxes entertaining to watch. The way he uses his unique ability to gain an edge over the various enemies he encounters is a consistent highlight of the show. Unfortunately, the more mysterious elements of his own backstory receive no attention during this anime's runtime, but I am satisfied with what we got. The other characters are rather bland and uninteresting, and the villains are comically evil with uninspiring backstories. There are slivers of romance in this anime, especially in relation to the female lead, Yuuri, but it never takes away from the core narrative of the show (which I appreciate). Yuuri is plays a more important role as a critical part of Akira's plans, and her spunky personality forms a good complement to Akira's otherwise stoic persona. The focus is directed towards the action and Akira's thought process, from which where most of the show's core entertainment value is derived.
There isn't too much to comment on from a technical standpoint. The art and animation aren't anything to write home about, with terrible CG used during demanding portions of certain action sequences. The music was mostly forgettable, though the OPs and EDs were catchy and fit the theme of the anime well (though I would probably forget them by the time next season rolls around).
All in all, Deatte 5-byou de Battle was a bit of nostalgic fun, a throwback to the heyday of death games in the early 2010s, and a fresh change of pace from the isekai drab that muddies every season these days. You would get some enjoyment out of it if you prefer more "brain" than "brawn" in your survival games. If you are getting bored of the style of anime we are getting these days, this could be worth a casual watch if you can make room for it on a crowded seasonal watchlist. But if you really wanted a good survival game/battle royale anime to scratch that particular itch of yours, I would recommend checking out classic examples of the genre which have stood the test of time, and potentially some more interesting ones in upcoming seasons.
PixelB
Deatte 5-byou de Battle does nothing innovative with the death game genre. If you're into these types of shows, then you'll find it acceptable, and if you don't, then you'll think it's trash. I don't think Darwin's game is anything innovative or anything, but Deatte 5-byou de Battle doesn't even try with it's pilot episode. It's pretty clear that the author wanted to get the beginning out of the way so the death battles can begin. An extremely intelligent and convenient MC is shown in the very beginning, is which he's trying to "immerse himself in a game to escape reality" is coincidentally, given anopportunity to immerse himself in a game to escape his current reality. Wow! Usually, you're also given a sort of mystery as to why people got abducted and placed to fight each other in weird games, but this show just flat out tells you: "we're testing new abilities, fight to the death!" Again, it's a very vanilla beginning, and the most dull one I've seen so far.
I think that other than the beginning, the story arcs are alright. The fact that the MC has a pretty OP but interesting ability is cool, and you're driven to want to see how he gets past his obstacles in every stage. Of course, things just go too well for Akira for me to really root for him and care about the story, but it's good enough to pass the time. Again, the charm point of this story is how everyone has a unique ability, including Akira. Pair these with different battle settings and scenarios, and you got a fun little death battle survival story.
What really gets me, though, is not even the boring beginning. I love the genre, and I was not expecting much anyway from the transition from regular life to death game. It's the animation. This show is on a hella small budget. Everything is so poorly animated. There are little to no backgrounds, the studio uses every trick to animate fights with as little budget as possible. In the very few frames where there are fights, they use crappy CGI instead of actual animation. It's a very low budget show clearly, and there's nothing good about it. I'm not even too picky, but to have a show about fighting and using CGI or just poorly animated fights is just too much. Backgrounds are just solid colors half the time, closeups are constantly shown to avoid as much animation as possible, no details are shown, characters have unnatural limbs and bad proportions, etc. Pair this with the fun flashback montages that were already shown in order to save animating anything, you a really low quality show in the art department. Zoro's voice actor playing Kirisaki was a good surprise, but not nearly enough to salvage this show.
Story wise, it's actually not bad, but the bad animation is just too much. I prefer anime over to manga, but I really suggest reading it instead...there's no salvation for this animation. I'll be doing the same
CrawlerOther
I hate long reviews. And mostly review for future self-reflection's sake. short MC is an avid reddit user on r/im14andthisisdeep sub. After another casual day of living the privileged life but being too deep and misunderstood by world, he skips school, opting instead to spend time as his heroes do, wandering the streets and being a public menace. He gets kidnapped so badly animated Squid game x X-men death match can start. Plot doesn't progress anywhere, gives no reason to sympathize with any of characters and series viewer base is based on cliff hanger addicts. plus Ignoring the execution, idea of random people having knowledge of having asuper power which needs to be discovered seems fun (Gantz, Btooom! vibes). The archetypal trope of villainous/ethically gray protagonist, can serve as a great medium for dissecting traditional values.
minus
Animation is cheap, all 'mind games' have an ending, but seem to miss quite the important bits of beginning and middle parts. Basically only after something is uncovered are clues relating to how it could have been predicted shown. Animation is really bad. Characters are at best one dimensional - the big muscular guy, the hot psychopath girl, the wise old man etc.
Recommendations of similar anime:
Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor - detective with layered characters thought out plot, actually good mysteries, high stake gambles (not typical action scenes), bizarre/memorable animation.
Psycho pass - dystopian future sci-fi with underlying detective story, smooth and exquisite animation, high level animation.
Btooom! - similar to Deatte 5-byou de Battle but far better execution. Story starts to lag as it progresses, not so much in anime as it simply ends abruptly, but quite evidently so in manga.
Gantz - similar to Deatte 5-byou de Battle but far better execution. Anime stays truthful to source, and manga never promises more than what it delivers, which is pure eye catching gore and epic illustrations.
hexashadow13
tl;dr: A death battle anime purely about the battles, but with pretty good battles. This anime has the standard battle game premise that involves a group of people being given supernatural powers, and then forced to fight each other in a systematic fashion with a variety of different rules and match types. As far as this season gets, absolutely no background has been provided on who’s running things or what their goals is. There’s not even a hint of mystery or foreshadowing. It doesn’t seem to touch the subject at all. As such, the plot is centered entirely on the fights themselves. The protagonist, Akira Shiroyanagi, hasan ability that’s a bit unique, though what it is and the specifics of how it work could be considered spoilers so I’ll be vague about it. It’s an ability that requires mind games and manipulating his opponents to use effectively. Akira is the logical type that’s always thinking ahead and trying to predict what his opponents are thinking and how they’ll react to him, so he ends up acclimating to his power rather quickly and uses it quite effectively. This anime also has a pretty strong emphasis on characters keeping powers hidden or mispresenting them in order to trick their opponent, so it fits into the broader dynamics pretty well.
Akira has somewhat of a character arc that starts with him being pretty cold and treating everything like a game but he eventually comes to care about his allies. This character arc is significantly advanced through his budding relationship with a girl named Yuuri. Yuuri and a lot of other characters also get some background that helps explain their personality and motivations. Still, none of any of this is all that strong. There’s not all that much depth to anyone. There are characters that you’ll probably find likable because they’re cool, funny, or easy to empathize with. But I didn’t feel anyone was all that well written.
The anime starts off with 1v1 matches. This part is interesting due to how Akira is still figuring out how his power works and has to experiment in the middle of actual battles, and also because this is the point where his ability to use his power is most limited. After that it transitions into a large scale group conflict. Having an ally he can trust removes a significant number of the limitations on his ability and the need for psyching out his opponent and such, which makes things much simpler for him for a bit. But the anime writes around that by separating him from said ally, and thus it goes back to him having to use mind games and well thought out plans to achieve victory.
These battles aren’t amazingly well written. However, the variety of powers and the fast pacing is enough to keep things pretty interesting from beginning to end. It overall flows really well and though there aren’t any major twists, it’s good at handling the smaller ones. Also, while there is a lot of death and it can certainly be serious at times, there’s a surprising amount of comedy, especially early on. So all in all it was a pretty fun ride. The ending obviously gets nowhere near the ending to the full story, but it ends an arc while also showing off a lot of interesting elements in where the story will go in the future. Thus, I was pretty satisfied with it.
The art and animation were decent enough for the most part, though never really good. The biggest exception to that was the ‘final boss battle’ so to speak, which very heavily involves really bad 3DCG and was jarringly awful looking. The character designs were solid enough. The OP and ED were both pretty solid in terms of the songs and visuals. The soundtrack was also decent.
GotS
Hi everyone! And welcome to “Garbage of the Season [3]!” The series where I discuss the current season's trashy pile of unwatchable monstrosities so that mom can’t say I’m doing nothing with my life. But before I start, I’d suggest you smash that helpful button and click on notifications so that you won’t miss out on any of my upcoming reviews. So without further ado, roll the intro… *The Shaggs - Philosophy of the World starts playing* … *End of intro* Today’s garbage is the ever popular Deatte 5-byou de Battle. A show that doesn’t even have a grasp over its own title. Battles do in fact not happenfive seconds after meeting on the vast majority of occasions. So there goes the only thing that would make the show stand out, as everything else is just copied homework from others like it.
Dea5 is presented as death game-esque, but is more in tone of a shounen tournament arc. For the focus is directed at fighting but not killing. Yes a few disposable side characters die here and there, but there’s no worry about the main ones. Because making the main characters overpowered in a death game scenario is the right way to build up suspense. And don’t get me started on how unbalanced the power system is. The main characters and villains obviously get the most useful superpowers since the plot armor wasn’t sturdy enough as is.
The characters themselves are cardboard cutouts and you can pretty much understand them from one scene alone. The most you’ll get out of them is some tragic backstory that the writers seem to think equals a good character. There wasn’t a single person worthy of investment and I would’ve rather seen them die. That would’ve been interesting at least.
I’ll just go on and write it: There are no redeeming qualities to be found in Dea5. The visuals are god awful, with the animation being especially abhorrent to look at. The music is poorly handled and the voice acting stiff and lifeless. Everything about this show and the hours wasted on it makes me depressed. So much in fact that I am going to put something sad in my outro.
To summarize, I would describe this show the same way as my sex life. Something to cry at when you’ve run out of K-dramas. But you know something that hasn't run out? Me...GotS! And this has been Garbage of the Season! Leave your thoughts about Deatte 5-byou de Battle in the comments below and I’ll see you in the next review. Roll the outro...
*A video showing us that Michael Bay is making a new movie starts playing*
The End...
oniichanlist
the story and concept is good but the cgi butchered the whole experience. CGI looks like its done by interns. Fight scenes would be better off without the cgi. very mediocre experience..gg. the only detailed chracter was only the pink chick. other characters were bland. the story and concept is good but the cgi butchered the whole experience. CGI looks like its done by interns. Fight scenes would be better off without the cgi. very mediocre experience..gg. the only detailed chracter was only the pink chick. other characters were bland. the story and concept is good but the cgi butchered the whole experience. CGI looks like itsdone by interns. Fight scenes would be better off without the cgi. very mediocre experience..gg. the only detailed chracter was only the pink chick. other characters were bland.
the story and concept is good but the cgi butchered the whole experience. CGI looks like its done by interns. Fight scenes would be better off without the cgi. very mediocre experience..gg. the only detailed chracter was only the pink chick. other characters were bland.
the story and concept is good but the cgi butchered the whole experience. CGI looks like its done by interns. Fight scenes would be better off without the cgi. very mediocre experience..gg. the only detailed chracter was only the pink chick. other characters were bland.
Synchrohayba
I ve read the manga for this show a while ago , and here i am writing a review about this meh adaptation . Story 7/10 Battle in 5 seconds after meeting is a survival game anime with an action/superpower flavour into the mix ,the abilities present in the show for the most part are unique and conditional which makes the fights more about strategy than who is more powerfull , the games on the other hand where fairly simplistic and a little bit of a letdown . Characters 7/10 There is a tone of characters in the show , but most of them is either detestable or forgetable, fortunatly the mc is very good , his strategic mind and the creative ways he uses his ability "the sophist" is the strongest suit of this anime .
Art 6/10
Pretty normal anime artstyle but sometimes cgi was used
Animation 5/10
CGI was majorly used in the fights scene , normal scenes had average anination , overall the quality was poor
Sound 5/10
I was expecting a memorable track in hype moments like in darwin's game but i was fairly disapointed . the op was ok , the ending is slightly better
Enjoyment 6/10
Tbh i was disapointed by this adaptation , could ve been way better but it is what it is .
In conclusion , this could ve been anime of the season easily for me , but it mediocre adaptation massacred it potential , another failure of the survival genre , guess i need to catch up with manga .
Arurupi
One one the worst anime that still manages to be entertaining. *clap* *clap* The chara design is ugly, the story has no consistence, everything is utter garbage, from the lack of imagination (half of the characters have the same power, gg) to the animation (see for yourself, sometimes the eyes are misplaced). Nothing really makes sense, it seems to have been written by a retarded but edgy middle schooler with aphantasia. Note that the main character -who is an alleged genius- explains everything he does and makes everyone very uncomfortable. Indeed, you will discover people jumping into water become wet. Tips: watch it as a comedy.
MeanEYE
One can do worse than watch this to kill some time. It's one of those shows that sets up a premise and hopes you don't think about it. The moment you start thinking what main character could do with his power whole thing falls apart and starts feeling completely pointless. However he is mysterious to a right degree and entertaining enough to carry this flawed story to the end without being tiresome. Other characters are also well designed if a bit simple in nature. Animation is very competent with one exception, one of main villains of the story, who for some reason directors of this showdecided to do with CGI. Stiff movements but at least well shaded. Everything else looked hand drawn to me with this one very obvious and jarring exception.
All things considered it's a very solid 6/10. Story could have been deeper and a bit more unique, world building should have been better and use of poor CGI didn't help the score either. Overall I enjoyed it, while not perfect ignoring lacking elements didn't pose too much of an issue.
Patrxaa
*This review will contain some minor spoilers* Had some great ideas but sadly ruined it with the handling of the abilities later in the story. It can be quite hard to find something new, something fresh in the supernatural genre when it comes down to abilities. But to my suprise, this is where Battle Game 5 seconds picked me up in the first place. The ability of Akira, the main character, is "whatever the other person thinks it is". From the point where I got to know about his ability, I was looking forward how he would psychologically trick the other characters to use the full potentialof it. My perception was, that he really needed to make the others "believe", that his ability is XY... Unfortunately, when the anime goes more into how his ability works, it is revealed, that this is not the case.
Later down in the series, Akira befriends with another participant of the death game in the name of Yuuri and ends up telling her about his real ability. She now knows the truth of his ability, so his ability won't work on or with her anymore, right? right? Wrong.
From this point on, Akira is basically a god, because unlike I thought, he doesn't need to make others truly believe that his ability is this or that. Nope, he only needs someone to literally think or imagine a specific ability, thinking it is his; and BOOM, that's the ability he will have. That means, as long as Yuuri is on his side he can practically use any ability he... well to be correct... Yuuri can imagine. For me this is what killed this anime. From that point on, why didn't he just use some OP ability to get the hell out of this place or just insta-kill his enemies? A lot of questions to be asked...
So, the story is very poorly written, not only because of how the abilites are handled but also because in some fights, somehow, the characters are predicting the predictions of other characters. As an example: "Haha, I predicted you would make that move, I was prepared for that" - other character: "Haha, I predicted that you would predict my move, it was a trap all along!", and that went on for like 3 more times IN ONE FIGHT.
On the other hand the animation isn't too great (but it's also not bad either).
The characters are all right and you can sympathize with some of them. However there are also characters whose motivation I can literally not understand and that don't make a lot of sense to me.
Overall, as I said in the beginning, this anime had some aspects that could've made it interesting, especially the ability of the MC. Unfortunately, they handled it very badly and the rest is just mediocre at best. I wouldn't really recommend you to watch this show.
Lelewoski
I really like survival and battle royale animes, and this one was not left out. I went with little hope of being good, even though I was the type I liked, and luckily, I was surprised and really liked what I saw. Points that I found positive: I found the scheme of powers that was used and the way they are interpreted very interesting as well. The protagonist is really good for the anime, I didn't see a negative point in him. The stages that players go through are also pretty cool and shows how the power that each player has can be used in manydifferent ways, in addition to making people act in different ways too.
Points I found negative: The anime should have done the "villains" in a better way, as most of them are pretty boring and don't bring any impact to the person watching. Another negative point, is the stories behind each character that are very bad, which also end up not bringing any impact to the person who is watching.Finally, the last negative point is the 3D animation, which is horrible.
