Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
friereniserm
Honestly, the anime isnt so great but thats mainly do to the VA selections and the animation. The tone of the anime just doesnt feel right as well. I personally recommend you check out the manga, which is amazing by the way, and skip out on the anime. Although if you like the anime death-match gimmick, you should try this out, complete the season then head over to the manga ofcourse, because there isnt a season 2. Honestly Im so grateful that I felt like I was left at a suspenseful part of the anime, forcing me to check out the manga. To summarise, Im not a fan of the anime, but the manga is absolute class.
Read at the sourceKranst
Battle Game in 5 Seconds is underwhelmingly uninspired in practically all categories. From a production standpoint, the animation is static and barebones. As well, subpar 3D animation was the substitute for even the most minor of movement. The sound design was unremarkable, and some of the voice acting was genuinely irritating. Even those looking for an action survival binge should move on. Action scenes are rigid. And the semi-interesting power system is underutilized. Narratively, there is no real purpose. Characters are thrown into an arbitrarily-paced scenario without explanation. Moreover, unnecessarily disgusting content was shoved into the second episode for whatever reason. Completely avoid this one.
Read at the sourceTheTIPGuy
It's an anime that caught my attention because of its description. When I saw its rating in M.A.L. I wasn't expecting this underrated masterpiece tho!
Internal Consistency [10/10]
A lot happens during the series, but not enough to make it hard for the viewer to follow along. Everything is handled really well and the script never contradicts itself! Even with the rules of +30 powers
Characters [9/10]
The characters have clear goals from the start and ALL the important ones have a backstory (both good and bad characters). They’re memorable and original and you quickly empathize with most of them! Plus, the MC is not like others in a death game anime. The only detail is that the true intentions of the person organizing these fights are never revealed... so far...
Animation [6/10]
2D animat…
Read at the sourceTheGreatButosh
If you had a magic genie in a lamp and were dumb enough to ask it, "give me a completely mid death game anime", 'Battle Game in Five Seconds!' is probably what you'd get.
The first thing you'll notice about the show is the characters - or lack thereof, effectively. The main character has no personality or backstory outside of liking 'games.' The only thing outside of that is that he mentions something about his parents in passing to the main girl, and that he seems generally against the idea of killing people (except the first episode where he seems fine with it?). The main girl's only personality is that she really doesn't like things that are random and was abused by her mother. Every single character in this show can be described in one short sentence, which has usually been written so…
Read at the sourceOtakuGirrl
Battle Game In 5 Seconds was such a wild ride, and I genuinely had a great time watching it. If you enjoy psychological strategy games with unpredictable twists and superpowers thrown into the mix, this anime really delivers. From the very first episode, it throws you into the chaos, and it never really lets up.
What I loved most is how clever the main character, Akira, is. He doesn’t rely on brute strength, he plays mind games, uses logic, and constantly outsmarts others in a world where everyone is trying to survive. There’s also an interesting variety of characters, each with their own unique powers and motivations, which keeps things fresh and intense.
It may not be perfect animation wise or story wise, but it’s entertaining, engaging, and packed with suspense. Definitely a solid pic…
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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, has an 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…
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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 for most 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…
Read at the sourceMeanEYE
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 show decided 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.…
Read at the sourceAeroGunz
“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 to be 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 likel…
Read at the sourcehendri050299
this genres is really unique (i think kind of isekai fantasy and supernatural?)
if you just started watching anime i think this series is good for started because this anime is not boring to watch and not require you to focus to understand stuff.
the graphic is very good (visual and battle effect) and the story is also good at least not make me bored with the chit chat and stuff.
the story kinda unpredictable and also full of plot twist.
dont worry the plot twist is still realistic.
if you like mind strategy battle stuff i think you should watch it.
Read at the sourceMenma_wiz_
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To be honest i thought this anime is trash but i kinda liked it. The characters have a good story... But the ending scene of the villon flashback is lame, bit they have made the animation of the main villain is damn good and the flight scean of the both of number 1 and the Big booby girl was good. And the mc is cool and the bad ass ...
I am giving this rating 8/10
Animation 9/10 Story8/10
Sound8/10
This is tipical mc guy where he hides his ability to others untill he finds his trust worthy one.
Read at the sourcecocoescap
The whole anime can be summed up in 4 words: "a worse Darwin's Game"
The characters are given powers are are forced to engage each other in combat, which has been done before plenty, however this example is pretty bland. The characters with the more interesting abilities are side characters and it all devolves down to the main character using his somewhat interesting ability. However, since his ability requires him to manipulate what others think to use it, the whole anime just devolves into a nonsensical mind game where it's like:
"haha! I knew you were going to think that therefore I planned ahead and made preparations"
"oh I knew you were going to make those preparations so I prepared to counter your preparations"
"I knew you were going to prepare to counter my preparations so I pre…
Read at the sourceSalvatierra21
The only thing I can say is that this anime was good. The theme of the challenges that are presented is of different dynamics, so that the battles are entertaining, using the powers to the maximum rather than a simple battle royale.
But in the rest of it, it falls to the deepest depths of the ground. First, the characters have nothing to highlight; if you put them in another anime, there would not be a difference, as the protagonist is the typical expert, calculating master of the theme of the series, and we are already tired of that. The opposite character is there to make the comic relief, which would be the blonde who has a headache.
The second important thing is the animation, which is bad, with a mixture of sloppy CGI and poorly designed backgrounds, leaving the episodes flat and st…
Read at the sourceCrawlerOther
I hate long reviews. And mostly review for future self-reflection's sake.
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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.
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Ignoring the execution, idea of random people having knowledge of having a super power which needs to be discovered seems fun (Gantz, Btooom! vibes). The archetypal trope of villainous/ethically gray protagonist, can serve…
Read at the sourceSlidiiie
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 the Art 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 ov…
Read at the sourcekiyotouji
Battle game in 5 seconds, let me sum it up. It started off pretty strong and from there got progressively worse until it was an absolute train wreck. Don't even know why I finished the entire anime. It's main problem is the horrendous CG in the later episodes. Its a decent anime around a 7ish i'd say until the latter half where you start to notice Beserk quality CG pop up here and there until the main characters and main antagonist are fighting entirely in awful CG.
This anime would be fine if it continued the art and animation quality from the earlier episodes but because it didn't I would not recommend watching. Towards the end all you can focus on is how bad the CG is and it just ruins the anime.
Read at the sourcePatrxaa
*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 potential of 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 no…
Read at the sourceLelewoski
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 many different 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 n…
Read at the sourceAN_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 rushed production and short deadlines. What a pity
Read at the source_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 anime you 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…
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