Deatte 5-byou de battlle/Battle Game in 5 seconds
When i first saw this anime's picture i was attracted to the art style but when i watched it i learned that its much more than that. You see, this anime is unique by all means and it really saved me from getting bored this season since there isnt many new anime that arent isekai(really, this season is filled with them) so am going to explain why its so good in my opinion and what is bad about it, especially that this anime has succeeded in avoiding a lot of annoying aspects in other anime even famous ones
[[STORY] :](https://anilist.co/review/126047)
Summary of the story :
Akira Shiroyanagi is an addicted gamer who get attacked in his way to school and pushed to the edge of the death, when he wakes up he finds himself with bunch of other people in a death game with multiple stagesmade by a girl who calls herself "Mion", granted with super natural abilities....everyone is trying to survive this deadly game
there isnt much to say about the story since all death game's story are similar but trust me the events that happens within the story and its characters is what makes it as good as it is
however, the story telling in this anime is so great and satisfying, it never leaves any element in the anime without well-directing it til it reaches the point thats going to either help the story in the future or fill some blanks to make the story feels rich and more enjoyable to watch
this anime has really managed it characters well and never left a character with nothing to do with the story and just stop showing, characters either be useful in the future or die....which is a great aspect that a lot of other anime miss especially ones with ton of characters where most of them are just abandoned
events in the anime are well distributed so you never feel that something happened too early or too late, also distributed in very understandable way rather than confusing, which is something that most other anime has succeed to accomplish but hey....its worth mentioning
the abilities in this show are veryyy uncommon to see even more than boku no hero quirks which is something that gives a fresh taste and make very interesting fights
[[CHARACTER DESIGN] :](https://anilist.co/review/126047)While the character design feels lazy and generic, its actually so describing of the character itself...it just feels that the characters and their design is very suitable, you can tell each ones character just from the way they look and the clothes that they were
[[CHARACTERS] :](https://anilist.co/review/126047)
characters are the greatest aspect of making this anime my favorite this summer each one of them is somehow different from the other and am going to talk about them in the following form : i ll talk about the two main characters and the main evil character each one individually and the all the other side characters together in the same paragraph
Akira Shiroyanagi :
Without overstatement....this is one of the most unique protagonists you can ever find literally, which made it one of my favorites too, having a great intelligence is great but not that unique but you see....unlike most other anime protagonists....akira doesnt seem to give a f**k about being the imaginary good guy who saves people and doesnt kill he's enemies, NO akira is a bit different.....he doesnt mind killing anyone he faces at all, also if it isnt going to help him.....he never put himself in danger and saves anybody (for me those 2 are really good thing becuz am tired of those anime protagonists who keep saying "i will save you even if you are my enemy" and "i will save everyone") infact akira will reach his goal whatever it takes like using people as tools to help him, although we dont know if he is actually interested in the other main character yuuri or just tricking her to trusting him and uses her as another tool(i hope its the first one tho). oh, did i mentioned that he is the only character i ever saw in a death game anime who doesnt really care about escaping the death game what he actually care about is fighting Mion again and making her regret giving him the ability she gave him, since we came to it now.......i myself watched anime for 7 years and never ever saw something that is even close to akira's ability,
Spoiler, click to view
your ability is whatever the other person thinks it is
Yuuri Amagake :
The moment yuuri appeared in the show....i loved her a lot(not literally) whats not likeable about her? she looks beautiful, she has a Dark background(including suicide,parental carelessness,stalkers and lawless childrens) and she is strong.....like seriously strong, now you might be thinking "whats so special about that uh...Misaka(from railgun),Ereza(from fairy tail) and mikasa(from aot) are strong" you probably dont get it do you?? by strong i mean really strong and useful, yes you heard that right the main female character of this show is useful, i know it sounds impossible but trust me its true...for those who didnt really watch a lot of anime.....80% of main females are useless af not even kiddint....just name her name any female main character they re all useless in most of episodes and they just get helped all the time every single one of them and i ll give you a lot of examples : nami(from one piece),sakura(from naruto),lucy(from fairy tail),uraraka(from boku no hero),asuna(from sword art online),nezuko(from kimitsu no yaiba).... they re all pretty useless pretending to be useful in few scenes but yuuri is different she is pretty pretty strong and doesnt cry for help every 5 seconds.....now you might be thinking that am overstating things but......dear reader have you ever seen a female main character kicking the ass of the final boss alone??? WELL, yuuri did that, also her being strong isnt the only thing that makes her usefull cause yuuri is the only one who can get the best out of akira's ability.....what a wonderful female main character right?
Mion :
There isnt much to say about this character because we lack information about her but there is somethings worth mentioning. This character is weirdly hateable to the point that makes you like her....not sure how to describe my feelings but....its something like that, this character is incredibly malicious and challenging in a way that makes every scene she is in meaningful to the story and fun to watch, i noticed a lot of people saying that her voice is annoying and they hate it a lot.....but to be honest.....they probably cant realize how suitable and important her voice is, am sorry but for me they are just kids like.....what did they expect a cute 12 years old girl's voice as an evil character??
Other Side-Characters :
well to be honest most of the allies characters are cliche in design and similar in character but they re always useful and remarkable and the best thing about them is that the story never give up on them, they always show and do something important from time to time, however i think this show has succeeded creating good evil character better than good ones(except for the 2 main characters) seriously.....evil characters in this show are very very hateable in a way that i like because i didnt really felt that i want the evil characters to die when am watching a show from a while but this anime reminded me what good evil characters looks like. The best thing about side characters is that characters like Kuroiwa,Shirasagi and Rin are as intelligent as Akira is, others like Ringo,Madoka and Kumagiri add a lot more spices to this anime.
[[ART/ANIMATION] :](https://anilist.co/review/126047)
This anime's classic art style in really high quality is just pure 10/10 nothing more to say about it, its just enduring
Sometimes you ll feel that the art is kinda wrack but thankfully it doesnt happen that often other than that it looks awesome and satisfying to watch,
animation is most of the times amazingly smooth and pretty acceptable. However there was some bad CG here and there lately which is something extremely bad and uncomfortable to watch but hey, some other big shows had very bad CG too like "Attack on titan" and "Baki 2018" but that didnt affect the quality of show that much and its still pretty watchable so why would it be a different case with this anime?? also despite the bad CG there was a lot of acceptable to really good CG or 3D rendered material in the show that was good and well blended in the background to the point where its hard to recognize its 3D from the first look(like 80% of images in this review)
[[MUSIC] :](https://anilist.co/review/126047)actually pretty decent opening and osts they arent that good but not bad either
the only thing you should really do is GO LISTEN TO THE ENDING brooo its so fire and i found a lot who enjoy it even tho they arent fans of the show itself
[[OVERALL] :](https://anilist.co/review/126047)
i am really really enjoying this anime so far its been a while since i watched an anime that good these days are full of isekai shitty shows(dont get me wrong i dont say that all isekai are bad) and i feel eye to eye with the author even tho there is some bad things about it that i already mentioned they all are pretty ignorable for me aaand there is never a flawless anime right??
sadly there isnt too many people who cares about this anime which makes it pretty underrated for me like.....i saw much worse anime but they have more attention than this one. I think its not that they watch it but they dont like it...its more likely to be that they doesnt even try it because the genre of death games isnt liked that much from fans. For me this is the best new anime of this year just a little bit below "Jujutsu Kaisen", and just the fact that its underrated and its the only thing i could really watch this season made me raise up my ratings even more for this anime....and yeah, just give it a shot you probably wont regret
[[ENDING] :](https://anilist.co/review/126047)am really grateful to whoever reaches this point of my review cant wait to hear your criticisms and am sorry if i messed up in this review because am not used to write text reviews, remember to give the show a shot
