Deatte 5-byou de Battle
Battle in 5 Seconds

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The review contains slight spoilers of the first few chapters.

The story is really nice. It reminds me a lot of the hunter exam in Hunter x Hunter. Everyone competing is supposedly murdered by some girl with a cannon and brought to live in another dimension(?) where they are all granted a random supernatural power that they are supposed to use to pass multiple trials. Each character has their own goal, the MC wants to destroy the system, others want to just leave, and some even decide to just live inside of the trials and build a settlement.
The art is the best part of the whole ... manga. Each panel has so much attention to detail and every character is distinguishable and personified by the appearance. The characters look really nice and the background is always amazing.
The main character's ability is incredibly unique to the other abilities, and his ability is just whatever "the other person believes [his] ability to be". This makes most of his fights psychological mind games, which is good for him, because he's basically a boy genius. The other characters are pretty straight forward. There is his self proclaimed rival who is an airhead, the girl deuteragonist who gets kind of angry sometimes, a big muscley guy who is very levelheaded, a typical psychopathic girl who takes interest in the main character (actually there are a couple of them), and other fun supporting characters.

(Note: People are seeing this review because the anime adaptation is now airing. This was my first review i ever wrote for anything. It's not the greatest)

Verdict: Mid - High 8

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I´ll make this simple:


1.-The anime is not a great reference.

2.- The begging is not the greatest but the third program is the real inflextion point in the story.

3.-Predictable? Not at all. The MC´s ability makes everything as complex as itself.

4.- The great amount of the abilities (not the usual superpowers) and their restrictions are the directive of everything.

5.- The character development shows at the perfect time justifying their thoughts pretty well.

Give it a try, not the usual thing after chapter 63.

Perfect to read it in a lunch time, because almost every chapter will keep your mind and interest waiting for more.

This review contains little to no spoilers.

Alright so, first of all, you should give this a chance!

Deatte 5-byou de Battle tells the story of a normal guy that's addicted to games. This boy, that have always wished where he could fully immerse in and that could make him forget his "boring everyday life", finds himself in one of those games. MAYBE not how he wanted it to be, but it is what he wanted.

Story
Summing the start up, lots of people were "killed" and kidnapped by a certain girl, and they were given some kind of special ability, with a vast range of variety for thsoe. ... Our protagonist, Akira, got an ability called "Sophist", his ability is whatever the other person believes it to be; which actually makes sense, taking in mind that sophists were people known for using deceitful, but clever arguments. It all starts pretty simple, with some duels in groups and such.The first major interesting point is when we're learning about the powers, especially about Akira's ability: Who is the other person? What if the person doesn't believe in him? What if the person doesn't understand how a power work? Later on, we're going to have the third program which develops quite nicely, introducing a whole pack of characters, and also developing some new. After this one ends, things get kinda messy (around chapter 65~), another program begins and it quites lose some quality to it, but as a few chapter passes, things starts REALLY get interesting, maybe more than it has ever been (chapter 95~). Some people've been saying that after the 3rd program it justs goes crumbling down, please, give it a chance.

Art
This is one of the best parts of the manga. Even though Miyako is mostly known for doing heavy erotic art and such, it actually really fits this kind of story. It's very well-drawn, the characters, the abilities, the background, everything. The character designs are also pretty interesting, they are not exquisite or anything, but it feels good to see them.

Character - Main
At first, Akira is your typical Death Game protagonist, being cold and REALLY clever. There's not much for you to expect, he is actually a genius. The ability that was given to him it's what really make him interesting, he has always been antisocial, and this ability kinda NEEDS another person for it to work, that's the first little step of development for his character. As chapter passes, he makes friends (or allies in some cases) and all of those are responsible for influencing Akira in some sense, that's one of the things that makes this such a nice manga. Around the chapter 130~, Akira's biggest development 'til now starts, not much can be said about it or else I would be spoiling, but it's really satisfying to see that Akira is not just the same cold guy that could possibly make him look generic.

Characters
All of the characters are pretty interesting, every new arc we have a few (or a lot in some cases) characters being introduced, all of those always happen to appear and actually to have a consistent role withing the manga. Mainly speaking about the main cast (Akira's friends) they all are really well-defined, a simple look at Kirisaki for example and you can guess that he is the delinquent type; The characters remain consistent for the most part, which is actually that makes me like it, all of them seem to have a stablished role within Akira's circle, and they seem to fulfill it nicely. Something that I really appreciate on this manga, is that even though many characters are introduced throughout the manga, it doesn't feel like they're just being dumped on for no reason at all, but instead, all of them sure have a meaningful place on the manga. And hey, I must say, some of them have such a HUGE development that honestly it makes me surprised.

Final notes
I think Deatte 5-byou de Battle is a really promising title, although it may not look like it, it really should be given a chance, the way the abilities are used by some characters, especially Akira's are really good to see. If you don't like Akira, keep in mind that he IS being developed every arc, along with the rest of the cast. The current arc is being simply amazing, again, you really should consider giving it a try.

Sorry for the english, it's not my main language.

Similar in quality to something like Darwin's Game, maybe even a bit better in some departments, but worse in others.
I don't think Deatte 5-byou de Battle is anything special, but it's a death game executed decently well. I came from the anime, which was fine, but the animation was really horrid. Deatte 5-byou de Battle's manga art on the other hand, is just fine. Honestly, the art's not that great, but anything's better than the anime.
The show features pretty much most scenarios that you would expect from a death game. Mysteries that the MC gradually gets to unfold as the story progresses as ... well as a wide variety of different sorts of abilities that the MC and his group encounter. It honestly reminds me a bit like Jojo's, of course, the quality isn't nearly the same, but the manga does make use of how everyone has different abilities and applications of them, so you're always left wondering what the ability of the enemy is and how the MC's group manages to fight against them.
What do I think about the MC? Yeah, he has too much plot armor and he's kind of just smart on the level of bordering omnipotence, but hey, what kind of death game sort of manga does not have a lucky MC or super OP MC, come on now.

Story: 6. The story is interesting but not particularly captivating. It's your classic survival games, it's well executed but without originality. You're never bored but it's not a page turner.

Art: 8. The drawings are detailed, and the art is general very good

Character: 8: The strategy of the main character are cool but a little redundant. Honestly is not the best character of the series. He's op and cold and not really compelling.
His counterpart, Yuri, is already a little better, she's a lot more lovable and has a lot of good fight. Contrary to the mc she's not op, so her fight have more suspense. Nonetheless, ... she's not original too.
The sides character are very good too, some of them almost me cry.

Enjoyment: Like said before, that's fun, you take pleasure. Nothing incredible, but that's good.

Overall: This manga is nice. Not great. Just nice. It does it's job to entertain you, but it's not gonna blow your mind or make you feel a lot of different emotion but you're probably gonna have a good time, and that's the most important

Hey i was so invested by first episode of anime with superpower of MC
"Sophist" the opponent should believe in your power to be working.

But then it turns out that is scaring the girl let this happen and then more more dissapointment comes. Silly playground. Turning of the stress( Hey you have quest for 30 minutes : get thousand points but there stupid amount of time instead)

Hey let's add more usless features.



What was the sophist power in MY opinion and what we would like to inspect.
Talkiing battles. We have kind of these in Naruto (Orochimaru/Pain/Naruto had power to confess opponents join their side) Jojo (Battle ... Tendency : hey im more smart than you, see my move
oh no you outsmart me but I already predicted it and now i have this card in my hand)
And so on.


I hope you started getting my point. I'm not big fan of Kakegurui but it has these Mindgames.
My dissapointment after watching almost perfect first episode (yes it was silly at some point but there was mindgame part) reading this and getting facepalm after facepalm.

Please forgive me fans, or people who really liked this story.manga.show. Sorry Author.
Maybe it wasn't supposed for me at all sides.

Maybe i shouldn't even try watching first episode of random show with names i like and picture i like. And then trying to read manga.

i get off the train. I didn't finished the manga.
My disappointment is immeasurable, but your day shall be bright