The story of the Battle Game manga in 5 Seconds
Battle Game in 5 Seconds ( Japanese :Meet and battle in 5 seconds,) is a Japanese manga written by Saizō Harawata and illustrated by Kashiwa Miyako. It was serialized by the Japanese publishing house Shogakukan on Manga ONE app and on place ura sunday since August 2015 and have been collected in seventeen volumes tankōbon starting July 2021. This is a remake of Harawata of the webcomic of the same name. In July 2021, an adaptation of an anime television series by SynergySP and Vega Entertainment (with CG animation by Studio A-Cat) premiered.
The story of Battle Game in 5 Seconds
Akira Shiroyanagi is a normal student who lives a quiet life who loves games and konpeito (traditional Japanese sugar-based candies). One day, on the way to school, a blindfolded man gets out of a car and attacks him, but with enough planning Akira successfully defeats him. A cat girl named Mion suddenly appears, congratulating him on his momentary victory for an "impossible fight", and shoots a hole through his arm and abdomen, only apparently killing him.
He wakes up unscathed in a richly furnished room full of other people like him, all handcuffed. Mion appears and explains that they have been removed from the national register and instead placed here as experimental test subjects for skills, demonstrating their ability to turn their hand into a cannon. The participants here were chosen entirely at random, but Mion seems to have detailed knowledge of all of them. With handcuffs preventing them from moving too freely and using their skills, participants are led to their rooms for the first program, a one-on-one battle, to discover their skills and rest. Akira is paired during the program with a thug Madoka Kirisaki, who turns a stick into a razor-sharp sword and attacks him. With their match taking place inside a school, Akira lures Kirisaki to a science lab and convinces him that he has already seen his ability, through Mion. By turning his hand into a cannon, Akira forces Kirisaki to surrender. In a flashback, it is revealed that Akira's ability, "Sophist", allows him to have the ability the other person believes he has.
Akira recognizes that the key to her skill lies in creating the perfect conditions and timing for her opponent to ask, imagine and fully believe in a fake skill she has. In her room, a girl named Yūri Amagake dreams of her casually unfortunate past: from accidentally helping someone only to find out he was a stalker, to living in a poor environment where her mother constantly brought in new men, and even to her poor affinity with animals. Yuuri is paired with a pervert named Kiryu Kazuto with the ability to determine a person's condition by their smell. Angry and disgusted by him, she knocks him out with her ability, "Demon God," which allows her to quintuple her physical abilities. Yuuri decides to return home to take care of her new half-sister Riria, who has been abused all her life. As Yuuri finishes his battle, Akira has a nightmare, in which Mion appears in his room and tells him that the energy of their abilities comes from someone's lifespan on Earth. He is then taken to a new room with Yuuri, Kirisaki, a muscular man and a thin businessman, where Mion declares via a loudspeaker how a 5v5 team battle will begin in 2 hours.
The thin businessman, named Satoru Sawatari, proposes to introduce himself and formulate a plan. Reveals his ability to turn a button into a rope, Yuuri and Kirisaki both reveal theirs, and the muscular man, Shin Kumagiri, reveals that his is the ability to become invincible for two seconds, even if he refuses to use anything. which was planted in him without consent. Akira persists in her lie, noting the presence of Kirisaki and the risk behind the revelation of the truth. They arrive in an elegant ring arena, where one member of each team must fight against each other, with the final scores determining a team's victory. Akira is shocked that the game format has not been in line with the expected preparation times, misleading people to reveal crucial information about their abilities to potential future opponents. For the first round, Sawatori confronts a woman named Rin Kashii. Rin asks to give up, but Sawatori decides to throw a fifty coin toss by deciding who will win, only to be killed the moment he tosses the coin. Kumagiri prepares to defeat a young bespectacled girl named Ringo Tatara without hurting her, but she gives up instead, much to Rin's chagrin. Ringo acknowledges that her "Plagiarism" ability allows her to copy a person's ability to 1/10 the strength, and therefore would prove useless against Kumagiri. For the third match, Kirisaki must fight a girl, Saeko Zokumyouin, who can turn marbles into huge wrecking balls. He quickly takes over by unleashing his ability, "Trueblade," which allows him to transform a staff into a sword that can cut anything.
Characters
Akira Shiroyanagi (白柳啓, Shiroyanagi Akira)
A 16-year-old sophomore who has an excellent academic performance, but who instead loves video games because he is "unpredictable". His skill is called "sophist", a skill in which it allows him to become everything as long as his opponent (or partner) believes he is. He is somewhat labeled "My Prince" by Mion.
Yuri Amagake (天翔 優 利, Amagake Yūri)
A 17-year-old high schooler who hates the word "coincidence" because she thinks all thoughts that happen by coincidence lead her life to an unfortunate one. Her ability is called "Demon God" which allows her to multiply her physical ability by 5 times.
Mion (魅 音, Mion)
A catgirl who is also a cruel sadist is interested in seeing people slaughtering each other for her own amusement.
Madoka Kirisaki (霧 崎 円, Kirisaki Madoka)
Ringo Tatar (多 々 良 り ん ご, Tatara Ringo)
A petite girl whose ability is "Plagia", which allows her to copy someone else's ability about 1/10 of her true power.
Manga
Battle Game in 5 Seconds was written and drawn by Saizō Harawata. Harawata first released the series as a webcomic and an illustrated remake by Kashiwa Miyako began publishing on Manga ONE Shogakukan app and on the website ura sunday respectively on 11 August and 18 August 2015. Shogakukan has collected its chapters in single volumes tankōbon . The first volume was published on February 26, 2016. [7] As of July 12, 2021, seventeen volumes have been published.
Comikey has been digitally publishing the manga in English since July 12, 2021. The manga is licensed in Indonesia by Elex Media Komputindo.
Anime
In November 2020, it was announced that the manga would receive an adaptation as an anime television series. The series is animated by SynergySP and Vega Entertainment and directed by Nobuyoshi Arai with Meigo Naito as principal director, Tōko Machida who is in charge of the composition of the series, Studio A-Cat which produces the CG animation and Tomokatsu Nagasaku and Ikuo Yamamoto who they deal with the design of the characters. Crunchyroll licensed the series outside of Asia. The opening theme, “No Continue”, is performed by Akari Kitō, while the closing theme, “Makeibe Jikkyō Play” (Let's Stream a Playthrough of the Bad Ending), is performed by 15-sai a Seiko Oomori. Muse Communication has licensed the series in South and Southeast Asia. It premiered on July 13, 2021 on Tokyo MX and BS11
