“Four prisoners and a cat are mysteriously freed in an isolated, exit-less prison during a power outage.”
Five Numbers!
ノラゲキ!
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Synopsis
Four prisoners and a cat are mysteriously freed in an isolated, exit-less prison during a power outage.
In an isolated prison, there are only four prisoners and a cat. One day, a power outage opens all the locks and all of the prisoners are released. However, all of the guards are nowhere to be seen and there are no exits. An extraordinary event occurs in response to an old man's strange behavior. (Source: ANN)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 5 sampled reviews
What 5 viewers settled on.
Polarized
σ 1.85 · split reception
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Not enough recommend signal yet
↑ 1.40
Running avg · May 2011 → Dec 2017
- 10 “STORY: 10/10 If you've read the synopsis it is pretty self-explanatory. There's a power outage in a prison where there are 5 prisoners and a cat. The plot is quite simple: the characters try to...”
- 7 “Five Numbers is an anime version of the kind of short story we used to get in Science Fiction anthology magazines - a group of people tossed together in an unfamiliar and/or hostile environment...”
- 9 “after just finishing this OVA, i felt somewhat compelled to write a short review of it. OVERALL: 9/10 let me start of by saying that this is the only category i scored this OVA in, so i'm not going...”
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- Format 1 × 24′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 24m all episodes
- Aired Jan 2011 – ongoing
- Source Ova media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-5882 catalog
Produced by
- Showgate Producer
Licensed by
- Sentai Filmworks Licensor