5-Oku-Nen Button Anime Gets 13th Episode on September 30

The anime adaptation of the quick story “5-Oku-Nen Button” from Sōta Sugahara‘s Minna no Tonio-chan manga collection is getting a thirteenth episode on September 30 at 10:30 p.m. JST on Tokyo MX and different stations.

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Picture by way of 5-Oku-Nen Button anime’s website

The episode will function two tales. In “AI Emo-kun,” Tonio, Jaimi, and Suneko discover an AI named Emo who can calculate how one can optimally clear their room. Emo progressively develops feelings which are uncommon to AI because it lives with the children. The “fifth Dimension Button” story includes a button that when pressed, provides the consumer a milllion yen however transports them to the fifth dimension.

Returning forged members embody Masako Nozawa as Tonio, Suzuko Mimori as Jaibi, Naomi Ōzora as Suneko, and Marika Kōno as Inoue-hakase. Mahana Yamasaki is becoming a member of the forged as Emo-kun.

The anime debuted in July 2022 with 12 episodes.

The story facilities on a button that grants 1,000,000 yen (about US$7,415) to whomever pushes it, with the situation that they have to spend 500 million years alone in an empty area. Nonetheless, on the finish of the five hundred million years, the particular person’s loses that reminiscence and returns to the cut-off date once they pushed the button. An individual with this button seems in entrance of 5-year-old Tonio, 14-year-old Jaibi, and 17-year-old Suneko – three siblings who want cash to pay for his or her father’s hospital remedy.

Unique creator Sugahara directed, wrote, designed characters, and acted as one of many solely employees members on the undertaking. He’s once more credited for these roles within the new episode.

Digital YouTuber Koko carried out the opening theme music “TIME,” and digital YouTuber RIM carried out the ending theme music “Tick-Tock Boy.”

Sugahara debuted the Minna no Tonio-chan manga collection in 1999. The collection impressed an animated particular in 2004. The thought experiment revolving across the 500 Million Yr Button has been a philosophical dialogue matter in Japan ever since Sugahara’s story launched.

Sources: 5-Oku-Nen Button anime’s website, Comic Natalie