However, the audience is never shown a cutaway of this action, in fact there’s no hint that the male and female know each other until Yumeko points it out.
For example, in Episode 5, Yumeko figures out that a male poker player is manipulating another female to tell him what her cards are by the way the female places her cards on the table, hinting at what suit they are. As exhilarating as the episodes can get, there’s a bit too much show-don’t-tell that hits harder in some episodes than others. There’s a wide variety of gambling involved from variations of poker to luck-based roulette-style games, and each episode does a great job of making the viewer feel that every stake is one step away from total annihilation or ecstasy. Who wouldn’t want to have 50 billion yen as ‘pocket change’, or feel utterly indifferent to having to bet your life on the card hand, or be intelligent enough to figure out how someone is cheating within minutes of meeting them? There’s a cathartic nature to watching terrible characters losing bets, but also an admiration and thrill to observing how each game unravels. Unsurprisingly, most of the student body are horrible people – teenagers with more money than sense will have that effect – but as you observe them at their worst as they risk it all, you can’t help but want to be them in some way. She seems untouchable, even in the episodes where she doesn’t walk away with the jackpot and she’s certainly the most likable of the cast.
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She doesn’t get much development over the course of the series, perhaps something they’re saving for Season 2, but her being a ‘cipher’ character helps paint her as this gambling goddess that the series rides on. And I do mean that literally she gets very, very excited when she puts everything on a single bet, and half the reason she’s so fascinating to watch is because she seems so detached from events whilst the characters around her collapse under the pressure. Many characters in the series label her ‘insane’, and she’s just that, for she’s addicted to the thrill of gambling she’s not out for the money or pride in establishing herself in the school, she just wants to gamble and gains great pleasure in doing so. Yumeko, however, is not your typical ‘hero’ yes, she’s extremely gifted at gambling, very intelligent and has a carefree attitude that often comes with the territory, yet she’s far removed from ordinary. Has it been worth the wait?Īlso known as Compulsive Gambler, Kakegurui is structured in a similar way to shonen tournament-based anime, with an established game of sorts and the main character being a newcomer but naturally skilled at it. Considering how Netflix are currently simulcasting Violet Evergarden alongside the Japanese broadcast, and how they released the first season of Fate/Apocrypha much sooner, it seems weird they withheld this series for such an extended period of time. Kakegurui was originally broadcasted in Japan back in Summer 2017, however Netflix withheld the series for a long time before the Western world finally saw its release in February 2018, with Anime Limited announcing its home media release for 2019. Luckily for Yumeko, she just happens to have an insatiable appetite for gambling and a large amount of cash behind her to take her all the way to student council president. The school hosts multiple games, and the many students who are slaves to mountains of debt are named ‘pets’, whilst the luckiest and most skilled gamblers become members of the student council. On the surface it looks like any ordinary private school, but it’s after school and in its special clubs that the Academy reveals its true colours: an underbelly of gambling. Yumeko Jabami is a new student at Hyakkaou Private Academy, where the most wealthy and privileged students of Japan attend.
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