Kakegurui

Unlike many schools, attending Hyakkaou Private Academy prepares students for their time in the real world. Since many of the students are the children of the richest people in the world, the academy has its quirks that separate it from all the others. By day, it is a normal school, educating its pupils in history, languages, and the like. But at night, it turns into a gambling den, educating them in the art of dealing with money and manipulating people. Money is power; those who come out on top in the games stand at the top of the school.

Yumeko Jabami, a seemingly naive and beautiful transfer student, is ready to try her hand at Hyakkaou's special curriculum. Unlike the rest, she doesn't play to win, but for the thrill of the gamble, and her borderline insane way of gambling might just bring too many new cards to the table.

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Jabami, Yumeko Main

Hayami, Saori Japanese

Saotome, Mary Main

Tanaka, Minami Japanese

Suzui, Ryouta Main

Tokutake, Tatsuya Japanese

Ikishima, Midari Supporting

Ise, Mariya Japanese

Momobami, Kirari Supporting

Sawashiro, Miyuki Japanese

Yomozuki, Runa Supporting

Udono, Mayu Japanese

Momobami, Ririka Supporting

Sawashiro, Miyuki Japanese

Yumemite, Yumemi Supporting

Serizawa, Yuu Japanese

Manyuda, Kaede Supporting

Sugita, Tomokazu Japanese

Sumeragi, Itsuki Supporting

Wakai, Yuuki Japanese

Komatsu, Shouta Producer

Nabeiwa, Akiko Producer

Kamiji, Tomoyo Producer

Miyagi, Souji Producer

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Nov 25, 2024

scy318

Recommended

I feel compelled to write this review to offer some kind of explanation for why this anime is on my favorites list. It's very simple really, Kakegurui is what happens when writers are given free reign to do whatever they like. Kakegurui is batshit crazy to a degree that fully and utterly transcends typical degeneracy. This is NOT your average fantasy isekai. The plot is structured but completely wild, the characters are clinically insane, and all of them are into each other. Even the fanservice in this anime can't even truly be called fanservice. Fanservice is meant to please the audience, but what you get ... here is borderline disgusting and the show makes sure you know that it's gross.

All the characters are superhuman geniuses who spend their entire day gambling at a school with NO teachers. Somehow the student council president has the same level of power as the leader of a small country. The gambling games are highly complicated and not even explained well. They don't need to be, as everything is a power fantasy for Jabami Yumeko. Essentially, Kakegurui is so bad that it ends up reversing in the other direction and becoming diabolically entertaining. There are a lot of shows focused on escapism, whether it be isekai or shoujo romances, but in Kakegurui you're escaping and descending into freakiness.

Kakegurui is an experience and in all honesty, I absolutely loved it. There's that famous quote from the Dark Knight, "some men just want to watch the world burn", and THAT is what I felt watching Jabami Yumeko eviscerate her opponents while her breasts triple in size, her eyes turn into glowing red sirens, and her face becomes that of a monster.

Final Rating: 7

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Oct 31, 2024

haekele

Mixed Feelings

Just read the manga, the art style in the manga is so much better. I almost felt like I wanted to puke watching this. So the main thing that I have to complain about this anime is the art style. They really didn't nail it. That was one of the main attractions for me reading the manga. The characters will look a lot uglier in the adaptation. A lot of the time I just laughed out loud reading the manga and seeing the characters' over-dramatic expressions. But the expressions were done really well, whether it's angry, happy, sad, depressed, cocky, or anything else. You could ... tell just by looking at their faces exactly how they felt. The adaptation doesn't nail those expressions at all. Also, the music is really strange, I don't like, it's kind of annoying. Most of all, I would just straight up get bored watching the anime, which I didn't feel like reading the manga.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jul 11, 2023

Panda_Roll

Not Recommended

Funny

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The past 5 or 6 years there was a trend called "best girl" anime. The whole thing revolves around pushing the main waifu front and center for the purpose of selling the manga. This gets exaggerated with the anime because now she needs to sell the manga AND merch.

Enter Yumeko Jabami, her character intro in the theme song AND the show is boobs first. I'm not joking, We first get a shot of her bouncing chest with the theme song saying her name over and over THEN her face. That's not a good start.

Because everything revolves around her the rest of the "story" and ... plot suffers. The school is called Hyakkaou Academy. An elite school for the rich to.... ummmmm... Gamble?

No seriously where are the teachers in this? Why are there no classes? All you ever see is students gambling or bullying each other to where it seems more like a prison than anything. That's what I mean, it's not important for this to even feel like a school. Jabami is a gambler so that's all there needs to be in this school.

The sad part is, for how much they make this revolve around this one character, they failed at making her look good. Seriously the way she "gambles" is so stupid it would only work because the plot said so, I mean really really REALLY stupid to where it's boring to watch because the only way for her to win is "because plot" each and every time. There are no mind games, no deception or clever maneuvering like the show advertised. It's just Jabami is awesome, she wins the world! Bow before your ultimate waifu!

The other characters in the show are there to make her look good. Mary is the lancer/rival type who exists to lose to the awesome Mary Sue. Ryouta is the damsel in distress that needs to be saved...etc.

Made by Studio Mappa the art and animation here is beautiful, the crazy and edgy expressions look good. Even the voice acting and music are great. However the writing, story and plot are so bad nothing can really save it.

All it is a Mary Sue waifu with extra edginess to it. The show has nothing more to offer.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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