![]() Suzi delivers exposition about how the school works and serves as a Watson of sorts for Jabami to explain all her. Throughout the story, Saotome and Jabami go from being enemies to friends and allies. As a powerful and wealthy gambler, she crushes Saotome and frees Suzi. However, Jabami entrance into the Academy soon starts to change things. Saotome begins the story as the starter villain, Jabami as the new girl set to cause chaos and Suzi as a house pet under Saotome. In Harry Potter, you have Ron, Harry and Hermoine (the three amigos or power trio) however in Kakegurui you have Suzui, Saotome and Jabami our three protagonists. However despite how fun the anime can be it also contains several rather problematic elements which I am going to examine here. This makes gambling into a game of true status. But if they can become the best gamblers possible than they will become members of the student council. If they fall into debt than they become housepets and are treated as subhuman. ![]() Including skill, cheating, blackmail and abuse. Realistic? No, but it is a hell of a lot of fun to watch these intelligent gamblers outsmart each other by any means possible. In an elite school in Japan what matters most is not the students’ grades, their looks or the latest fashion, no this is a school where the social hierarchy revolves around gambling and how much you can win. This analysis is only best on the anime, I have not read the manga nor have I seen the live-action adaption (although I might review that one in the future-don’t hold me to that though). Also, I will be discussing spoilers of the series in depth. Also be warned this blog post will be discussing mental illnesses, gambling and violence in some depth. ![]() But right now I want to discuss the gambling anime Kakegurui and it’s depictions of Queer women. ![]() My work seems to come in randoms bursts than anything else. Okay maybe we can just about forget about being able to stick in a consistent update schedule, I just don’t seem capable of it. ![]()
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