Have you ever watched something in your life where you just saw it without having a good reason for it. Well, that just happened to me this morning before I clocked in for work. I saw this advertised on Netflix, but I never got around to watch it right away. At first, I I didn’t find that much of a hurry to watch Kakegurui, only because the trailers never peak my interest. It did have an interesting concept, taking place in a private high school that revolves around gambling. But I wasn’t swept up about it either. Just this morning, I finally decided to watch it because I thought to myself, “eh, what the hell?!” If you would of told me that this show was this good enough for me to watch, then I would have done it right from the start!
Kakegurui revolves around a new girl by the name of Yumeko Jabami, who goes in and gambles all humble at first. BUT THEN SHE GOES ALL CRAZY AND EVERYTHING GOES NUTZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just from this clip alone, you get to see the common theme of this anime. The music can be upbeat at times, and then intense to it’s highest peak, and rightfully so! Second, the facial designs ranges from being calm and normal to making you look like a deranged psycho! I don’t know who’s the freakshow MAPPA hired to make this series, but……. I GOTTA MEET HIM!!!!!!!!!!! But really, moments like what I just showed you is what I enjoy about this show so far. I’ve only seen the first five episodes, and I’m already hooked. Win a game, and you get a boatload of money. Lose in a game, and you become a house pet who cleans up after someone’s mess, or just become someone’s slave. The housepet also needs to pay off their debt, but that’s easier said than done. Almost like real life, I guess.
Overall, this show has me addicted. It’s use of addiction to gambling is incredible. It doesn’t try to shy away of how far it can make one person go off the edge of insanity! It even uses the broken reality of how much one person has to rely on money and how to not lose it all, as well as show its consequences. Plus, it even provides us the mirrored reflection of cheating in just about every single scenario. Almost like the show uses greed and loss as a metaphor that you would think that you’d get tired of at this point. But no. So far, it uses both of them as a brilliant metaphor, mostly on the loss part, showing us how losing money can be torturous and paying debt is near impossible to do. Believe me, I know what that’s like.
I’m only five episodes in, and I do encourage everyone who hasn’t watched Kakegurui to start watching it right now!
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