Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Supersonic_Pain
IMO this season just... wasn't interesting.
The games felt inferior and like half of them involved the threat of physical harm/death which they are too chickenshit to ever pull the trigger on so I wasn't really anticipating who'd win because, like, who cares?
That's really a big problem with the whole concept of this season anyway. This season, it's based around the student council president election and, like, I guess it's been established that that's very important, but it's up against one of the most forgettable groups of antagonists I've ever seen.
Some of the antagonists don't even get their own gamble, it's a struggle to remember their names, they just aren't very interesting.
The only one I really liked was the last villain but even then, I wanted her to WIN because who else wou…
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What a waste of time. I dropped it because of how garbage it was but I decided to finish it because I was trying to finish animes that I paused/judged too harshly.
—It took me a good 4 and a half years to complete this awful series, and that ending on season 2 was just straight-up garbage. What a waste of time a 12-year-old could have thought of that conclusion. Most episodes are rehashes of the first and lack a lot of substance.
I would rather hear the sound of a bullet go through my head than hear some characters talk. Lastly, I know most characters need a psych test, but if there's anyone that really needs one it's Yumeko and Ikishima.
P.S SOME EPISODES PUT ME TO SLEEP SO I WOULD SWITCH IT TO DUB, BUT THAT ONLY SPED UP THE PROCESS 4.5/10 :P
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Second verse same as the first.
Season 2 of Kakegurui doesn't do a whole lot different from the first. It's more convoluted games set up in a way to look dangerous while actually being rigged from the start, finding way to out cheat the cheaters, and endless sweat drenched sakuga of Jabami ahegao. If you were a fan of that and just wanted it to keep going then you'll love it, and if you're the type of person who loves to complain when something is the same as a thing you've already seen then I've got good news, you'll have plenty to complain about. Complainers love having more things to complain about.
Personally I enjoyed the second season. I watched the two back to back and with each new crazy scheme I was suckered in to being on the edge of my seat despite the fact that in the back of…
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"Money won is twice as sweet as money earned"
I feel as if there needs to be more Gambling related anime that perform better than Kakegurui ever did.
That being said, I don't think that this anime was very poorly executed, I just think that it missed base on a lot of specific areas.
Story: The story could have been more gripping and interesting, but in the long run I feel like it really amounted to nothing and that the ending didn't really mean much of anything, but in this pseudo-slice of life, I guess there's not much I could be expecting.
Art: Was for the most part pretty well done. I think they used a lot of very interesting and captivating graphics and animations that draw you in, but at the same time they had a lot of very uncomfortable facial expressions that just absolutely ru…
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I really loved the story for this reason - I think it brought a really interesting concept in and was a good way to keep the series going. The first couple episodes were immaculate however despite enjoying it, I just felt it didn't live up to the first season.
The "gambles" in this season mostly felt more like games rather than actual gambles, the escape room could have been great but I just wasn't feeling it. Plus Yumemi and Sayaka take up half the season and they're just kind of shit characters really...
Overall, I can't fault the story, art or music but the choice of characters to focus on rather than the new interesting characters along with the shift from gambling to gaming meant I enjoyed it less than the first.
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Before you guys start reading my review. My deepest thanks for your time.
Okay so... Wanna know a fun fact? Gambling is illegal in Japan. And we all know what happens when you stop someone from consuming something by banning it. It becomes even more interesting and intriguing than it would be otherwise. Now that explains why this hot garbage anime was popular in Japan. Because people like seeing stuff that they aren't supposed to see. Just like a teenager finding porn or a student finding the answer key to a test which hasn't been conducted..... It really makes them curious and easily catches their attention. And you can't even blame them.
Coming to the show.....I watched the first season on my friend's recommendation and I was really really unimpressed. Any person who felt the same ab…
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In this second season Kakegurui gives us a much better developed story than the first, as expected. In this case, the characters and their particular stories are developed much more, and allow us to understand some of their crazy decisions in the early one. But despite this, the characters do not lose their mystery and unpredictability.
The art of this anime is excellent, its colors and expressions of the characters are very well done. They manage to transmit and cross the screen.
Like its first part, this second part does not disappoint at all, and even digs deeper into the story. I definitely recommend.
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SPOILER
Written in Portuguese
AAA eu amo a Yumeko Jabami, o jeito que ela é maluca e super racional ao mesmo tempo é muito legal. O desespero nas expressões faciais são impressionantes, amo esse anime. O jogo que eu menos gostei foi o dos impostos, foi meio sem graça e com uma participação muito mal feita do Manyuda.
Gostei do desenvolvimento da Yumemite, foi maravilhoso, queria ter visto mais a Saotome e o Suzui, mas a participação deles foi até que satisfatória.
Não entendi porque a Ririka foi tão mal usada, fizeram algo excelente com ela no começo, eu estava gostando, mas simplesmente parou e manteve ela como uma personagem que só estava com a Saotome, tipo no leilão onde ela não se manifestou com NENHUMA fala poxa, se você para ficar assim não precisava ter tirado a mascara e feito aq…
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This anime in my opinion is good.
Story : 7/10
About story, we are again in the same highschool with the one of the highest education level in country. But there is something else in it which describe it own hierarchy in nutshell , you need to gamble. If you're good you will be respected and you can achieve alot in this highschool and not only money. If you're bad with it , you need to be carefull cause you can become an "animal" which means the lowest hierarchy to people who lost everything and they won't be called even as a human.
In this season to the highschool comes alot of people with names which ends with "-bami" and here goes the explaination of this , thanks to that we know a little more about the main character Yumeko and Kirara.
Because of their coming here begins alot of gam…
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SS Review
(Short and Salty)
So let’s start off straight away by saying that this anime is about gambling. The story follows this gambling addicted girl who enters an academy which core principles centre around gambling and so chaos ensues. That’s the basic outline of the plot and the chaos caused is due to her actually being good at gambling (subjective) and having lady luck be her guardian angel (figure of speech).
This is the second season and it pretty much picks up where the last season left off. The animation is good, MAPPA has come a long way in their animation and it shows as in the past their animation was hit or miss but now it’s pretty on point. Sound is okay didn’t really notice the OST, only thing I can say is the opening is not as good as the last season. Characters are inte…
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TL;DR Review
Kakegurui xx, is a good anime, but a terrible gambling anime. Season two of "Compulsive Gambler" has the same problem with season one. Yumeko... Never... Loses... She never does. This is one problem in the anime where every single gamble is an all in; because the anime would have no where to go if she loses her life, the Kakegurui xx makes it so that she never loses. Another problem in this anime is that the so called "gambles" aren't even real gambles. When you think of gambling, you think of poker, roulette, and maybe even RUSSIAN roulette. However, gambling in Kakegurui xx is just mere competitions where they bet all they have. I mean seriously... Singing is not gambling... Please... Nonetheless, Kakegurui xx was pretty entertaining, because of its animation style, facial…
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I was off-handedly recommended this show last season and it quickly became one of my favorite series. Each gamble is an exquisite test of adaptability, awareness and psychological warfare punctuated by feverish lust and unexpectedly tender emotion. Its episodic nature is used to even better effect in this season. I never thought I could get so gutted by an idol episode but there you have it. OP and ED are absolute 10/10s.
But it's the characters that shine the most. Yumeko's perfect countenance is disfigured as you're slowly exposed to how actually crazy she might be. Mary is a sublime foil to her, cruel where Yumeko is gentle, determined while her rival is whimsical, the both of them showing how many different ways a girl can be hot and cold. My heart is still beating from Ikishima's ba…
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There are 3 major issues with Kakeuguri Season 2:
A:Most uninteresting gang of antagonists I have ever seen.
B:Irrelevant story
C:absurd of amount of plot armor on everyone
Starting with A:
Everything up until ending , Season 1 of Kakegurui was great, Show was new so You didn't know how far it would push gambling, characters were absolutely freaky, girl obsessed with human nails, Revolver lady, the idol, The president. Even if the they were not most developed characters, it was fun to watch them fall.
Now welcome to season 2, please choose between these amazing cast of villains: A edgy looking lady, edgy looking lady with buns, edgy looking lady but this one is in wheel chair and last but not least our most creative villains of them all edgy looking GUY with shark teeth.
I think you get…
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While this season retains the intensity and absurdity of the first, the story falls flat towards the end, and leaves the viewer with a feeling that something more should've happened. However, those who enjoyed the first season for its debauchery will be entertained again.
Although this season introduces a slew of brand new characters, Jabami Yumeko continues to be the most captivating one. In a school full of gambling-obsessed lunatics, Yumeko finds a way to heighten the stakes of every game she partakes in. The pace of the story quickly picks up when the student council president makes an announcement which could shift the status quo in a nearly irreversible manner, causing power-hungry individuals to pour in, all eager for a slice of the pie. The only method that Yumeko knows in dealing…
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Gambling dasuki..............SAAAAA, SAAAAA, SAAAAAAA gamble DAYOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
Oh shut your pie hole, Yumeko....ok so this is basically a repost since I just not happy as to how I did my review, and SOB, it only has 1 helpful hit. SHIT! So what we have here was the sequel of the previous "Kakeguri" anime, but unlike the previous season , this one adds an original anime character who goes by the name Rie Batsubami , who is called a "livestock" by the Momobami clan and lives the life of a servant, so basically I just don't know as to how her being an original anime character affect the manga raises question, cu'z it may not follow the manga at all, so how do I rate this anime as a whole?:
Story- fair 6
Fact:
It still has the same story plot setting in Hyakkaou Private Academy, a high-c…
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It's more of the same. If you felt the first season was great you'll likely find this season to be as good if not better. If you disliked the first season then Kakegurui×× isn't going to change your mind about the series. That said, if you saw 12 episodes of season 1 and hated it and then came back for more what does that say about you?
Season 2 is about an election taking place at the academy for Kirari's position as student council president. Winning the seat is based on accumulating the most votes from gambles, or from vote donations. A whole new cast of characters are introduced. They're really fun and interesting. The gambling was also fun to watch even though I had no idea how the games and/or strategizing worked 90% of the time. Again, it's more of the same.
The problem with this…
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Honestly, the one thing that I'm more concerned about in this school more than anything is the validity of any kind of teacher or authority figure that's in this school. Because there are none of them, and this place is run on what's essentially pure chaos.
Story:
Following the explosive introduction of Jabami Yumeko at Hyakkaou Private Academy, the story in this season begins with the student council president opening up elections for the position of student council president, which in this school means that you're the dictator of this entire educational establishment where everyone's vote is counted as a single betting chip to gamble. (Not that education really means much in this place.) All the while, new students, members of the expansive 'Momobami family' come in desiring to snatc…
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GAMBLING ECSTASY CONTINUES...
So with the retconed first season's final episode, we continue on with Yumeko Jabami's gambling journey, but with the stakes even higher and a new threat that disrupts Hyakkaou Private Academy's student council, the Momobami clan. The price?, the throne to the whole school and everyone is vying for that spot....with Yumeko just wanting to gamble more of course.
The Momobami clan's inclusion to this second season does change this up a bit especially for the previously "fallen" student council members as they have a chance to redeem themselves to Kirari. So because of the Mombami clan, Kirari setup a voting election, but the votes are collected through what..of course gambling and the Momobami clan are mostly seen as the rivals in most of the gambles Yumeko pa…
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SHORT SPOILER FREE REVIEW!
I personally found the first season of Kakegurui quite enjoyable, and I also enjoyed this season, but in the end, both seasons are basically the exact same thing and follow the exact same concept. If you are expecting something different and unique for this season, I'm afraid you might end up disappointed. Kakegurui is all about gambling, nothing more and nothing less. I'm a huge fan of gambling, and seeing an anime all about gambling is something I personally quite interesting, but even if you aren't a fan of gambling, this second season of Kakegurui has some pretty fun moments.
I gotta admit that the story wasn't as great as the first season. We already knew that th¡s second season was all going to be about gambling just like the first one, and sadly it doesn…
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Ever thought of taking a risk, a risk that’d even put your freedom, life into jeopardy just for the sake of THRILL? Well, anyone who’s sane enough wouldn’t do such a thing, that’s what the majority of people would think/say. BUT what if the word sanity itself didn’t exist among the most privileged/rich/ruling families of the world? And everything was just decided on a single game of chance?
Kakegurui features a similar setting in the form of a unique school that prepares its students for such upcoming reality they’d face in their world, that is gambling, while also teaching basic education like normal schools.
However, this isn’t it! Kakegurui undoubtedly has one of the best “realistic” facial expressions that normally people wouldn’t make in front of you, and you know precisely why ;)…
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