Kakegurui Twin

Her name is Mary Saotome—she is brazen, insolent, and defiant, yet highly intelligent. Upon transferring to Hyakkaou Private Academy, where a student's worth is determined by their wits through gambling, she seizes a glorious win against a classmate and immediately captures the attention of the devious student council members.

With the bottom of Hyakkaou's rigorous hierarchy determined by least gambling winnings, the future for Tsuzura Hanatemari looks grim. As Tsuzura's childhood friend, Mary resolves to rise through the ranks and secure enough money to free Tsuzura from the shackles of the unjust system. Mary's perseverance and refusal to lose drive her to surpass and humiliate even the strongest opponents, but certain student council members seem to have greater plans for her.

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Adaptation:	Kakegurui Twin
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Saotome, Mary

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Tanaka, Minami
Japanese

Hanatemari, Tsuzura

Main

Honizumi, Rina
Japanese

Ikishima, Midari

Supporting

Ise, Mariya
Japanese

Momobami, Kirari

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Sawashiro, Miyuki
Japanese

Yomozuki, Runa

Supporting

Udono, Mayu
Japanese

Momobami, Ririka

Supporting

Sawashiro, Miyuki
Japanese

Igarashi, Sayaka

Supporting

Fukuhara, Ayaka
Japanese

Juraku, Sachiko

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Kaida, Yuuko
Japanese

Sado, Mikura

Supporting

Koga, Aoi
Japanese

Mibuomi, Aoi

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Yamashita, Seiichirou
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Ogawa, Takahiro

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Hayashi, Yuuichirou

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Makita, Kaori

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Fujita, Akiko

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"Sono Otome Musou (ソノ乙女ム双)" by TOMOHISA ISHIKAWA

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"Queens Bluff" by i☆Ris

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Aug 4, 2022

curvedtree

Mixed Feelings

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Kakegurui Twin is a canon prequel for Kakegurui that happen right after Mary Saotome joins as a 1st year student in the school most fans don't even bother remembering its name because being a school is irrelevant.

The first thing you will notice is Saotome's personality retcon, watch the first episode of Kakegurui and the first episode of Twin, they aren't the same character, so this is a huge issue for the character because we are not talking about a spin-off, or an alternative setting, this is a canon prequel and we are supposed to accept that Saotome went through a "reset". Then we get Hanatemari, ... isn't it weird how a character so connected to Saotome was never mentioned in Kakegurui before Twin? Not only that, it feels like we are being somewhat mocked by the writer of the manga, because one of the most criticised characters in Kakegurui is Suzui and I bet the writer, as an evil genius, thought "I bet you all won't be complaining if 'Suzui' is a cute girl", damn and he got us, Hanatemari is cute waifu material and she also has the Yuri bait for those that like that. Hook, line, and sinker. Saotome also has a second friend, Yukimi, from the literacy club and she is probably one of the blandest characters in Kakegurui. As for the main antagonist, she is settled early on as Juraku Sachiko, she is a Kirari Momobami rip-off and her pet, Sado Mikura (btw talking about her, why does she, as a mitten, act so rude towards Saotome? Kakegurui lore established that already or is it another retcon?), is a rip-off of Igarashi Sayaka, the bad side of her at least. To put it simply, it feels like Kakegurui Twin is retelling the events of Kakegurui if Saotome was the protagonist instead, sure she isn't gambling against the same characters Yumeko did, but I'm talking about the essence here. Do you want another example? Kakegurui Twin has a pink hair girl called Kurume Kurumi, Kakegurui has a pink hair girl called Yumemite Yumemi (they were probably avoiding a copyright from themselves). Another character that becomes the antagonist is Mibuomi Aoi, his motives aren't clear yet and his "organisation" Full-Bloom seems suspicious these 6 episodes weren't enough to scratch the surface, there is also his fiancée, Miharutaki Sakura, which is also a rip-off of Igarashi, but the good side of her, the one that is concerned about fairness and justice.

As for the story, it seems that at first Saotome wants to make friends and she quickly achieves that, so not that long afterwards she gets tangled with Mibuomi and she is introduced to Full-Bloom and his plan to take down the Council President. Miharutaki gets jealous because Mibuomi is so focused on Saotome and decides to gamble with her with a help from Sado because Juraku has also her eyes on Saotome making the mitten jealous as well. Saotome ends up winning the bet and Miharutaki is discarded like trash and you can't help but feel sorry for her - even though she acted cocky in the previous gamble and she had bet herself her own post if she lost.

I was a bit sadden that the opening was only instrumental, when it started I felt like we would get a banger like Deal with the Devil, it is a good opening, but the lack of lyrics was disappointing. The ending was cute and alright, I think the animation will be more memorable than the song itself.

The art is alright, if there is something that the manga is praised is the beautiful art it has, this anime didn't capture its beauty, even the "ugly" faces Mary sometimes do when she wants to mock others are kinda lame here, some other times it feels like character are stuck in time, which brings me to the animation being subpar also the way their mouths are as articulate as sock puppets you won't be able to stop noticing that. BTW what's up with the green-ish tone we have in some scenes?

Overall, it's alright, I like Kakegurui even though Mary isn't my favourite, but I enjoy watching/reading stuff related to it, it is fun, but I can see this as not being something becoming that popular.

Also, if you can look over Mary's retcon it will probably be more enjoyable, I couldn't so it wasn't as good for me.

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Aug 4, 2022

ErinaNakiri1

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I think If you liked Kakegurui, and honestly If you didn’t like Kakegurui then you should have NO reason to be here, you would also like this. Kakegurui Twin proves that Saotome Mary can carry her own show without Yumeko. She becomes a student in this school where gambling is everything and She tries to survive in it while protecting her friends and herself from becoming housepets or pawns in the games of two new third year character in this show. Just like the usual Kakegurui It is enjoyable to watch so once again If you liked the original I would highly reccommend this one ...

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Aug 4, 2022

R_2_R

Mixed Feelings

Funny

Before going into Review;
"Kakegurui Twin" is pretty stand alone.
You don't really have to watch the main series to understand what's happening here. Also, it's incomplete.

Though Kakegurui only had 2 seasons, I didn't wanted to watch given the slightly mixed reception it got and some scenes I watched on YT made me wonder if gambling is really the point of the show. But I was still curious to see what made Kakegurui one of the popular gambling anime as it is so I checked Twin and.. I have some mixed opinions.

The story follows "Saotame Mary" in Hyakkaou Academy where not a single day passes without someone ... in school loosing their shit. Money, virginity, dignity, anything can be a prize and nothing matters in this school, as long as it's an end result of gambling. What makes this is even more f-ked up is that "cheating is allowed", which is the biggest problem here. Because when you allow cheating, you're basically distinguishing the characters, not based how intelligent they are but based on how stupid they are. The moment you hear a character inner monoluging about their plan as an attempt to hook the viewer, it pretty much tells why the said character will end up ridiculed later down the game, and this basically what happens through out this Anime and so it does in many of these kind of Anime that have been lately popular. Now one would argue, "Well, Kaiji also does the same thing" for which I agree. Kaiji becomes predictable but there's an underlying theme in Kaiji, which what makes it a great psycological Anime, and one Twin didn't had. That is;

"GAMBLING IS FUCKED"
Kaiji draws you into its gambles, mainly because it constantly reminds you why gambling is so fucked and it takes a realistic approach to do it. Kakegurui Twin doesn't have this. Most of the 'Gambling' part went into its mind games complexity which I applaud for but it doesn't work either because if you remember correctly, "Cheating is a-OK". The reason I repeat this is because the show repeats this too. "No one said [insert convenient loophole in rule], so you lose/win", that's the underlying structure of all explanations at the end of every game but it does have some interesting character antiques to look forward to. The underlying theme in Kakegurui Twin is just "Gambling is fun, and hot-crazy-yurified chicks are cool", that's basically it. But, Is Twin a bad show?

With all my rambling about why Twin don't hold a candle towards my favourite Anime makes it seem like I'm hating the show, which I don't because "Kakegurui Twin" is definitely a fun show. As I said, its underlying theme is "Fun with crazy Anime girls" and it does that part great. As over the top as it is, it is confident in its mind game elements, and it does with style. MAPPA trademark visual flair can be found in it's Jazzy opening, absolutely bop of an ending and the over the top characters does their job to deliver the fun you want to see. I personally thought characters weren't bad, they're pretty one dimensional except Mary, who's two dimensional (Wow, who would've guessed your waifu is 2D xD) and the whole Yuri element is.. well, it is charming, except *that* pet, if you know what I mean.

Want to watch some CGDCG (Cute girls doing crazy gambling) with some Yuri in the mix?
Well, this is for you.

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