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Kakegurui Aggregation

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Sep 27, 2017 3:00 PM
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RoryBurrows

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If the current mean upsets you, write a solid review and send it my way.
If you want to recommend a review you have written for this show, send a permalink to me.
You can also recommend another club members review by posting a link to it below
If you see one of your reviews here and want to change your score for whatever reason, be sure to notify me.

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#1: Review by themegamancave

"From an entertainment perspective, Kakegurui hits all the wickets. It has hot girls, great animation and an almost avant-garde approach to storytelling that could be incredibly appealing to young, impressionable audiences (aka, most of the anime community). This being said, I can’t be baffled by how well the show was received, even if I didn’t agree with it. This is the main purpose of a reviewer or critic, to point out enjoyment as well as flaws. I’d be lying to you if I said I didn’t enjoy Kakegurui. But is it a good gambling anime? Hardly. It suffers from a severe lack of character development/relatability and has an edgy stigma about it I can’t shake. "

Score: 45 ✓
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#2: Review by LIQfilms

"In conclusion, Bukkakegurui was a massive disappointment, and I think that's what makes the show ultimately more aggravating for me. While I dislike using the word to describe anything, I feel it is pretty appropriate when talking about this one, and that word is cringey! The show reeks of desperation, and tries way too hard to be edgy, and ends up just being embarrassing instead since many of the scenarios presented in the show, such as a scene in which Yumeko acts like a cat on all fours, feel as if they were written by a twelve-year-old. It fails as an intense thriller, it fails as a character study, it fails as a gambling show, but most importantly it fails at the most basic level to achieve any emotional connection with the audience. Bukkakegurui is a show more interested in over blown theatrics than it is in characters and the actual games itself, and the reason why this show is so bad. "

Score: 40 ✓
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#3: Review by AndoCommando

"In conclusion, Kakegurui was pretty awful, filled with formulaic, villain-of-the-week gambling matches that felt like a waste of time once it was all over. In the end it was only trying to entertaining on a superficial level; it was never attempting to have a real identity, besides being yuri fapbait. Now I have no problem with anyone who liked the show; you are free to like and enjoy whatever anime you want to, but if someone were to ask me if I enjoyed it? HELL NAW. Lemme put it this way: If you liked Mirai Nikki and Akame ga Kill, you’ll probably enjoy this. But if you are anything like myself and thought those two shows were terrible, Kakegurui ain’t gonna be worth your time."

Score: 25 ✓
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#4: Review by Stark700

"In the end, Kakegurui turned out to be a cheap cash grab that serves as a giant advertisement of the manga. It’s hard to forgive this show when the storytelling is so blend and the characters are brutally depressing to watch. The anime tried far too hard to sell whatever it intended to and ended up delivering a nakedly dumb adaptation. Some of the visual elements, music, and voice acting saved this show from total catastrophe. However, it still makes this show look like a crude joke."

Score: 40 ✓
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#5: Review by Goukeban

"I swear, I’m not really that hard of a person to please, and it’s not like I can’t enjoy a story where characters are also morally bankrupt or just outright evil. I mean, two of my favorites are Shiki and Black Lagoon, and I don’t think you can say the main characters in those shows are safely good people, what I ask is simply that the show frames that exactly as it is, not as if the horrible people on screen are supposed to be likeable or admired in any way. I am fascinated and genuinely find likability in well written morally ambiguous or evil characters, and I admire characters who display the responsibility and strength of morals I wish I had in my personality, but when the moral center of your story is a selfish, manipulative sociopath who can’t be trusted to have anyone’s well-being in mind, I say you got your priorities kind of backwards!"

Score: 20 ✓
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#6: Review by Falexie

"Seeing as a choking atmosphere of uncertainty can torture a gambler to no end when actual gambling happens, risk should have been the concept to open the door to an action-packed puzzle of thrilling uncertainty that could have really kept the viewer at the edge of their seat. Unfortunately, the general lack of hesitation to gambling, the absence of real stakes, and Yumeko’s constant win streak (no threat to her success) breaks the heart-stopping intensity and thrill that this series should have had. If this is not a vital component to a gambling show, what else can take its place? While not boring, these missing factors render the series quite repetitive."

Score: 40 ✓
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#7: Review by Snufkin

"The matches don’t let you in on what’s truly happening until the very last moment, when all the suspense that has been build up comes crashing down in one intense moment, revealing both the true intents of the characters and the true workings of the match at the same time, and having both parties react to what’s really been going on. The reason this works so well is because both the characters opposing her in the bet and we, the audience, are only shown Jabami’s way of playing at the very end. It feels like she’s trying to give us, the audience, the same thrill she’s giving her opponents."

Score: 78 ✓
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Mean Score: 41
RoryBurrowsFeb 17, 2018 6:18 AM
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Jan 1, 2018 7:38 AM
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AndoCommando

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If you don't mind I'd like to move my score for Kakegurui up to 25
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Jan 12, 2018 12:55 AM
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197y37h1yho9

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I read some of the reviews, not all of them, and just wanted to write something to @Goukeban

I'm posting it here so the other people that wrote reviews can read it too and have/give their thoughts on it, maybe it'll turn into a full review one day.

Jabami isn’t the usual protagonist gambling anime, or anime in general, tend to have; while most shows have their protagonist trying to secure a better chance of winning Jabami is obsessed with gambling. Her own “true” definition of gambling. To her gambling isn’t about securing your victory, but about the excitement of leaving things up to chance. The people she plays at Hyakkaou private academy are often the exact opposite, cheating their way to ensure, or at least improve their chance of victory, Jabami has to see through and counter this chance manipulation, and instead leave things completely up to chance, for her to enjoy herself, which is what she is here for. She wants her opponent to feel the same fright of randomly losing or winning.
Her way of showing affection to her friends is introducing them to the excitement of uncertainty, she wants to share the thing she loves most in life with other people so they can enjoy it too, she’s even more than willing to help people that she isn’t friends with (although anyone that can give her a good gamble is somewhat of a friend to her) to feel this joy, but goes out of her way to make her closer friends feel this way. This makes her a good person despite her constant acts of "evil", confrontation, and manipulation.


*edit* Three hours later, it was way more fun writing a review than I thought it would be, so it's pretty much already done, now I just have to re-watch the show and see if anything needs changing/adjusting/improving. *end edit*
197y37h1yho9Jan 12, 2018 4:06 AM
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