This anime is boring as crap. It's not necesserily bad, but it is very mediocre, and I will explain why.
Story; Kakegurui's story is basically non-existent. The show follows the story of Yumeko Jabami, a new student in Hyakkaou Private Academy(basically a gambling school) who's obsessed over gambling. Throughout the whole series, the only thing that happens is gambling via various games that are mostly card-games. Nothing else. Literally. Everyone gambles like crazy, putting insane amounts of money at stake, without ever giving a damn whether they lose it all or not, obviously. Heck, students gamble their lives and literally no one cares! This "pattern" is repeated again and again, until Yumeko finally gambles with the "President" and the anime ends in the most anticlimactic way possible. And of course, Yumeko wins all of the games she plays, even when the odds seem to not be in her favor because she's just too good for everyone. Most of her opponents lose miserably, but we never see the result of the dramatic loss, so the anime never really shows the importance of losing huge amounts of money, or your own life, thus making these high stakes unimportant and boring. Overall, the story is not interesting at all, and i was tempted to drop this anime lots of times.
Art; the art is alright. I rate it a solid 6 because i believe "fair" (6) describes the art perfectly. It's not anything great, but it's not bad either. Their weird face expressions put me off at times, but I have to admit that the consistency of the artwork was a big plus. Despite that, I've seen studio MAPPA do better than this, hence the 6.
Sound; the songs were pretty boring, and not even once did I listen to them through the end. I have to admit that the beginning of the opening song is cool, but the rest is just a repetitive boring beat.
Characters; now here is the big problem with this anime. First of all, there is no character development whatsoever. Literally, nobody in the show undergoes through any change and so they never develop as characters. I understand that it is a difficult task to develop all the characters within 12 eps, but noone? Really? Some characters are insane just because (Ikishima), some others are insane mainly due to bad parenting (Sumeragi,Manyuda). Yumeko's personality is defined by her gambling obsession and Ryota gives me the impression that he has no purpose in this anime (other than maybe representing the male population since there are 3 guys in total?).The only reason I didn't give this a 1 is because of Meary or Mary, who is the only one with some sense of logic, and one who actually realises the impact of gambling (this happens after she loses everything she has because of Yumeko, so it's understandable that she learns from past experience).
Enjoyment; as I previously mentioned, I did feel like dropping this anime once or twice (or maybe thrice), but kept watching just for the sake of it. I didn't have a bad time, but that doesn't mean I enjoyed it. It was pretty boring and there's no way I'm wasting my time rewatching.
Overall; Maybe it's because I'm not very fond of gambling, but I found this anime tedious. It lacks variation, both character-wise (as all of them are obsessed maniacs) and story-wise. I don't think that Kakegurui is entirely bad, but since I can't rate it with a 4,5 it gets a 4. I would give it a 5 because there were times when I felt that the show was trying to be interesting and worth, but seeing that it failed miserably made me choose the lower rating. To sum up, this anime is annoyingly dull, at least for me, so I can't really recommend this.
