Kakegurui Twin

KT is a 6 episode short anime series about another menacing, elite HS with yet more sinister offspring of well💰moneyed High-Rollers.

The concept seems Against the Spread, ie. Underwhelming😑 (right?). How it was Dealt to my queue is more mysterious than a Random Number Generator, but watchlist Roulette landed on KT, so it seemed only proper to Play a Round or two🎰

Like a High-Stakes Buy-in, the premise is a bit of a pauser. It's Long Odds that a show featuring a HS that revolves around betting will Pay Off big. You may Speculate: Does KT's S1 Reel in some Beginner's Luck, or does this table have a Low Limit? Once Ep2's Chips are counted, it's clear that logic and🀄strategy are a deck of cards, and the premise, a dealer. KT is not dumbed-down; it has a good hand to play.

Mary Satoame is new to HPA (Hyakkou Private Academy), and Mary is as talented as a card-counting card sharp. She doesn't enter Hyakkou with the Bankroll to be a Whale, nor does she plan to be top gambler, though we can Tell she's curious about how she'll Cut the Deck compared to the school's lauded prodigies.

Her game plan is to survive - alone.

The academy is a Cage in which students get some Action: Payline, Payout Percentage, and sometimes Tapping Out. It's not a place where one Hits the buddy Jackpot. Yet, Mary manages to score 2 teammates without a Wager! It's Better than a Double or Nothing. One day she stumbles into HPA's long forgotten library📚 and Collects her snake-eyes Bonus: 2 unforgettable friends, shiny clean, like a fresh deck of cards. Their bond is not Progressive; it's immediate & sincere, which opens Slots for Free Spins against the disdainful Croupiers & Pit Bosses. The risk, effort, and Toke are shared, with friends, which Chips at the House Edge. In time, they share Hands by turning the library into their own den o' yen💴, aka, a casino.

HPA is a Derby for Platinum Members only. Like William Macy in The Cooler, newbies aren't allowed to 'let it ride' or run Hot; they are kept in the Cold. Along come the frigid snobs, the sadistic mavens, the appealing but calculating Blackjack-of-a-redhead, the nefarious House counsel, and long queues of wildcats, madcats, & housecats, as well as a House Comp of dweebs🃏. It's as if HPA is one big Fruit Machine. They all want to Double-Down on their constant Riffling with Mary's Futures. It's Certain: She's a guessing game. Guess where she'll end up? The malevolence of the jealous, those 2-dimensional Face Cards who do not want Mary passing them on the Track, may be the biggest Risk.

Mary realizes that, while her friends are Railbirds & not gambling savants, they have Skills that are worth so much more: Trustworthiness. Loyalty. Courage. That's 3 aces. The 🎲 are Loaded. Watch how Mary's gonna pull the Blinds off and set things a'tumblin.

It's a slow Tumble at first. Ep1 is a Fold, and Ep2 is an only slightly better hand. From there, the House of Cards begins to take shape. Ep3: more interesting; 4: Calling it pretty darn good; 5: plenty of Juice; and the Cashout episode - Well, it's looking Down-and-Out for Mary and the Librarians (That will be MY indie band. The name is taken)... Is it true that The House Always Wins? Or might Mary have an ace tucked in her thigh-high socks?

KT's animation is like Texas Hold Em: New, exciting twists on an old game. The English speaking dubs are the usual excellence found in anime. 🐰🕳··> As an aside, in anime, the dubs are 100% better (imho) while with foreign live action... Hey! Subtitles are a Whiz in under 90 seconds. When watching dubbed live action, one is starting at a Loss▶ a loss of 1/2 of the performance. You are better off watching cartoons<··🕳🐇.

Sure Thing, there's some better anime out there, but there's also much more that is much worse. KT's 6-chip Wager is easily Better than Breakeven, and Mary is the Queen of Clubs.

〰🖍 IMHO

🎬7 🖋〰 6.5 🎭6 🌞4 🎨7.6 😅2 (no jokers!) 🤔6.7 🔚8.3

Age 15+ cruelty amongst kids. The worst role models are depicted, mild language (Bℹ+ch ×1) Well rounded🎱🎱 girls in micro pleated plaid

👁📺again? - rewatch probability is Low Odds.

It might not be Kakegurui, but it still feels like a nice prologue to the main story when everything was a little simpler. The characters are nice, but Mary obviously has the spotlight (I don't personally care too much for the other characters). The animation is decent, and there are still very clever moments and the story isn't bad at all. There are a lot less cliched moments than I thought after seeing the review, as the show really has great moments.

Now, regarding the weird faces and overly erotic visuals from the original kakegurui. This show has nearly none of that; however, it still has the atmosphere of the original, so I didn't find myself disappointed due to the lack of weird faces at all. In my opinion, Mary Saotome makes up for all the negatives in this show.

I'd say only the first episode was a little rushed, but after that it's really just a decent show that doesn't deserve the hate. I don't usually like reviewing, but after watching the show and seeing all the hate it was getting I felt like it wasn't getting the justice it needs. Watch it! It's a perfectly decent spinoff.

To me it was easy to watch, although the episode length for twin is longer than kakegurui. We've learned more about mary's backround since it focuses on her character more, before yumeko became (one of, since ryota is there) the main character, before she exchanged schools. We earned the chance to see mary's true intellect, and other than that, her soft spot even. It adds up to her character, i'm glad we got to see more of her!

I thought a series without Jumeko Jabami wasn't a good idea, but i have to give credit to the potential Mary Saotome has as a character.

There are only 6 episodes, but I think somehow I enoyed this more than the original version. My question is how this is gonna fit the main series? I'm intrigued.

More like a spin off from the original seasons. Unlike in the original, the animation style improved by a mile in this but not a fan of this confusing storyline. Apparently its canon which made me confused on the overall storyline of this franchise. The sound/music choices werent as good as the original, i like mary but for me i prefer yumeko due to her obsessions and gambling addict/maniac persona. Recommended.