Paul Magne Haakonsen I started watching "Kakegurui" on Netflix, because I had nothing else to watch and this seemed liked it could be interesting. And I used to like watching anime quite often when I was a teenager.Well, that was ages ago, and "Kakegurui" did not fall into my particular taste. I mean, an anime about gambling. And that was essentially all this was about. I don't particularly gamble much myself, and it just seemed like a shallow idea to base an anime series on something as trivial as gambling.I managed to endure through four episodes of the first season before I tossed the towel in the ring. I gave up on "Kakegurui" out of utter boredom. I was ready to give up after the third episode, but thought that surely it couldn't keep up with this boring streak. But it did...The characters in the anime were sort of flat and devoid of anything interesting to make them appealing. They all seemed to suffer from maniacal gambling disorder. And what kind of educational facility would function as it did in "Kakegurui" with the lucky (or skilled) high gamblers ruling it all and those whom lost big were treated like scum. No, it made absolutely no sense.I wasn't won over by the story or the characters in any way, and I am not returning to find out if they can win me over. The only thing that was working for "Kakegurui" was the animation and art style. That was actually good and had great detail, but it just couldn't manage to keep afloat this sinking boat.

vectorequinox While it is interesting to watch, the story is simple and the villains one-dimensional. Good but lacking substance, Nothing new but has potential to be good.

runep-09838 Wow. Just, wow. I've watched my healthy amount of anime over the years, and there are some good ones out there.. Unfortunately, this is not one of them. The first thing that struck my mind was the awful dialogue. I started out watching it with English audio, but I thought that maybe those responsible for the translation had done a bad job with it, but no, it's bad in Japanese also.The plot is so simplistic, and it's pretty obvious they try to captivate the viewers with the classic POWER-SHOTS of faces etc. which many other anime-series pull off, but not this one. Not by a long-shot. The show comes of as pretentious and lame, with not much story to back it up. If this is the first anime-series you watch, don't let this scare you away from anime as a whole, because there are lot's of good ones out there.

marinospolitis There is almost always a problem with anime that are manga adaptations. If the number of episodes is set and limited (13 most of the time like this one), they have to quicken the pace and make do with a made-up ending that is rushed, unconclusive and unsatisfactory. Kakegurui is a gamble anime. There aren't many out there, it kinda reminded me of Death Billards. The games were mostly interesting, the premise was not incedibly unique but was interesting, the main character (the female) was REALLY interesting... so what could have gone wrong?The villains. There is no proper hero without a villain. The villains hd no certain personality traits, were unlikable scums, with no real motive or a background story that we could actually care for. The side characters too, boring and monotonous. "Spoiler warning", I remember a specific game towards the end, where the villain tried to win only by using more and more money, without putting any real thought or effort. Booooriiing...Add this to the awful ending, and there you have it, a potentionally good anime, just turned mediocre.