50 Fun Facts About Kakegurui

Which elite school is the setting of Kakegurui, where gambling decides every student's rank?

Hyakkaou Private Academy teaches the children of Japan's wealthiest families, yet its students are ranked by what they win betting against each other after class, not by grades or sports.

What color do Yumeko Jabami's eyes glow in Kakegurui when the thrill of gambling takes hold?

Red is the glow that signals Yumeko's mania for high stakes. Her classmate Mary Saotome gets the same wild look, but her eyes light up yellow instead.

Which Kakegurui character, the student council president, turned indebted classmates into house pets?

Kirari Momobami won the presidency by beating her predecessor in a high-stakes game, then built the hierarchy that makes the students with the largest debts into pets.

Which animation studio produced both seasons of the Kakegurui anime?

MAPPA animated both seasons of the series. The studio's name is an acronym for Maruyama Animation Produce Project Association, after its founder Masao Maruyama.

Which streaming service shows the Kakegurui anime outside Japan and released the English remake Bet?

Netflix streams both anime seasons outside Japan and later released Bet, a loose Western retelling that moves the story from a Japanese academy to a boarding school.

Which children's game inspires the card gamble Mary Saotome rigs against Yumeko Jabami in Kakegurui?

Rock paper scissors is played with cards in the story's first gamble. Yumeko works out how Mary has fixed the game, raises the stakes and soundly beats her.

Kakegurui's eyepatch-wearing Midari Ikishima favors modified versions of which game of chance?

Russian roulette is Midari's obsession: she carries a pistol for it and pushes opponents into ever more violent variants in which a player could be maimed or killed.

What does Kakegurui's Itsuki Sumeragi, a toy CEO's daughter, collect from opponents she has bankrupted?

Their fingernails and toenails are what Itsuki talks broke opponents into wagering, which has left her with a grim collection she treats as nail art.

Which English subtitle, a description of Yumeko Jabami, completes the Kakegurui manga's full title?

Compulsive Gambler suits Yumeko because she bets purely for the thrill, while the other students at the academy gamble for money or social standing.

Which Kakegurui class president becomes Yumeko Jabami's loyal friend after she pays off his gambling debt?

Ryota Suzui is a hopeless bettor who begins the story as Mary Saotome's house pet. Once freed, he keeps trying to talk Yumeko out of her riskiest wagers, and she hardly ever listens.

In English, Kakegurui's house pets are nicknamed either Fido or which other name, depending on gender?

Mittens stands in for Mike in the original Japanese, just as Fido replaces Pochi, so students who sink into debt are literally renamed like household animals.

Which document do Kakegurui's house pets receive if they cannot clear their debts by graduation?

A Life Schedule lays out a debtor's entire future in advance, down to career and family choices, for as long as they are still working to pay the money back.

In which traditional Japanese style does Kakegurui's Yumeko Jabami wear her long black hair?

Hime cut literally means princess cut: straight sidelocks and a blunt fringe, a look traced back to the noblewomen of Japan's Heian-period court.

Which relative of Yumeko Jabami has been hospitalized long-term in Kakegurui?

Her older sister is in long-term hospital care, which leaves Yumeko living entirely alone while she gambles her way through the academy.

Which card game does Itsuki Sumeragi play with two decks against Yumeko Jabami in Kakegurui?

Concentration is the pair-matching memory game. Itsuki wins their first match, but Yumeko takes the rematch once she has worked out her opponent's trick.

Which part-time career does Yumemi Yumemite, the student council's publicist in Kakegurui, pursue?

Pop idol is Yumemi's public face, though she privately looks down on her fans. When her secret gets out, they accept her anyway, and she decides to keep performing.

Which pencil-and-paper game becomes Yumemi Yumemite's gamble against Yumeko Jabami in Kakegurui?

Tic-tac-toe is dressed up with a variety show challenge, but Yumemi still loses, and her closely guarded secrets are exposed to her fans.

What happens to treasurer Kaede Manyuda's hair after his crushing loss to Yumeko Jabami in Kakegurui?

It turns white from the shock of losing everything after he underestimated Yumeko, and the defeat also lands him in hospital.

Which animal's ears top the hoodie always worn by Kakegurui's candy-loving Runa Yomozuki?

Rabbit ears crown Runa's hoodie, and she is rarely seen without a lollipop and a PlayStation as she taunts the other students.

Sayaka Igarashi, hopelessly devoted to the president in Kakegurui, holds which student council post?

Secretary Sayaka is in love with the president and defends her against anyone who questions her judgement, even when she finds her motives doubtful herself.

What does Ririka, the shy student council vice-president in Kakegurui, wear when she first appears?

A smiling mask hides Ririka's face at first. Underneath, the introverted vice-president is the president's sister, with the same light grey hair and blue eyes.

Which Japanese voice actress plays both student council sisters in the Kakegurui anime?

Miyuki Sawashiro voices both the president and her shy vice-president sister, and she also plays Fujiko Mine in later installments of Lupin the Third.

Which rigged game does traditional culture club head Yuriko Nishinotouin run in Kakegurui?

Life or Death is the game Yumeko loses on one huge final wager, a defeat that leaves her buried in debt and turns her into a house pet herself.

Which student group at the academy does second-year Midari Ikishima lead in Kakegurui?

Beautification Committee head Midari stays loyal to the student council even though she lost an eye paying off a gambling debt to its president.

Why does Yumeko Jabami refuse to pay off her debt in Kakegurui even though she easily could?

To challenge the president freely, Yumeko chooses to stay a house pet, a status that also keeps her involved in more games.

Which prequel spin-off follows Mary Saotome a year before Yumeko Jabami arrives at the academy?

Kakegurui Twin shows Mary arriving as a newcomer from a less wealthy family and learning the school's betting system well enough to open a gambling den of her own.

Which manga writer created Kakegurui and also scripts every one of its spin-off series?

Homura Kawamoto writes the main series and each of its spin-offs, pairing with a different artist on every one, and first launched the story in the magazine Gangan Joker.

Which video game giant publishes the Kakegurui manga in its monthly magazine Gangan Joker?

Square Enix launched Gangan Joker in 2009 to replace two older magazines, and the gambling series began running there five years later.

Which publisher announced at Anime Expo 2015 that it would release the Kakegurui manga in English?

Yen Press, which is co-owned by Japan's Kadokawa and the Hachette Book Group, went on to license the prequel series for North American readers as well.

Which song by Tia is the opening theme of the first season of the Kakegurui anime?

Deal with the Devil opens season one, with the group D-Selections singing the ending. For season two the opening slot passed to the singer JUNNA.

Which Japanese voice actress plays Yumeko Jabami in both seasons of the Kakegurui anime?

Saori Hayami voices Yumeko in both anime seasons, and her other famous roles include Shinobu Kocho in Demon Slayer and Shōko Nishimiya in A Silent Voice.

Which actress plays Yumeko Jabami in Japan's live-action Kakegurui drama and films?

Minami Hamabe played the role first in the television drama and then in two feature films, all of them directed by Tsutomu Hanabusa.

Bet, the English-language remake of Kakegurui, moves the story to which elite boarding school?

St. Dominic's Prep ranks its students by gambling gains: the top ten sit on the student council, while those at the bottom or in debt become house pets.

Unlike the thrill-seeking original, what drives Yumeko in Bet, the English-language remake of Kakegurui?

Avenging her murdered parents is this Yumeko's goal: she fights her way up the school rankings to work out which of its governors killed them.

Bet, the English-language live-action series based on Kakegurui, was produced and filmed in which country?

Canada is home to the show's producer, Boat Rocker Studios, and the series was shot in Toronto under showrunner Simon Barry.

Which WWE wrestler appears as himself in Bet, the English-language Kakegurui remake, as hired muscle?

Seth Rollins turns up as the muscle Runa hires to take back unpaid debts; in this version she collects what she is owed in violent ways.

Which clan member in Kakegurui uses a wheelchair and despises the student council president?

Terano Totobami is pushed around the academy in her wheelchair by Yumi, a fellow clan member who shares her surname.

Erimi Mushibami, from a family of torturers in Kakegurui, gambles with her own version of which device?

A guillotine built to cut off fingers is Erimi's own design, yet when she is the one at risk of being hurt she loses control and breaks into tears.

Clan sisters Miyo Inbami and Miri Yobami in Kakegurui come from families that specialize in what?

Poisons are the trade of both families: Miyo secretly doses Yumeko to drag her and her friends into a card game with Yumeko's life on the line.

Which Kakegurui character, who runs the 100 Votes Auction, was created for the anime rather than the manga?

Rei Batsubami first seems to be a neutral matchmaker who stays out of the betting, but is revealed as a servant from a fallen family who planned to take control herself.

Kakegurui's Yumemi Yumemite secretly hopes to reach Hollywood and win which acting prize?

An Academy Award-winning actress is what Yumemi privately wants to become, a dream she keeps hidden from the Japanese fans she finds so hard to bear.

How are house pets set apart from the other students at the academy in Kakegurui?

A neck tag, worn like a collar, identifies every pet, and whoever wears one is left at the whims of the rest of the student body.

What is Yumeko Jabami's status at the elite academy when the story of Kakegurui begins?

Transfer student Yumeko seems modest, cheerful and bright when she arrives, which hides the fact that she gambles purely for the thrill of it.

How does card expert Itsuki Sumeragi cheat in her card game against Yumeko Jabami in Kakegurui?

Marked cards give Itsuki the edge until Yumeko sees through the trick. The loss is so humiliating that Itsuki's seat on the student council is revoked.

How does Yumeko Jabami's seemingly deadly duel with Midari Ikishima end in Kakegurui?

A bloodless draw is forced by Yumeko, who deliberately gets every guess wrong. Midari is so struck by the move that she becomes infatuated with her.

Which actress stars as Yumeko in Bet, the English-language live-action series based on Kakegurui?

Miku Martineau plays a Yumeko with a new surname, Kamamoto, and the show was renewed for a second season a month after its debut.

Which artist illustrates the main Kakegurui manga, as opposed to its various spin-off series?

Tōru Naomura is the artist of the main series and also illustrated its two light novels, while each of the spin-offs has an artist of its own.

Which anime distributor released Kakegurui on Blu-ray in 2021 with a newly recorded English dub?

Sentai Filmworks recorded its own cast, so Yumeko has two English voices: Erika Harlacher in the streaming dub and Estelle Link on disc.

The thorn necklace worn by Kakegurui's Ibara Obami stabs him whenever he does what?

Tells a lie and the thorns bite, and lying also makes Ibara feel sick. He serves the heir of a family whose speciality is lying and swindling.

What cheeky subtitle did the Kakegurui mobile game carry before its servers closed in 2020?

Cheating Allowed was made for iOS and Android around a betting system like the manga's, and its launch was pushed back so the gameplay could be improved.