Kakegurui

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Kakegurui
Original title 賭 ケ グ ル イ
Kakegurui logo.png
genre thriller
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Homura Kawamoto
Illustrator Tōru Naomura
publishing company Square Enix
magazine Gangan Joker
First publication 2014 - ...
expenditure 12
Manga
title Kakegurui Twin
country JapanJapan Japan
author Homura Kawamoto
Illustrator Kei Saiki
publishing company Square Enix
magazine Gangan Joker
First publication 2015 - ...
expenditure 9
Anime television series
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Year (s) 2017, 2019
Studio MAPPA
length 24 minutes
Episodes 24 in 2 seasons ( list )
Director Yuichiro Hayashi
Kiyoshi Matsuda
music Technoboys Pulcraft Green Fund
First broadcast July 1st, 2017 on Tokyo MX , MBS , BS11 , RKB, TVA
German-language
first broadcast		 Feb 1, 2018 on Netflix
synchronization
Television series
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
year 2018
Episodes 10
Director Tsutomu Hanabusa
First broadcast January 15, 2018 on MBS , TBS

Kakegurui ( Japanese 賭 ケ グ ル イ ) is a manga series by Homura Kawamoto and Tōru Naomura , which has been published in Japan since 2014. It was adapted as an anime television series and drama series and translated into several languages. The German editions are also known as Kakegurui - Life is a game .

content

Hyakkaou Private School only educates children from very wealthy and influential parents. And since they have already learned most from their private tutors, they are trained in strategy, cunning and looking through the opponent at the school mainly through gambling. Their reputation in school changes according to their gains and losses. With the student council president Kirari Momobami, another element was added: Anyone who gambled away too much money and cannot pay their contribution to the student council becomes the slave of the other students. This is the first to hit Ryota Suzui, who loses a lot of money to Mary Saotome.

Shortly after Ryota's defeat, Yumeko Jabami joins the class. The girl seems very naive and Ryota wants to protect her. But in the first game against Mary, the initially inexperienced-looking Yumeko shows that she can see through her opponents and finally beat them in the game. Ryota is freed from his slave role by her. From then on, Yumekos played against her classmates again and again, in which she had to get to know new games and was supported by Ryota.

publication

The manga has been published in Gangan Joker magazine by Square Enix since 2014 . The publisher has published the chapters in 9 anthologies so far. Since 2015, the offshoot Kakegurui Twin , drawn by Kei Saiki, has appeared in the same magazine . The collective edition has so far reached six volumes. The offshoot Kakegurui Midari by Hiiragi Yuichi and a Yonkoma manga by Taku Kawamura are also released .

A German translation of the series has been published by Altraverse since May 2018 in twelve volumes. Yen Press publishes the manga in English, ECC Ediciones in Spanish, J-Pop in Italian and Ching Win Publishing in Chinese.

List of manga volumes

tape Japan Germany
publication ISBN publication ISBN
1 Oct 22, 2014 ISBN 978-4-7575-4449-9 May 31, 2018 ISBN 978-3-96358-036-9
2 Dec 22, 2014 ISBN 978-4-7575-4510-6 July 26, 2018 ISBN 978-3-96358-037-6
3 June 22, 2015 ISBN 978-4-7575-4672-1 Sep 20 2018 ISBN 978-3-96358-038-3
4th Dec 22, 2015 ISBN 978-4-7575-4837-4 Nov 22, 2018 ISBN 978-3-9635-8039-0
5 May 21, 2016 ISBN 978-4-7575-4983-8 Jan. 17, 2019 ISBN 978-3-9635-8040-6
6th Feb 22, 2017 ISBN 978-4-7575-5251-7 21 Mar 2019 ISBN 978-3-9635-8041-3
7th 22nd June 2017 ISBN 978-4-7575-5382-8 16th May 2019 ISBN 978-3-9635-8042-0
8th 22 Aug 2017 ISBN 978-4-7575-5448-1
9 Jan. 27, 2018 ISBN 978-4-7575-5594-5
10 22 Aug 2018 ISBN 978-4-7575-5816-8
11 22 Mar 2019 ISBN 978-4-7575-6000-0
Kakegurui Twin
1 Dec 22, 2015 ISBN 978-4-7575-4838-1
2 May 21, 2016 ISBN 978-4-7575-4984-5
3 Feb 22, 2017 ISBN 978-4-7575-5252-4
4th 22nd June 2017 ISBN 978-4-7575-5383-5
5 July 22, 2017 ISBN 978-4-7575-5414-6
6th Jan. 27, 2018 ISBN 978-4-7575-5595-2
7th 22 Aug 2018 ISBN 978-4-7575-5817-5
8th 23 Mar 2019 ISBN 978-4-7575-6064-2

Anime adaptation

In 2017, a 12-part anime adaptation of the manga was created under the direction of Yuichiro Hayashi . Studio MAPPA's lead author was Yasuko Kobayashi . The character design comes from Manabu Akita and the artistic directors were Haruka Matsuda and Masanobu Nomura .

The series aired in Japan from July 1 to September 23, 2017 on Tokyo MX , MBS , BS11 , RKB and TVA. Netflix released the anime in German, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.

The second season appeared in Germany on June 13, 2019 on Netflix.

Episode list

synchronization

role Japanese voice German voice
Mary Saotome Minami Tanaka Saskia Weckler
Yumeko Jabami Saori Hayami Nadine Schreier
Ryōta Suzui Tatsuya Tokutake Jesse Grimm
Itsuki Sumeragi Yuuki Wakai Florentine Draeger
Runa Yomozuki Mayu Udono Daniela Reidies
Sayaka Igarashi Ayaka Fukuhara Jenny Maria Meyer
Yumemi Yumemite Yū Serizawa Linda Foelster
Yuriko Nishinotouin Karin Nanami Maria Wardzinska
Midari Ikishima Mariya Ise Franciska Friede
Kirari Momobami Miyuki Sawashiro Lotta Doll
Kaede Manyuuda Tomokazu Sugita Nils Rieke

music

The music for the series was composed by the Technoboys Pulcraft Green Fund. The opening song is Deal with Devil by Tia. The songs Koi no Russian Roulette ( 恋 の ロ シ ア ン ル ー レ ッ ト ) by Saori Hayami and Yū Serizawa and LAYon-theLine by D-Selections were used for the end credits .

Actual filming

Directed by Tsutomu Hanabusa , a live version of the manga was also made for Japanese television in 2018. The 10 episodes were broadcast by MBS and TBS from January 15 to March 19, 2018 .

reception

The anthologies each sold over 100,000 times in Japan in the first few weeks after publication.

In Tagesspiegel , the manga is recommended primarily for fans of No Game No Life or “Play-or-Die” plots, even if it is still unclear whether the series can keep the tension of the first volume. The story creates “a merciless class society whose secrets and morally questionable functioning are gradually being dragged to the light of day” and which is being dismantled by the protagonist Yumeko - without her pursuing lofty goals, but only out of the joy of playing. Some of the games are just as absurd and absurd as the stakes. The story is told using classic film techniques such as strong zooming and shot-counter-shot cuts, which are also common in similar series about games. The mostly digitally created drawings showed individual facial features and pronounced facial expressions and gave a "matching high-gloss casino look" that also came across as somewhat sterile.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Japanese Comic Ranking, February 5-11. Anime News Network, February 14, 2018, accessed June 30, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Japanese Comic Ranking, September 4-10. Anime News Network, September 13, 2017, accessed June 30, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Sabine Scholz: Games without borders. In: Der Tagesspiegel. July 23, 2018, accessed September 23, 2018 .