Kakegurui is an anime which revolves around gambling. The approach this anime takes towards gambling might not be very realistic but it doesn't mean that it won't entertain you.
There are many things in this anime which are completely illogical and unrealistic but those illogical things leads to very interesting scenarios which will be impossible to witness in real life and that makes this crazy story so interesting.
The whole story takes place in Hyakkao Private Academy a school where everything is determined by gambling. The power, the ranks, the lifestyle one get to live everything is determined by the gambling skills one has. The tone of the story is a little dark and serious sometimes which makes the gambling very intense to watch.
In the beginning of the story some question might take place in your mind like how in the hell is gambling legal in this institution or why is the teachers or principles or anyone else not restricting them. Well the answer to all this question is fairly simple, because it's just a work of fiction and it is not obligated to explain each and everything happening in the story and if it would have done that then i think the pacing and flow of the story would have gotten disturb and the story would have become very boring to follow.
As the story gradually progressed I realized that all this question never really bothered me and I was able to enjoy the whole story without any problems.
Now let's just talk about some other aspects of the story
I have never tried gambling for real but this anime has given me some idea about how gambling 'could' feel. Now I don't know if the way gambling shown in this anime has anything to do with the real deal or not but I will say this that the way gambling is shown in this anime looks very believable.
The games used for gambling are either actual know games with minor changes on them to make things more interesting or something completely original, either way I can tell that a lot of thought have been put into this games because this modified/original games are actually very interesting at least in the anime if not in real life as well.
There are a verity of characters in this high school which was expected and I really like the fact that even though these characters are just high school students they never felt out of place when they were gambling.
The structure of the story is nothing new. A typical protagonist vs the student council story but that doesn't mean that it's bad or anything 'cause I really loved the gambling version of this story structure.
It's a great anime to watch. Don't expecte something new and out of the box from this anime. It's just a work of fiction that is ment for pure entertainment and it does that effortlessly.
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