Kakegurui gay characters
Content Warning: Discussion of nonconsensual kink, torture, fanservice
Spoilers for season one of Kakegurui
The first thing I saw from Kakegurui was the grotesque faces. It was a reaction clip on Twitter, and any sort of interest I had in the initial publish was gone. All I could think about was this blonde girl with the most horrific grimace. So I tried to find more. The titanic grins with teeth bared often covered in sweat. It was something so different from what I typically watch that I had to know what it was immediately. After scouring through numerous comments and deciphering fan names for the characters I found it: Kakegurui: Compulsive Gambler.
Learning about the plot didn’t sell me on the series. Kakegurui takes place at a wealthy, prestigious academy whose social hierarchy is determined not by talent or academic standing but by gambling. Students who accumulate wealth through gambling reside at the top, ruling over those who weren’t so lucky. Those who can’t quite cut it develop the lowest of the low: the “house pets” of the school. They have corresponding collars and tags so that no matter what, no one forgets who and what they are.
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Queer Writing
Okay maybe we can just about forget about entity able to stick in a consistent update schedule, I just don’t feel capable of it. My work seems to come in randoms bursts than anything else. Oh, well every author is different. But right now I want to converse the gambling anime Kakegurui and it’s depictions of Queer women. Be warned there are spoilers ahead. Also be warned this blog upload will be discussing mental illnesses, gambling and violence in some depth. Also, I will be discussing spoilers of the series in depth. This study is only foremost on the anime, I have not read the manga nor have I seen the live-action adaption (although I might review that one in the future-don’t hold me to that though).
In an elite institution in Japan what matters most is not the students’ grades, their looks or the latest fashion, no this is a academy where the social hierarchy revolves around gambling and how much you can win. Realistic? No, but it is a hell of a lot of fun to see these intelligent gamblers outsmart each other by any means possible. Including proficiency, cheating, blackmail and abuse. If they fall into debt than they get housepets and are t
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I don’t think of myself as an anime guy. I grew up on Dragon Ball Z, Naruto, and One Piece, and I’ve seen a few of the classics (Bebop, Akira, etc) but I’ve always held the genre at arm’s length. It’s by no means universally sexualized, but the pervasive nature of its fan-service and it’s near-blatant disregard for pleasant gender politics have led me to categorize it among affectionate comedies and horror films as a genre I seek to find exceptions to rather than indulge fully. That’s not to utter I’m not willing to try.
This week, Netflix released the first season of Kakegurui- Compulsive Gambler in its entirety, and I watched it in one sitting. Aside from a few surface-level connections to the Japanese-only season of Yugioh, I didn’t think the plotting or story were especially interesting. The animation and style were par for the course on a big-budget release like this one, and the fan-service was gratuitous, though (aside from a free shot in the opening theme) not terribly explicit. What struck me about the show was the male leads, or- rather- the lack thereof.
The show, for those who haven’t seen it, is about a