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Kakegurui Live-Action Film Gets Sequel in 2021
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Film will feature returning staff, cast
The staff of the first live-action film based on Minato Takano is also writing the screenplay.
A 10-episode live-action show premiered in Japan in January 2018. premiered in March 2019. The first live-action film then opened in May 2019.
The original Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler manga launched in releasing the manga in English, and it describes the story:
Hyakkaou Private Academy. An institution for the privileged with a very peculiar curriculum. You see, when you're the sons and daughters of the wealthiest of the wealthy, it's not athletic prowess or book smarts that keep you ahead. It's reading your opponent, the art of the deal. What better way to hone those skills than with a rigorous curriculum of gambling? At Hyakkaou Private Academy, the winners live like kings, and the losers are put through the wringer. But when Yumeko Jabami enrolls, she's gonna teach these kids what a high roller really looks like!
The manga inspired a television anime series that ran from July streaming the series in June 2019.
The manga has also inspired three spinoff manga and two novels.
Source: Comic Natalie
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