The first live-action film based on Homura Kawamoto and Tōru Naomura’s Kakegurui – Compulsive Gambler manga, revealed on Saturday that the film’s sequel will be released in Japan in 2021.
The film is temporarily titled Eiga Kakegurui Part 2. The sequel will include a returning cast. Tsutomu Hanabusa is returning to direct the film and write the screenplay, along with Minato Takano.
Originally a manga by Homura Kawamoto, then an anime series (available on Netflix), a live-action series, and now a live-action movie, Kakegurui inherits the bold aesthetic of the anime and adapts the story pretty well.
Continuing the long-standing trend of Japanese manga adaptations that center on a high school specializing in some specific subject, Kakegurui is a high-energy farce about a posh private academy that’s packed with spoiled rich kids obsessed with gambling.
Hyakkaou Private Academy is a prestigious institution for the privileged and was first established around 122 years ago.
Their gambling winnings rank the students there. The winners receive everything, including fame and fortune.
The winners also dominate the losers. One day, transfer student Yumeko Jabami arrives at the academy, quickly showing she is a gambling maniac who loves high stakes.
Kakegurui – Compulsive Gambler is a 2019 Japanese film adaptation of a manga series named Homura Kawamoto.
It is directed by Hayato Kawai and distributed by GAGA Pictures. It stars Minami Hamabe and Mahiro Takasugi as Yumeko Jabami and Ryōta Suzui, respectively. It was released in Japan on May 3, 2019.
The manga inspired a television anime series that ran from July to September 2017 in Japan. The series premiered outside of Japan on Netflix in February 2018.
The anime’s second season premiered in January 2019, and Netflix began streaming the series in June 2019.
A 10-episode live-action show premiered in Japan in January 2018. Netflix is streaming the series outside of Japan. Season two premiered in March 2019.
More details will be released soon.
About Kakegurui
Kakegurui is an anime based on a manga of the same name written by Homura Kawamoto and illustrated by Toru Naomura. It is directed by Yuichiro Hayashi and is animated by MAPPA.
Hyakkaou Private Academy, a regular school for ultra-rich kids by day and a grotesque gambling den by night, has an inbuilt social hierarchy.
Based on how one performs in gambling and manipulating their peers, students are ranked best to worst, the top rankers being the most powerful.
Yumeko Jabami, a transfer student who gambles just for the thrill of it, becomes the new challenger and the talk of the Hyakkaou’s elite student council.
Her insane love for gambling presents her with new challenges as she climbs her way to the top.
Source: Crunchyroll
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