Gambling School, also known as Kakegurui is a manga series written by Homura Kawamoto and drawn by Tōru Naomura. The story takes place in a prestigious academy attended by wealthy students who have adopted their own hierarchy based on their gambling skills. The manga has been published since March 2014, and there is also an anime adaptation that currently has two seasons (24 episodes), as well as a prequel manga. Kakegurui is one of the more popular series outside the mainstream works, and it seems that the popularity of the series inspired Netflix to produce a live-action series based on the Kakegurui manga and anime. The series will be titled BET and it has been officially announced recently!
To make it clear, BET won’t be a direct live-action adaptation of Kakegurui, so it is not like Cowboy Bebop or One Piece; instead, it will be a standalone live-action series that is...
To make it clear, BET won’t be a direct live-action adaptation of Kakegurui, so it is not like Cowboy Bebop or One Piece; instead, it will be a standalone live-action series that is...
- 6/2/2024
- by Arthur S. Poe
- Fiction Horizon
Writer Homura Kawamoto and illustrator Toru Naomura's Kakegurui manga is about to get another adaptation. This time it's a live-action series called BET , which is in the works for Netflix with Warrior Nun creator Simon Barry as showrunner and Boat Rocker Media producing. Barry is developing, writing and directing the series, production for which recently started in Toronto. BET stars Miku Martineau, Ayo Solanke, Eve Edwards, Clara Alexandrova, Hunter Cardinal, Anwen O’Driscoll, Aviva Mongillo and Ryan Sutherland. The story of BET follows a mysterious transfer student from Japan named Yumeko, who enters an elite boarding school with a penchant for gambling and a dark secret. On her quest for revenge, she soon finds herself a target of the school's powerful Student Council. Related: High Card Season 2 Anime Gets Special 25th Episode The original Kakegurui manga has been running since March 2014, and has inspired spinoff manga and multiple TV anime seasons,...
- 5/31/2024
- by Joseph Luster
- Crunchyroll
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