Netflix’s official YouTube channel has started streaming a trailer for BET, the upcoming English-language live-action adaptation of the gambling-themed manga series Kakegurui created by Homura Kawamoto (story) and Toru Naomura (art). The series will be releasing on May 15.
According to Netflix Japan’s official X (formerly Twitter), the Japanese title is Kakegurui Bet.
BET Trailer
The main cast members of BET include: Miku Martineau, Ayo Solanke, Eve Edwards, Clara Alexandrova, Hunter Cardinal, Anwen O’Driscoll, Aviva Mongillo, and Ryan Sutherland. The seires is produced by Boat Boat Rocker Media with Simon Barry (Warrior Nun) as the executive producer and showrunner.
Netflix describes the series as such:
At a private school where gambling determines social status, a mysterious new student is shaking things up — and betting on revenge.
The original Kakegurui manga has been serialized in Square Enix’s Gangan Joker since March 2014, releasing 19 volumes to date. The main series was adapted into a TV anime for two seasons in 2017 and 2019, a live-action TV drama series for two seasons in 2018 and 2019, and two live-action feature films in 2019 and 2021. Additionally, a spin-off series Kakegurui Twin received a TV anime adaptation in 2022.
Yen Press, which has released the manga’s English edition under the title Kakegurui – Compulsive Gambler –, describes the synopsis:
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!
Source: Netflix official YouTube channel
