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Live-Action Kakegurui Project Casts Elaiza Ikeda as Kirari for Season 2, Film

The official season and film.

Ikeda said that she has been following the original manga series since volume 1. She had wondered who would play the student council president in the live-action version, and was excitedly looking forward to finding out. She had not imagined that she herself would be cast in the role.

The second season will premiere on franchise is also getting a live-action film that will also premiere next spring.

The cast will reprise their roles for the second season of the series. s the cast Yumemi Yumemite.

The 10-episode show premiered in Japan on MBS on January 14, and on TBS on January 16. streaming the series outside of Japan.

licensed the manga and 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 premiere in January 2019.

Sources: Kakegurui live-action series' Twitter , Comic Natalie