History Characters / Kakegurui

* BreakTheCutie: After Jabami defeats her, being goaded into betting up all her fingernails and toenails to risk hindering her everyday life promptly while being publicly exposed for rigging the game will do that to a girl.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: She is introduced using rigged gadgets to win against opponents and collects fingernails when she wins. Volumes later, she replaces the former with bribery as her main method and the fingernail collection is almost never mentioned again [[spoiler: especially after she rips off all of her own fingernails to prove to Yumeko she has what it takes play a truly AbsurdlyHighStakesGame.]]

* ButNotTooForeign: Yumemi mentions she's half-white, though with the art style (and her assortment of NightmareFaces constantly distorting her features) you'd never know otherwise.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite having a very prideful and arrogant personality, she does befriend Yumeko and Suzui and has plenty of moments of showing kindness.

* {{Pride}}: [[spoiler: Her recap chapter before her battle against Jabami in the Tournament Arc shows her reasoning to competiting against Nishiotounin, she simply couldn't stand everybody mocking her after she lost to Jabami]].
* ScholarshipStudent: ''Futago'' reveals that she belongs to a minority who came from families not as fabulously wealthy as those of the rest of the student body, and thus are frequently ostracized and challenged to matches for "intruding" into a heaven for {{Born Winner}}s. [[spoiler:Some students were interested in her & her skills instead, including 2 members of the Student Council who had already graduated by the time Yumeko transferred into the school]].

* NotSoAboveItAll: Can be just as underhanded as her opponents if it's for the sake of gambling, such as when she [[spoiler:plants a recording device to tape Yumetime ranting about her life as an IdolSinger so they can both enjoy the thrill of putting their entire livelihoods on the line]]. Though from [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Jabami's point of view]], cheating is just another way to make games more chaotic and risky, like adding a new game rule.

** When we say she has a gambling addiction, we mean it. When [[spoiler: Kirari turns Jabami down in favor of a gambling match with her sister and Mary, she resolves to never gamble again, but Ryota notices she's experiencing withdrawal symptoms days later.]]

* PhotographicMemory: Shown to have a phenomenal memory, being able to memorize the minor sets of defects on the back of 52 out of 104 different playing cards and their corresponding faces in a few minutes. During her gamble against Ikishima, Suzui (who is their dealer) uses this trait in order to give her the advantage. After her match with Yumemite, she's also able to use it to completely reproduce one of Yumemite's ''several minute long complicated dance routines'' for an impromptu duet.

* ProfessionalGambler: Jabami shows up with at least ¥10 million of her previous winnings ''in her bag'' during her first day at school. She also has no problem letting Saotome's ¥8.8 million debt to her slide since she "had fun", and further decides to give Suzui a ¥5 million tip for letting her enjoy an interesting game. The Student Council also later discovers that she has enough money to easily pay back a ¥310 million debt to Nishinotouin, but willingly abstains from doing so in order to have more excuses to gamble.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: They're normally a very amber-y brown, but when a game starts, they're depicted as bright red to emphasize her madness.

* SherlockScan: Jabami is extremely good at noticing details and applying deductive reasoning. For instance, in her game with Sumeragi she notices and then memorizes minor sets of defects on the back of 52 out of 104 different playing cards and their corresponding faces in a few minutes. In her game with Nishinotouin, she figures out exactly how her opponent is using magnetic piercings in the dealers' hands to cheat, after simply seeing identical piercings on two of Nishinotouin's club members and three rounds of their custom "Life or Death" game.

* ScholarshipStudent: ''Futago'' reveals that she belongs to a minority who came from families not as fabulously wealthy as those of the rest of the student body, and thus are frequently ostracized and challenged to matches for "intruding" into a heaven for {{Born Winner}}s. [[spoiler:Some students were interested in her & her skills instead, including 2 members of the Student Council who had already graduated by the time Yumeko transferred into the school]]

** However, [[spoiler: she gets an even worse one after the gamble which lead to Kabura adopting Yumeko and not allowing the sisters to meet ecer again. This is what finally breaks Souko and leads to her current state in the main story.]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Appears as a relatively friendly person, seemingly bonding with Souko as two girls whose freedom was stolen by the Momobami clan, but [[spoiler: reveals herself later to be cruel and manipulative, seeing Souko's desperate face as "the best face ever" and taking advantage of the Jabami family dispute to take Yumeko in the Tsuibami family and raise her as a great gambler]].

[[folder:Yumeko's sister (Chapter 96 Spoilers)]]

* HeroicBSOD: Souko [[spoiler: goes through a very nasty one in chapter 101 and 102 when her aunt Tsugiko challenges her for the title of head of the Jabami family, revealing that she sold everything she could (including the snake-eye stone of the family) and claims to have killed Souko and Yumeko's parents.]] ** However, [[spoiler: she gets an even worse one after the gamble which lead to Kabura adopting Yumeko and not allowing the sisters to meet ecer again. This is what finally breaks Souko and leads to her current state in the main story.]]

[[folder: Tsugiko Jabami (Chapter 96 Spoilers)]]

[[folder: Kabura Tsuibami]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Appears as a relatively friendly person, seemingly bonding with Souko as two girls whose freedom was stolen by the Momobami clan, but [[spoiler: reveals herself later to be cruel and manipulative, seeing Souko's desperate face as "the best face ever" and orchestrating the Jabami family dispute in order to take Yumeko in the Tsuibami family and raise her as a great gambler]].

Aoi's younger sister who wants to take revenge against the Literary Club for having defeated her brother .

* BitchInSheepSClothing: Yua acts friendly and claims that she wants to join the literary club, but she reveals her true personality during the Blackjack game, where she states she wants to defeat the literary club.

* SlasherSmile: [[spoiler: Shows some very terrifying ones when goading six-year-old Yumeko to accept her hidden passion for gambling.

* Irony: Her desire for the [[spoiler: Jabami family not to be destroyed by the Momobami clan traditions unfortunately leads exactly to its destruction, as the gamble for the position for Jabami family head leads to Kabura adopting Yumeko and raising her to become the gambler in the present and the expulsion of Souko and Tsugiko from the clan.]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Appears as a relatively friendly person, seemingly bonding with Souko as two girls whose freedom was stolen by the Momobami clan, but [[spoiler: reveals herself later to be cruel and manipulative, orchestrating the Jabami family dispute in order to take Yumeko in the Tsuibami family and raise her as a great gambler]].

* CoolBigSis: To Yumeko in the flashback chapters from the past.
* DrivenToMadness: She's hospitalized after [[spoiler:losing a huge gamble against her aunt Tsugiko and losing her sanity]].

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: The reason for her losing her mind appears to be [[spoiler: TheReveal that her aunt Tsugiko killed hers and Yumeko's parents.]]
* HeroicBSOD: Souko [[spoiler: goes through a very nasty one in chapter 101 and 102 when her aunt Tsugiko challenges her for the title of head of the Jabami family, revealing that she sold everything she could (including the snake-eye stone of the family) and claims to have killed Souko and Yumeko's parents. This is what finally breaks Souko and leads her to her current state in the main story.]]

** Chapter 103 [[spoiler: adds some ambiguity and subversion to this, as Tsugiko actually played the role of the villain and claimed she killed the parents of the sisters to stop the gambling madness of the family.]]
* SlasherSmile: Shows this in the flashback chapters 101 and 102 during the dice game against her niece Souko, goading her to keep playing or Tsugiko would win the match and win both the position as leader of the Jabamis and adopt Yumeko.
** Chapter 103 reveals that [[spoiler: it was an act, she felt she had to stop Souko from becoming an insane gambler like her mother was.]]

** Chapter 103 reveals that [[spoiler: she actually did not kill the parents, but claims to have done so for the good of the family as the growing madness regarding gambling would have destroyed the family.]]
** [[spoiler:She considers herself responsible though because she framed her sister for cheating in attempt to stop her gambling but it’s implied that led to the gambling den killing her sister and her husband.]]

* PetTheDog: Even as twisted a character as Kirari has her moments.

* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:When Sayaka proves so devoted to her that she jumps from the Tower of Doors without hesitation, Kirari jumps after her and basically disregards the terms of their bet (that Sayaka forgets all about her), saying [[MoralityPet she likes her]]. Though this is somewhat muddied by her feelings of amusement that Sayaka jumped from the one door that wouldn't kill her without realizing it, as well as the fact that she ''did'' accept said bet in the first place on Sayaka's behalf (and despite her obvious distress).]]

** While she doesn’t care about being threatened herself and apathetic towards how students treat house pets, she shoots a ''serious'' DeathGlare at Kiwatari for his abuse and verbal lashing at Tsubomi when things go south for him in the Indian Poker game (when it was his fault to begin with).
** While she doesn’t do anything about how others treat house pets, she herself doesn’t join in. She even shows excitement when they defy other students.

* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: There are many men enrolling in Hyakkaou Private Academy, yet the only boy she chooses to be around and has moments of ShipTease with is Ryota Suzui, if only because he’s a NiceGuy.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Jabami's entire morality system seems to be based around gambling, with greater risk equated to good and less to bad. While she can replicate "normal" behavior and morality as needed, they have seemingly no actual meaning to her.

* CuteAndPsycho: Watch her acting like a sweet YamatoNadeshiko one minute. Then watch her turn into a gambling monster the next.

* MultiEthnicName: "Miroslava" is a Slavic name, since her mother is Russian.

* {{Bokukko}}: Yukimi uses the pronoun "boku" reserved for males instead of the feminine "watashi".

* SecretlyWealthy: Subverted. Yumeko brings in 10 million yen on her first day in school and the student council discovers that she pays for her sister's hospital treatment. She even hints that she could just pay off any debt she can get in school but chooses not to because that would be boring. Therefore, the secret is whether or not she's wealthy, but how wealthy she is. [[spoiler:Now that Kirari's extended family has come onto the scene, it appears that the Jabami family is actually distantly related to them, which may help explain why she is so rich.]]

* HorrifyingTheHorror: A feeling she often induces in her opponents. They think they have her figured out, until they come face-to-face with just how into gambling Jabami ''really is''. Fear, attachments, self-preservation instincts? All meaningless, as she's purely into the thrill itself.

* SingleWomanSeekingGoodMan: There are many men enrolling in Hyakkaou Private Academy, yet the only boy she chooses to be around and has moments of ShipTease with is Ryota Suzui, if only because he’s a NiceGuy.

** [[spoiler:She considers herself responsible though because she framed her sister for cheating in attempt to stop her gambling but it’s implied that led to the casino killing her sister and her husband.]]

-> '''Voiced by''': Creator/MariyaIse (Japanese), Creator/SarahWilliams [Netflix], Creator/NatalieRial [Sentai] (English), Creator/LilianaBarba (Latin American Spanish), Elise Gamet (French)\\

* AbhorrentAdmirer: He is this to Mary since he wants her to join Full-Bloom but after she witnessed the cruel way he treated Sakura after her defeat, Mary wants nothing to do with him.

* BoobsOfSteel: Probably has the biggest bust in the entire series and is a physically capable and intimidating ActionGirl.

* {{Bishonen}}: A pretty looking guy.

* {{Bishonen}}: More than the other boys.