Nightmare Fuel / Kakegurui

• Some of the characters' Nightmare Face moments can be quite unnerving, especially in the anime.
• Yumeko in complete "compulsive gambling mode". Normally she's a rather polite gal who can hold herself in very tough situations, but there are countless times where during a game she becomes a crazed lunatic prone to Nightmare Face and Death Glare, touching herself inappropriately, and even getting into a couple of her opponents' faces.
• The idea that Sumeragi took away many girls' fingernails as payment after a loss isn't very pleasant. It gets worse after Yumeko begins to fantasize about the pain and bleeding after removing the nails on both hands and feet.
  • Sumeragi ripping off her own fingernails with her teeth. Ugh.
• In the fourth episode it's shown that if a schoolgirl's debt is too high, the Student Council makes a "life plan" for them, which forces them to marry influential businessmen and politicians in exchange for paying off their debts.
  • In particular, they even planned at what age Mary and Yumeko should give birth to children.
  • In Mary's case, her prospective suitor has been suspected to be a pedophile.
• Midari Ikishima's interrogation and punishment room looks like a Torture Cellar. At one point we can even notice badly washed up traces of blood...
• Midari gouging out her left eye after Kirari tells her that she has never seen the back of an eye. Luckily, the audience isn't shown the exact moment but it's still really disturbing.
  • Kirari wasn't just curious about seeing the back of an eye, she wanted to have Midari's eye removed as payment for the debt. Even better is that Kirari probably did this because the original debt had no phase on Midari, but instead of despairing Midari gleefully and erratically stabs the eye out, and that's just the beginning with her...
• Midari proving to Ryota that her gun isn't fake by shooting a bullet just inches away from him, right after explaining that the game she and Yumeko will play involves Russian Roulette but shooting at the opponent instead.
• Even the most seemingly cute and innocent looking characters have their own scary moments, effectively shown with one of Runa's subordinates who appears as a cute and energetic girl, only to shoot one hell of a Death Glare at Erimi Mushibami after she questions them about how they expect to maintain neutrality.
• The later reveal of how exactly Yumeko's sister lost her mind: a dice game between her and her aunt Tsugiko which would decide who would lead the Jabami family.
  • After a really impressive showing of getting three snake eyes in a row during the dice game, Tsugiko reveals she sell the snake eye stone of the family to get as much money as she could to make sure she would become the head of the Jabamis. Unfortunately this begins Souko's downfall and breakdown.
  • Tsugiko's facial expressions in chapters 101 and 102 seems like out of a horror series. Ooh boy.
  • Good lord, chapter 102. Souko starts to break mentally from the pressure, being more and more panicked. Then Tsugiko puts the final nail into the coffin and confirms that she was the one who killed Yumeko and Souko's parents. It's the final straw for poor Souko, as the extreme stress causes blood to fall from her nose and eyes, and she vomits and collapses.

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