Bet. Miku Martineau as Yumeko in Bet. Cr. Ramona Diaconescu/Netflix © 2025
Last year, Netflix quietly revealed that it was diving into the anime and manga world of Kakegurui – Compulsive Gambler with a live-action adaptation that’d be helmed by the same showrunner as Netflix’s ill-fated Warrior Nun. The streamer has now confirmed that the new series will stream on May 15th globally and revealed four first looks.
Leading the cast are Miku Martineau as Yumeko, Rami Khan as Rex, Ryan Sutherland as Suki, Eve Edwards as Mary, Ayo Solanke as Ryan, Dorial Giordano as Chad, Clara Alexandrova as Kira, and Hunter Cardinal as Michael.
The updated synopsis for the new series is as follows:
“Bet follows the students at a boarding school for the global elite, where underground gambling determines the school’s hierarchy. When Yumeko, a mysterious transfer student arrives, her gambling prowess puts her in the crosshairs of the powerful Student Council, while her secret quest for revenge threatens to upend the school’s status quo entirely.”
For those not in the know, Kakegurui (賭ケグルイ, Kakegurui –Compulsive Gambler–) is a Japanese manga series that began its run in Square Enix’s Gangan Joker magazine in March 2014. It was later adapted in 2017 by the legendary studio MAPPA with a follow-up series arriving two years later. Both those seasons are streaming exclusively on Netflix as of right now. This actually marks the second time the material has been adapted into a live-action series, with a Japanese series (also streaming on Netflix) released in 2019, starring Minami Hamabe, Mahiro Takasugi, and Aoi Morikawa.
The new series has been developed by Simon Barry, who worked on seasons 1 and 2 of the fantasy adaptation series Warrior Nun, and will be directed by Jacquie Gould, Craig Wallace, and Joyce Wong for this season, set to consist of 10 episodes.
Filming on the series took place in Toronto in the Summer of 2024 with Boat Rocker Studios producing. Here are the first look photos and the first poster for the new series:
Bet (L to R) Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025
Bet (L to R) Miku Martineau as Yumeko, Anwen O’Driscoll as Riri, Rami Khan as Rex, Clara Alexandrova as Kira, Ryan Sutherland as Suki and Aviva Mongillo as Dori in Bet. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025
Bet (L to R) Eve Edwards as Mary; Ayo Solanke as Ryan; Miku Martineau as Yumeko and Hunter Cardinal as Michael in Bet. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025
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Rating: TV-MA
