Sentai Filmworks will distribute a Blu-ray home video release of Kakegurui Season 2, showcasing its own, unique English dub.
According to an official announcement from Sentai Filmworks, the English dub features different actors than those featured in Netflix's previous release of the series. Alongside Adam Gibbs (My Hero Academia), who voices Ryota Suzui, Estelle Link stars in her first anime role as Yumeko Jabami. Other members of the voice cast include Hilary Haag (The Demon Girl Next Door) as Erimi Mushibami, Eric Vale (That Time I Got Reincarnated as Slime) as Ibara Obami, Juliet Simmons (Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma) as Inaho Yamato and Scott Gibbs (Knights of the Zodiac: Saint Seiya) voicing Kaede Manyuda.
Other members of Sentai Filmworks' dub of Kakegurui XX include John Gremillion (The Heike Story), Olivia Swasey (Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?), Kailin Coates (Made in Abyss), Christina Kelly (Akame ga Kill!) and Marissa Lenti (Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid). Blake Jackson and John Swasey will helm the script, with Brent Marshall handling the English mixing and Patrick Marrero serving as the audio engineer.
Based on the Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler manga by Homura Kawamoto and Tōru Naomura, the first season of the anime adaptation by studio MAPPA ran from July to September 2017, and the second season, titled Kakegurui XX, aired between January and March 2019. The anime is directed by Yuichiro Hayashi (Attack on Titan: The Final Season) with Yasuko Kobayashi (Yu-Gi-Oh!) overseeing the series composition, Manabu Akita (The God of High School) designing the characters and Haruka Matsuda (Jujutsu Kaisen) serving as art director.
Kakegurui is set at Hyakkaou Private Academy, a prestigious school where students take part in high-stakes gambling in order to gain power, popularity and connections. However, when transfer student Yumeko upsets the school's delicate balance because of her addiction to gambling and keen intellect, the rest of the student body endeavors to bring her down.
Sentai Filmworks' home video release and new dub aren't the only recent developments in the Kakegurui franchise. Late last year, it was confirmed that the prequel manga series by Kawamoto and Kei Saiki, Kakegurui Twin, would receive its own anime adaptation by MAPPA. It is scheduled to premiere on Netflix in August 2022.
Preorders for the Kakegurui XX Blu-ray are now available on the Sentai Filmworks website, where the first season is also available to purchase. The Blu-ray is set to release Jan. 25.
Source: Sentai Filmworks
