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[snakedevour]

Kakegurui 106.5 chatter ahead

So we finally know the meaning behind Yumeko's mind going to Souko when Manyuda asks her if she "feels guilt for the opponents whose lives [she's] destroyed". I believe that dialogue is from chapter 45 or 46, and this only is answered now in chapter 106.5.....and the manga updates monthly. When I tell you guys that kkg puts you in it for the longest haul, but I digress.

The Jabami as a family are "the snakes who consume". Ergo, Souko was one such snake. So was Tsugiko. Both of them were ruined in or by the same sequence of events with Yumeko at the heart.

Yumeko on the other hand is "the snake that consumes other snakes".

Let's also remember the ouroboros imagery we see in the Jabami house's design.

So like. Anyway.

Yumeko is the snake that consumes other snakes, and in that she was the catalyst of her aunt's downfall and the breaking of Souko's mind and that is why she's all that's left ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#kakegurui spoilers #I think the flashback arc is officially over #which means i can finally FINALLY do my ouroboros snake write up thingy. eventually. #but this is the jist of my conclusion

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[snakedevour]

these are such cool pages. it's the way that all of the ludomaniac jabami women are pretty much carbon copies of each other (except for yumeko and souko's mother, who notably has white eyelashes - i've got thoughts on that too)

and then there's aunt tsugiko, who decidedly does not look like her sister or her nieces and tried to spurn this gambling addiction that seems to run in the family only to end up with this imagery in which she's strangled in that pin-straight hair the other three all share.

it's like, persnaps, a visualization of her failure to protect all three of them and the fact she's been defeated in the very thing she tried to protect them from.

monumentally fucked up that the hundred devouring families, jabami branch or not, is just not one you can survive in by being a good person. the way the narrative punishes tsugiko for trying to do right by her family is off the walls wild.

#kakegurui spoilers

[snakedevour]

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the situation with the jabamis is just so... hog wild, and low key (high key) quite tragic because i think the ruination of this family is (in part) the result of childish innocence.

i do feel bad for tsugiko to a degree though because she sincerely believes her family is cursed by ludomania and she’s done some heinous shit to try to stop it from getting to her nieces

but now souko is traumatized, and we know she’s going to be institutionalized, and tsugiko is likely going to get metaphorically pummeled by a six year old yumeko then get ousted from the family she was trying to preserve. just because yumeko is Like That.

i’m starting to wonder if yumeko flashed back to souko when asked about “feeling regret for those whose lives she’s ruined” because it might up being her actions that broke the jabamis apart. souko is already Going Through It with the revelation about her parents, but we’ve already seen that she was willing to forgive or at least try to understand her aunt. at the heart of things, i think souko just wanted what was left of her family to stay together.

but because yumeko wanted in on the fun and was deemed by kirari to be eligible to play, it's looking very likely that she's going to defeat tsugiko, which will get her kicked out of the family and ultimately trample on whatever string souko is still holding on to.

yumeko displays this kind of...blasé tendency even now, but it hits differently when she's a child because children simply do not perceive the world like adults do - they lack a concept of severity and associated forethought, and ergo they don't fear things that adults do and they often don't share any adult concerns.

it's thespian, almost. i don't think yumeko is old enough to really realize what she's doing here, which in turn is making this game vs her aunt land differently to the reader from other gambles we've seen her in. like idk what you'd call "a child who just perceives everything as a game breaking her family apart because she wanted to play" if not a tragedy.

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[snakedevour]

!! big kakegurui spoilers !!

there was a reblog on one of my recent posts positing that auntie tsugiko is the one that yumeko "ruined but felt no guilt for" and i think that's shaping up to be true also. yumeko probably flashed back to souko when asked about "if she feels guilt" as a semi-red herring (only semi as she was still intrinsically involved) to hide the existence of her aunt from the reader

my new tentative call is that the sequence of events goes like this:

tsugiko kills yumeko's mother -> tsugiko ruins souko -> yumeko ruins tsugiko

and persnaps yumeko doesn't really appreciate the gravity of ruining her aunt (she literally could've just not spoken up but she's clearly 'awakened' or whatever. that sounds dumb in a gambling manga but i can't think of better wording) - and already her concern doesn't seem to be her sister literally vomiting and fainting in front of her and she's instead accusing her of "being unfair." i suspect this'll come down to a mix of her literally being a child who just doesn't know things and the fact her ludomania has shifted her priorities.

at the end of the flashback arc i'll probably do a more in depth write up about how this all ties into the jabami name and the ouroboros imagery in their home ('jabami' meaning 'snake devourer' = snake eating itself = family continuously ruining itself / the jabamis are both the snake that devours and the snake that is eaten)

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[snakedevour]

new kakegurui chapter released today and as i am like to do... i've got a couple thoughts. i dunno if this'll constitute a full deep-dive but (finger guns) another month another dump of my thoughts on kakegurui chapter 99.

spoilers galore for the kkg manga as always

i recommend referencing my deep dive on chapters 96 and 97 for some supplemental context but i'll probably be recycling a few panels from it. a lot of things are still/are even more relevant so like. yeah

the first major bullet point for chapter 99 is that souko's appearance is Somewhat consistent with her formerly anime-only appearance from rei's flashbacks

and by that i mean... she wore a kimono and had her hair in that updo whenever she was at the momobami mansion. the design isn't 100% but the jist is more or less the same. ideally this means that while kkgxx had some anime-only contrivances in it, homura isn't writing the manga in a way that contradicts it. with that in mind, there's a standout detail from kkgxx:

rei was present during souko's breakdown. where was rei when this happened? the momobami main house. souko, as of this chapter, is about to gamble vs her aunt tsugiko... at the momobami main house. these particular stars are aligning despite the schrodinger's canon of rei's backstory.

should we suppose that this stays consistent, we know this gamble is going to go one of two ways:

souko loses

souko wins, but something else goes awry

the gamble itself is for the title of the jabami family head, but furthermore operates on the conditions of

if souko wins, tsugiko is ousted from the family

if tsugiko wins, she adopts yumeko as her daughter and heir

considering what we know in hindsight and putting that together with these conditions, we'll probably see souko's breakdown by the conclusion of this game and moreover and at the same time, it's probably most likely that souko will win. this is a reasonable guess because sayaka ran that background check on yumeko waaayyy back in chapter 10:

just like i did in my summaries for 97 and 98, i'm going to re-highlight "yumeko jabami currently lives alone" and "her only other family is her sister"

the reality is that aunt tsugiko is not in the picture. as possible as it is that souko loses (which would facilitate some manner of breakdown, which we know will happen somehow) and then something else happens to tsugiko between that and the main plot, that feels a little contrived when this whole game has been set up. iunno.

the other thing is that we have terano's line about "kirari killing jabami"

we already know that to be "killed" in the momobami family means to lose your personhood and to lose your seat in the clan. this can still refer to something with souko we just haven't seen yet, but it's worth remembering that this was the condition in the event of tsugiko's loss.

the problem is that... if souko wins, something else causes her breakdown. if she loses, we know that her breaking point is probably losing guardianship of yumeko.

on the other hand, her winning still leaves that circumstance a mystery unless her aunt were to go on to do something unhinged after losing. though admittedly, tsugiko doesn't seem to be above going off the deep end:

i will say though that tsugiko doesn't outright answer souko's question here... it's more like she doesn't deny it and that leaves room for elaboration later... that this is a red herring i think is in the realm of possibility. the jabami parents' death either has something to do with tsugiko or kabura (who's definitely up to something) -- they're the only new characters of note introduced in this flashback and that's how storytelling works.

my tentative prediction is that souko "wins the battle but loses the war" so to speak. i think she'll beat her aunt in the gamble because tsugiko is just Not There in the main story, implying she's been ousted, but something else is bound to go wrong. maybe tsugiko gets real ugly upon losing, who knows. if absolutely nothing else, we know from her interaction with kabura last chapter that there's Something Else going on with her.

we also have to remember that yumeko thinks of souko when manyuda asks her if she feels remorse for "the people whose lives she's ruined" but now for all we know that could refer to souko playing this game for her sake, so...there's definitely stuff that's yet to be revealed. too bad we gotta wait another month 🤨

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