(10 episodes)
What’s it about ?
Super-powered teens are whisked away to a parallel world devoted to gambling.
Adapted from light novels, as you can guess from the ridiculously plain and long title.
Characters
All three main characters share the same personality : full of themselves and sarcastic. They are quite clever, but they never stop letting us now it. Anyway, there’s Izayoi, generic loner antihero with telekinetic powers, who does stuff like begrudgingly “saving” guys being bullied by stereotypical delinquants ; Asuka, authoritarian upper-class snob with hypnosis powers ; and You, a “friend to all animals” who can talk with them.
They’re suddenly transported to another world by the Black Rabbit (actually a busty human-rabbit hybrid), who claims to have done that because they’re elite and deserve to participate in those high-stakes, high-reward gambles. Obviously she’s got ulterior motives, and as they’re smarter than her they’re quick to call her on it. (They do agree to participate, as they’re hopelessly bored by their regular life and this sounds slightly more interesting.)
The gambling world is populated by tons of hybrid races, some of them with superpowers.
Production Values
This looks very cheap, with generic character designs and even more generic fanservice. The OP playing at the end is quite well put together, though.
Overall Impression
This actually ain’t as bad as I originally feared after the uninspired “real world” initial scenes and the introduction of the Black Rabbit (who’s a face-palm-inducing character on every regard), mostly because of the strength of the three leads’ personality. Admittedly they all share the same one, but I liked how they take no shit from the Black Rabbit and cheat like crazy at her game after carefully listening to the rules.
I’m mildly curious on where this is going, and willing to give it one more episode.
