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Mary in Kakugurui Twin<\/em> is kind, supportive, and a bit unsure of herself. She goes to extreme lengths to free her friend Tsuzura from housepet status and grandly rewards those who work with her like Yukimi. Mary at the start of Kakegurui<\/em>, on the other hand, is sadistic, violent, and loves mocking those she sees as beneath her. The games she plays are rigged to the point where its nearly impossible for her to lose and she readily uses house pet students as furniture.<\/p>\n This is the mystery at the heart of Kakugurui Twin<\/em>: what happened to change Mary so drastically in one single year of school. And while we don\u2019t have a specific answer given in the first season of Kakegurui Twin<\/em>, there are some big hints when you compare the two anime\u2014namely what\u2019s not present across both: Mary\u2019s friends.<\/p>\n Tsuzura and Yukimi are no where to be found in Karkegurui<\/em>. Mary still goes to the literature club room but is seen alone there. She controls her class with an iron fist\u2014with most of her classmates in debt to her\u2014but she has no one that she trusts enough to show any weakness to. When she and Yumeko play the debt swap game, the plan hinges on Mary going massively into debt\u2014preferably to someone who will return the money after and not hold it over her head. However, the fact that she choses Ryota and not Tsuzura or Yukimi means one of two things: either Tsuzura and Yukimi are no longer Mary\u2019s friends, or they are no longer at the school.<\/p>\n Among these two, it is the latter than seems more likely. After her confrontation with the school president in the seventh episode of Kakegurui<\/em>, Mary goes to the literature club room there she holds Tsuzura\u2019s signature hairpin and rages at how the president looks down on house pets and her by association. However, this is the only sign of Tsuzura and Yukimi in the series. In fact, for all we know, either or both could be dead.<\/p>\n While what happened with these two is likely vital to Mary\u2019s massive shift in personality between the two series, that\u2019s not to say it\u2019s the only cause. Even over Kakugurui Twin<\/em>\u2019s first season alone we start to see the bad side of her personality come out naturally\u2014especially against those who look down on her. Kakugurui Twin<\/em> makes it clear that Mary has a massive inferiority complex stemming from the fact that she is a scholarship student unlike the rich kids that populate the prestigious private school. Perhaps it not what happened to Tsuzura and Yukimi that changed Mary as much as it is the absence of having people she can trust in her life to reign in the worst parts of her personality. After all, once Ryota and Yumeko enter her life, she largely stops her random acts of callousness and soon becomes an ally they can count on (with her own goal of bringing down the school president).<\/p>\n Regardless, the interpersonal mystery surrounding Mary\u2019s change in personality makes each episode captivating. I for one can\u2019t wait to see more of Mary\u2019s fall from grace if\/when we get more episodes of Kakegurui Twin<\/em>.<\/p>\n Top image copyright: \u00a9\u6cb3\u672c\u307b\u3080\u3089\u30fb\u5c1a\u6751\u900f\u30fb\u658e\u6728\u6842\/SQUARE ENIX\u30fb\u300c\u8ced\u30b1\u30b0\u30eb\u30a4\u53cc\u300d\u88fd\u4f5c\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biggestinjapan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/KG2.jpg?resize=958%2C540\")
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