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Overall i'd say this serie is worth a 8.5. I explain why not a 9 or 10 with the cons at the end of my review.

Story 8/10: A school anime, how original huh ? Well but this school is different, isn't about the typical single classroom with the male MC and the typical cliche classmates.

In this school everything is about gambling, gambling is life. The serie introduces you about what's going on since the episode 1 and keeps you asking for more after each episode.

Also, isn't regular gambling, the games aren't the usual ones everybody knows like blackjack or roulette, they aren't also the ... most complex games neither, the key is the gambling, betting ridiculous amounts of money and trying to win by cheating if possible.

Art 9 & Sound 10 : The art is good, characters faces are something memorable. But the music is just outstanding, the opening is kinda unique and so is the music in it. The sound deserves a solid 10, it goes just too well with the anime theme.

Characters 10/10: In this anime u will see some of the most mental broken girls you won't find in like 9/10 of series out there, starting by the female MC. I rate this a 10 because i didn't find any classic cliches that most animes uses nowadays and because there is a very nice combination of characters personality and a very good use of faces expressions (watch to understand this)

The cons (which aren't really bad anyways):

- The story doens't seem to be anything big or special, it's pretty clear who are the "baddies" and where the plot is trying to go.
- The gambling games could be more sophisticated or original.
- The school theme is way too overused so is the elitist student council, this anime would have worked perfectly in any other environment

Please don't even pay attention to reviews who votes this anime with a note below 3. I will resume some things why i consider this anime deserves more than a 4 note:

- No absurd or overused ecchi
- No oniii-sama baka chan retard and no-sense romance.
- The MC is at least far more original than 8 of 10 of Mc around the scene. Tired of the typical virgin/otaku who blushes like a kid when seeing girls ?
- Has an average/good plot.

What's good on the show : Characters 9/10 and story 9/10.

Though some characters are kinda cliche (not gonna name which ones), the important thing is that ... most of them play a role when the time comes, some of them do not show their real personality (won't spoil this) or their true intentions at all.

The story itself its simple, an elite school divided in 4 classes, each one with a range of points based on their behavior and test scores It also has some interesting plot twists and there is not really a clear objective of what's will be the road of the story, specially on the MC who doesn't seem to care for scoring/getting friends, girls money, helping others or anything at all.

Each character has different objectives: some want to get in class A, some other just want friends, some others just wanna kill time in school.

Overall its 8.5 but i rounded it to 9 because i think this show deserves a higher general score. I consider it to be slighty underrated.

EDIT: I've finished watching it.

My final score would be 8.5 because there were 2 episode fullfilled of fanservice and just a random story in both of them, which i consider something bad considering the whole season is just 12 episodes.

This anime promised a lot in it's two first episodes.

I will review the most importants pros and cons of the serie to make this short and avoid any possible spoil.

Pros:

- Cooking anime, and it really likes to play with the viewer's senses of taste+smell+visual of the food.

- Few cliches, mostly a mature show, you won't find childish jokes or moments in this serie. Of course if you are aiming for a mature serie.

... For cooking plus ecchi and shounen i would recommend Shokugeki No Soma.

Cons:

REPETITIVE

Story 4/10:

As i said, first episodes were very interesting, but the following ones didn't really bring anything new, the chapters begin the same way each one of them, which is like this:

A new costumer reaches the restaurant, then u are given a random flashback of his past/actual history, he tastes the food, makes some orgasmic faces, gets happy with the food, and that's the show till now. Not really any plot twists, any unexpected turn or events, or anything that could give some hint about if this show is going somewhere.

The art is average/ decent

Characters 6/10:

Most of the appearing characters aren't interesting in any single way, I mean elfs, minotaurs, a veteran warrior, we all have seen this before, bring something new for god sake. Except maybe for the morph dragon/women.

Enjoyment 6/10 (Might go down if the story just keeps going the same way)

It's interesting to watch if u are hungry or if u want a chill anime without hentai/violent or noisy content, but just that.