Where to find it: Netflix
Length: Ten 30-minute episodes
Synopsis: Silly horny teen show
Recommendation rating: 3/5
What I like about it: over-the-top campy fun
What I don’t like about it: unnecessary, incomprehensible creative choices
Review:
Netflix’s latest live-action anime adaptation is cheaper than One Piece but just as committed to ridiculous fun. Yumeko is a compulsive gambler sent to a high school whose curriculum is based around betting. Winners and losers have a dominant/submissive dynamic and the whole thing is horny as heck. Somewhere between the inexplicable pro wrestler cameo and the Japanese-language cover of Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley, you realise the whole project is a prank on the viewer but everyone is having too much fun to care.
Content notes (may contain spoilers): violence, sex references, lots of gambling