Start Date: January 14/16 as it aired on both the MBS and TBS networks
Theme song: "Strawberry Feels" by BIGMAMA Director: Tsutomu Hanabusa
Listed the characters this way for the "Re:Mind" drama and thought it's be a good idea to do it once again. Video at the top is a short promo one for this show. This series still reminds me so much of 'Liar Game' and there aren't many dramas better than that one, lets get to the characters and these are the main ones that will be featured. Have the character descriptions though some may be blank for now as we haven't met all of them yet.
Minami Habe as Yumeko Jabami.... transfer student who is addicted to gambling
Aoi Morikawa as Mary Saotome.... The evilist of students who gets severely humbled
Mahiro Takasugi as Ryota Suzui.... wimpy guy who befriends Yumeko
Ruka Matsuda as Itsuki Sumeragi.... Richest student at Hyakkaou Academy
Taishi Nakagawa as Kaeda Manyuda.... Student council member
Natsume Mito as Runa Yomozuki.... Student council member
Kiyo Matsumoto as Nanami Tsubomi....
Natsumi Okamoto as Yuriko Nishinotoin....
Yuma Yamato as Jun Kiwatari.... school bully
Yurika Nakamura as Sayaka Igarashi.... student council member
Miki Yanagi as Midari Ikishima....
Been a long time since I've written one of these recaps up but did watch the first two episodes again which brought me up to speed and it seemed the shows were better the second time around. Won't go into too much of what's happened as you can read those two recaps which are above this post. That first gambling showdown stretched into almost two episodes with the new transfer student Yumeko prevailing over Mary who had been the school's best gambler but now has a debt of 8.8 million yen.
Mary is now a 'house pet' or in her case a kitty, those are students who have an enormous debt and have to do whatever those not in debt tell her to do. She's also heavily bullied now, you do feel a bit sorry for her even though she was once among the school's worst bullies. We don't see much of her in this show but things get even bleaker for her in the next episode.
Yumeko doesn't have too much time to bask in her new found glory as a new challenger steps right up to the plate. That's Itsuki who we see above, she's one of the richest students at the school as her father is the CEO of the second largest toy company in Japan. Her challenge to Yumeko is the game of concentration. That's played by having all 52 cards in a deck face down and you try to match all of the pairs.... get two fives, two Kings, etc. Whoever gets to 28 cards first is the winner but Itsuki has a different kind of game in mind.
That's 'Double Concentration' which is played with two decks totaling 104 cards, first one to obtain 54 is the winner. What makes this much tougher is that you don't just match the card but the also the suit, for instance you can't get just two fours but need two four of spades or in other words you need to match the number and suit.
This was a very high stakes game as the wager is 20 million yen(!) or a little over $178,000, remember these are just high school students. The game begins with Yumeko doing fairly well, at one point she has a lead of 40 cards to 36. But one miss is all it takes which is what happened to Yumeko, with only 28 cards left Itsuki went on a roll picking the pairs and within about a minute she managed to obtain the 54 cards needed for a victory.
Itsuki wasn't too much of a gloater or at least she didn't have time to celebrate her victory as Yumeko was right back with a challenge. The problem was she didn't have 20 million yen to wager again but to Itsuki that was okay, she'll put up her money but from Yumeko she wants something else. That's all of her nails, the ones on your fingers and feet if she wins. Itsuki brought out a case showing some of the ones she's collected from previous victories, seems like the deck is stacked against Yumeko.
Stacked against her could be an apt term as she had deduced something during the previous game. Yumeko thought she had noticed small markings on the back of the cards in the previous game, when Itsuki opened the two fresh decks for the new 'Double Concentration' the same marks were there.
Somehow Yumeko had memorized what card a marking stood for as she had only seen most cards for a few seconds in the previous game. Yumeko was certainly on the warpath this time around as she didn't even give Itsuki the shot at having a turn as she got he 54 cards needed to win a game in about two minutes as Itsuki stood dumbfounded at what was happening. That's when Yumeko told her about the cards and how she had noticed the marks on their backs were the same as the last game.
No actual winnings for Yumeko but she did win back her 20 million yen and also was able to keep all of her nails. Itsuki though was shamed in front of all of the other students, her credibility is now zero but at least Yumeko won't go public with the fact of her cheating or at least not yet. Those two games took up just about the entire episode so that brings us to the conclusion of this recap.
That bottom screenshot is of one of the Student Council members who we haven't seen much of all at yet but we do a bit more in the next show. Thought Ruka as Itsuki was quite terrific in this episode and recently just did her first solo post with another one coming up very soon. Another solid show and do expect all ten of them to be, below this recap is the one for the fourth episode.
Mary is now a 'house pet' or in her case a kitty, those are students who have an enormous debt and have to do whatever those not in debt tell her to do. She's also heavily bullied now, you do feel a bit sorry for her even though she was once among the school's worst bullies. We don't see much of her in this show but things get even bleaker for her in the next episode.
Yumeko doesn't have too much time to bask in her new found glory as a new challenger steps right up to the plate. That's Itsuki who we see above, she's one of the richest students at the school as her father is the CEO of the second largest toy company in Japan. Her challenge to Yumeko is the game of concentration. That's played by having all 52 cards in a deck face down and you try to match all of the pairs.... get two fives, two Kings, etc. Whoever gets to 28 cards first is the winner but Itsuki has a different kind of game in mind.
That's 'Double Concentration' which is played with two decks totaling 104 cards, first one to obtain 54 is the winner. What makes this much tougher is that you don't just match the card but the also the suit, for instance you can't get just two fours but need two four of spades or in other words you need to match the number and suit.
This was a very high stakes game as the wager is 20 million yen(!) or a little over $178,000, remember these are just high school students. The game begins with Yumeko doing fairly well, at one point she has a lead of 40 cards to 36. But one miss is all it takes which is what happened to Yumeko, with only 28 cards left Itsuki went on a roll picking the pairs and within about a minute she managed to obtain the 54 cards needed for a victory.
Itsuki wasn't too much of a gloater or at least she didn't have time to celebrate her victory as Yumeko was right back with a challenge. The problem was she didn't have 20 million yen to wager again but to Itsuki that was okay, she'll put up her money but from Yumeko she wants something else. That's all of her nails, the ones on your fingers and feet if she wins. Itsuki brought out a case showing some of the ones she's collected from previous victories, seems like the deck is stacked against Yumeko.
Stacked against her could be an apt term as she had deduced something during the previous game. Yumeko thought she had noticed small markings on the back of the cards in the previous game, when Itsuki opened the two fresh decks for the new 'Double Concentration' the same marks were there.
Somehow Yumeko had memorized what card a marking stood for as she had only seen most cards for a few seconds in the previous game. Yumeko was certainly on the warpath this time around as she didn't even give Itsuki the shot at having a turn as she got he 54 cards needed to win a game in about two minutes as Itsuki stood dumbfounded at what was happening. That's when Yumeko told her about the cards and how she had noticed the marks on their backs were the same as the last game.
No actual winnings for Yumeko but she did win back her 20 million yen and also was able to keep all of her nails. Itsuki though was shamed in front of all of the other students, her credibility is now zero but at least Yumeko won't go public with the fact of her cheating or at least not yet. Those two games took up just about the entire episode so that brings us to the conclusion of this recap.
That bottom screenshot is of one of the Student Council members who we haven't seen much of all at yet but we do a bit more in the next show. Thought Ruka as Itsuki was quite terrific in this episode and recently just did her first solo post with another one coming up very soon. Another solid show and do expect all ten of them to be, below this recap is the one for the fourth episode.
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