Do Not Touch This Woman (Episode)

Do Not Touch This Woman
Episode name
Japanese	この女触れるべからず
Translation	Kono onna fureru bekarazu
Episode information
Episode no.	15 (Overall), 3 (Season 2)
Airdate	22nd of January, 2019
Development information
Directed by	Hitomi Ezoe
Gambles
Gambles	Nim Type Zero
Chronology
Previous	The Women Of Momobami Clan
Next	Communicating Women

Do Not Touch This Woman is the third episode of Season Two in the Kakegurui animated series and the fifteenth episode overall. It is produced by MAPPA and aired in Japan on the 22nd of January, 2019.

Summary

After Miyo and Miri secure a strange victory, they are invited to gamble against Yumeko and Ryota. During the game, it is revealed that they have been poisoning their opponents in order to secure victory. Meanwhile Mary is being approached by the Vice-president who wants to join forces with her.

Plot

Yuriko Nishinotoin collapses and loses in a gamble with Miri Yobami and Miyo Inbami. Later, Batsubami introduces Miri Yobami and Miyo Inbami to Yumeko as they have all been invited to an "election battle" and Yumeko relishes the challenge. Runa Yomozuki welcomes them and Suzui also joins the Nym Type Zero game. Meanwhile Ririka Momobami offers Mary Saotome the opportunity to win 100 votes, and if she loses she must join Ririka's campaign. Yumeko and Suzui are advanced "Serve" chips which guarantee 24 hours service to the student council. In the first round of Nym Type Zero everyone bets 30 chips, and Miyo loses the first hand. Meanwhile, Mary realizes that she is not gambling with Ririka, but her twin sister and refuses to play. Suzui calls Mary when Yumeko collapses from poison applied when she met Miyo. Runa says she cannot intervene as the poisoning happened outside the game. Mary sits in for Yumeko, now also playing for the antidote and an additional risk of placing their finger on a poisoned needle if they fold or lose. In the second round, Mary tells Suzui to show his cards, and after he does, she bets 100 votes.

Differences between anime and manga

• In the anime, serve chips are introduced. They exist to be a substitute to votes, with the cost of one being 24 hours of one’s life owed towards the Student Council. These chips do not exist in the manga, and instead, players can simply gamble with no vote by piling on a debt of votes (Chapter 39).
• In the anime, there was some dialogue cut out between Mary and Ririka in their gamble, like Ririka guessing why Mary turned down Kirari’s invitation to the Student Council and what she was thinking about during the election. As well, the conditions for the gamble were a little different. In the anime, Ririka says that if Mary loses, she will not take her votes. However, in the manga, Ririka says that if Mary loses, she will take her votes (Chapter 40).
• When Mary confronts Ririka about everything going according to her plan, in the manga, she objects and says it’s not her plan. This is absent in the anime. While this is minor in the grand scheme of things, the manga adds more fuel to Mary’s anger at Ririka because not only did she endanger Yumeko, but she also did not take accountability, which made Mary want to punch her in the face (Chapter 41).

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