Souko Jabami (蛇喰 想子, Jabami Sōko) is the older sister of Yumeko Jabami who is currently being hospitalized after losing her mind during a clan gamble. Yumeko is also paying all enormous expenses of her treatment. She was also an important figure in Rei Batsubami's life.
Appearance[]
Yumeko's sister being represented as a butterfly
Souko looks very similar to her sister, Yumeko Jabami as she has long black hair styled in a hime-cut and dark red eyes. During a meeting with her family, she was seen dressed formally with her hair pulled up into a bun with red and white flowers and a red kimono with a butterfly pattern on it. Similar to Yumeko, she wore a silver ring on her thumb and had her fingernails painted red. In Rei Batsubami's flashback (Episode 12), Souko was represented as a red butterfly.
After being hospitalized, her hair is being tied into a messy ponytail and she is seen wearing a plain white hospital gown.
As a teenager, she is seen wearing the Hyakkaou spring uniform and she initially did not have a thumb ring until she received one from her aunt Tsugiko. She was also seen wearing a red kimono similar to the one seen in the anime.
Personality[]
Souko seems to be a very kind and generous woman, who takes no notice of ruling hierarchy in her family. She was the first person to treat Rei Batsubami like she was a human being.
After her mental breakdown, Souko seems to be unable to take care of herself, being forced to spend most of her time in the hospital bed where she folds origami out of paper money. As shown from Rei's memories of Yumeko Jabami's visit to her in the hospital, she was shown to have become completely unresponsive and simply folds origami using money.
In the past, she portrays the traits of a kind girl with her main concern being her sister as she wants her to grow up a happy child. Like Yumeko, she finds some enjoyment in gambling, but seems to be more prone to nervousness. After winning a gamble, she crumbles in on herself once alone, relieved that she had won her first gamble of her high school career. She is also seen on edge around Kaibura Tsuibami when they first meet, but later accepts her as an acquaintance.
As shown, like her mother, aunt and sister, Souko had inherited the Jabami’s trait of having excellent gambling skills. As shown where Souko had exhibited immense observational skill, intelligence and cunning during her gamble again her aunt for control of the Jabami’s family and Yumeko, with Kabura noting that Souko was an exceptional Gambler.
As shown from her gamble against her aunt and after Kabura Tsuibami took legal guardianship of Yumeko, Souko deeply loves and cares for her sister and one of her deepest desires to continue staying together with her. With the thought and risk of losing her sister being enough to cause her enough mental anguish to cause her to have a full seizure, as shown during her gamble against her aunt. Later, after Kabura took Yumeko and forbade Souko from ever seeing her again unless she could return her Aunt’s loan of eight billion yen that Yumeko lost against Kabura, the mental stress from being separated from Yumeko and the depression of not having nearly enough resources to pay back the loan(and being rejected from being given any loans or assistance from the Momobami Family) eventually contributed to Souko becoming completely catatonic.
Profile[]
Past[]
Souko was raised alongside Yumeko by their aunt, Tsugiko, after the mysterious deaths of their parents. Tsugiko was both the guardian and the acting head of the Jabami family. She scolds Yumeko for her formality, urging her to be more familiar with her as the younger girl has been taught to be more polite by their aunt. She then hugs Yumeko, after telling her she wants the girl to grow up happy.
It is implied by Kabura Tsuibami that Souko attended Hyakkaou to earn money as the Jabami family's finances have been depleted after the death of her parents. After winning her first gamble, Kabura reveals herself to her and begins a conversation about the Momobami family and their plans to take over Hyakkaou. They end up bonding as two girls who had their freedom taken away by the clan.
Tsugiko tells Souko and Yumeko that their parents were killed by unknown people. As Souko would become the head of the Jabami family once she became of age, Tsugiko seemed to want to take the position for herself and challenged Souko for the position as well as taking possession of Yumeko. The two play a Dice Gamble, where, despite Souko trying her best, after a psychological warfare initiated by Tsugiko, Souko ends up losing against her. Souko collapses for a while, during which Yumeko gambles against Tsugiko in Souko's place and defeats her. Afterwards, Yumeko gambles against Kabura and loses, meaning that Kabura is the one who has control over Yumeko, much to Souko's shock. This has led her being hospitalized after her defeat, suffering a mental breakdown. It is unknown if she was expelled by the family after losing.
Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler[]
Folding origami out of money.
After Kirari Momobami still wanted to continue Yumeko Jabami's life plan, Sayaka Igarashi was tasked to look into Yumeko's personal history. She tells the other Student Council members about how Yumeko currently lives alone and that her older sister has been hospitalized in the special ward of a university hospital. Yumeko pays for the funds, so she must have an immense fortune.
Kakegurui XX[]
Giving Rei the brooch
When Kaede Manyuda asked Yumeko Jabami about how she didn't feel remorse and she confirmed that, Rei Batsubami got very angry as she starts to think of Yumeko's sister. Yumeko then simply asked her, whether she has ever even seen someone fall into despair, which causes Rei to say nothing, swallows her anger and apologizes.
“Your heart is yours alone”.
In a flashback, we learn how Rei met Souko. One day, she visited the estate and brought presents for all the children, which was a dragonfly brooch and she gave it to Rei because Souko told Rei "You have beautiful hair. It looks nice on you.", in which Rei didn't know how to respond and simply said that she will do whatever she asks. She took Rei's hand and told her that her heart is hers alone and she shouldn't forget that. Whenever she came to the estate, she looked at Rei and smiled. But, Souko got into a clan conflict and started to drain her, which made her to became more and more gaunt (a person who is lean and haggard, especially because of suffering, hunger or age). One fateful day, she was forced to bet everything she had as a last effort in a gamble. But she was defeated and let out a terrified scream.
Being visited by Yumeko
From then on, she stayed in the hospital, where she does nothing except fold Origami out of money bills all day. This must be the only thing she does, since she has hundreds of them. Yumeko would sometimes visit her and Rei as well. Rei once peeked through the door when Yumeko was with her sister. And she didn't see any compassion or sadness in Yumeko's eyes, just pure gambling craziness.
Episodes[]
Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler[]
- Tempting Girl (flashback, mentioned)
Kakegurui XX[]
- The Treacherous Girl (flashback, mentioned)
- The Null Girl (flashback)
List of Gambles[]
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Etymology[]
- The name Souko means "imagination" (想子).
- Souko's surname Jabami means "snake eating" (蛇喰).
- Souko was a student prior to Kirari Momobami’s takeover of Hyakkaou Private Academy and the implementation of the Housepet System.