Character

Mary Saotome

早乙女 芽亜里

Mary Saotome is a deuteragonist of Kakegurui, and also the main protagonist of the spin-off series Kakegurui Twin. She is a student at Hyakkaou Private Academy, and a classmate of Yumeko Jabami and Ryota Suzui who is the first character in the entire series that challenges Yumeko and loses against her. Mary is a girl of average height with long blonde hair styled into two ponytails that are tied with black ribbons, and dark-yellow eyes. She wears the standard Hyakkaou Private Academy school uniform. A red blazer with black trim around the cuffs and collar and gold buttons. Beneath the red blazer, she wears a white button-up shirt and black tie. She wears a gray pleated skirt, black-colored stockings and regular brown loafers with black soles. She also likes to wear natural makeup like mascara, blush etc. At first, Mary is shown to be incredibly sadistic and twisted, such as how she treats her classmate Ryota Suzui after he turned into a "housepet", due to his low social status within the academy, and is shown cruelly taunting her fellow opponents during their gambling matches. She's also shown to be extremely egotistical both in and out of matches, often being confident in her victory. Mary also possesses a habit of mocking her opponents and laughing at them, especially when match seems to be her win. After losing to Yumeko Jabami and experiencing the life of being a housepet, Mary became desperate to regain her status within the academy, having no other goal in her mind. Soon after being humiliated, Mary eventually loses her pride, having a mental breakdown during a match against Yuriko and falling into the state of grief and shame. After regaining her status, she seems to be no longer this arrogant and cruel, sometimes being only nettled by Ryota's cowardice or Yumeko's reckless behavior, but still deeply caring about them. She also developed a huge hatred towards the student council, wishing them to pay for what they had done to housepets. In Twin, it's revealed that her family isn't wealthy and she's attending Hyakkaou Private Academy on a scholarship. Her goal has always been to become a true winner in life, which is an important case even to her own parents, who were encouraging her from a young age to make friends with richer children. She takes a great pride in her intelligence and gambling skills, and hates when people look down on her just because for her financial status. During the prequel, she's also noticeably less ruthless. Since Tsuzura is absent from the main story, Mary is shown to still keep her hairpin. She seems to be upset about whatever happened to her friend. Her mean and arrogant demeanour might possibly be to supress her sadness.