The Connected Woman (Episode)

## The Connected Woman

**The Connected Woman** is the fifth episode of Season Two in the *Kakegurui animated series* and the seventeenth episode overall. It is produced by MAPPA and aired in Japan on the 5th of February, 2019.

## Plot

A week after the start of the Student Council presidential election, Kirari is in first place and Yumeko is in 10th place with far fewer votes. Yumemi asks Yumeko to perform with her as the Dreaming Creaming Sisterz and bet against the fans, but the movie star, Natari Kawaru whose real name is Sumika Warakubami, arrives and challenges Yumemi and Yumeko to a three-part performance contest. In the first round, Yumemi and Yumeko, perform a pop song and dance routine. However, Natari performs a solo song a capella and wins by 92 to 08 votes, even though Yumemi had bribed a majority of the audience to vote for the Dreaming Creaming Sisterz.

## Differences between anime and manga

* In the anime, the Active Station gamble takes place before the Greater Good gamble. In the manga, the Greater Good gamble happens first. While rearranging the sequence of these gambles doesn't change much, the anime's order makes less sense. For one, having Active Station take place first means that Sumika challenged Yumeko, who only had 13 votes, as opposed to the 29 that she had in the manga. Two, this means the Itsuki decided to help Yumeko and Yumemi while she herself was still running for President. Since the Greater Good gamble did not happen yet, Itsuki should have still been ambitious to become President, so it makes no sense for her to help the Dreaming Creamy Sisterz, as they were her rivals in the top 10.
* After Midari makes Yumemi feel insecure in her dream of becoming a Hollywood actress, in the manga, she flips out and kicks over a chair. In the anime, she does the same, but wrecks the room much more with several pieces of furniture brutalized. (Chapter 50).
* When Itsuki questions Yumemi's resolve to beat Sumika in the Active Station gamble, in the anime, Yumemi acknowledges that she's a big fan of hers. In the manga, however, Yumemi says that she loves Sumika. Both versions get across the same point, but the manga made Yumemi's feelings on Sumika seem a lot stronger (Chapter 51).
* In the anime, the host of Active Station is an unseen male. In the manga, the host is female, and her name is Kaoruzaki (Chapter 51).
* When Mary yells at Ririka for following her around school, in the manga, she demands that Mary punches her in the face as she has to keep her promise for winning the Nim Type Zero gamble. This is omitted from the anime. After Mary continues yelling at Ririka, she begins to cry in the manga. This is absent in the anime (Chapter 46).
* With the rules of Active Station, in the manga, there is a clear number of votes to be earned each round. 30 votes for round one, 30 votes for round two, and 100 votes for round three. In the anime, the earnings for each round aren't explicitly stated (Chapter 52).

## Trivia

* The Japanese title of the episode is かわる女, "*Kawaru onna*". While "kawaru" is used as a verb here, it is also the stage name of Sumika. Thus, the title can also be interpreted as "the woman (named) Kawaru".