Manga: Compulsive Gambler 9

Compulsive Gambler Vol 9 
Rating: 4/5
Buy or Borrow: Buy
Source: Copy courtesy of the publisher in exchange for an honest review! 

Armed with a total of 101 votes after a one-on-one match with the vice president and a near-death gambling showdown against the Inbami sisters, Mary enters the top-three ranking for student council president. In tenth place is Yumeko, who has narrowly avoided elimination. With the president's seat still up for grabs, Yumeko joins hands with an elite Momobami member and vicious Kirari-hater hungry for the title, and that person is none other than...Terano Totobami! 

The election is well underway and after a quick look at the interim results it's not long before the various front runners for President are resorting to crazy moves to get votes...and to try to stop the current President. To no-one's surprise, it's Yumeko who's got another crazy plan with the aim of being a mass gamble to collect all their votes in one place, in an effort to take down Kirari the current President. 

Sumeragi and Manyuda take a bit of a spotlight this volume, Sumeragi appears to be trying to pick Manyuda back up after we last saw him get defeated by Yumeko. They certainly made things interesting in this volume! There's some scheming and they both partake in Yumeko's game, Yumeko herself was honestly a little bit of a bystander in this volume! 

We swiftly get in to a game that could shake up the leaderboard for President and at the same time we have Mary being shadowed by the Vice President. There's a brief, yet very interesting scene between Mary and the VP as Mary decides to put her to the test by making her play a match that will determine whether or not Mary works with her. It's obviously a set up to anticipate for the next volume! 

This volume, while having a different kind of game...a more psychological one, is just as tense as trust is destroyed left, right and centre and things have definitely been turned around and shaken up...there's also some ominous hints to do with the President and what she's up to, and a thread of anticipation to do with Mary!