The first 2 minutes of High Card Season 2‘s first episode (episode 13 overall) is now available on KADOKAWA Anime’s YouTube channel. High Card Season 2 is set to premiere on January 8 at 20:00 (JST) in Japan with Crunchyroll streaming it overseas. Watch the preview here:
The anime is a part of the multimedia project High Card by Homura Kawamoto, Hikaru Mono, and TMS. The first season of the TV anime adaptation aired for 12 episodes from January to March 2023. Studio Hibari is animating the TV anime while Junichi Wada is directing. Naoki Kuroyanagi is overseeing the series composition, and Ryo Takahashi is doing the musical score. FIVE NEW OLD is performing the opening theme “Showdown,” and Raon is singing the ending theme “Daydream.” The cast of the first season are reprising their roles:
- Gen Sato as Finn Oldman
- Toshiki Masuda as Chris Redgrave
- Shun Horie as Leo Constantine Pinochle
- Haruka Shiraishi as Wendy Sato
- Yuichiro Umehara as Vijay Kumar Singh
- Chiharu Sawashiro as Bobby Ball
- Daisuke Ono as Theodore Constantine Pinochle
- Eiji Hanawa as Lindsey Betz
- Kazuhiro Yamaji as Bernard Symons
Additional cast was also announced recently, which includes Kaori Nazuka as Gao Wang, a player of the Klondike family, and Kensho Ono as Sonic Amigo, a player who’s dressed up in a superhero costume. The High Card official website describes the plot of the TV anime as:
After discovering that his orphanage was on the brink of closing due to financial stress, Finn, who was living freely on the streets, set out for a casino with the aim of making a fortune.
However, nothing could have prepared Finn for the nightmare that was awaiting him. Once there, Finn encountered a car chase and bloody shootout caused by a manʼs “lucky” card.
Finn will eventually learn what the shootout was about. The world order can be controlled by a set of 52 X-Playing cards with the power to bestow different superhuman powers and abilities to the ones that possess them. With these cards, people can access the hidden power of the “buddy” that can be found within themselves.
There is a secret group of players called High Card, who have been directly ordered by the king of Fourland to collect the cards that have been scattered throughout the kingdom, while moonlighting as employees of the luxury car maker Pinochle.
Scouted to become the groupʼs fifth member, Finn soon joins the players on a dangerous mission to find these cards.
“All you need in life are manners, dignity, and the will to bet on your own life.”
However, Whoʼs Who, the rival car maker obsessed with defeating Pinochle, and the Klondikes, the infamous Mafia family, stand in the way of the gang.
A frenzied battle amongst these card obsessed players, fueled by justice, desire, and revenge, is about to begin!
Are you ready? Itʼs Showdown!!
Source: Official Website
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