High Card

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Japanese: HIGH CARD


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Type: TV
Episodes: 12
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jan 9, 2023 to Mar 27, 2023
Premiered: Winter 2023
Broadcast: Mondays at 20:00 (JST)
Licensors: None found, add some
Studios: Studio Hibari
Source: Mixed media
Genres: ActionAction, FantasyFantasy
Themes: Adult CastAdult Cast, Organized CrimeOrganized Crime, Super PowerSuper Power
Duration: 23 min. per ep.
Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 7.181 (scored by 3752837,528 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #37222
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #1918
Members: 112,571
Favorites: 560

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Synopsis

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 man's "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 carmaker Pinochle. Scouted to become the group's 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, Who's 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? It's Showdown!!

(Source: TMS Entertainment)

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"Trickster" by FIVE NEW OLD
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"Trickster" by FIVE NEW OLD (eps ep 1)
"スクワッド!" by めいちゃん




Reviews

Mar 17, 2024
52 cards exist, each and every one of them grants a unique power by it's chosen player two sides fight over it's power. This is the beginning of a new war thats lasted centuries.

The premise of Highcard is that two groups are fighting over 52 *actually* magical cards that grant unique abilities to those that wield them. These abilities range from conjuring up a gun or sword to literal immortality or turning people into marbles by touch, these cards fetch an extremely high price on the market and those who wield them gain unbelievable powers. However the cards choose the wielder and they cannot ...
Apr 24, 2024
Mixed Feelings
Storyline 6/10 Music 6/10
Animation 6/10

# Storyline
In passing, we will feel like seeing kingsman in anime form. But the whole story feels average.
The use of 52 cards that have the ability to provide different powers, the background of the modern world with a system of government in the form of kingdoms. A clash behind the shadows between 2, The Pro Royal and the opposition camp, with the aim of collecting all the scattered cards. if we read the synopsis and watch for a while it will feel interesting.
But after a while the story starts to feel slow and boring. the comedy that is included also does not ...
Mar 31, 2024
When I looked at this initially, I thought it was a bit of Kingsmen meets Bungou Stray Dogs, and while that’s mostly right, the comparisons don’t do it any favors. It doesn’t have the kinetic action or suave sophistication of Kingsmen, it doesn’t really have the character bonds, development or direction of Bungou, it’s just… there.

The show has a grand total of 5 major characters, spending the vast majority of its time developing two of them: Finn and Chris. That might be fine if Finn wasn’t a bog standard shonen MC that didn’t have anything interesting to him (the best comparison I have is to ...

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Poll: High Card Episode 12 Discussion
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