HIGH CARD TV Anime Sets January 9 Premiere with New Visual, Trailer
A January 9 at 20:00 JST premiere is now in the cards for the anime portion of gambling-themed mixed-media project HIGH CARD, which dealt us in on another round of criminal underworld action with a brand-new key visual and trailer released today.
Key Visual
Trailer 2
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Two additional cast members were also announced:
Toshiyuki Morikawa (Ruthven in The Case Study of Vanitas) as
Greg Young
Rie Takahashi (Anzu in Romantic Killer) as
Sugar Pease
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The main staff and cast include:
- Original Creator: Homura Kawamoto (Kakegurui)
- Original Character Design: Ebimo
- Director: Junichi Wada (SAKUGAN)
- Series Composition: Naoki Kuroyanagi
- Character Design: Nozomi Kawano (RADIANT Season 2)
- Music: Ryou Takahashi (SK8 the Infinity)
- Animation Production: Studio Hibari (Clean Freak! Aoyama kun)
- Finn Oldman voiced by Gen Satou (Kou Yamori in Call of the Night)
- Chris Redgrave voiced by Toshiki Masuda (Eijirou Kirishima in My Hero Academia)
- Leo Constantine Pinochle voiced by Shun Horie (Kazuya Kinoshita in Rent-a-Girlfriend)
- Wendy Satou voiced by Haruka Shiraishi (Kousetsu in Shinobi no Ittoki)
- Vijay Kumar Singh voiced by Yuuichirou Umehara (Courier in Akudama Drive)
HIGH CARD‘s story is described as such:
After learning that his orphanage is about to close due to financial problems, Finn Oldman heads to a casino to win a fortune. Once there, Finn gets caught up in an intense chase and gunfight set off by a man’s “lucky card.” Finn eventually learns that the world order is controlled by whoever holds a deck of 52 X-Playing Cards, which can grant superhuman abilities.
A secret group of players called the High Card was commissioned directly by the King of Fourland to collect these cards, which are scattered throughout the kingdom. They also work under the guise of employees at the luxury car manufacturer Pinochle. Now chosen as the fifth member of the party, Finn is about to embark with the rest of the group on a dangerous mission in search of these powerful cards…
Source: Comic Natalie
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