HIGH CARD TV Anime Has Tricks Up Its Sleeve in Clean Opening Video
The HIGH CARD TV anime put all its cards on the table when it premiered on January 9, and now we have a closer look at the opening animation that kicks off each episode. The theme song to this one is “Trickster” by four-member rock band FIVE NEW OLD, which previously shared a music video for the track.
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Check out the creditless version of the opening video below.
????ノンクレジットOP????
オリジナルTVアニメ
「HIGH CARD」
ノンクレジットOPを公開✨♪オープニング主題歌
FIVE NEW OLD「Trickster」✅視聴はこちらhttps://t.co/3tzbGpYJFO#highcard #ハイカード pic.twitter.com/XZKDsZlYub
— HIGH CARD【TVアニメ放送中】 (@highcard_pj) January 13, 2023
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: Official Twitter
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Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine. You can read his comics at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter @Moldilox.
