The production team for the poker-themed High Card anime revealed two more cast members on Friday for the anime’s second season. The characters will appear in the seventh episode on February 19.
Shin’ichirō Kamio as Louis Forland, second prince of the Kingdom of Forland Image provided by Kadokawa
©TMS/HIGH CARD Project
Tetsuya Kakihara as Noah Forland, the third prince of the Kingdom of Forland Image provided by Kadokawa
©TMS/HIGH CARD Project
© TMS/HIGH CARD Project
The new season premieres on January 8. The new season will have 12 episodes.
Previously announced new projects for the anime include: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Zenon, Miyuki Sawashiro as Burst, Kaori Nazuka as Gao Wan, Kenshō Ono as Sonic Move and Ayumi Mano as Chloe.
TMS publisher Homura Kawamoto (Kakegurui franchise) and his younger brother Hikaru Muno (Kakegurui novels) are credited as composing the original work, and Ebimo is credited as the character designer origin. Junichi Wada (The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan, Caligula, Sakugan) is directing the anime at Studio Hibari. Naoki Kuroyanagi is supervising the film’s script and Kenichi Yamashita, Kazuhiko Inukai and Shingo Nagai are writing the script. Nozomi Kawano is designing the characters and serving as chief animation director with Mayumi Watanabe, and Ryō Takahashi is composing the music. TMS Entertainment is producing the anime.
FIVE NEW OLD once again performs the opening theme song of the new season and Raon will perform the ending theme song”Hakuchūmu”(Daydream).
Kadokawa describes the story:
After discovering that his orphanage is about to close due to financial strain, Finn, who has been living freely on the streets, goes to a casino with the aim of making money. However, nothing could prepare Finn for the nightmare that awaited him. Once there, Finn encounters a car chase and a bloody shootout caused by a man’s “lucky” card. Finn will eventually learn what the gunfight is about. The world order can be controlled by a set of 52 X-Playing cards with the power to bestow various superhuman powers and abilities on those who possess them. With these cards, people can access the hidden power of the “friend” that can be found within themselves.
There is a secret group of players called High Card, directly ordered by King Fourland to collect the cards that have been scattered throughout the kingdom, while moonlighting as luxury car manufacturer Pinochle. Aimed to become the fifth member of the group, Finn soon joins the players on a dangerous quest 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, a rival car manufacturer obsessed with defeating Pinochle, and the Klondikes, the notorious Mafia family, stand in the gang’s way.
A frantic battle between these card-obsessed players, motivated by justice, lust and revenge, is about to begin!
Are you ready?
It’s the Showdown!!
The High Card multimedia project also includes a stage play titled HIGH CARD the STAGE – CRACK A HAND, which runs from January 19 to 29 in Tokyo.
The project published its first drama CD volume in December 2022. Publisher Kadokawa, anime studio TMS Entertainment, and entertainment company Sammy Corporation are introducing the poker-themed project. The companies previously revealed that the project will include anime, manga, and novels. The first anime season premiered in January 2023.
The High Card-♢9 No Mercy manga series launches on Square Enix’s Manga UP! service in August 2022. The project’s original character designer Ebimo drew the manga. The novel The High Card-♢7 Never No Dollars began serialization in Monthly Newtype magazine also in August 2022. The second novel of the HIGH CARD project–♧3Green Green&♡5Calories High began serialization issue in Monthly Newtype magazine in September 2023.
Source: Press release
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