The team behind the poker-themed High Card anime began streaming the first two minutes on Friday of the first episode of the anime’s second season. The first episode is titled”Knightmare.”
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The new season will premiere on January 8.
The previously announced new cast for the anime includes: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Zenon, Miyuki Sawashiro as Burst, Kaori Nazuka as Gao Wan, and Kensho Ono as Sonic Move.
TMS publisher Homura Kawamoto (Kakegurui franchise) and his younger brother Hikaru Muno (Kakegurui novels) are credited as the authors of the original work, and Ebimo is credited as the original character designer. . 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 will again perform 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. Recruited 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 will also feature a stage play titled HIGH CARD the STAGE – CRACK A HAND, which will run 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 on September 8.
Source: Press release
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