The official website and Twitter account for the HIGH CARD multimedia project has released a new key visual, additional cast, and the opening theme song artist for Season 2.
The opening theme song will be performed by FIVE NEW OLD, with a newly written song for the series.
Kadokawa describes the story:
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 car maker 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!!
HIGH CARD Season 2 is set to premiere in January 2024. Crunchyroll will stream the new season as part of their Winter 2024 season lineup.
NEW KEY VISUAL:
NEW CAST ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Zenon / Miyuki Sawashiro as Burst
CRUNCHYROLL TRAILER:
HIGH CARD premiered on January 9, 2023.
The opening theme song titled, "Trickster" was performed by FIVE NEW OLD.
Publisher TMS, author Homura Kawamoto, his younger brother Hikaru Muno are credited with the original work, and Ebimo is credited as the original character designer.
The anime's staff members are:
Director: Junichi Wada
Scripts: Kenichi Yamashita, Kazuhiko Inukai, Shingo Nagai
Character Design: Nozomi Kawano
Color Key Artist: Yumi Nagi
Art Directors: Minoru Ōnishi, Taigorō Suzuki
CG Director: Masafumi Uchiyama
Compositing Director of Photography: Tomoyuki Kunii
Action Animation Directors/Key Animators: Shunpei Mochizuki, Junichi Hayama
Effects Animation Director: Takashi Hashimoto
Sound Director: Shōko Hata
Card Design: BALCOLONY.
Concept Art: Reoen (Flat Studio)
Animation Production: Studio Hibari
Production: TMS Entertainment
The ending theme song titled, "Squad!" was performed by Meychan.
MAIN CAST:
Gen Sato as Finn Oldman
Toshiki Masuda as Chris Redgrave
Shun Horie as Leo Constantine Pinochle
Haruka Shiraishi as Wendy Satō
Yuichiro Umehara as Vijay Kumar Singh
ADDITIONAL CAST:
Kazuhiro Yamaji as Bernard Symons
Daisuke Ono as Theodore Constantine Pinochle
Nobunaga Shimazaki as Owen Alldays
Toshihiko Seki as Norman Kingstadt
Shunsuke Takeuchi as Brist Blitz Broadhurst
Mie Sonozaki as Brandy Blumenthal
Tomokazu Seki as Ban Klondike
Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Tilt
Chiharu Sawashiro as Bobby Ball
Toshiyuki Morikawa as Greg Young
Rie Takahashi as Sugar Peas
Eiji Hanawa as Lindsey Betz
Shigeru Chiba as Lucky Lunchman
The anime's staff members are:
Director: Junichi Wada
Scripts: Kenichi Yamashita, Kazuhiko Inukai, Shingo Nagai
Character Design: Nozomi Kawano
Color Key Artist: Yumi Nagi
Art Directors: Minoru Ōnishi, Taigorō Suzuki
CG Director: Masafumi Uchiyama
Compositing Director of Photography: Tomoyuki Kunii
Action Animation Directors/Key Animators: Shunpei Mochizuki, Junichi Hayama
Effects Animation Director: Takashi Hashimoto
Sound Director: Shōko Hata
Card Design: BALCOLONY.
Concept Art: Reoen (Flat Studio)
Animation Production: Studio Hibari
Production: TMS Entertainment
Series Composition: Naoki Kuroyanagi
Chief Animation Supervisor: Nozomi Kawano, Haruna Nagata
Editor: Rie Itō
Sound Effects: Hiromune Kurahashi
Music: Ryō Takahashi
Publisher Kadokawa, anime studio TMS Entertainment, and entertainment company Sammy Corporation are presenting the poker-themed multimedia project. The project will include anime, manga, and novels.
Chief Animation Supervisor: Nozomi Kawano, Haruna Nagata
Editor: Rie Itō
Sound Effects: Hiromune Kurahashi
Music: Ryō Takahashi
Publisher Kadokawa, anime studio TMS Entertainment, and entertainment company Sammy Corporation are presenting the poker-themed multimedia project. The project will include anime, manga, and novels.
KEY VISUAL:
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 car maker 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!!