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Anime NYC to Screen High Card Anime's World Premiere
posted on by Alex Mateo
The staff of Anime NYC announced on Tuesday that it will screen the world premiere of the anime of the poker-themed High Card multimedia project at this year's event. The event will also host the series' original author Homura Kawamoto (Kakegurui franchise), his younger brother and author Hikaru Muno (Kakegurui novel), and producer Hiroki Okamoto.
The anime will premiere in January 2023.
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!!
Anime NYC will host Studio Trigger staff members Hiromi Wakabayashi, Shigeto Koyama, and Sushio. The event will also host Mob Psycho 100 voice actor Setsuo Itō, Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway director Shūkō Murase, Poupelle of Chimney Town creator Akihiro Nishino, Blue Reflection designer Mel Kishida, and Final Fantasy XV composer Yoko Shimomura.
This year's Anime NYC event is scheduled to take place on November 18-20 at the Javits Center.
