High Card – Superpowers and the mystery behind them.

Hey guys what is up welcome back to my blog I’m so thankful that you guys took the time out of your day to read my blog post. Hope you all are safe and healthy. I really thought that this anime would be some psychological card games however not being what I expected doesn’t mean that High Card still isn’t a good anime. MILD SPOILERS AHEAD.

The royal family of the Kingdom of Fourland holds a secret deck of 52 playing card which gives superpowers to the person who uses them effectively making them “players”. The cards were stolen from the royal family and scattered across the country causing many people to become ‘players’. Finn Oldman, a small time thief struggles to get enough money to save the orphanage that raised him before the landlord forces them out. In a desperate attempt to raise money Finn visits the casino and witnesses a bloody fight in between players for the cards that they hold. He is recruited into High Card, an organization that works under the King of Fourland to recover the cards. Working undercover during the day as car salesmen for the Pinochle Old Maid branch High Card works to fight criminals using cards for their greed and recover them. Finn who joins up for the money, enters into a world where everyone has secret plan to use the cards and no one’s true intentions are known.

We have the protagonist Finn Oldman, a petty thief who wants to save Sun Fields Orphanage, the orphanage where he grew up. He suffers from Amnesia about a specific incident which is truly very exciting. We have his mentor Chris Redgrave, a cocky and confident ladies man who is focused on doing the job right at all times. Leo, the branch manager and the leader of High Card has issues with his father that are left unexplored. Wendy, a samurai girl and Vijay, a guy with plant powers make up the team of High Card, though Chris and Finn are explored deeply with their motivations and dynamics with each other, the others don’t get as much depth except Wendy who gets a full episode to herself. I really look forward to the characters getting more screentime in season 2.

There’s nothing that’s really outstanding about the anime, if anything tis the concept as a whole and the amount of mysteries that the story contains even after a full 12 episodes. However the creative powers are definitely something that the anime should get credit for because every card user that we see has a unique power and the way they use it is unique as well making the action of each episode feel fresh. I was annoyed however at how they hinted so much at bigger things going on behind the scenes for the plot and the world however there is no follow-up to most of that at all, I really hope that season 2 follows up on all of those leads because S1 is a whole setup that delivers on characters and not story.

I was really annoyed by the 10th episode because I knew that there was no way that I was going to get the answers that I wanted about the lore and the other mysteries of the story however a season 2 announcement made me excited for the finale all over again and I feel like that showed me that sometimes patience is key when watching a show because I know I would not have enjoyed that finale as much as I did had I not known that the questions I asked still have room to be answered in another season.

12 episodes makes High Card a short watch but that’s just for now because we already have a season 2 announced and I believe that we will be looking at the greater things in there and I hope that we do because I really think that the series has loads and loads of potential that could make it skyrocket in rating but for the time being, only considering what we have, I will rate the anime a 7/10.

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