Three more cast members have been revealed for the upcoming High Card original action adventure anime.
Toshihiko Seki is playing Norman Kingstat, the CEO of the high-tech automobile maker Who’s Who who has a one-sided rivalry with the Pinochle CEO and High Card boss Theodore Constantine Pinochle. The other cast members are Shunsuke Takeuchi and Mie Sonozaki as Who’s Who employees Brist Blitz Broadhurst and Brandy Bluemantle respectively.
High Card is set to premiere in January 2023 in Japan. The premise involves the power-granting X-Playing cards, which are being sought out by various factions. One of these factions is the titular High Card group, who moonlight as employees of luxury carmaker Pinochle. Protagonist Finn Oldman finds himself becoming fifth member of the group, which has been tasked by the king of Fourland to collect these cards.
The staff of the anime includes Junichi Wada (SAKUGAN) as director, illustrator Ebimo as original character designer; Nozomi Kawano (Radiant) as character designer, Naoki Kuroyanagi (Rent a Girlfriend Season 2 script manager) as series composer, and Kenichi Yamashita (Hensuki: Are you willing to fall in love with a pervert, as long as she’s a cutie? series composer), Kazuhiko Inukai (Bakugan: Armored Alliance series composer), and Shingo Nagai (Mashin Hero Wataru: The Seven Spirits of Ryujinmaru series composer) are serving as scriptwriters. Studio Hibari is the animation production studio, while BALCOLONY is credited with the card design.
Other staff include Shunpei Mochizuki (SAKUGAN character designer) and Junichi Hayama (Golden Kamuy main animator) as action directors and key animators, Takashi Hashimoto (Fate/Grand Order THE MOVIE Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot Wandering; Agateram co-effects animation director) as effects animation director, Yumi Nanmoku (Bakugan: Geogan Rising) as color designer, Minoru Oonishi (SAKUGAN) and Akira Suzuki (The Duke of Death and His Maid) as art directors, and Tomoyuki Kunii (Rumble Garanndoll) as photography director.
Meanwhile, the main cast includes:
•Gen Sato as Finn Oldman
•Toshiki Masuda as Chris Redgrave
•Shun Horie as Leo Constantine Pinochle
•Haruka Shiraishi as Wendy Sato
•Yuichiro Umehara as Vijay Kumar Singh
High Card is part of a multimedia project that was announced in June 2021. The project includes drama CDs, a manga, and a light novel. TMS Entertainment, Kadokawa, and Sammy are involved with it. Homura Kawamoto, the author of Kakegurui, and Hikaru Muno, the author of the the Kakegurui Trip and Kakegurui Joker light novels, are also part of the project’s creation.
Source: High Card website
