sometimes, it is spontaneously an Anime Day. I have seen enough of HIGH CARD vaguely in passing to understand that I like suits and playing cards and action, so I decided to see what is up
it's an anime that wants to be so hot that you don't notice that it doesn't really make sense, but its character execution is just slightly off enough that it doesn't reach its mark of being anime Kingsmen (though it really, REALLY wants to be it) and also it has a kind of comically poor sense of English for something set in Fake England But Everything Is Named After Playing Card Terms
I mean we're talking like, going on MAL and reading sentences like "Leo Constantine Pinochle is also the manager of Pinochle's Old Maid branch, and the leader of the High Card society". here is a rating of the Special Playing Card Abilities I've seen so far by their English names, from worst to best:
- Unlucky Poky (luck is manipulated in your favor)
- Green Green (can use vine whip)
- Rockin' Rock (can Get Hard)
- Calorie's High (regenerates from wounds)
- Marble Rumble (can turn things into deadly marbles)
- Neo New Nanbu (Gun)
- Never No Dollars (can use the cash shop irl)
- Lethal Scoville (firebending)
- Love & Peace (goes yandere sword mode)
the single most damning criticism of the show that I can give, aside from "the whole Deal (haha?) with the playing cards makes no sense sometimes", is that one character is painted as a glasses-sporting disaster office lady who transforms into a ultra-bloodlusty psychopath when she unsheathes her sword and yet she's not wild enough to make the cut on Kakegurui or even like, Danganronpa.
they were really like "idk give her lipstick and a five cup size increase and call it a transformation". at least turn her hair white and give her a weird fucked up outfit or something!
"playboy who is eating even more often than he is flirting" almost clears the bar, but the only one to really escape the orbit of this show's Alright animation is the comically assholish out of touch daddy's kid rich boy who makes The Fucked Up Face while throwing a briefcase of cash in the air and delivering lines like "all bow before money". I can't not like him