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 MAL and Wikipedia descriptions mashed together posted: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. Co-created by Homura Kawamoto of Kakegurui fame, the High Card anime is actually just part of a multimedia project also set to encompass a manga series, LNs, and an already-released drama CD adaptation. I haven't seen this anime yet since I'm a lazy sonuvabitch but evidently it's one of the better ones to come out this season. Understandably so since who doesn't love high-stakes action mixed with supernatural abilities, and an underdog protag as the cherry on top? Original trailer (subtitled): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-bAvlTfJI8 OP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sReGofRTzwQ
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Jan 17, 2023 06:05
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this show rules and you should watch it
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Jan 17, 2023 06:06
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So guessing that Spades has to do with weapons, hearts has to do with body, clubs maybe nature based? and who knows about diamonds. The three let the guy turn things into marbles and the 10 gave them perfect luck.
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Jan 17, 2023 08:27
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I watched the first episode of this tonight and yeah, it was pretty good It seems weirdly down to Earth for such a classically nutso anime high concept
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Jan 17, 2023 11:16
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My ability is Sex Pistols without the sex.
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Jan 17, 2023 19:27
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I was a little disappointed that the cards just choose their owners and you can only play one at a time. It would be cool if you got like, a pair of twos and now your little revolver shoots ice bullets or something. Or you get a straight and now your card is 5x stronger. Someone smarter than me should work out a system of how all that could work.
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Jan 17, 2023 19:35
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It follows the poker motif. You don't get to choose your cards. You make do with the hand you're dealt. Unless you cheat, of course. Which will be interesting if they incorporate that into the story.
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Jan 17, 2023 20:08
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Dumbest episode yet. Highly recommend. (PRAY FOR THE FI-YAH)
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Danger Diabolik posted:Dumbest episode yet. Highly recommend. (PRAY FOR THE FI-YAH) pray for the fi-yah fuckin' died at the money power
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Jan 23, 2023 23:29
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I ship it.
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Elfface posted:I ship it. they knew what they were doing with the wrist grab headed to the subway
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Jan 24, 2023 01:31
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So much shipping potential So it looks like Spade makes weapons, Hearts enhance the body, Clubs are elemental or transformational, and Diamonds are miscellaneous.
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Jan 24, 2023 03:11
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My power is money.
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Jan 24, 2023 03:25
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i like the stupid red headed family and their oil drum man worshipping religion. too bad we'll never see them again
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Jan 24, 2023 03:40
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would love to have the power to just throw a tenner into the air and turn it into a hot burger
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Jan 24, 2023 17:44
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Biggest cliffhanger this week did Finn ever return from the bathroom?
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Exia posted:Biggest cliffhanger this week did Finn ever return from the bathroom? Apple Link is remarkably patient when Aston Martin shopping Cracked up at Love-P's transformation sequence, jumping into the air out of the bank vault to slash the helicopter, and shooting three bullets into a line on the sword hilt. This show is loving ridiculous and it brings me joy.
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Didn't expect Wendy to be a drunk disaster but I'm here for it. Love the crazy alter ego too.
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Jan 31, 2023 02:09
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Is it just me or does Finn's card seem pretty drat strong for something described as one of the four weakest? A gun with unlimited ammo plus a super-aiming ability is kind of a broken combo. I'm anticipating the reveal that the power levels are nonsense and the previous holder of that card was an infamous assassin or something.
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i mean one guy is immortal and someone else magically generated fifty C4s and if another guy throws enough money into the air he can get a tank
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the power levels are already nonsense it's part of why the show owns
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being peerless at shooting people kind of loses its value when there are already multiple characters that are immune to being shot.
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Well I’d certainly take it over the marbles one, or the money one that’s useless if you don’t already have massive amounts of cash to burn, or the sword that possesses you and tries to kill everyone nearby. In some cases just not having a massive downide is an upside in itself. But the real answer is: Southern Cassowary posted:the power levels are already nonsense it's part of why the show owns
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Feb 2, 2023 01:58
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Marbles guy definitely drew the short straw so far.
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Feb 2, 2023 02:08
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he could destroy anything he touched with no apparent limits and then convert it into projectiles akin to bullets. but yeah, that's only impressive if you forget that nothing about that power makes him bulletproof. it doesn't take a magic card gun or anything. just shoot the dude.
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Feb 2, 2023 06:34
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To be fair very few powers seem to make you immune to bullets.
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MonsterEnvy posted:To be fair very few powers seem to make you immune to bullets. The lucky card guy was technically immune because bad shot would happen to any potential shooter
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Bakeneko posted:Is it just me or does Finn's card seem pretty drat strong for something described as one of the four weakest? A gun with unlimited ammo plus a super-aiming ability is kind of a broken combo. My understanding of his ability is that it isn't super-aiming, but just that the projectiles go perfectly straight (which is why him shooting through water was used to showcase it). So it's basically a pistol that shoots with the accuracy of some sort of perfect rifle, but still relies upon the skill/accuracy of the wielder. So that actually is kind of lovely - it's basically just "a very accurate pistol + the ability to create ammo for it" (from what we've seen anyways).
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So was his super-intuition at the casino, or saving the kid and the dog, in ep1 a card power or not? Because the gift might be knowing where to apply small changes for maximum effect, or something of that nature.
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This show's reminding me of the Suits show idea that I pitched on this forum somewhere that was basically the show Leverage but with playing card suit elements and more gadgets, but some other people came up with fun additions to it and praised my ideas so it puffed up my ego nicely.Ytlaya posted:My understanding of his ability is that it isn't super-aiming, but just that the projectiles go perfectly straight (which is why him shooting through water was used to showcase it). So it's basically a pistol that shoots with the accuracy of some sort of perfect rifle, but still relies upon the skill/accuracy of the wielder. There has to be a way to make "always fire straight through anything" incredibly broken if you plan to support that ability, so I hope that's actually what the power is and he finds convoluted ways to exploit it in the grand anime tradition of such things, and the JoJo tradition in particular.
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Feb 4, 2023 11:39
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his non-card ability has been on display from the first scene. he can look at an area and instantly find a way to turn the people and objects in it toward his goal. i think the best way to describe it is simply prediction?
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NowonSA posted:There has to be a way to make "always fire straight through anything" incredibly broken if you plan to support that ability, so I hope that's actually what the power is and he finds convoluted ways to exploit it in the grand anime tradition of such things, and the JoJo tradition in particular. It's a kind of weirdly defined power because his bullets obviously don't penetrate all solid matter. Maybe it'll be the sort of thing where he gets "power-ups" through learning to conceptualize stone/etc as being permeable similar to water in order for his bullets to pass through it. Or he'll just manipulate his environment by being good at gun Elfface posted:So was his super-intuition at the casino, or saving the kid and the dog, in ep1 a card power or not? Because the gift might be knowing where to apply small changes for maximum effect, or something of that nature. I don't think so, because you apparently have to activate the cards by saying "Play" or whatever. That seems to just be a personal talent of his.
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Yeah, he's just really good at seeing all of the angles, which can actually go well with his card since he doesn't need the card to figure out what to shoot to get the best effect. It can't help him aim, but it's clear he can fire multiple shots in sequence at the same target with no error. I do expect, however, they'll do the thing where the most powerful card in a suit is actively weak to the least powerful card.
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Xelkelvos posted:Yeah, he's just really good at seeing all of the angles, which can actually go well with his card since he doesn't need the card to figure out what to shoot to get the best effect. It can't help him aim, but it's clear he can fire multiple shots in sequence at the same target with no error. That'd help justify what goes down in episode 4. It is odd to see someone whose power is "conjure a gun and bullets" and have them seem like they're just a normal rear end gun (and a lame gun at that) and ammo. And I feel like us trying to make it at least somewhat special might be us reading too much into some dialogue. Basically all of anime has taught us that there's going to be some crazy trick or power-up to the protagonist's ability, and while I'm always on baord with that I wouldn't mind it being played straight for a change and he's just making the best out of an objectively weak as hell ability.
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huge fan of the bit of finn being immediately a better salesman than chris
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Patware posted:huge fan of the bit of finn being immediately a better salesman than chris He has the exact right mix of genuine charm and bullshit to be a great salesman, it's a good character beat.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:He has the exact right mix of genuine charm and bullshit to be a great salesman, it's a good character beat. The best part is that Chris is also a bit of a bullshit artist so him getting one-upped makes it even funnier
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NowonSA posted:That'd help justify what goes down in episode 4. It is odd to see someone whose power is "conjure a gun and bullets" and have them seem like they're just a normal rear end gun (and a lame gun at that) and ammo. And I feel like us trying to make it at least somewhat special might be us reading too much into some dialogue. At the very least I'm pretty confident about the "bullets go unerringly straight" part, since IIRC they specifically mention the ability at the same time it shows him shooting into the water (so the implication seemed to be "even in water they'll still go straight").
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the bit with him shooting his own bullet he'd shot the sword with pretty much locks in that the gun has impossibly perfect accuracy
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