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"Fourland Kingdom is an island nation in the North Atlantic. In this country, there are 52 X-Playing Cards, considered the origin of playing cards. A card with a unique supernatural ability can gift its abilities to a qualified person: the player.

One day, the X-Playing Cards in government's custody were spread all over Fourland leading to troubles caused by the supernatural abilities of the players with cards across the country. The king secretly assigns Pinochle, one of the top corporations of the nation, to a mission, to collect the cards that are causing all the chaos in the country.

Source: TMS"

Genre(s): Action, Supernatural, Espionage

https://subsplease.org/shows/high-card/
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Well... so far, so good. Another supernatural hit-squad hunting down mcguffin powers in the modern day. The setup of Finn trying to save an orphanage is essentially anime-code for "invincible, scrappy protagonist", so the expectations are clear from the get-go. His character, thankfully, isn't outright stupid though and so him having any chance against the forces he's against isn't stretching disbelief too far yet. I like that there is an emphasis on allowing the audience to glean details of the setting from the worldbuilding and context themselves (almost nothing from the synopsis is touched on until the end of the second episode). Not having everything spelled out is a good storytelling tool to allow the audience something to 'chew on' in the background of their minds, and I like it.

The production is plenty adequate and the characters, while common tropes, are used well so far. Long term enjoyment will come down to how the individual cases and powers are handled, and as we've seen plenty of times before, anime is all too eager to trip over its own power creep and make for some truly outlandish conflicts down the road. For now, though, this is a solid recommend as an action series.