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High Card Stage Play Reveals Cast, Staff, Visual, January 19 Opening
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The official website for play in the High Card multimedia project, revealed on Thursday that the play will run in Theater 1010 in Tokyo from January 19-29, 2024. The website also unveiled a visual, cast, and staff:
The play stars:
- Ryōtarō Akazawa as Finn Oldman
- Haruki Kiyama as Chris Redgrave
- Hiroki Ishibashi as Leo Constantine Pinochle
- Kanon Nanaki as Wendy Sato
- Gaku Matsuda as Vijay Kumar Singh
- Hidetoshi Kubota as Norman Kingstadt
- Masamichi Satonaka as Bobby Ball
- Yurina Gyoten as Michelle Redgrave
- Aya Akane as Chelsea Hammond
- Takashi Hagino as Bernard Simmons
Tadasuke is composing the music.
Publisher TMS, author TMS Entertainment is producing the anime.
Kadokawa describes the story:
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.
The world order can be controlled by a set of 52 X-Playing cards with the power to bestow different superhuman powers and abilities to the ones that possess them.
With these cards, people can access the hidden power of the “buddy” that can be found within themselves.There is a secret group of players called High Card, who have been directly ordered by the king of Fourland to collect the cards that have been scattered throughout the kingdom, while moonlighting as employees of the luxury car maker Pinochle.
Scouted to become the group's fifth member, Finn soon s the players on a dangerous mission to find these cards."All you need in life are manners, dignity, and the will to bet on your own life."
However, Who's Who, the rival car maker obsessed with defeating Pinochle, and the Klondikes, the infamous Mafia family, stand in the way of the gang.
A frenzied battle amongst these card obsessed players, fueled by justice, desire, and revenge, is about to begin!
Are you ready?
It's Showdown!!
The project shipped its first drama CD volume last December. Publisher Kadokawa, anime studio TMS Entertainment, and entertainment company Sammy Corporation are presenting the poker-themed project. The companies previously revealed that the project will include anime, manga, and novels.
The Monthly Newtype magazine that August.
The project's second novel HIGH CARD–♧3Green Green&♡5Calories High began serialization in Monthly Newtype magazine on September 8.
Sources: High Card stage play's website, Comic Natalie
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