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High Card S2
Anime’s Kingsman is back! Oh, I mean High Card S2. After the interesting first season that left viewers with some few questions, hopefully this season will answer and…
Winter 2024 Anime Season Reflections
Hi friends, I hope you’re all doing well! It’s about that time again to rant, rave and say ‘meh’ about the various anime I watched during the winter…
A Sign of Affection, Ayakashi, Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady with the Lamp, The Apothecary Diaries, The Witch and the Beast
High Card Season 2 Anime Series Review
High Card is a show that seems to live by the rule of cool, but the problem is that the lore of High Card isn't always that interesting…
Anime Like Delusional Monthly Magazine
In Most City, a small paranormal magazine is is published out of a coffee house. With a lack of shocking or deep stories, they struggle to sell issues.…
Synduality Noir #24 — Ultra Triangle Attack
That carrot disturbs me. Impressions: Largely the same ending as High Card. They defeat the blathering idiot, slot an unqualified imbecile in to be the king of…
High Card #24 — The Royals
And everything worked out forever. Impressions: It's pretty funny to have a very rushed not-ending juxtaposing constant shots of protests against the current regime with the current…
High Card #23 — The Flashbacks Will Continue
…Until all morale is exhausted. Impressions: Oh boy, another flashback and exposition heavy episode that didn't actually manage to convey all that much, and what it did…
Synduality Noir #22 — Are We the Bad Guys?
What ever happened to that Team Rocket duo anyway? Impressions: In contrast to High Card, the best part of this episode was definitely the villain's nonsensical monologue.…
High Card #22 — Secret Terrorist Mass Murder Party
…Okay, I guess that's what we're going with. Impressions: The exposition dump with this show continues, and it's somehow only getting worse. This week was the antagonists…
High Card #21 — Happy Coming Day
Ah yes, Coming Day. Impressions: Watching this show definitely feels like I'm being gaslit. Three minutes in, one of them declares "Well, that takes care of everything, so…
High Card #20 — History Lesson
Oh good. We're a crappy knockoff Legend of Zelda now. Impressions: Oh boy. An entire episode of flashback and exposition. I would say that the only satisfying…
High Card #19 — We Do a Little Coup Now and Then
Oh, so now the cops are also trying to overthrow the monarchy? …Okay. Impressions: All of a sudden, offscreen, the entire police force has decided to throw…
High Card #18 — Girls Night Out
I like how some powers are sticky hands, and others are INSTANT DEATH TOUCH. Impressions: Finally we get the learn to accept or work with the other…
High Card #17 — Rich People Problems
Oh boy. This jerk. Impressions: Welp, it's an episode focused on the rich dude, and it doesn't develop or redeem him in any way at all, and definitely…
High Card #16 — A Country For Old Men
Yay. Flashbacks that don't actually accomplish anything whatsoever! Impressions: After lamenting that various main characters still haven't really had their characters/arcs resolved and it keeps introducing new…
2024 Winter Animes I will be watching
Another year, another season, another set of animes to watch.
The Unwanted Undead Adventurer, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Undead Unluck, Classroom of the Elite, A Sign of Affection
High Card #15 — Intelligence Failures
These people are all idiots. Impressions: It's rarely great for your characters or story when everything hinges on them being both suicidally unprepared as well as just…
High Card #14 — El Flash
Wait, are they in Spain now? Impressions: Hold up. Wasn't the existence of magical cards/super powers supposed to be a secret? Isn't that the whole deal with…
Sengoku Fox #02 — Poke It With a Spear
These monks don't seem very ready to fight monsters. I need to catch up on work stuff for a bit since my forced hiatus extended there as…
Meiji Swordsmanship – 1874 #01 — Suddenly… Wizards!
Template template template template. I'll be playing catchup now that I have internet again, but including Wednesday's shows, that's… eight by my count, of things I wanted…
Synduality Noir #13 — Recap Tour
Maybe don't use the third person as a personal pronoun if you don't want to sound like a child. Impressions: Like High Card, another episodic action show…
High Card #13 — CGI Is the Ultimate Antagonist
As ever. There's five premieres today. I'll get through them eventually, but I have other things I need to attend to as well, so expect gaps. Impressions:…
A Very GLORIO 2023: Gee’s Last Will and Testament
Dramatic title aside, I’ve come to appreciate these posts as a way of leaving behind a definitive footprint. My feelings for these may change as time passes but…
Anime Like Bullbuster
Tetsurou Okino is a young engineer who excited to start his new job at a vermin extermination company. However, his excitement stems from getting to use the
High Card
Imagine if that British Kingsman series had an anime version. Oh wait. They already did. In the form of High Card. But this time add some poker cards…
The GLORIO Chat Episode 134: Winter 2023 Wrap Up (and some Spring 2023)
We wrap up whatever shows from Winter 2023 survived to the end, but nothing else matters because BIRDIE WING IS BACK and that’s all I want to talk…
High Card – Superpowers and the mystery behind them.
Hey guys what is up welcome back to my blog I’m so thankful that you guys took the time out of your day to read my blog post.…
Winter 2023 Anime Season Reflections
Hi there friends, good to see you again! It’s that time again to praise and shit on the shows I watched this season! Like in other seasons, I…
Campfire Cooking in Another World with my Absurd Skill, Trigun, Tsurune, Play It Cool, Guys, The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague
Tune of the Week(ish) HIGH CARD’s Trickster
Lot of English in this beat, but it’s a good one still! The Tune of the Week is the opening theme to HIGH CARD: Trickster by Five New…
Malevolent Spirits #12 — Stockholm Syndrome
Your family of randos wasn't a family until your aunt kidnapped you? What? Impressions: Like High Card, this also ended with an announcement that it'd be continuing…
High Card #12 — Gun-Haver Trumps All
Pretty sure your plan would've been fine if you hadn't wanted to do it at the top of a ferris wheel. Impressions: First things first. It does…
High Card #11 — Long Speeches About Family
One of my favorite thing in anime after flashbacks. Impressions: This arc has just been so bizarre to me. They're still introducing new characters even in the…
Mainstream Anime is Dead! Ft. @inakyu (Winter 2023)
#vinlandsaga #tomochan #nierautomata Less popular shows are still good, sometimes better! 00:00 Special Guest for the Season 00:32 Season Recap 02:10 The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague 03:19…
My Little Monster, Revenger, Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, One Piece, Sugar Apple Fairy Tale
The GLORIO Chat Episode 132: Woke Video Games
In addition to our usual anime coverage, we talk about several anime adjacent games we’ve been into lately. Please play Labyrinth of Galleria: The Moon Society, now available…
High Card #10 — Management By Child Murder
I don't think that's in the big book of motivating employees. Impressions: I feel like if you've been collecting cards for the last twenty plus years, and…
Anime Like High Card
In the Kingdom of Fourland, the royal family possessed a powerful deck of 52 cards. Each card has the ability to grant its wielder a special power, but…
Blood Blockade Battlefront, Bungo Stray Dogs, Great Pretender, Hamatora, Joker
High Card #09 — World’s Dumbest Criminals
How has this idiot not already been caught? Impressions: Remember the crazy cult of fire people worshipping some idol in an abandoned warehouse? They had more braincells…
Top 5 Anime Openings of Winter 2023
Welcome back to Otaku Thursday! It has been a week my friends. I feel like I spent a lot of time watching anime this week, even though I…
Initial Results: High Card
My initial thoughts on High Card.
The GLORIO Chat Episode 131: Touching Grass
#1 Aikatsu! fan Peter details their recent trip to Japan, Jel goes to the Kaguya-sama: Love is War movie, and the NieR:Automata anime is back.
Malevolent Spirits #08 — Spinny Kicky
I'm tired of the weekly recitation of this dude's backstory. Impressions: Felt a lot like High Card's episode, but in reverse. We start off with the passable but…
High Card #08 — Obligatory Burning of the Orphanage
One roast chicken for like 20 kids? Uh… Impressions: Boy, this episode escalated quickly. The first ten minutes were just going back to the orphanage with all…
Five Best Openings (OP) of the Winter 2023 Anime Season
Did you know that our video editor, Ryan, watches every single anime opening (OP) for the season as he decides which to include in our quarterly “best of”…
People are STILL SLEEPING on this anime🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️ | High Card #shorts
The High Card Anime still seems to be a hidden gem of this Winter season 2023! It's an action spy anime and you can find it on Crunchyroll! ⛔️WICHTIG/IMPORTANT⛔️ 📌I…
High Card #07 — Double Date
Stalking instagrammers now, huh? Impressions: The handcuffed-to-each-other is such an action cliche, and yet I can't recall the last time I've seen it show up in anime.…
Seasonal Anime Watching: Mid-season Update
Yo! It has been awhile! It's time for my seasonal anime watching: mid-season update!
Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte, Buddy Daddies, Bungo Stray Dogs, Malevolent Spirits: Mononogatari, The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten
The GLORIO Chat Episode 130: Advanced Dodgeball Rule Variants
As we grind into the midpoint of the season, we talk about our regularly scheduled shows and… sports?
High Card #06 — Who’s Who
That seems like a company name with branding problems. Impressions: Well, they tried to do a heist episode at least, but the prestige at the end of…
Malevolent Spirits #05 — Enhanced Interrogation
Long conversations repeating themselves. Impressions: Like High Card, this episode was mainly focused on introducing some side factions that will be the League of Evil Mutants to the…
High Card #05 — Abolish the Police
What do the cops in this town even do? Besides murder people, I mean. Impressions: The show was not exactly subtle before, but this episode took things…