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High Card Special
With the disastrous ending of the second season, I hope this special final episode of High Card will make amends. I hope. They better pull off a miracle…
2024 Annual Interest Nook Honor Awards, reflections + resolutions for next year!
Hi friends, I hope you’re all doing well! It’s again that time of the year to discuss the all-encompassing year of media that I have consumed! This includes…
Ayakashi, Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture, GAMERS!, Urusei Yatsura, Vampire Dormitory
High Card Season 2
Plot: After discovering X-Playing Cards, powerful cards that grant powers, pickpocket Finn is recruited by High Card, a secret group sworn to protect and collect them. This deck…
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.…
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 #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…
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…
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…
HIGH CARD
Plot: 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…
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…
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.
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…
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?
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…
Episode 787: Winter 2023 Previews #2
This week on Anime Pulse we got food that look better than it should, a normal sounds Joseph, and working out with pirates. Up first Joseph is moderately…
Every Anime Worth Watching in Winter 2023
The Winter 2023 anime season is quite a packed season full of decent anime that you can enjoy. #Anime #animereccomendations Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:03 Buddy Daddies: Action, Comedy 3:00 Spy Classroom: Action,…
Trigun, NieR:Automata Ver1.1a, The Fire Hunter, The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World, Tomo-chan Is a Girl!
The GLORIO Chat Episode 129: This Cannot Continue
We add a few more Winter 2023 shows, say some parting words for NieR:Automata ver. 1.1a as it goes on hiatus, and dive back into our complicated feelings…
Weekly Digest 1/31/23 – Mononogatari, High Card
Mismatched peas in the same pod. Read more
High Card #04 — Love and Pieces
Sorry, Vash. Not you. Malevolent Spirits may be a little delayed. Nothing important. Just shuttling some people to the airport and kidnapping their dog for a couple weeks.…
High Card is the most SLEPT ON show this season (no, really!)
High Card is a new action/spy anime with a fantasy twist. It comes from the Kakegurui author (so there is Poker included) and it is the most slept…
Weekly Digest 1/24/23 – Mononogatari, High Card
Two tossups, no waiting. Read more
High Card #03 — Root of All Evil
Not even "Cash is King?" Impressions: You'd think that becoming some kind of crazy fire-woshipping cult, meeting in a warehouse to chant over a half-assed piece of…
High Card
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2023 Winter Premiere Digest
Things have cooled off from Fall, but there are still some excellent girls to root for this season.
Ayakashi Triangle, HIGH CARD, Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire, Spy Classroom, The tale of outcasts
The GLORIO Chat Episode 128: Winter 2023 Anime First Impressions
In this supersized episode, we tie up some loose ends from last season including the wild finale to Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, then we tackle…
Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury
Second Impressions – High Card
I’m not expecting to take much away from the experience but for what it is, High Card is pretty enjoyable so far. Read more
Seasonal Sampler Winter 2023: Trigun Stampede, Tomo-chan Is a Girl!, and More
The Seasonal Sampler boys are back after a packed Fall 2022 anime season to discuss what they finished last time and take a look at the anime premieres…
Sugar Apple Fairy Tale, The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, Tomo-chan Is a Girl!, Trigun, Buddy Daddies