High Card: The Flowers Bloom

So, this was just one extra episode after the second part of High Card as well as the finale of the show as a whole, huh? Well, sure, why not? It's gonna be a short review. The Flower Blooms is more of an episode where it's a coronation for Leo Constantine Pinochle takes over his father's company after the events of the show's second season. Theodore, Leo's father, is retiring. I don't blame him after losing an old friend as well as dealing with the Royal Family and San Golgono. However, a gang led by Wily Weinstein, voiced byHirofumi Nojima, kidnaps Leo and uses his card to manipulate Leo's age. Changing him into a baby. Yes, that's the premise of the show. Vijay Kumar Singh and Wendy Sato finds the last place they were in to this building where orphans reside while Finn Old man and Chris Redgrave have to look after baby Leo until they find Wily to reverse the effects. Vijay demands that they get this done because the day of the coronation is within the next day. With the help of Sugar Peace, who is now lead detective of the police, as well as the three goons who were actually children who reside in the building where orphans reside thanks to Wily's X-playing card. There is an irony to how the episode plays out because Wily radicalizes the children to hate all adults when he was a rotten adult himself. Especially for who he really is. I would say who he really is, except given how his last name is Weinstein as I'd just discovered, I couldn't help but think of Wily being a jab at Harvey Weinstein given his crimes. if y'all know, you know. I kinda laughed at that one. So, the whole episode is usually the time when Finn and Chris had to stay behind to raise baby Leo until Wily got captured by High Card and the cops. For the most, this episode is mostly leaning towards humor while we get some backstory of Vijay. As it turns out, he was Leo's tutor. For someone who hasn't shown much love, I enjoyed this enough to look into some of his past experience with the Pinochle family. There was little development done with Leo and Sugar has done some good performance with assisting High Card like how her superior has done with Theodore and Ban when they worked with High Card. The action, animation, and voice acting are the same as I've said in the previous parts of the show. I enjoyed this episode enough when I see Wily getting his comeuppance since he was radicalizing the children. I would've seen them being attended to the orphanage Finn grew up in for a happy ending along with Leo's speech. Oh, well. All's well that ends well, amirite? Well, what is funny is that there are more X-playing cards out there in the open after the finale of part two. I also wish that there would've been more time for character development. Like this could've been a movie. But I digress. With that, that's the end of High Card as a whole. Sure, there were some bumps in the road. I enjoyed this show enough with its themes, lore, characters, and action sequences. It's not perfect. It's how something original can come into the open even when it's flawed. I will give this particular episode six baby Leo spitting milk on Finn out of ten. 6/10.