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The modern four suits seem to have evolved in France, specifically Paris and Rouen, in the late-15th century and were quickly taken up by the English.
Some anime inspired trading cards, such as Pokemon, yet there's a separate genre. Think more along the lines of Yu-Gi-Oh!, where the card game was an essential part to the story itself. Not only did Yu-Gi-Oh! become a staple of the genre, but it is one of the most well known anime of all time.
Various languages have different terminology for suits such as colors, signs, or seeds. Modern Western playing cards are generally divided into two or three general suit-systems. The older Latin suits are subdivided into the Italian and Spanish suit-systems.
Yu-Gi-Oh! is the most well-known trading card anime.
It is said that each of the suits on a deck of cards in a card game represents the four major pillars of the economy in the Middle Ages: Hearts represented the Church, Spades represented the military, Clubs represented agriculture, and Diamonds represented the merchant class.
The term "Joker's wild" originates from this practice. The Joker can be an extremely beneficial, or an extremely harmful, card. In Euchre it is often used to represent the highest trump. In Gin Rummy it is wild.
The four suits in playing cards, clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades, collectively represent the four elements (wind, fire, water, and earth), the seasons, and cardinal directions. They represent the struggle of opposing forces for victory in life. The thirteen cards in each suit represent the thirteen lunar months.
Numerous anime are based on otome games, which are story-based video games that revolve around the player wooing one of several potential characters (or multiple characters if you're looking for a "Bad End"). Think a set-up like Ouran High School Host Club (2006) where you play as Haruhi and actually have the option to date Kyouya, Tamaki, etc.
Another Playstation Portable visual novel, Kamigami no Asobi released in 2013, followed by In Finite Ludere Deorum in 2014. Playing as Yui Kusanagi, she discovers a sword that transports her to another world. She attends a school created by Zeus that's training gods to love the humans they oversee.
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Uta no Prince-Sama is a popular game franchise that began in 2010 on the Playstation Portable and received the "Best Consumer Game" award in the Dengeki Girls' Style Otome Game Awards 2011.
Unlike the previous games on this list, Meiji Tokyo Renka started out as a mobile game in 2011 before moving to the Playstation Portable in 2013. Players take on the role of Mei Ayazuki, who has traveled back in time. Mei lives with male historical figures from this era.
You play as high school student Akane Motomiya, who along with her friends is sucked into another world, Kyō, and must fulfill her destiny to save the world from the Oni Clan. She is aided by eight men, called the Hachiyō, and her friends.
An anime adaptation came along titled Uta no Prince-sama: Maji Love 1000% (2011) and went on for three more increasing percentage seasons in 2013, 2015 and 2016. This led to a feature-length film.
The pack of cards came to Europe sometime in the 14th century, imported by Italian merchants who discovered their use during trading missions to the cosmopolitan cities of Mameluke Egypt. The symbols they imported – swords, batons (or wands), cups, and coins (or rings) – are still used in Spain, Greece, Portugal and Italy.
The French also added the concept of the Queen, for initially the court cards were based on the sequence of king, cavalier and servant – or, as the original Mameluke Egyptians had it, malik (king), naib malik (viceroy) and thaim naib (deputy). The triumph of the ace was another French innovation, traditionally added after ...
In playing cards, a suit is one of the categories into which the cards of a deck are divided. Most often, each card bears one of several pips (symbols) showing to which suit it belongs; the suit may alternatively or additionally be indicated by the color printed on the card. The rank for each card is determined by the number of pips on it, ...
The pairing of suits is a vestigial remnant of Ganjifa, a game where half the suits were in reverse order, the lower cards beating the higher. In Ganjifa, progressive suits were called "strong" while inverted suits were called "weak". In Latin decks, the traditional division is between the long suits of swords and clubs and the round suits of cups and coins. This pairing can be seen in Ombre and Tarot card games. German and Swiss suits lack pairing but French suits maintained them and this can be seen in the game of Spoil Five.
In some card games the card suits have a dominance order, for example: club (low est) - diamond - heart - spade (highest). That led to in spades being used to mean more than expected, in abundance, very much.
Increasing restrictions by the Tokugawa shogunate on gambling, card playing, and general foreign influence, resulted in the Hanafuda card deck that today is used most often for fishing-type games.
Non-trump suits are called plain suits.
Suited-and-ranked decks. A large number of games are based around a deck in which each card has a rank and a suit (usually represented by a color), and for each suit there is exactly one card having each rank, though in many cases the deck has various special cards as well.
A commercially available five-suit poker (65-card) deck is Stardeck which introduces stars as a fifth suit. In the Stardeck cards, the fifth suit is colored a mixture of black and red. This fifth suit can be counted as either a Red or a Black suit dependent upon the game being played.