Koi-Koi

Koi-Koi (Japanese: こいこい) is a popular card game in Japan played with hanafuda.

An initial dealer called the oya (Japanese: 親 "parent") is decided upon when the game starts.

The rest of the cards are set aside as a draw pile, and then the game begins starting with the oya.

On a player's turn, they may match by suit (that is, by month/flower) any one card in their hand with one on the table and take both into their point pile.

If a player hits 7 or more points and their opponent had called koi-koi, they get both doubling bonuses for a total of four times their score.

[7] In the anime series Naruto, three characters (Yamanaka Ino, Nara Shikamaru, and Akimichi Choji) form Team 10.

Hanafuda cards and sets of yaku are featured throughout the movelist of Genjuro Kibagami, a character from the fighting game series Samurai Shodown.

His light, medium, and heavy projectiles are a plain, animal, and bright card respectively.

He has a three-hit attack string that displays the boar, deer, and butterfly as each hit connects.

And his "super move" is a five-hit attack that displays all five bright cards as each strike connects.