Today’s selection brings together printed anime collectibles and small character figures from Japan. The lineup spans a modern One Piece playing card, a vintage Showa-era menko card, and two capsule-style figures.
Portgas D. Ace One Piece Playing Card — Spades A
A single playing card featuring Portgas D. Ace from the One Piece series, designed as the Ace of Spades. One Piece, created by Eiichiro Oda, is one of the longest-running and best-selling manga series in Japanese publishing history.
Price: $11.45 AUD | View on eBay
Future Boy Conan Menko Card (1978)
A vintage menko card from 1978 featuring Future Boy Conan, the anime series directed by Hayao Miyazaki before he co-founded Studio Ghibli. Menko are traditional Japanese pocket-sized cards that were popular among children as a flipping game throughout the Showa era.
Price: $11.45 AUD | View on eBay
Bandai Coo’nuts Wobbly Balance Figure
A rerun release from Bandai’s Coo’nuts line, a series of small rounded character figures that wobble and balance on a curved base. Coo’nuts capsule toys cover a wide range of popular characters and are a familiar fixture of Japan’s gachapon vending machine culture.
Price: $10.85 GBP | View on eBay
Vritra Choco Egg Dragon Figure — Saikyo-O Zukan
A Vritra dragon figure from the Saikyo-O Zukan series of Choco Egg collectibles. Choco Egg is a long-running Japanese candy line in which a small collectible figure is packaged inside a chocolate shell, a format that has been popular with figure collectors since the late 1990s.
Price: $9.63 GBP | View on eBay
About This Collection
These four pieces show two sides of Japanese character collecting: flat printed cards and three-dimensional capsule figures. Together they cover several decades of anime and toy history, from a 1978 menko card to current Bandai releases.
