Why Me & Roboco’s Bondo Gets His Own Business Card

Bondo's Jump Business Card Collection Card from Me & Roboco

A Character Card Designed Like a Business Card

This item belongs to the Jump Business Card Collection, a series of official Shueisha-licensed character goods that blends Japan’s deeply ingrained meishi (business card) culture with the world of Weekly Shonen Jump manga. Each card is business-card-sized and comes paired with a clear acrylic display stand — a format that became a staple of the Japanese anime and manga merchandise scene in the late 2010s and has remained popular through the 2020s.

The character on this particular card is Bondo (full name Heisuke Bonda), the protagonist of Me & Roboco. In keeping with the series’ meishi concept, the card describes him as “Heibonjin” — literally, an ordinary person — and gives him the mock professional title “Roboco’s Master,” a direct reference to the central relationship of the manga. Bondo appears in his signature look: brown hair, glasses, a red shirt, and the yellow cap with a “TOKYO” logo that serves as his visual trademark. The card’s background uses bold yellow and orange radial stripes, red stars, and comic-burst shapes, the kind of high-energy pop-art design that runs throughout Jump merchandise.

The Series: An Ordinary Boy and an Extraordinary Robot

Me & Roboco (Boku to Roboco in Japanese) is a gag comedy manga by Miyamoto Sasuke, which began serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2021. The premise is straightforward: Bondo, an unexceptional middle-school boy, orders a household helper robot. What arrives instead is Roboco — a unit with extraordinary combat capabilities and an endearingly oblivious personality. The gap between what Bondo wanted and what he got drives the series’ humor.

Beyond its core comedy, Me & Roboco is widely recognized for its meta-humor. The manga regularly parodies other active Jump titles — including Jujutsu Kaisen and Demon Slayer — weaving those references directly into its own storylines. That approach gives it appeal well beyond its own dedicated readership, reaching fans of Jump as a whole. An anime adaptation began airing in October 2022 on Fuji TV, expanding the franchise further. The manga is officially available in English through platforms including Manga Plus and VIZ Media, which has built a substantial international audience for the series.

What Meishi Culture Means for This Kind of Collectible

In Japan, the exchange of meishi carries genuine social weight — cards are presented and received with care, examined attentively, and treated as a direct extension of a person’s identity. Applying that cultural ritual to fictional characters, assigning them mock job titles and “departments,” is an inherently Japanese form of affectionate parody. The format is almost entirely absent outside Japan, which makes items like this distinctly unusual as collectibles in the international market.

For fans of Me & Roboco specifically, Bondo is the series’ lead character and its thematic anchor — the story only works because he represents the most average possible person. For Jump fans more broadly, the series’ habit of referencing and riffing on the wider Jump universe means its merchandise carries associations that stretch across the magazine’s ecosystem. The combination of a uniquely Japanese item format with a character from one of Jump’s signature comedy titles of the 2020s is what gives this card its particular place in a collection.