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A 1998 numbered sticker from Dragon Quest Monsters, featuring Akira Toriyama's Metal King Slime in the year the Game Boy Color spin-off launched in Japan.

A look at the actor menko tradition of 1950s Japan, featuring Ichikawa Utaemon, one of Toei's leading jidaigeki stars of the Showa era.

This Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku mini pencil board was a free Shueisha bookstore giveaway in 2019, years before the anime reached Netflix.

Furuta Seika's Haikyuu Choco Egg is a blind-box food toy sold in Japan, and this figure captures Karasuno vice-captain Sugawara in his number 2 jersey.

Bandai metallic wafer card from Japan's shokugan tradition, featuring Lisa Lisa — the Hamon master at the center of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 2.

A single 1990 Comic BomBom furoku playing card featuring SD Gundam's Zeta Plus, a mecha from the Gundam Sentinel photo-novel, explained for collectors.

Tomica No.29 is a 1/64 diecast of the Mitsubishi Fuso Canter in Sakai Moving's panda livery, tracing the history of Japan's longest-running minicar series.

This week's picks include a Nezuko deformed sticker from Demon Slayer, a Kyoto-only Kewpie strap, a retro THE DOG keychain, and a Banpresto Pokemon eraser.

A miniature McDonald's Muffin Burger rendered as a plastic strap from Japan's keitai phone era, when food strap collectibles were at their peak popularity.

A Hypnosis Mic can badge issued as a non-sale album bonus, featuring characters from three rival divisions of King Records' rap franchise.