Japanese Collectibles Blastoise Sticker From Japan’s First Pokemon Boom Year
Amada's 1997 Pokemon PP Card sticker featuring Blastoise connects to the birth of Pokemon anime merchandise in Japan, before the franchise reached the West.
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Japanese Collectibles Godzilland’s Chibi Mechagodzilla and the 1984 Sticker Era
A 1984 TOHO-licensed sticker showing a super-deformed Mechagodzilla from Godzilland, the chibi spinoff that brought Showa kaiju into Japan's sticker culture.
Japanese Collectibles How Kiyoshi the Exorcist Became a Jump Fair 2025 Shikishi
Jump Fair 2025 mini shikishi featuring Kiyoshi the Exorcist, a Weekly Shonen Jump series by Hiikage Ichi — a Shueisha campaign giveaway, not a retail product.
Japanese Collectibles Speed Racer’s Mach 5 and the Promo Figure From Japan
A molded display figure of the Mach 5 from Tatsunoko's Speed Racer anime, distributed as a Japanese promotional collectible on a vivid green oval base.
Japanese Collectibles What Makes Yuuna-san’s Jump Hanafuda Special
A 2018 Jump Hanafuda set featuring Kogarashi Fuyuzora and Yuna Yunohana from Yuragi-sou no Yuuna-san, the Shonen Jump manga about a haunted hot-spring inn.
Japanese Collectibles Metal King Slime and the Dragon Quest Sticker Era, Explained
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.
Japanese Collectibles Ichikawa Utaemon’s Menko Card and the Golden Age It Came From
A look at the actor menko tradition of 1950s Japan, featuring Ichikawa Utaemon, one of Toei's leading jidaigeki stars of the Showa era.
Japanese Collectibles The Natsucomi Tradition That Gave Hell’s Paradise This Pencil Board
This Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku mini pencil board was a free Shueisha bookstore giveaway in 2019, years before the anime reached Netflix.
Japanese Collectibles Inside Furuta’s Haikyuu Choco Egg and the Suga Figure It Holds
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.
Japanese Collectibles Your Guide to Lisa Lisa, the Wave Master of JoJo Part 2
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.