Japanese Collectibles

Mihawk’s Holographic One Piece Wafer Card Explained

Learn about Bandai's One Piece Wafer LOG series and the GR holographic sticker card featuring Dracule Mihawk, one of the manga's most recognized characters.
Japanese Collectibles

Comic BomBom’s SD Gundam Playing Card and Furoku Culture

A single Diamond King playing card from the SD Gundam series, included as a furoku bonus with Comic BomBom's February 1990 issue in Japan.
Arcade Culture and the Pokemon Tag Featuring Hatterene Japanese Collectibles

Arcade Culture and the Pokemon Tag Featuring Hatterene

A Takara Tomy A.R.T.S. arcade token for Mezastar machines, this Hatterene tag blends Psychic-Fairy Pokemon gaming with Japan's arcade collecting culture.
Japanese Collectibles

Japan’s Sawayaka Walking Events and the Ii Naotora Pin Badge

A metal pin badge made for JR Tokai's 2017 Sawayaka Walking event themed around Ii Naotora, the female daimyo at the center of that year's NHK Taiga Drama.
Japanese Collectibles

What This Vintage Guile Keshi Figure Reveals About 90s Japan

A vintage Street Fighter II keshi rubber figure of Guile, this single-color molded toy is a product of Japan's early-1990s gaming merchandise boom.
Japanese Collectibles

Sayla Mass and the Gundam BE@RBRICK From Japan’s Pepsi NEX Era

Medicom's 70% BE@RBRICK keychain of Sayla Mass from Mobile Suit Gundam, issued as part of a Japanese Pepsi NEX promotional campaign from the late 2000s or early 2010s.
Japanese Collectibles

Four Cards That Span the History of Japanese Gaming

From a 1985 Super Mario menko card to a 1998 Yu-Gi-Oh Carddas and a modern Zweilous Mezastar tag — four Japanese franchise cards for collectors.
Japanese Collectibles

Kamen Rider 1, the Original Tokusatsu Hero, in Bottle Cap Form

Kamen Rider 1's 2004 7-Eleven bottle cap figure represents a Japan-exclusive collectible made for fans of the long-running tokusatsu franchise.
Egypt Meets Anime in Puzzle & Dragons’ Bastet Prize Figure Japanese Collectibles

Egypt Meets Anime in Puzzle & Dragons’ Bastet Prize Figure

This Eikoh prize figure of Puzzle & Dragons' Bastet captures the cat goddess in chibi style, won through Japanese arcade crane games and never sold in stores.
Japanese Collectibles

Vil Schoenheit’s Gashapon Figure and Japan’s Capsule Toy Culture

This gashapon-style rubber mascot brings Twisted Wonderland's Vil Schoenheit to life in chibi form, a figure type that rarely reaches collectors outside Japan.