Hi everyone. Super interesting set of poker cards that have absolutely stumped me trying to identify
Anyone help me out
Pics in the link below
Maybe unofficial? I have not seen Pocket Monsters written with that font before on any official product.
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With no copyright info this is almost certainly a bootleg deck. It’d be interesting to see all 6 sizes of the deck box to verify. It looks really cool though!
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Absolutely bootleg.
English, Chinese and Japanese on the cover.
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A vast majority of Pokemon cards has English and Japanese in its three forms: hiragana, katakana, and kanji. Kanji is adopted from Chinese characters
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6 sides or sizes haha I can get every side for you?
I’m happy it wasn’t just me that found it totally bonkers to work out
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I may live in Japan, but I don’t consider myself an expert still. That being said, the front cover definitely looks like Chinese instead of Japanese. Most Japanese has at least a little bit of hiragana or katakana somewhere within a sentence or phrase. And Pokémon products often don’t utilize full blown kanji due to the fact that children often can’t read many of them yet.
I can read both Chinese and Japanese.
(Chinese at an intermediate level, and Japanese at fluent level)
I can whole heartedly say that the primary displayed language is Chinese.
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