With Ruler of the Black Flame releasing in Japan today and Obsidian Flames releasing in two weeks, it occurred to me that this is probably the first time in a while that a modern set has released with such a short window between languages.
Does that affect which set you’ll decide to collect? Personally, I have been collecting Japanese for modern sets for the last year for two reasons: the print quality vs English & because I’m impatient and want the art asap.
Curious to see if the shortened window between releases affects other’s collecting decisions
Pogo was similarly close (June 24 EN, June 17 JP)
Celebrations was actually released in English before Japan (Oct 8 vs Oct 22). Both are special sets for EN though, so maybe that means something
Personally, I buy primarily English. The differences between the two aren’t big enough to make me switch over to JP. Obf is pretty meh to me overall. Im just gonna save for 151
Alt Arts = prefer ENG
25th = prefer JPN
Radiants = JPN
Black gold Vmax = JPN
Gold Vstars = ENG
Rainbow = ENG
GX = ENG
Shining, , ex, crystals = ENG
Dark = JPN
i prefer the quality and texturing of the Japanese cards and will always go for Japanese/Thai/Chinese nowdays outside of needing to get english for language set collecting.
@thsigma I didn’t know that about POGO or Celebrations thanks for sharing. I agree that both sets are pretty meh. Saving up for 151 sounds like a great choice!
I’ll be picking up Japanese copies of the Pidgeot line, as well as the Ninetales, Gloom, Clefairy, and Houndour. Not feeling the Larvitar or Charizard arts.
, ex, crystals = ENG
