Field notes
Japan news, weekly finds, one deep dive at a time.
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Face Value
Eight unused Japanese telephone cards and a short list of held-overs. Slow week, short post.
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Bleach Closes the Book After 22 Years
Bleach signs off after 22 years, its mobile game launches, Umamusume's Los Angeles concerts fall to visas, Phantom Busters gets a cast, and Iruma-kun gets a Jan 4 date.
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Ending Credits: Evangelion Ended Four Times, and One Card Prints the Math
Four endings of Evangelion: the TV finale, The End of Evangelion, Sadamoto's manga, and Rebuild, checked against the record and separated from the popular version. Then the 2001 Ayanami Raising...
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Not Shiny
Seventy-three new listings, fifty of them telephone cards, and under the cards: a Gucci Square G cutout band, a Verameat Pirate Love Helm, Girls Gone Wild bars that say silver...
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Four Days, Then We Knew
Edgerunners 2 is out and the reviews agree on everything but Roman; Bleach airs its series finale October 26; Japan's manga apps went into emergency maintenance together on October 21...
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Members Only: The Japanese Globe Pressing of Mambo Jambo
First record spotlight. The sleeve says Perez Prado Orchestra; the master is a 1959 Crown Records budget session by members of his orchestra without him. Prado's actual story, what Crown...
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Held Over
Eight new listings, seven of them telecas, so the quiet week gets the honest treatment: a Satoshi Urushihara card and a 2007 Sofmap bonus card on their own, the other...
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Kishimoto Draws Again
NYCC week two: Kishimoto drawing a new Naruto manga, the Ninku crossover back from a three-year hold, a Naruto card game dated June 2027, Ocarina of Time rebuilt for Switch...
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Episode Seven: The Pioneer Tenchi Muyo Night Before the Carnival Tape
First VHS spotlight. The 1993 Tenchi Muyo side story, why a Pioneer label on a tape meant the producer was the distributor, how to read the catalog number, the Toonami...
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Long Distance
Fifty-nine new listings, most of them cards: a Puma Pikachu RS-X, two Kith Gel-Lyte IIIs, fantasy art and Disney binders, a ten-card Yu-Gi-Oh run, the MSCHF Plains, seventeen shop-bonus telecas,...
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Kagurabachi Gets a Date, Ninja Scroll Gets a Scan
NYCC week: Kagurabachi dated for April 2027 at Cypic, The Boxer webtoon becomes a Japanese and Korean co-production, Ninja Scroll remastered off the negative for 600 theaters, Madoka set for...
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All Over: The 1986 Wild Oats Frazetta Death Dealer Tee
A full-bleed Frazetta Death Dealer on a Wild Oats blank: the 1973 painting and its afterlife, what Wild Oats was, how to read an all over print at the seams,...
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