opossum video bingo: 1. no one talks about japanese 2. no one liked full art trainers 3. everyone’s in it for the money (effing true tho) 4. another set another hype train 5. we can look back at that at least we can see the weight loss journey lolol
I’m braindead so I collect both Japanese and English. I actually prefer that I can’t read Japanese, it means that the wording becomes part of the design 🤷🏼♂️ same reason I buy Japanese film posters…
PokeInvestors burning on Japanese cards was the funniest shit ever. They didn't know people buy them mainly because of the lower prices, so when they pumped it up we just stopped buying for a while. Japanese collectors together strong.
I think your channel is the best Pokemon channel. I am totally new to the hobby. Been collecting pokemon Cards for just over a year and I am only interested in collecting the original - so I only collect Japanese. What I have discovered is most people are only interested in buying cards to grade for profit. Grading in my opinion is detrimental to hobby. I am a collector not a dealer, I enjoy the process of collecting and will be starting my channel when I go to Japan in just over a week.
2:48 for the record... I enjoy the hobby, because I enjoy the card's! I enjoy the whole process, from FINDING the packs, opening, sleeving and bindering them. I also even enjoy going back through my older sets and reminiscing the excitement of pulling my card's!! P.S. I absolutely enjoy watching your content brother!!
I have come to realize that the Japanese tcg is miles ahead of the English! The cards are way more stunning and the quality control is next to none ! Near perfect !
Every three to four years there is always a boom. This is the 3rd one I’ve been a part of and the 4th I’ve heard of (black and white). Pokemon booms kind of work like the Olympics
Good video, your exactly right people are in it for some profit, but for people to think they are going to get rich off this hobby are delusional. It’s slim to none in the modern era with how much is printed.
idk man, it matters, bigly. the next generation of pokemon gamblers (my kids) prefer english 99/100 times. they'd be buyers at 50% pack value vs english likely. i've got a massive set of japanese that i collected alongside 1st ed base/unlimited - the only reason i have those, is because they were available and cheaper. i'm guessing, you've got some available, and cheap japanese cards, hence your bias 🤣
@@never_wrong ok and that's fine, we are allowed to justify our actions. I'm a speculator making money so my kids can rip and collect. They like to collect, and not sell, but they DO sell their cards they don't want on eBay and tcg to guess what, collect more. They understand value and markets at 7 and 8, why don't you 🤣
Personally I like Japanese better because i have shit luck when opening english. 1. the foil/texture is *chefs kiss* 2. for the cost of one english box, I can usually get 2-3 japanese boxes .... so 3 SRs plus 9 IRs are fantastic. 3. i buy it counter cyclically... when japanese boxes were hyped i basically stopped buying. I'm feasting now.
I collect Japanese because I want the best looking version of the card which is more than often the Japanese version, I also like how you can get the sets first, and it reminds me of the good old days importing Japanese and American Playstation games into the UK because we either didn't get the game until years later, or there was no UK release. English I will buy sometimes cuz I can easily pop out and grab some packs. Then Simplified Chinese fills some of the gaps when the Japanese card is too expensive and gives you a chance to go back and relive some of the sets you may have missed.
I’ve been grabbing Japanese Sun and Moon cards that I’m missing while everyone is focused on English. Let the 151 chads have English and stay over there 👉
The lack of Morpeko stuff in your background is beginning to bug me. Oh and yeah, great video, glad you've had so much to talk about the last couple of days.
As a collector, not an investor, i really enjoy the qulity of the japanese far more. The depth of the texture is far superior, english can be frustrating when you finally pull an SIR and it looks like my blind dog works at the factory centering the cards. Why is the Japanese centering always so much better? How is one factory so much better than the other?
@OpossumBud oh, i had no idea, you'd think a thicker card could have more texture. It's not just better texture though. Compare the new Latias card, the English didn't even try to have the texture
Japanese is the way to go if you’re tired of price gouging in booster boxes and sets like 151 that don’t have booster boxes, I appreciate that it’s less expensive and easily accessible I also appreciate the fandom that doesn’t like Japanese cards because more for me 😂 great video keep it up 👍🏽
I've also moved into Japanese cause I like the structured hits and smaller sets. Just way more satisfying ❤ Got ENG sealed though, but won't really rip ENG. Like previously
I love buying japanese because its cheap and good quality. if the market suddenly thought it was worth 2x as much id sell tomorrow, because this too shall pass and ill rebuy when it comes back down
Its simply following the market trends.... Pump, dump, pivot, and repeat. Reminds me of when people where chasing the fatchu from VV. This set doesnt have any skin in the long term and its on par with every other SV sets. As someone who has been hoarding SWSH sealed for years I hope we get a return to form once the SV phase is over... Anyways, g'day and thanks for the content per usual.
Most japanese cards are beautiful. Even Chinese cards are spectacular. I don't usually buy them unless they are exclusive though. Collecting for me is about getting personal grails and things i think are top tier. The problem with modern is that they are so up and down. For now I'm focusing on vintage, where prices are more stable. In a couple years I'll pick up more modern stuff.
I have been getting a few Chinese S/S ALT arts for $25 great deals the art is affordable. Now i can stop trying so hard to pull certain cards that are over 1k because i have the cheaper substitute 😮
Yeah like for instance I like the Miriam card. Pulling in English feels like a $50 value or excitement level lol Bear with me. And then pulling it in Japanese felt I don't know just way more special. It felt like I was pulling a $100 to $300 card. Not trying to put fun excitement into a number but maybe that's the better way to explain it. But yeah my Japanese Miriam I pulled is pretty much priceless to me. But yes I did decide to grade it and got a PSA 10 I wanted a becket but I had a feeling it was not going to get the Beckett 10
Yeah, every now and then I get a lucky English booster box.... example being the one and only evolving skies box I opened, I got the umbreon vmax alt and the leafeon vmax alt.... but that's literally the only time I've had good luck like that, I quite often don't get a secret rare at all :/
ENG is the last language i prioritise nowdays the quality and texturing is so medicore lol. Even Korean is a bit ahead of english texture wise. But yea every asian language print over english for me nowdays.
I feel like sellers on whatnot flooded the American market with Japanese products and single cards when they were looking for a cheaper option for things to rip on stream and in return it left people with a bunch of Japanese product in cards that they cannot recoup on hence wanting prices to go up.I’m sure a lot of suckers got stuck with product Or bought hundreds of ar/sar’s cause a seller on whatnot told them they can make 100k/month selling Japanese singles for 2$ each without mentioning that the sellers in Japan selling to them are also on eBay charging 1$ with free shipping 😢😂
cool, but korean writing and chinese writing is ugly on a card, and im not the only one that thinks that. if thats all the cash you have im not knocking you, its just the same excuse i've heard since 1999 (same art).
I’m spending my time rn collecting basically exclusively English BW/XY era stuff and ignoring SV entirely… imo you have to be super brave to sink a ton of money into the singles market for modern English
@@RobertZ1991I’m talking about as a collector, not an investor. Sorry not everything is about making money; some of us actually want to hold onto the cards we buy for as long as we physically can. The fact of the matter is that if you are a COLLECTOR (not a money bro) the English SV market is grossly overpriced and over inflated and the Japanese versions of most cards will always be the better way to go.
You can't pull double SIR anymore though since they changed the pull rates for Scarlet & Violet year 2. But the first 4 main sets you could definitely pull two SIR in one box or 1 SIR and 1 GOLD. Thanks for the great content!
I think of Pokemon cards as currency for each country. so English pokemon cards are equivalent to the US dollar.... people will exchange for US dollar at a loss. Japanese Pokemon cards are literally 2:1 in terms of price. For example The japanese Greninja psa 10 is like 200 bucks. The English Greninja is touching almost 700 dollars +. Same with Chinese, indonesian, korean... they are all cheap unless its a prize card like the Victini from indonesia prize card that is unique illustration rare.
Probably bit of an ebe and flow here, English prices skyrocket which prices people out, they look for more affordable options, so they pick up Japanese. Then the increase in demand results in an increase in price.
I love latios and latias, but I’m not spending a booster box’s worth on each of them. I’d rather go without. Edit: just seen that Latios is actually pretty reasonable, so I might actually consider picking the pair up …. Maybe 😂
I think it’s important to remember that the english speaking market has almost full control over EVERY market. Japanese people have less spending power and a weaker currency than the dollar so if Americans decide to pump up japanese again, it’ll happen
.....maybe....but id still stick to english if long term is your game. ive got so many cool NM base set and up japanese holos that are worth fractions of their english counterparts and did not appreciate at the same rate, so theres that. just buy and enjoy what you can afford and dont sweat the rest - theres always someone with more money and cooler stuff than you.
Yea im guessing people have not seen a Japanese card full art which is why they don't value it as much. I mean to me Japanese looks way nicer and shinny/colorful.
English vs Japanese goes back to base set my dude. Quite simply - cheaper, more/guaranteed/consistent/better pulls. English gets sold out or too expensive, what else is there, oh look, japanese cards at the right price.....ooooooshiny..... This is young me back in the late 90s 🤣
I love Latinas and Latinos theyre my favorite pokemon
Same and my favorite trainer is Skylatina
The Latina cards are soaring lately
@@Craytonex Omg sissss
Magikarpinos and wailordtinas is my favorite!!
YOU GOT A GREAT TASTE SON👴🏻
opossum video bingo:
1. no one talks about japanese
2. no one liked full art trainers
3. everyone’s in it for the money (effing true tho)
4. another set another hype train
5. we can look back at that
at least we can see the weight loss journey lolol
Can’t call me wrong though 👍🏽
I’m braindead so I collect both Japanese and English.
I actually prefer that I can’t read Japanese, it means that the wording becomes part of the design 🤷🏼♂️ same reason I buy Japanese film posters…
Japanese has the quality and texture man. The best of the best 🔥
Shhhh😂
It’s not like it’s a secret. People turn away from it because it value
Some cards have additional textures, while some are the same? Maybe it depends on the particular set/card? I'm pretty new to learning this
PokeInvestors burning on Japanese cards was the funniest shit ever. They didn't know people buy them mainly because of the lower prices, so when they pumped it up we just stopped buying for a while.
Japanese collectors together strong.
I think your channel is the best Pokemon channel. I am totally new to the hobby. Been collecting pokemon Cards for just over a year and I am only interested in collecting the original - so I only collect Japanese. What I have discovered is most people are only interested in buying cards to grade for profit. Grading in my opinion is detrimental to hobby. I am a collector not a dealer, I enjoy the process of collecting and will be starting my channel when I go to Japan in just over a week.
Truly appreciate it homie 🙏🏽 best of luck on the channel and have fun in Japan
Pack light if you wanna pokemon card shop in japan 😂 You’ll bring home bags upon bags
2:48 for the record... I enjoy the hobby, because I enjoy the card's!
I enjoy the whole process, from FINDING the packs, opening, sleeving and bindering them. I also even enjoy going back through my older sets and reminiscing the excitement of pulling my card's!!
P.S. I absolutely enjoy watching your content brother!!
Invest in Surging Sparks ❌🤓
Invest in Metazoo ✅😎
😂 metazoo 2
I have 😂 I'm one of the guys that didn't sell my 1st add. cryptic 2 boxes
I’m at a point in my life I just buy the cards I like 😂
I have come to realize that the Japanese tcg is miles ahead of the English! The cards are way more stunning and the quality control is next to none ! Near perfect !
Every three to four years there is always a boom. This is the 3rd one I’ve been a part of and the 4th I’ve heard of (black and white). Pokemon booms kind of work like the Olympics
The Olympics calendar is a good metric lol
Good video, your exactly right people are in it for some profit, but for people to think they are going to get rich off this hobby are delusional. It’s slim to none in the modern era with how much is printed.
The people who think it’s a get rich quick plan are usually rudely awakened and take it out on the community I’ve noticed
@ 🤝
Why hello! Going to take a PokeBreak over this weekend. This hype is EVERYwhere!!
Have a good weekend and break 🙏🏽
The gold pikachu jumping from $60 to $130 is what’s really interesting, never expected that card to double along side SIR pikachu.
i definitely agree that the consistency of Japanese booster boxes, especially with the SV era, does dilute the value of the cards.
It’s a good thing and a bad thing depending 😂
@@OpossumBud for me, cheaper the better lol
If you are just collecting, the art should be all that matters. Why would you need to know what the card does if you don't play the tcg?
idk man, it matters, bigly. the next generation of pokemon gamblers (my kids) prefer english 99/100 times. they'd be buyers at 50% pack value vs english likely. i've got a massive set of japanese that i collected alongside 1st ed base/unlimited - the only reason i have those, is because they were available and cheaper. i'm guessing, you've got some available, and cheap japanese cards, hence your bias 🤣
@@TropicalMint808 I am collecting not "investing".
@@never_wrong ok and that's fine, we are allowed to justify our actions. I'm a speculator making money so my kids can rip and collect. They like to collect, and not sell, but they DO sell their cards they don't want on eBay and tcg to guess what, collect more. They understand value and markets at 7 and 8, why don't you 🤣
@@TropicalMint808eatShit
@@ZootScootBoogie u mad bro?
Personally I like Japanese better because i have shit luck when opening english.
1. the foil/texture is *chefs kiss*
2. for the cost of one english box, I can usually get 2-3 japanese boxes .... so 3 SRs plus 9 IRs are fantastic.
3. i buy it counter cyclically... when japanese boxes were hyped i basically stopped buying. I'm feasting now.
Everyone, look out! Here comes 5 foot 2 gate keeper Opposum Bud protecting the industry! Cool video, though and some solid points.
5’6 appreciate ya 🙏🏽
I collect Japanese because I want the best looking version of the card which is more than often the Japanese version, I also like how you can get the sets first, and it reminds me of the good old days importing Japanese and American Playstation games into the UK because we either didn't get the game until years later, or there was no UK release. English I will buy sometimes cuz I can easily pop out and grab some packs.
Then Simplified Chinese fills some of the gaps when the Japanese card is too expensive and gives you a chance to go back and relive some of the sets you may have missed.
All true 👍🏽
People that cant afford english will open other languages. As long as they enjoy it, its all gooood
I’ve been grabbing Japanese Sun and Moon cards that I’m missing while everyone is focused on English. Let the 151 chads have English and stay over there 👉
The jp cards being cheaper is the reason i can afford some of my favorite singles
For real, bought the tyranitar and groudon ar for $8. English is like $100 combined for those 2 🤣💀
My collection is mostly full art trainers and cute/cool cards I love the art work of 🙌! If I like the art I don’t care if the card is worth 5 cents 😂!
My heart stopped hearting seeing the thumbnail
Please leave my eon duo alone, scalpers!!! NOT AGAIN
It’s just a thumbnail lol
@@OpossumBud I KNOW AND IT SCARES ME
There's nothing more true. I've capitalized on it a few times.. When Japanese was nuts, swsh was cheap. It's easy to know where to invest honestly.
People act like it isn’t true too which is wild
It be wild in this space
It do be
Phantom forces came out 10 years ago and the set was so cool, this pokemon investment boom makes me feel so old
@@Chountchou dude I remember thinking Furious Fists was the coolest in right there with ya
I wish the Shoe SIR would go to the moon already, it's probably my fav. Card.
Evil investor here. I’m moving in on sealed Japanese. That’s the move right now.
Sick you’re late
@ wait you’re telling me boxes get cheaper than $35?? That’s crazy!
I am very much enjoying the dirt cheap boxes.
Definitely seen plenty of people ask me how much their card is worth before showing me how cool their card is
yep, even my 7 year old knows how the game works 🤣
The lack of Morpeko stuff in your background is beginning to bug me. Oh and yeah, great video, glad you've had so much to talk about the last couple of days.
Can't wait for the FOMO of Mega Charizard in 2025. The neverending cycle.
Oh it’s gonna happen
Mega Terra Vmax
Mega Terra Vmax GX
Latias and latios are underrated Pokemon IMO … sun and moon was short printed and never got reprinted …
They are very good arts 👀 the rainbow is pretty sick too
As a collector, not an investor, i really enjoy the qulity of the japanese far more. The depth of the texture is far superior, english can be frustrating when you finally pull an SIR and it looks like my blind dog works at the factory centering the cards. Why is the Japanese centering always so much better? How is one factory so much better than the other?
The thinner card stock is where it’s at for all that beautiful texture 👍🏽
@OpossumBud oh, i had no idea, you'd think a thicker card could have more texture. It's not just better texture though. Compare the new Latias card, the English didn't even try to have the texture
Japanese is the way to go if you’re tired of price gouging in booster boxes and sets like 151 that don’t have booster boxes, I appreciate that it’s less expensive and easily accessible I also appreciate the fandom that doesn’t like Japanese cards because more for me 😂 great video keep it up 👍🏽
That’s the usual way it is with Japanese 🙏🏽
Yap away, cardboard man.
I shall lol
Lots of products for other sets I have noticed have gone down in price. I’m off to buy those.
Oh for sure lots of things to pick up
The TCG starting to devolve into a MadMax type landscape….WHAT A LOVELY DAY😤😤😤
It’s pretty funny
I've also moved into Japanese cause I like the structured hits and smaller sets. Just way more satisfying ❤
Got ENG sealed though, but won't really rip ENG. Like previously
Understandable 👍🏽
I love buying japanese because its cheap and good quality. if the market suddenly thought it was worth 2x as much id sell tomorrow, because this too shall pass and ill rebuy when it comes back down
8:57 “it’s a weird thing”
It’s supply and demand brother.
How much the “demand” flops so much is weird
I just want cards to play the game if I pull something rare that's not competitive I sell it to get the cards I need for decks
Fair enough
Glory of Hole Rocket Wall?
Oh you know people would look for that wall
Simplified Chinese is where its at
3:02 Leonheart
Its simply following the market trends.... Pump, dump, pivot, and repeat. Reminds me of when people where chasing the fatchu from VV. This set doesnt have any skin in the long term and its on par with every other SV sets. As someone who has been hoarding SWSH sealed for years I hope we get a return to form once the SV phase is over... Anyways, g'day and thanks for the content per usual.
Appreciate ya watching homie 🙏🏽
The real question is why is there a D in the word fridge but not in refrigerator 🤨
Most japanese cards are beautiful. Even Chinese cards are spectacular. I don't usually buy them unless they are exclusive though. Collecting for me is about getting personal grails and things i think are top tier. The problem with modern is that they are so up and down. For now I'm focusing on vintage, where prices are more stable. In a couple years I'll pick up more modern stuff.
Investors: I don’t like it, because I can’t read it! 😂
Translation: I don't like it because there's no money in it.
@ double true!
Influencers/investors don’t like cheap cards. That’s all
Japanese AR cards on ebay are so cheap and I love it
Was about to sleep but lemme watch my homie's new video first 😎
Sleep tight homie
@@OpossumBud Thanks 🙏
Opossum is here too squish all market excitement. Everyone is wrong except him.
Everyone else’s opinion is all about the excitement I’m sure my fault 😂
Latias latios gx alt art out of a single dollar tree pack. Best pull I will ever have. Ever
The first couple sets in SV you were basically guaranteed two SIRs in English boxes
opossum video curing my stress lately
Here for you buddy 🙏🏽
respect dawg
I have been getting a few Chinese S/S ALT arts for $25 great deals the art is affordable. Now i can stop trying so hard to pull certain cards that are over 1k because i have the cheaper substitute 😮
Yup way better of a price point
Yeah like for instance I like the Miriam card. Pulling in English feels like a $50 value or excitement level lol
Bear with me.
And then pulling it in Japanese felt I don't know just way more special. It felt like I was pulling a $100 to $300 card.
Not trying to put fun excitement into a number but maybe that's the better way to explain it.
But yeah my Japanese Miriam I pulled is pretty much priceless to me. But yes I did decide to grade it and got a PSA 10
I wanted a becket but I had a feeling it was not going to get the Beckett 10
These people need to get out of Pokemon and into Memecoins.
Meme coins have no shipping or resale fees and they double in minutes.
lmao
Finally a comment that makes sense
funny how we assign value to things lol
be weary of how you spend your money the things you buy cant replace what is most important.
Haven't watched in a very long time BUT does bro have all of the Berserk deluxe edition mangas?
I’m saving up for Prismatic Evolutions. Going to buy Surging Sparks singles of my favorite cards. A lot cheaper doing that.
Is prismatic evolution not going to be box set?
Nah it’s a special set like 151 and Shrouded Fable so no booster boxes in English
@marcuslyons2144 Thanks mate.
Yeah, every now and then I get a lucky English booster box.... example being the one and only evolving skies box I opened, I got the umbreon vmax alt and the leafeon vmax alt.... but that's literally the only time I've had good luck like that, I quite often don't get a secret rare at all :/
Imagine pulling a gordie from a box of eevee heroes though...
That is depressing. It is like. Man I coulda just bought this xD
ENG is the last language i prioritise nowdays the quality and texturing is so medicore lol. Even Korean is a bit ahead of english texture wise. But yea every asian language print over english for me nowdays.
I feel like sellers on whatnot flooded the American market with Japanese products and single cards when they were looking for a cheaper option for things to rip on stream and in return it left people with a bunch of Japanese product in cards that they cannot recoup on hence wanting prices to go up.I’m sure a lot of suckers got stuck with product Or bought hundreds of ar/sar’s cause a seller on whatnot told them they can make 100k/month selling Japanese singles for 2$ each without mentioning that the sellers in Japan selling to them are also on eBay charging 1$ with free shipping 😢😂
I just like opening packs and putting cards in my binders.
Pokemon 😁
Indeed
❤
😎🙏🏽
I collect either artwork is artwork, also Korean as alt arts are cheaper most of the time
cool, but korean writing and chinese writing is ugly on a card, and im not the only one that thinks that. if thats all the cash you have im not knocking you, its just the same excuse i've heard since 1999 (same art).
where do I get that shirt tho
I love Japanese cards. I buy and hold sealed for English but the singles I buy are almost always Japanese.
I’m spending my time rn collecting basically exclusively English BW/XY era stuff and ignoring SV entirely… imo you have to be super brave to sink a ton of money into the singles market for modern English
This may be one of the worst takes ive seen on investing advice in comment sections lol no one listen to this....
@@RobertZ1991I’m talking about as a collector, not an investor. Sorry not everything is about making money; some of us actually want to hold onto the cards we buy for as long as we physically can. The fact of the matter is that if you are a COLLECTOR (not a money bro) the English SV market is grossly overpriced and over inflated and the Japanese versions of most cards will always be the better way to go.
If you’re dumping a ton of money into English expecting even further explosive growth then yes it’s a risk
@@OpossumBudexactly, but I’m apparently just a stupid person with bad “investing” advice for calling that out 🤷♀️
Toilet wall maybe.
Nah man all the walls
🤘🤘🐠🐠
Hey fish 🐟
Hell yeah. Like the hobbie only because like the money.
People should play the Pokemon TCG GBC game. That was a fun game.
You can't pull double SIR anymore though since they changed the pull rates for Scarlet & Violet year 2. But the first 4 main sets you could definitely pull two SIR in one box or 1 SIR and 1 GOLD. Thanks for the great content!
I pray that japanese cards don’t go through another boom, trying to go to Japan next September and I’d rather not have boxes be 3x msrp
how much is the Chunkachu VMax these days? Yeah, I did that once--not Pikachu hunting again. I WILL buy the single of that Hydreigon...
I think of Pokemon cards as currency for each country. so English pokemon cards are equivalent to the US dollar.... people will exchange for US dollar at a loss. Japanese Pokemon cards are literally 2:1 in terms of price. For example The japanese Greninja psa 10 is like 200 bucks. The English Greninja is touching almost 700 dollars +. Same with Chinese, indonesian, korean... they are all cheap unless its a prize card like the Victini from indonesia prize card that is unique illustration rare.
151 OR NONE Baby 🚀 to the 🌕
People that can't afford one start collecting the other lol
Probably bit of an ebe and flow here, English prices skyrocket which prices people out, they look for more affordable options, so they pick up Japanese. Then the increase in demand results in an increase in price.
I love latios and latias, but I’m not spending a booster box’s worth on each of them.
I’d rather go without.
Edit: just seen that Latios is actually pretty reasonable, so I might actually consider picking the pair up …. Maybe 😂
I open korean boxes cuz im addicted and its cheaper i love the arts.
Korean boxes rock imo
Mew!
Mew
The community is different
i think i will start over with pokemon new year near me hahaha
Daddy 😘🫶
Son 😎
I think it’s important to remember that the english speaking market has almost full control over EVERY market. Japanese people have less spending power and a weaker currency than the dollar so if Americans decide to pump up japanese again, it’ll happen
Fomo is a real thing 😂
Oh 200%
Duolingo is actually a Pokémon
Stick to what you like and dont just chase the hype. Your Collecting and investing will pay off one day, regardless of what the "experts" say. 😉
.....maybe....but id still stick to english if long term is your game. ive got so many cool NM base set and up japanese holos that are worth fractions of their english counterparts and did not appreciate at the same rate, so theres that. just buy and enjoy what you can afford and dont sweat the rest - theres always someone with more money and cooler stuff than you.
Yea im guessing people have not seen a Japanese card full art which is why they don't value it as much. I mean to me Japanese looks way nicer and shinny/colorful.
Japanese gang
I like money …… we should be friends!!
English vs Japanese goes back to base set my dude. Quite simply - cheaper, more/guaranteed/consistent/better pulls. English gets sold out or too expensive, what else is there, oh look, japanese cards at the right price.....ooooooshiny..... This is young me back in the late 90s 🤣