 Hello everyone and welcome to a special video on the channel. Today, I'm gonna be taking us on a tour around Tokyo to check out sort of second hand stores to see if we can find some rare and banned Pokemon cards. Now, if you're a fan of my channel, you might have seen Pokemon pop up here and there in between massive amount of dinosaurs. But Pokemon is kind of like dinosaurs. They evolve and I mean, some of them are prehistoric. And today we're gonna be looking at some of these stores and in them, they have a variety on hoping they will do of different Pokemon cards. When it comes to the West, Pokemon cards are, well, I mean, let's be honest, they are now basically stocks and trades. There's no other way to put it since certain YouTubers started selling them for millions. But when I was a kid, I would love to go to car boot sales, I think Americans would call them yard sales. You know, you'd quickly like scroll through the eyes and got, got, need some stuff like that. In Japan, that is still a thing. You can still go to stores, find loads of Pokemon cards from the 90s. That's exactly what we're gonna do here today. I'm looking for some band cards, stuff that didn't make it out of Japan, whether that's artwork that the West just didn't see that, you know, that fitted with a kid's program or whether they were just cards that were actually sold in vending machines. So without further ado, let's start this adventure. Got to get them all. And even though I've spent the first minute of this video telling you that we're gonna be looking for Pokemon cards, I couldn't help myself. I had to find something dinosaur related. What is this? Dinosaur leader. Velociraptor simulation walking. To get a gun done. Make a couple of noodles. Here we go. This is stuff. All right, these are the new ones. That's a promo card. They keep the expensive ones in here, but they usually have stuff out that you can just sit through that's like 50 yen. Like we'll find these in most of hobby often book offs like just behind if they're expensive and if they're in good condition as well. Not really what I was looking for. But you never know. You can find some rest. I mean, band stuff in here too. Lots of UVR cards. These babies. Let's have a look in here. These seem to be all newer cards though, these ones. Yeah, I think they all are from the same set guys. Oh. Oh. You can see the age. You see the yellow. Wow. Okay, this is where we're going to find lots of interesting things. So loads of energies, but then let's get out of this bundle here. So we got old jungles, fossils, more jungles. And then just a random one that's not even old. Wow. So yeah, you'll see that these are in various conditions. So I'm not so great. Also, I kind of, you know what I want to do? I want to find like a really beat up card and then get it graded. I think I went to one of the ones and they had an aerodactyl and someone, like a kid had folded it like four times and then he put it in the bucket to go to school. I didn't buy it and I will regret that the same for the rest of my life. Oh, that's a cool art. I don't know what that is though. It's a cool art though. It's what I quite like about this. I'll just see cards like, oh, that looks awesome. Oh, seeing that though, just a random old ruin card there from the Caterpie. Just in the middle. Same with an old scoffing as well. That's terrifying. Jesus. There we go. All the old school games. You've got your classic Donkey Kong country. Actually, I think that might be a Japanese exclusive game. I think it is. I think that one is it's freaking Tingle's Playhouse or whatever. Coming for Pokemon, get a Zelda title. What a really good condition. What's it called? Pikachu? Hey, you Pikachu. Hey, you Pikachu. That's it. Yeah, I might have to get that. Oh, wait. Wow. Is that the one that comes with the exclusive card with a Lugia card? Is that the second game they made? Part two. Part two. Did you just ask to see if it comes with the card? Yeah, because if it does, then you got yourself a super rare card. Yeah, I knew that. I just needed someone to confirm it. I know what I'm doing. Don't be silly. The box looks really good, Nick. I mean, it's simply open, but games like that, they weren't sealed back in the day. So, yeah, yeah. Ooh. This is good. Oh, OK. Ooh. Oh, OK, yeah. OK. This one doesn't have any manuals. Oh, it doesn't have any manuals. Oh, is that OK? Yeah. There's a card. Hey, it came with a card. That's a rare card. So the first one was international release, right? The first training card game. This one, did that come out anywhere but Japan? Only Japan. So only Japan, and the only is only Japan, it came with an exclusive card. And of course, that's rare, because everyone who bought the thing got the card itself. The fact that we actually found this with the card unopened, super rare find. And that's the first one we've hit so far. So, let's get going on more. The reason why we're going all the way sort of around Tokyo is because a lot of these stores, like the book offs that are in Akihabara and things like that, are basically pillaged. I, you know, people like me who want to find these rare and exclusive things, but the best way to find the rest of is to go out here. In 2015, I bought loads of Pokemon stuff, and I kind of collected all of the base set, gym heroes, all that jazz. But I never really got the Japanese stuff. And because Japan has its own sort of economy when it comes to cards, these rare ones have only recently, since the Pokemon boom has happened, come into the public light. That's why instead of looking for like, oh, the first edition Charizard and stuff like that, I want to find these rare cards. They might not be the most expensive thing that we just kind of found a really expensive card. But it's fine, we had to get it. I'm looking for more like, sitting through and finding those, you know, band ones and stuff like that. But one thing I never shared back in 2015, when my YouTube channel started taking off and I got some disposable income, I bought a bunch of Pokemon cards, mainly just for nostalgia, because when I was a kid, I remember opening those cards and I just didn't even hold a pack or a booster box or something. I just wanted to relive and luckily, I sort of struck gold and then of course, the whole, you know, I don't know, quarantine happened and people were like, oh, I can't go inside, Pokemon safe. And of course the price is skyrocketed. And unfortunately that means that nowadays, if you want to have the experience of opening up a base card, you ain't gonna get that. Like I said, I never showed this, but like that was basically the biggest my collection ever got. To really explain what I'm talking about here, this is a receipt for a base booster box I bought in May of 2015 and this is the exact same type of booster box that sold last month. Just a tiny bit of a difference there. I think I had all of the base sets, jungles, fossils, even the rare Australian jungle booster box that you could get, which is red Pokemon logo. It's pretty much the only difference, but it's alright, you need to keep it. So hopefully we're gonna hit up some more stuff and get some of those rare cards. Oh, don't worry. I know what you're thinking. Does this theme song play in all of these shops? And the answer is yes. Yes, it does. Let's see if we can see any rares, any retros. Oh, there you go. Interesting. So that's a gym. That's an old one. Now that the versus series was skipped over in the Western for Wizards of the Coast, but in Japan they didn't. So technically that is a rare card. I don't know, it's just a water only. It's not like I'm looking for a rare card there. So I don't know. Oh, there you go. There you go. Then in machine card. Oh, nice. A random retro squirtle? Just, I mean just there. I mean, that's what this is. It's like opening a booster pack except for you only pay for the good ones. You don't even need to have a stack of things you don't need. I've got some old ones here. A pass card. I've never heard of that. Oh, it's a vending machine card. That's all that is. The bottom right, I'm pretty sure that was only released in the vending machines and it's only 220. Okay, we're not leaving your empty handed. That's good. I'll need to research a little bit more on what that card is. Because that back, that's old. One thing would be amazing to find. And I love that they do this and they have all the board games is the Pokemon original board games. That's a rare one. I saw it not two long ago, but it was in Terrible Lake. So hopefully, this is Wacka Diglett. I really regret not buying that. That's from the re-release of the Pokemon first movie, that is the new two. It's stuff that you just wouldn't find. Like, I would in the UK. What would be like the rarest thing you could find in the UK? Like, as far as a place to go to find stuff like this. Like car boot sales, honestly. I didn't even know if those exist anymore. You could have a poop maker. Jelly poop. Whoa, that is a fossil. Ha, ha, ha. A Mosasaur. Oh, there you go. OK, so this is the first time we're seeing a banned card. I think it's Misty's Tears. I know in Japanese, it's just called Kasumi. That one's a changed artwork. So that's the first time in four publics. We've actually found a card that was banned. I thought we'd find way more than that. And so you really only see that bit at the top. Oh, I think that might be it. But that's it. So actually, it's not really that bad, if I'm going to be honest. And as far as coloring on the card goes, seems to be all right. Technique of a pro. It is. It really is. There we go. Whoa. That's a pretty one. Welcome. Hello. Stegosaurus. Oh, my God. So my color. So, welcome to day two of hunting for Pokemon cards in Japan. We kind of had some good polls, some good finds. I didn't really find any of the old retro ones that I was wanting, like the banned art from the original set. So we have come here to Hachijuji. As you can see, there was hard off, hobby off, off house mode off, book off, hard off, off, off. There's all of the offs. So we've come here, and this is a massive place. Everything that they have is here. And hopefully, fingers crossed, they have some rare cards as well. I have been here once before. I have found some good stuff. So hopefully, find some good retro cards. So, let's go. This is what we're looking for. Oh. Whoa. It's a McDonald's card, and it's a promo. Oh, but it's been clipped. Damn. This looks to be an exclusive Japanese card, the Don fan. At PSA 10, someone's asking for 55,000, which is 388 quid. This will not get bad because it's been clipped. It seems to go for, like, decent prices otherwise. But yeah, since this is a Japanese exclusive card, which I've actually found one, I'll take this. And these ones as well. These are, I don't know what this is, particular, but it does say first edition at the bottom of all of these. Maybe they always say first edition, but we're taken anyway. Orsi, Graveller, Macargo, Mariep. Really rough. Yeah, they are really rough condition. Oh, look at that, it's been folded. These have been folded, no. Okay, we have looked through all of this. There are thousands of cards. Probably millions. Maybe not millions, but thousands. Hundreds of thousands, maybe. This is all the retro stuff that we've found. We checked through every card just flicking through. This is all the energies we found, but I mean, they're all in various states of decay. Right, okay. But this is the more interesting ones. You've got all these trainers from various packs. You've got, like, the retro trainer. You've got the gym heroes. Some Gen 2, neogenesis fossils. Back to retros with the heels and the potions. There's a lot of these. And then some other neogenesis thing. I'm not exactly too sure what that is. Then this one as well. I've never seen this card before, but I'm assuming that's just because I've never seen it before. Not that it's a rare one. Oh, that's interesting, but it's, you know, very beautiful. I'd love to get that one graded. That would be amazing. See what grade that gets. Although, speaking of graded, how about a card that has been folded? Wands twice, oh my God. You find these ones, did you? We've got some neogenesis. Oh, that's a good one. Although it's got a mark on it. Well, that's a sticker. That's a bugger. Prabby, crabby, crabby, war turtle. Okay, let's look at this one. Manki, Primer, Hoppup, Net, Two, Cyndaquil, Mareep, Macargo, Swineb, Graveler, Horsy, Aipam, Tentacruel, Munky, Munky, Munky, Fero, Snowball, Kidgey, Rihorn, Golem, Golduck, Puckable, Ammonite, Shellder, Sandslash, Abra, Goldine, and Octillery. And then in this one, we have Zatu, Arbok, Execute, Paris, Medipod. These were an interesting ones, because I think these are the ones that you scan the barcode of, Stantler, Goldine, and really not too bad, Shabby Kabuto there, from Ruins or whatever it was called, again, Gen Two. More than I found for Whitney that she wants. A Swirlix, look at this. So of all of those, probably just gonna go get this one, but, well, they're all like, none of them are rare cards or banned cards, and they're all in various conditions, and we'll put all these back. So what we've done is we've been glorified, sorted, so that's good. Look, look, look at it. It's all retro stuff. He's so happy. Utography, Magica, Ciso. All retro, it's so good. This is what you want. This is what you want. Let's have a look. See if we can find any rare cards. I don't know, Crock-n-Wall had different art, it might have, than the UK one, but let's have a look. What are we seeing? Off in the air, off in the air, off in the air. Even piece. Ooh, that's a Venom Machine card. Yes, get in. Ah, yeah, I don't even know what that says, but it's Originsome thing. No katamari. Tenki no katamari. Tenki no katamari? Ooh, what is Karamari? Karamari's a game. Yes, I don't have this one. Oh, frick yeah. It's the Banmumu milk. Oh my God, because it's like center, it's sucking out a weird like cow bottle thing. Hell yeah, I've been looking for this guy. This card, banned, and in really good condition, like look at that. Banned in the UK or everywhere. Just outside Japan. Yeah, 55 yen. So what's that like? 30 pence? 30 pence! You could sell this for like a five-bit easy. Not that I would, but you know, you're good. See this guy? Whoa, that's impressive. This isn't normal for hobby offs, but if you wanted, you can buy old arcade movies. Look at that. Beautiful CRTV screen. Incredibly burnt out. You've also got like this weird thing. I don't even know what you would do. I think you're supposed to scoop, scoop the balls and into the weights and something like that. I'm not too sure. Put it in place and sort it home. You've got these. But they're not all slot, you've got screens. You can have a monster hunter one. Even Evangelion. I think Pablo would like that. So just like that, the sort of adventure that we embarked on, I think it was like two days or maybe a week ago now since I actually recorded it, is over. Yeah, it bugs me so much. I have something in my hair right here. God damn it. What can I say? Searching in Japan for Pokemon and Pokemon merchandise is insane. We found some really rare cards, some that I wasn't expecting to find at all, like Game Boy Color Trading Card Game 2, which came with the limited edition Lugia card. I've seen already online that if you grade it at PSA 10, it goes for, you know, such and such amount of money. But really that's not why I collect this. And it's not why I collected Pokemon in the first place. Back when in 2015, when I got all those booster boxes, that was literally just because it was nostalgia. And I just wanted to have it in front of me. Little did I know that a YouTuber would then end up, you know, sky-hiking the prices so that what was once, you know, a little hobby of mine, now you have to be loaded in order to get them. But in Japan, they have all, as you've seen in this video, a variety of cards that really are quite cheap and are rarities to find, which is kind of what I want. But we're not ending the video here. No, we're actually going to unbox something. Hey, I like to spoil you guys. Just as a little tidbit of information, I bought this shirt the other day because like, you know, we did the Pokemon card thing, I might as well buy a shirt. And it came with a freaking collectible card. And not only did it come with a collectible card, I got like a baggie of it. I think it's the mischievous Pichu. So even when I'm not trying to find Pokemon cards, they seem to find me. So that's a thing. But Victor, the cameraman on the first day was kind enough to gift me with a pack of the newest Pokemon collection cards, whatever you want to call it, came out, which is a re-release kind of of the first 151, you know, the good one. And everywhere we went, they were completely sold out except for the last place. And he, I think he bought five of them and graciously gave me one of them. So why not we do you a solid victory and we open up on the video? Not just for me, but also. All right. I've never actually opened one of these before. All I know is that for some reason, the most prized card or the most expensive card in this entire set seems to be Erika. Is it Erika? I used to call it Eureka when I was a kid. But yeah, apparently if it's got a cute girl on it, then in Japan, it seems to go for a lot. That you be the judge of that. I don't know the card trick, but yeah, we'll just get rid of that. Oh, flip it over. Oh, ghastly or in Japanese is known as ghost or gosu. Okay, no idea what that is. Far-fetched kamonegi. I think that's like duck onion or something. There's definitely onion in there. Kodaku, I guess Kodak, I suppose. Oh, is that the rare? We've got a cute little bulbous soul. Oh, it's adorable. Look at him there. That might be the rare. Oh, we got metamon. Oh, that's nice as well. So that must be it, right? They must be the rare ones. I'm assuming we've got rapadash, also known as gyaroupu, gallop, charmeleon, risador. And that's it. Oh, wow. Not even a single energy. That's amazing. Why did they do that with all of them? The ditto kind of reminds me of the ditto I got in the vending machine. Yeah, we get those two up. Look at those two guys, separated by like 15 years or God knows whatever it was. So thanks again, Victor, for allowing us to, oh well, for me to put something at the end of the video. Very kind of you. But if I was to say my favorite card I've collected from this whole trip, aside from the super rare one that's down there, honestly, I'm not gonna get graded. I'll just keep it like that because it's just like booster boxes. They're the rare thing. I mean, you can get millions of slabs of plastic with Pokemon cards, but you can't get the originals. I did cave and I did spend 24,000 yen on this Pikachu because it's one of the rare ones. It's got like the really old back on it as well as, I mean, we did find the very questionable unedited original artwork of Jinx, but I really was really stoked when I got the Moomoo Milk ones because I don't know, I have this nostalgia with the old cards and the fact that this was banned and we never got it, but it's still like original. Actually, strangely enough, one thing I really like was finding this gym card. Technically, it's not a banned or changed, well, it is changed, but it's not a banned card, but it's also one that wasn't released outside Japan because everyone would be thinking, what the hell is Tokiwa City? Instead of like Boulder City or whatever it was. Stuff like that, when you find these cards that are super rare or meaningful in a way, it's like, it wasn't on the list of my things to find, but I found it anyway. I mean, that's what the hunt's all about and hopefully going forward, I have this video does well or if I leave Tokyo at some point, maybe we can do a cross-country Japan search for the rarest cards we can find. But if you've enjoyed this video, leave a like and until next time, I'll see you guys later. Bye-bye.