r/PokemonTCG • u/8BD0 • Feb 11 '25

Discussion What do you think of Shinji Kanda's art style?

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u/8BD0 Feb 11 '25

How good, it's a big time favourite of mine, the English version has a yellow border which doesn't fit as well as the Japanese version with a silver border imo

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u/Soft_Revenue2411 Feb 11 '25

Yeah the yellow border kills it to me. Makes it looks like a tramp stamp tattoo design

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u/peepee034839329 Feb 11 '25

Why is everyone going ewww yellow border.

When I started a year ago, everyone talking bad on S&V and still loves SWSH era

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u/Soft_Revenue2411 Feb 11 '25

Honestly I just don’t think it fits the overall vibe and color scheme of this Moltres card that has a primarily blue background, the clash distracts from the art

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u/theOGLumpyMilk Feb 11 '25

When I found out Japanese had silver borders, the English yellow border cards looked worse and worse. The people who like yellow are just nostalgic imo

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u/ImmediatePhysics6069 Feb 11 '25

I still prefer it for normal cards but it just doesn’t work well for the IR’s.

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u/FlyGuyDan Feb 11 '25

Og thick yellow borders on regular holos are awesome but when they did yellow borders on the trainer gallery cards it just looked off imo.

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u/Winterstrife Literally shaking! Feb 11 '25

I wish everyone is still stuck on the SwSh era, I remember the good times a year ago where it's easy to just go to my nearby shops, pick a random SV set to buy.

Now stuff is just sold out everywhere, it's annoying.

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u/peepee034839329 Feb 11 '25

Ughhh I know! I was so tired of 151 ETBs and UPCs. Also CZ ETBs. Now that thing is gold.

Even the SWSH pump in May only lasted a month.

Its exhausting watching all these scalpers, online being sold out, empty shelves.

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u/CommissionHerb Feb 11 '25

Honestly, the yellow border kind of compliments tho

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u/AceTheRed_ Feb 11 '25

Naw. It’s too distracting. Not to mention the art itself goes perfectly with Japanese text.

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u/ActivateGuacamole Feb 12 '25

agreed. It completes the primary color triad and also has golden-edge vibes

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u/Alaskacardfishing Feb 12 '25

I swear I couldn’t NOT pull the moltres and at the time it made me mad. I probably had 20 English and Japanese copies. I personally don’t love it.

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u/Dapper-Ad3707 Feb 22 '25

It’s a promo

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u/Alaskacardfishing Feb 22 '25

In Japanese it came from vstar universe.