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PokeMike
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Приєднався 4 тра 2020
A channel for Anime Trading Cards Collectors! I regularly post videos looking at new upcoming sets, openings and market talks!
Jujutsu Kaisen Union Arena - Can It Succeed Without Signed Cards Or Will It Flop?
Today we are checking out the JJK cards for the upcoming set that releases on 22nd November in English for Union Arena. Do we think this set will do well despite it not having any signed cards? Let me know what you think in the comments and thanks for watching!
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Join the pokemike discord here:
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You can also find me on Instagram:
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#unionarena #bandai #jjk
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Why I Still Invest In Modern Sealed Pokémon + mini vlog!
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A talk about why I continue to invest only into sealed pokemon for card games. Along with a mini vlog of a cat and city near where I live! Join the pokemike discord here: discord.gg/yKurkkKFpf You can also find me on Instagram: pokemike102
Kaiju No. 8 Trading Cards Are Coming! 🔥 Union Arena Signed Cards First Look!
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Only a few days until this set is released in Japan, let's take a look at the cards you can pull from this set! Join the pokemike discord here: discord.gg/yKurkkKFpf You can also find me on Instagram: pokemike102 #unionarena #bandai #kaijuno8
Union Arena Market Update: Prices Dropping After Two Weeks
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It's been two weeks since Union Arena released in English, let's take a look at the market prices since release day and see what's happened! Join the pokemike discord here: discord.gg/yKurkkKFpf You can also find me on Instagram: pokemike102 #unionarena #bandai #animecards
Hunter x Hunter Booster Box *OPENING* - Union Arena English Anime Card Game!
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Let's open the brand new english anime trading card game - Union Arena! We have a Hunter x Hunter booster box, can I hit one of those amazing voice actor signed cards?! Join the pokemike discord here: discord.gg/yKurkkKFpf You can also find me on Instagram: pokemike102 #hunterxhunter #unionarena #bandai
Bleach Booster Box *OPENING* - Union Arena English Anime Card Game!
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Let's open the brand new english anime trading card game - Union Arena! Starting with the bleach booster box, can I hit one of those amazing voice actor signed cards?! Join the pokemike discord here: discord.gg/yKurkkKFpf You can also find me on Instagram: pokemike102 #bleach #unionarena #bandai
Who Will Win In The Battle Of Anime Trading Card Games?
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Let's chat about english anime trading card games and which ones are popular and have the most potential along with what might or might not going wrong! Join the pokemike discord here: discord.gg/yKurkkKFpf You can also find me on Instagram: pokemike102 #unionarena #onepiececardgame #weissschwarz
Union Arena English Release Day Prices!
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Lets take a look at the release prices for the newest English anime card game.. Union Arena! Join the pokemike discord here: discord.gg/yKurkkKFpf You can also find me on Instagram: pokemike102 #unionarena #bandai
Union Arena Allocations and Sky High Prices! When should you buy?
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Union Arena Allocations and Sky High Prices! When should you buy?
Reacting To The New Union Arena Trailers *SIGNED CARDS*
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Reacting To The New Union Arena Trailers *SIGNED CARDS*
Goddess of VICTORY: Nikke - Weiss Schwarz Card Reveals *SIGNED CARDS*
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Goddess of VICTORY: Nikke - Weiss Schwarz Card Reveals *SIGNED CARDS*
A Guide To Collecting Anime Card Games! (2024)
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A Guide To Collecting Anime Card Games! (2024)
Weiss Schwarz Pen Signed Cards?! Dandadan - Fairy Tail - Oshi vol 2 - Azur Vol 2 + More!
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Weiss Schwarz Pen Signed Cards?! Dandadan - Fairy Tail - Oshi vol 2 - Azur Vol 2 More!
Oshi No Ko *OPENING* English Weiss Schwarz
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Oshi No Ko *OPENING* English Weiss Schwarz
Union Arena English Serials Are Coming!
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Union Arena English Serials Are Coming!
Fullmetal Alchemist & Black Clover Are Coming To English Union Arena!
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Fullmetal Alchemist & Black Clover Are Coming To English Union Arena!
New Union Arena Sets Are Coming… Can you guess them?
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New Union Arena Sets Are Coming… Can you guess them?
One Piece OP-09 Release Week Market Price Review!
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One Piece OP-09 Release Week Market Price Review!
What Union Arena Already Does Better Than Weiss Schwarz
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What Union Arena Already Does Better Than Weiss Schwarz
Weiss Schwarz - Nikke Goddess Of Victory Info
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Weiss Schwarz - Nikke Goddess Of Victory Info
Ranking Every Manga Rare From The One Piece Card Game!
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Ranking Every Manga Rare From The One Piece Card Game!
Union Arena 100 Girlfriends Set - First Look & Release Day Prices!
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Union Arena 100 Girlfriends Set - First Look & Release Day Prices!
I Sold $50,000+ Of Weiss Schwarz Product - Which Sets Sold Well?
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I Sold $50,000 Of Weiss Schwarz Product - Which Sets Sold Well?
One Piece OP09 Card Reveals! *NEW MANGA RARITY?*
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One Piece OP09 Card Reveals! *NEW MANGA RARITY?*
Azur Lane After The Reprint - Is Silver Cheaper?
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Azur Lane After The Reprint - Is Silver Cheaper?
The Union Arena Card Game Hit Rate Guide!
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The Union Arena Card Game Hit Rate Guide!
Hololive *OPENING* Premium Set Weiss Schwarz Ambassadors
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Hololive *OPENING* Premium Set Weiss Schwarz Ambassadors
Weiss Schwarz Serial Cards Are Happening! + Hololive Remix Set?
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Weiss Schwarz Serial Cards Are Happening! Hololive Remix Set?
Opening One Piece "THE BEST" Manga Reprint Set!
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Opening One Piece "THE BEST" Manga Reprint Set!
Union Arena Bleach Vol 2 - First Look & Release Day Prices!
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Union Arena Bleach Vol 2 - First Look & Release Day Prices!
Did a case break on my other channel da bear who reads. Hit a signed 2 star. No 3 star 😢
they haven’t done Naruto. I’m glad they’ll do FMAB tho English US might lower the value of JP but japan is light years ahead.. tryna pull hits from UA is so hard.. boxes might pop off if they don’t reprint @churmander
They said in promo materials that I got at Bandai Card Fest Dallas that sets will either be signatures or serialized but made it sound like the 2*s too
Oh dam that’s interesting! Let’s see what happens 😁
Bought a Japanese version today on Amazon and pulled a SP Ruby but I didn't get a PR card with mine (don't know why) sadly
I got a box on ebay how likely am I to be mapped?
PSA DAMAGED MY CARDS 🚨🚨🚨🚩🚩🚩 I received today my cards from psa, it was my first submission and....?..... Wtf? I sended 6 cards to grade on PSA. 3 was 10 and 2x9 and 1x8 and this cards with lower grade all have same damage in same place wtf? On the photos is 3 diffrent card backs... they was sended all together so its impossible it happend while delivery, they was all together then should be damaged all or no one....
PSA DAMAGED MY CARDS 🚨🚨🚨🚩🚩🚩 I received today my cards from psa, it was my first submission and....?..... Wtf? I sended 6 cards to grade on PSA. 3 was 10 and 2x9 and 1x8 and this cards with lower grade all have same damage in same place wtf? On the photos is 3 diffrent card backs... they was sended all together so its impossible it happend while delivery, they was all together then should be damaged all or no one....
Loving the UA content. My go to place. Appreciate it
Thanks!! 🙏🙏
Hello! I pulled 1 secret rare, 1 alt and 1 sp in a op08 booster box, i have 3 packs left. Does that means that there's an alt leader in those packs?
Pull rates changed after 05 slightly sorry! Hopefully someone else might be able to confirm!
Does buying the reprint version lesser the price or make cards unavailable ik it probably said in the video but I couldn’t hear that way
Nah honestly when u compare them to the Japanese the writing looks goofy same images and the back arts way better but the writing is just goofy in a bad way
Awesome pulls!! 🎉
Thanks man! Think I used my UA luck up on my AOT opening when I hit the two star Eren haha
Ur wrong it’s 50/50 , it’s either u get or don’t get it
Love the vid, thanks. I pulled a God Pack with all Manga Rares the other day for a PRB01 pack include in my Starer Deck. I am trying to understand what the odds are. Do you know if Bundai reaveals how many God Packs are printed into market?
@@otakuza5012 thanks! Dam congrats!! No I doubt they’d ever reveal how many god packs they put out there sorry
@@PokeMike Thanks man. All the best for your future pulls 👊
I feel UA is being hurt by the secondary market. Product is being brought up just to be resold at a higher price. These boxes I often see on legit preorder sites for around $52. But on the secondary market preorder is going for $89? The boxes and sets are smaller than regular Bandai games. Which allows it to be sold at a cheaper cost.
I think itll do well!! Tbh i like the 1 star c... tbh wish every card had a variant even if its not the best. Its better than not having a foil at all for the card.
This set feels so complicated because we have to make a lot of assumptions. I'd love to see some datasets like: - How many cases were sold? - Of those cases, how many were split / sold as a whole? - How many players can be tracked in relation to product sold? - How many signed cards are being sold from locations with a high playerbase? - What is the ratio of pull-to-sell for each * variant (1* - 2* - 3*) Obviously it's impossible to find this but I'd find it really interesting to show what people prioritise and to chart playing vs collecting and the financial investment each side has put in to the game. I think that the game is going to curve cheaper for the high end cards like you said but peak higher in playability, afaik blue JJK is/was the best deck in Japan for a very long time and as soon as the game was announced in the NA it felt like a lot of circles I was watching were biding time until this set was shown. The serial is a nice alternative, and having a definitive count of how many there are might appeal to really high end collections but personally the signatures look so much better, they feel more personal and the embossing looks lovely, regardless of price of investment I'd prefer a signature over a serial. I'm confident the names weight will carry collectability way more than the serial / signature though, I have friends who don't do TCG stuff other than the odd pokemon card that are looking in to this because Gojo/Sukuna/Geto are in the set, so I think the game will reeeeally curve to lower rarities (1* - 2*) because of its general wide appeal. I adore Bleach and HxH and grew up with them but aside from TYBW, they're very nostalgic and niche now. But JJK is EVERYWHERE, I'll walk past city market stalls and there are JJK keychains and plush toys every third or fourth stall. Personally I might pick up some starter decks and fill out some proxies but I might be getting my first case (One Piece OP09) so I'll probably be waiting to see what FMA has in stock or what they'll do with SAO alt arts Love the video as always 😁
I wanted to try it out but the scalpers made it too expensive to get into. I have better things to do with my money. I can’t afford to spend money like that when WW3 is about to happen.
Loving the Weiss Schwarz content! I'm about to open my first booster box & I'm learning a lot thanks to your vids - super insightful.☺️
thanks! I'm glad it's been useful and good luck with your opening!
Yuji!!!! He tells your opponent "no you can't" 😂
Please don't stop opening theseee
Ah sorry this is probably my last opening of this as that was both the hits from the boxes I had haha
Great vid Mike. Absolutely spot on.
@@realbillymiller1011 thanks! 🙌
Im excited to preorder both in english!
These cards are so good! I opened the packs from my 2 starter decks and got the One Legged Toy Soldier alt and it's a beaut. Definitely a set that'll be fun to open for everyone!
Dam nice! Yeh English set is literally just coming out now but seems it got delayed a bit here. I’ll need to try and get a box to open
That city is so beautiful!!! MORE VLOGS!!!! Also I am now a full time pokemon investor. When anyone asks me what im doing, I'll say you'll understand in 5 years xD
Haha thought some of you US guys might have enjoyed seeing it haha, it’s a shame the tiny tcg shop closed there this year though 😣 Hahaha 😂
This has been one of my favourite videos, especially the little winchester tour and tiny day in the life! I love watching vlogs and especially about card games and nice places. The investing in sealed is a nice insight too. I think you're right about patience to make returns, the closest I've gotten is trading in to some singles to try and get ahead of the market as a player in TCG's but even then I panic and sell as soon as I profit, I've seen cards tank in price or in some cases go waaaaay up after I sell and this is talking months not years. I definitely couldn't sit on sealed product with my habits and impatience 😅 It's such an interesting thing to see and hear the other sides of the community though, it feels hostile online like there are stigmas and divides between investing and playing and it's nice to relax and learn a bit.
Ah thanks!! Haha I thought anyone outside of the UK would appreciate that a bit. Yeh that’s the thing, it’s pretty much pure luck when you try and time a market. That’s why Pokémon sealed across multiple years works well. It’s slow steady and stable with the odd set that goes wild. But if and when you do take profit then it is what it is, you’ve done well. Will the set go up later down the line? Probably but also you sold and made profit so it’s best to try not to think about the what ifs if you can. Yeh a lot of people HATE the idea of investing in cards games. It’s funny as Pokémon seems to be the only one where you won’t get tones of backlash around investing but other card games can be wild if you mention it!
Great video Mike. Love this format. It's the UA-cam video equivalent of the movie, 'From Dusk til Dawn" 😂
Haha thanks man
How/ where do you go to find/buy cases everywhere I go no one is selling cases? Could anyone help me out?
Where are you from?
@@PokeMike Virginia, also thx so much for replying to me personally that’s awesome!!!!!!
@@cyrilcontessa4378ah I’m not sure where in the US would be best, I’d imagine you could email an online store though about preordering a whole case. Hopefully someone might see this and suggest some stores for you. No worries at all!
Loving your video
Mike's reporting on Pokémon, the top is in everyone!!!! In all seriousness though I still like modern Pokémon to. I do think it's getting riskier due to a lot of people doing it but at the moment the huge collector demand is keeping things balanced. In terms of a Pokémon set that's three years plus and still below retail the only one I can think of is Shining Fates. They really killed that set. I'd imagine it'll still go up though. I definitely think the best way is to buy cheap and wait. I just never want to be the moron buying 151 ETB's at £100 when they didn't want it for £50. The amount of people I've seen saying they're investing in Evolving Skies at £700 a box is insane. Definitely hard to justify buying newer card games. I've got a little bit of all the anime games (Weiss, UA, Universus, OP) but no idea if they'll do anything. Awwww, cute cat.
Haha yeh I’ve heard that across the years though, that people think everyone’s doing it but you’ll have “bad” sets come out like early SV sets that people struggle to sell and no one wants yet the cycle continues the same with chilling reign and battle styles, people just didn’t want these boxes at like £80-90 each for about a year. Haha my bad I completely forgot about shining fates!! Yeh let’s be honest 5-10 years from now it’s just not gonna be a £30 ETB. And if somehow it is well the 12 other ETBs from the era will be more than enough to make up from it. That’s it! You could buy ES at £700 a box, but there is risk that it COULD drop back to £500. But buying a set that’s a year old at £90 ish a box just doesn’t come with that same risk. Would that ever drop to £60 and if somehow it did would it stay there for years? Couldn’t see that happening and has still never happened. Just so much less downside risk than buying into hype sets or sets that are already wayyyy past RRP. Yeh in terms of sealed investing, outside of pokemon things like WS, UA and OP the risk is just far too high for me to justify. It feels like high risk high reward which generally rarely works out. I do own a few OP sealed boxes but it was kinda me just wanting to collect them than investing in a sealed case.
This NEEEDS to come to English asap!!!!! Idk how balance wise, how that would work since they usually powercreep that he'll out of sets.... so it might be too OP 😂
I know it looks soooo nice!
I fucking love Kaiju No 8, will be picking up singles from this set when it comes out to english if it does.
Yeh such a good show and looks like such a good set!
Thank you for the Union Arena content and daily updates The Kaiju no. 8 cards look awesome
@@pc_kira no worries thanks for the comment! 🙏 yeh I need to try and get a box to open 😁
Can you recommend some websites where i can buy them from?
Just seems like a lazy cash grab. Screen grabs and lack luster mechanics compared to other newer and established TCGs.
Dp you think the jjk set will flop? Cause it doesn't have any signature cards?
Personally I don't think so. I think trying to preorder it now is difficult as it is. I'm actually trying to order a case of it myself to open. Also its such a huge IP that I think that will be enough to cover that fact there is no sigs, plus as far as I'm aware it's quite a playable set. Overall obviously no sigs don't help it. But given it's the next first set for a solo release and it's JJK I think it will still do well. I'd imagine prices might be lower for the 2 stars as they don't have sigs etc but I don't think you'll see loads of cheap booster boxes and the set not selling. People will be chasing the serial card inside.
They will certainly drop in price more, even sealed product has tanked to near 50$ which much better then the scalped prices ppl were charging. Game seems to be thriving in clusters in the states, but all locals are dead in a 2 hour radius around me and when they announced gundam, pretty all the dudes I knew were hyped for UA dropped it like a hot potato. As far as investing goes, weiss feels like the better option cause if Bandai doesn't do a little more UA it's life span will be short in english. I enjoy UA quite a bit and the alt arts are straight 🔥 but zero scene, ips I'm not 100% into beside hxh, idk weiss feels a bit better at this point. (And I started playing/buying both at the same time) What I can tell ppl is enjoy and collect UA as hard as possible. Have fun and a good time. Bandai is shameless and they will and can drop their games when they want. So I hope we see longevity from UA but like all bandai games, I'm not holding my breath
Yep for sure, people just always want to get their hands on the latest thing asap. It's a shame theres no where to play near you for it. Yeh that's always the risk with bandai tcg, they are doing a great job with OP though so hopefully they can continue this too but yeh time will tell!
Yah, well see how this does long term. So far their doing great! Once we get past all the big names I wonder how it will hold up
yeh tbf they can just do multiple volumes for the big IPs like they have done in JP, I'm just curious if we will get those pen signed serial cards in English!! But also yeh, will be interesting to see where it is 6-12 months from now overall.
@PokeMike I hope we get those pen signed serialized cards!!! And the golden AP cards are really cool as well. Well see. I'm kinda say they didn't give JJK set 1 signs like they did with bleach and hunter.
Thanks for the content.
Ah no worries thanks for the sub and comment!!
I'm glad the cards are dropping but I'm not sure where they should end up. It does feel like they're drifting in to stable prices and the most popular characters have stayed (though I'm shocked Killua wasn't the priciest 2*). Looking at investing it's surely to early to see and unless the money's not an issue I couldn't imagine buying sealed to keep it sealed. Making money back off a card game feels like a nice way to recoup some hobby money though so what I buy definitely doesn't scale very high 😅
Yeh it will be interesting to see where it all eventually goes. For sure! I understand maybe an odd booster box for displaying etc but yeh tbh any tcg sealed investing I think is an unnecessary risk when you can just buy pokemon sealed!
Over priced for the demand
Is it available in EU ?
No it’s not been released here 😞
Is there a chance for the singed action point cards in the my hero academia and demon slayer sets? Great video thanks for the info 😊
Thanks! No sigs on either of those sets I'm afraid. Demon slayer vol 2 did have a serial action point though just without the pen sign on it.
Hxh the absolute goat 🐐
These cards look amazing! 🎉
I know right!!
That was so good to watch 😁😁 I didn't get any 7 cost Kurapika's in my boxes I'm a little jealous! The upcoming lineup is really good too. Not sure if I should stagger a box for each set or save up and go all in on FMA, and yesterday SAO has been announced in english. They really know how to keep me excited. Also decided to not upload my box recording and I just posted my pulls in the fb group, my voice was really breathy and the videos were very long. But I did get a crazy 7 Sr box with a foil AP so that's cool to have on camera! Can't wait to see more content in the future Mike and great video as always 😁
@@ForsakenToLimbo ah thanks! Yeh lots of sets means making some of those tough decisions! You gotta pick and your favs for sure! Ah okay, dam you hit a foil AP! Congrats! Thanks!! 🙌🙏
I have the Killua sr* card in Japanese plus the Gon sr* in that set
The Gon 1 * looks sooo nice!
Union Arena are the best looking cards on the market if you ask me I have been collecting Japanese Code Geass since they first came out in Japan plus Tekken 7 and HunterXHunter
Yeh they really do look amazing! I even like the early JP releases which a lot of people weren't a fan of!
We both got 1* boxes!!! And yes!!! Hunter x hunter was so slow to start, dropped it like you did, then started it back up years later. Nice pull on the killua I am jelaous!!! I GOT GENTHRU!!! WHO CARES ABOUT GENTHRU!!!!
haha yeh we lucked out a bit here, although yeh I'm def happy with my 1 * Killua, im sorry about Genthru man hahaha
There's been a few sales since your last update. A BGS 10 was traded for a 1st Ed Neo Destiny Booster Box Sealed (worth more than $45k) by Rhymestyle. SGC 10 was sold on eBay for $15.5k (probably a solid bgs 9.5). I see a BGS 10 listed on private sales for $44k right now.
Thanks for the update! I'll make the updates now