Is the TCG still alive?

>>27572057
Yeah, just not as popular.

>>27572057
i could never figure out why squirtle was standing on giant grapes

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>>27572089
its some weird art

>>27572057
Still one of the most popular card games, I think second after Magic.

>>27572057
Yes, it's alive. You can even play it online nowadays: http://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-tcg/play-online/download/

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TCG was always bad artists selling their shit because it had a pokemon skin.

I don't know why anyone would collect these cards. Some have nice art, but you can jsut buy the art book instead

>>27572278
Isnt YGO more popular?

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>>27572565
Some are good, some ok, some are absolute wtf

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>>27572609
Sugimori was always just a shitty Toriyama rip-off. The thing is Toriyama has good art

>>27572647
Toriyama is the best monster designer of all time.

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>>27572565
>buy the art book instead

What art book? This one or is there a TCG book collection?

>>27572126
Fuck those cards are nostalgic. Actually the whole first run of the tcg is my childhood.

>>27572647
>>27572666
Too bad all his people look the same. That CT pic could easily be Bulma, Chi Chi and Goku.

>>27572666
I think the only problem with Toriyama is that he can't create original characters worth shit. Either his females look like 18 or Bulma or his males look like a usual DBZ male. Still love his art though.

>>27572737
Hence why he should focus on designing monsters then?

>>27572672
TCG collection obviously. Sugimori can't draw.

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>>27572737
>>27572753

All anime people look the same, in almost all anime there is one character copypasted and many wigs, really I dont get why that criticism is only made to toriyama.

>>27572126
The legendary 120HP Charizard
Now even shitmon have 150

>>27572057
>>27567555
More so than recently, but the recent Steam Siege is kind of shit so it's not as active as it could be.

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how can i get my shitty artwork into the TCG?

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>>27572928
spamming?

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While we're on the subject of Toriyama, what do you think of Super so far?

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>>27572953

>>27572278
>>27572608
I goes Magic > Yugioh > Pokemon > Bushiroad garbage

>>27572972
stopped after 5 episodes because of the animation quality

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Isn't there any book with original GameFreak art? Like Hyrule Historia including sketches of characters and the development process. I'd so pay for that.

>>27572126
Fat Venusaur is amazing

>>27572810

Especially considering Toriyama is actually capable of a wide range of character designs, people just refuse to look beyond Dragon Ball and the RPGs he's done.

>>27572057
>>27572126
Where'd you get the art in these sizes...especially the non-holo evolution art?

>>27572976
>>27572953
>>27572928
I believe they have a po box you can mail em to.

>>27573126
20th anniversary reprint of old TCG cards in Japan. They released a few pics on their website to promote it

http://imgur.com/a/VIPxW

>>27572647
This makes me want to replay chrono trigger

>>27572928
Posting on 4chan is a great way to get your art seen my TCG devs.

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has Sugimori improved with time?

>>27573025
Pretty sure there's scans somewhere of the original concept sketchbook.

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>>27573538

The GBC game is on the e-store

>inb4 huehue you don't hack :^)

>>27573538
his 90's water color stuff may have looked wonky sometimes, but I'd take it over the new digital stuff any day

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>>27572810
Wrong, you're confusing stereotypes for the truth again. It stems from your ignorance.
Hell, you can even tell the difference between two clones.

>>27573216
Solid. Cheers, Anon.

>>27572928
>be Japanese
>have many friends
>socialize
good luck man

>>27573538
I'd say his digital shit, at least human-wise is worse than his early shit.

>>27573742
;_;

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>>27573763
or just draw mash-ups of whatever is popular to get a following, spam it everywhere, then continue doing that while also doing pokemon stuff.

I believe though, that hardly any fan artist has ever gotten a job? Like there's that one artist that draws pokemon in fursuits of other pokemon (for the lack of a better word) and he's really popular but they just decided to rip him off instead of hiring him if I'm not mistaken

>>27573216
Are these all?

>>27572981
Yugioh is still popular? I dropped interest when it was no longer Egyptian voodoo

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>>27573834
>
Yugioh is still popular? I dropped interest when it was no longer Egyptian voodoo
Yes and they just added a new card type

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>>27573918
what's that in American?

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>>27573939
Oh shit my bad, I just googled Pendulum monster

Here it is in burger

The green part of the card is considered a spell

>>27573939
>occhi diversi
different/various eyes, i think

>>27573834
well ok. I hope they make 5ban graphics step up their game. They look so bland sometimes

>>27573918
>just

Like 4 formats late, nigger

>>27574152
I thought it was like last summer

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>>27573216
Fuck that Surge with Electabro is nice.

>>27573002
What do you expect from Toei?

>>27574204
In 10 days it will be 2 years, in the TCG, so, like, 2 and a half to 3 years since they released them.

>>27572810
>>27572737
>>27572753
Toriyama is really just Japan's Butch Hartman, or Hanna-Barbera. I can't really defend this...

>>27573834
>Are these all?
yes

The tcg meta is a fucking joke now. All you gotta do is get an EX/mega and just sweep anything thats not an EX/mega

>>27572057
i've always loved the charmander card, look at his lil handsies

>>27574390
Wow, not much of a celebration. Was expecting some more iconic ones.

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>>27573715
Bleach REALLY isn't the example you want to set against Sameface syndrome.

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>>27577464
That's adult toshiro. Do you actually think they look similar at all?
Let me guess. Next you're going to show me Kaiben or some shit?

>>27573566
They're selling prints of this on Pokemon Center for like 200 dollars.

>>27577493
>>27577464
Yeah they do look similar
Hell if you put their hair to the same style, its the same person.

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>>27578089
You're blind. You're probably a nigger. Only they are so racist to white people

A couple of kids I work with were trading them today, so I would say yes.

>>27578221
>racist
>towards white people
lol

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>>27578307
Nigger confirmed. Your only example in a 700+ chapter series is not only just something that shows up for 2 panels, it's also something that doesn't look even remotely simmilar to Ichigo

>>27573680

Digital art and digital coloring is always a mistake.

It looks like garbage.

>>27578369
that's an excuse, both should be able to give off the same result

>>27572057
Holy shit I can smell the cards.

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>>27578221

>>27580864
read >>>27578344

>>27572085
Wtf are you talking about? Tcg just had a 5k person ages 15+ bracket is nationals.

>>27575197
You know nothing of the format.

>>27581117
Bruh, were you around during Pokemania when OP's cards were current?
Literally every kid collected the cards back then, schools had to ban them almost universally. That's a completely different scale from an active tournament scene.

>>27581359
At that time I was playing do the wave in the super trainer showdown.

>>27581359
>tfw you lived during the pokemon/yugioh craze
Feels good man

>>27581531
THe other day I over heard some kids talking about events from the first pokeboom, the golden pokemon cards, the crowded malls, even the Porygon episode and Lavender Town syndrome. Like they just discovered pokemon existed before gen 6. One had an Ancient Mew card and said he got it in copy of the first movie when it came out. The first movie. This kid said he was born in 2000.

>>27581612
Kids can't lie? Kids can't have older brothers that got him the card? Kids at that age talking about Pokemon? I'm not sure what's more unbelievable

>>27581531
>>27581531
I watched a kid get the shit beat out of him for stealing a gyrados from another kid. I mean it came out of a theme de k for fuck sake steal something worth it.

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>>27581641
natural selection, gotta start with the small crimes.

what are the chances of faggots here thinking Duel Masters is "not popular"

>>27581359
>comparing fad phase popularity to non-fad phase popularity

wew

>>27572737
Nah look up his style prior to DBZ, he used to have varied people.

>>27573538
Yes, the characters don't look like midgets suffering from same-faces with square faces

I didn't sleep due to pokehype like a week ago and since I was recently house sitting for my parents my mom asked about it.

When I told her about the new game I think she thought I was talking about the tcg, which I think I was real into when I was a little kid

>>27582103
No now they just look like things suffering from same-faces with square faces, bent legs and chipmunk teeth

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>>27582108
Women can never understand men's hobbies. She's just virtue signalling.

>>27572057
I-is Squirtle okay...?

>>27582218
>confuses Sugimori with the other artist

also they're not square faces, they're round faces

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>mfw I prefer the old Sugimori watercolor art
>mfw I like Toriyama's art
>mfw Tite Kubo sucks incredible giant ape balls and couldn't tell a good story to save his life

>>27582438
>Toriyama's art
He might draw sameface, but the man is a god at drawing mechs (of all things).

>>27582468

His mechs, monsters, and environments are really nice. I like his humans, but its true that they are all pretty similar. I'm okay with that though.

>>27581531
>tfw you lived in a shit country where only the anime was somewhat popular
I don't even know what should I feel

>>27572126
>Gyarados appears as his whole body on the picture
>not just the neck from above
17 FUCKING YEARS
FUUUUUUUCK

>>27572810
The image you're thinking of is of Yzak Joule from Gundam SEED, which has a notorious case of sameface, so not the best example