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Hello all, today I came across this seemingly Japanese-only fandom for a trading card game “Animal Card Game”[0] which, as far as I can see, was a spin-off of a webcomic series[1] by someone known as “Card Game Rabbit”.
Are there anyone here well-versed with he Japanese fandom that might have an inkling of ideas as to their prevalence/popularity, and what the fandom is like/about in general?
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This is what I could manage to glean with Google Translate:
Essentially, there was an ongoing webcomic series “Card Game Rabbit” by documenting the titular character’s slice-of-life scenarios while playing a fictional card game, capturing common tropes and interactions that trading card game players commonly experiences (basically kinda like ProZD/Sun-Won Cho’s frequently ad-hoc fictional shows or tabletop games).[0]
Then a printing company (Daiko Printing) contacted the webcomic’s author (Wataru) asking if he’d be interested in actually developing a card game for real based on the throwaway mentions in the webcomic, which lead to a successful crowdfunding campaign in 2024.[1]
Since then it has begun gaining popularity and introduced several new runs and decks.
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Apparently the webcomic has such a following that there was even a professional voice actress that made voice-over versions of the comic on her youtube channel.
Here's one example episode that I thought very impressively conveyed the sense of dramatic tension that the story manages to evoke:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vRhZ4IifT8&list=PLHYplqZT1G7_Acdm-TEDS-TSA73PMPSc2&index=9
(Note: I watched it via the auto-translated subtitles, supposedly "Swordsman" is an erroneous autotranslation to the given name of the eagle character who is a protoge' of the panther character in the story.)
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Character list: https://w.atwiki.jp/aniwotawiki/pages/56667.html
Portraits: https://shop.tcg-ajito.com/search/animal_card/tokun_card/list
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