While kids in most parts of Japan are obsessed with Pokémon cards, the children of Kawara are clutching to something a little closer to home.
They are playing a trading card game (TCG) where the stars aren’t fantasy creatures, anime heroes or even famous baseball players, but ojisan (middle-aged or older men) from the local community of Saidosho.
On the surface, this Ojisan TCG looks like any other collectible card game. As of March 18, there are 47 different cards in the collection, including 28 featuring local men with stats and special abilities.
Take the Firewall card, for example. It features Mr. Honda (74), a former fire brigade chief who helped keep the town safe for decades. Then there’s Soba Master Mr. Takeshita (81), who runs a local soba noodle-making class and now holds legendary status among the town’s youth.
Dudes rock
Hell yeah. Where’s my Stavros or Nick Mullen emoji, damnit?
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Trade you three Divorced Facebook Guys for your Model Train Guy
Divorced Facebook Guys are a dime a dozen, if you want my Model Train Guy the lowest I’ll go is a Birdwatching Guy and two Car Guys
terrible deal, maybe the worst deal ever
Basic: Single Guy
Stage 1: Married Guy
Stage 2: Divorced Guy
If we had this in the US it would be nothing but divorced dads and thumb shaped car dealerships owners
I’d play a game like Chez Geek but with divorced dads and thumbs where you have to survive a midlife crisis before your opponent makes you buy Twitter or some shit.
“Blue Eyes White Devil” would be the chase card from the base set.
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The most popular of them all is probably All-Rounder Mr. Fujii (68), a former prison officer turned community volunteer. His card is so sought after that local kids have even started asking him for autographs.
We need that kid who threw Yugi’s Exodia cards off the ship but for the shitty retired cop card.
I’m imagining there’s a few rare dudes that have kids chasing them with cameras trying to make bootlegs
Imagine being the guy with the worst stats on your card. No one talks to you. Your marriage suffers.
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Communism can never succeed until it has trading cards of local exemplary workers.
Them ojisans aren’t exactly middle aged, unless Japan’s life expectancy is now in the 130s or 140s?
ojisan kinda has the vibe of the US term “unk” - like it’s for someone who is too old to call “oniisan” (big bro), but not literally a bag of bones like “ojiisan” (gramps).
Yeah I know but the title says middle aged…
I would still call those guys ojisan though!
My friends and I would do dumb shit like this all the time as kids. Especially since I grew up in the first pokemon/Yu-Gi-Oh craze. Idk if this is newsworthy but it’s nice to see kids are still doing stuff like this.
Seems like this was printed by a community council type of organization, not the kids themselves. It’s still cool though and apparently has encouraged kids to do community volunteering
That’s actually really sweet.
You don’t very often hear of sweet news coming out of Japan.
