Dragon Ball Trading Cards Game - Extra Inning

I finally put on binders my Dragon Ball trading cards.

They are the front binders of my new baseball binders dossier.

Yep, I like to make people think I'm that weird.

So the picture at top is the card back for the cards. That's all these cards have to offer on the back. So that's why there are sleeves with one side opaque. For cards that we don't need to see the back. But they look nice!

Here's an example of a special card. You cannot see because I took awful photos, but the card shines.

But some cards have more things shinning that others.

The above Dragon card is all shinning, and by that I mean all letters, not the picture (sadly!).

But in this Goten special card only the name letter are shinning.

And I think you can see better in this photo...

Like all trading cards' games there are cards for spells, enchantments, creatures, heroes, magic, places, powers...

What I like is that we get moments for Dragon Ball and for Dragon Ball Z.

Dragon Ball probably was the one and only true Japanese hit in Portugal.

When the Dragon Ball aired it was more kids and youth that watched it. But then came Dragon Ball Z and Universities stopped, Companies stopped.

Every single soul stopped to watch it on TV.

Even the kids nowadays know about Dragon Ball. Even if they prefer Gormitis and stuff like that.

Here is one of my favourite cards. Simply because I like Gohan.

At first I was quite the opposite about him but then I understood him.

I was a bit sad that he no longer transform in Super Sayan and change the visual.

But he is the most powerful of the Z gang!

Here we one binder page being the bottom line of cards the shinning ones. And also the two on the top left.

For the last binder page I saved the bad guys and the gods.

Vegeta not here because he's a bad boy but not a bad guy ^_-

And to end the post a filler card. Just because it's a filler moment in the anime it does not mean it is a bad thing.

I loved the filler where Goku and Picollo (try to!) take driving lessons.

And the Sayaman is cool too. Specially if you are interested in fanfics...

Dragon Ball cards - Extra Inning post

One of my favourite animes/mangas is Dragon Ball.

It was a historical moment in Portugal.

Everyone would stop what they were doing, from students to workers, to see what was up with the Son Goku and friends.

It was a mark in history because it was with Dragon Ball that the merchandising related to some 'cartoon' surpassed the barriers and we got a lot of different kind of merchandising.

There were t-shirts, toys, posters, etc etc etc...and cards.

Panini had some cards from the many sagas presented in the manga/anime.

Here are a couple of packs of them.

And here an example of one of the series cards.

It's hard to find examples on the web.

I'll go and have some work getting pictures from my album.

Well...I don't have the exact album of them. There were an album for each serie.

I don't have of them because I have them all in binders in a huge dossier.

But this Panini cards were not the jewel of the crown to me.

They had anime/OVAs pictures and some description on the back.

It was ok. But the design and *feeling* (card material) to it was truly amateur.

But I collected others. They were pricier than this Paninni ones. Like Panini use to sell the packs around 1€ and these ones I'm talking about were around 2€.

At the time I was a mere student so I had little money.

But ohhhh they were worth it so much!

I could only find an example of them in the web.

Can anyone help me find which collection is this?

They are awesome!

A couple of years ago I tried buying some trading game cards.

They sure are pretty cool too!

But the prob with the trading game cards is there is less space for the picture.

I like the collecting kind over the gaming style.

I'll be gathering info about my Dragon Ball cards just like I do with my Baseball collection.

Dragon Ball deserve it.