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99-788: Several specials, OVAs, and movies have been adapted as prequels, sequels and alternate stories; trading cards and video games are among the many forms of merchandise released for the series. The original series, movie, and Leave It to Piyoko! were licensed in North America by Synch-Point . The manga series is licensed by several companies. The original series, 4 specials and the Winter Garden special are now licensed by Sentai Filmworks . The characters of Di Gi Charat and her sidekick Gema first appeared in July 1998 in From Gamers ,

198-422: A Mickey Mantle baseball card ( Topps ; #311; SGC MT 9.5) was sold for $ 12.600 million. Sets of cards are issued with each season for major professional sports. Since companies typically must pay players for the right to use their images, the vast majority of sports cards feature professional athletes. Amateurs appear only rarely, usually on cards produced or authorized by the institution they compete for, such as

297-629: A college . Many older sports cards (pre-1980) command a high price today; this is because they are hard to find, especially in good quality condition. This happened because many children used to place their cards in bicycle spokes, where the cards were easily damaged. Rookie cards of Hall of Fame sports stars can command thousands of dollars if they have been relatively well-preserved. In the 1980s, sports cards started to get produced in higher numbers, and collectors started to keep their cards in better condition as they became increasingly aware of their potential investment value. This trend continued well into

396-418: A 2004 news release (for their new OVAs aimed at women) that about 50% of the customers who had bought their anime DVDs in the past fell into the category of 25- to 40-year-old men, with only 13% of purchasers women, even with all ages included. These statistics cover Bandai Visual anime DVDs in general, not just OVAs, but they show the general tendency at this point . Nikkei Business Publications also stated in

495-422: A PSA 10, meaning this large population drives down the value of each card. Popularity of trading cards is determined by the subject represented on the card, their real life accomplishments, and short term news coverage as well as the specifics of the card. While vintage cards are truly a scarce commodity, modern-day manufacturers have to artificially add value to their products in order to make them scarce. This

594-476: A Standard release and a "Premium Box" release that contained one extra disc. Di Gi Charat: Digi-communication I & II Digi-communication ( でじこミュニケーション , Dejikomyunikēshon ) is a game series for the Game Boy Advance . On October 25, 2002, the first game was released by Broccoli, the sequel a year later. The games are based on money management. Choosing one of the three main characters of

693-475: A brand of sports cards, called etopps . These cards were sold exclusively online through individual IPO's (initial player offering) in which the card is offered for usually a week at the IPO price. That same year, Tokenzone launched a digital collectibles platform that was used by media companies to distribute content in the form of digital trading cards. The quantity sold depended on how many people offered to buy but

792-544: A certain person, place or thing (fictional or real) and a short description of the picture, along with other text (attacks, statistics, or trivia). When traded separately, they are known as singles . There is a wide variation of different types of cards. Trading cards are traditionally associated with sports ( baseball cards are particularly common) but can also include subjects such as Pokémon and other non-sports trading cards . These often feature cartoons , comic book characters, television series and film stills. In

891-505: A collector is willing to pay. Valued at $ 44 billion today, the global sports trading card market is expected to surge to approximately $ 100 billion by 2027. Card condition is one aspect of trading cards that determine the value of a card. There are four areas of interest in determining a card's condition. Centering, corners, edges and surface are taken into consideration, for imperfections, such as color spots and blurred images, and wear, such as creases, scratches and tears, when determining

990-445: A comic. For the series' 24th anniversary, a new mini anime series titled Reiwa no Di Gi Charat has been announced. Hiroaki Sakurai is directing the new series at Liden Films , with Atsuko Watanabe providing the character designs. It aired from October 7, 2022, to January 3, 2023, on Tokyo MX and BS NTV . The theme song is "Aimaisa, Kōfukuron" by Masami Okui . Despite the series' low budget and its status as an advertisement for

1089-571: A company called Playoff started obtaining autographs on stickers that are stuck on the cards instead of them actually signing the cards. There is strong opposition against these types of autographs because the players never even saw the cards that the stickers were affixed to. The first association football (or "soccer") cards were produced in 1898 by the Marcus & Company Tobacco in Manchester, England . The set consisted of over 100 cards and

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1188-477: A fantasy world. The player finds himself alone with Dejiko in a forest, and she's lost her memory. In this game, players are given a very different view of Dejiko, as the amnesia makes her innocent and shy. This game later was ported to PlayStation 2 and was renamed Di Gi Charat Fantasy Excellent . Since the PS2 version uses DVD -ROM media, it features improved FMV cutscenes and additional VA. The PS2 port came with

1287-750: A few minutes to two hours or more. An episode length of 30 minutes occurs quite commonly, but no standard length exists. In some cases, the length of episodes in a specific OVA may vary greatly, for example in GaoGaiGar FINAL , the first 7 episodes last around 30 minutes, while the last episode lasts 50 minutes; the OVA Key the Metal Idol consists of 15 separate episodes, ranging in length from 20 minutes to nearly two hours each; The OVA Hellsing Ultimate had released 10 episodes, ranging from 42 minutes to 56 minutes. An OVA series can run anywhere from

1386-654: A games store, sequels for Di Gi Charat , several feature-length Di Gi Charat special episodes and OVAs , followed. Each special was around twenty minutes long. The specials introduce the Black Gema Gema Gang (Black Gema Gema Dan) and Dejiko's rival, Pyocola Analogue III (Piyoko). Di Gi Charat - A Trip to the Planet ( デ・ジ・キャラット 星の旅 , Di Gi Charat - Hoshi no Tabi ) is a movie that premiered on December 22, 2001 in Japan. The twenty-minute animation follows

1485-624: A much higher budget per episode than in a television series; therefore the technical quality of animation can generally surpass that in television series; occasionally it even equals that of animated movies . OVA titles have a reputation for detailed plots and character-development, which can result from the greater creative freedom offered to writers and directors relative to other formats. This also allows for animated adaptations of manga to reflect their source material more faithfully. Since OVA episodes and series have no fixed conventional length, OVA directors can use however much time they like to tell

1584-525: A necessity. Many popular and influential series such as Bubblegum Crisis (1987–1991) and Tenchi Muyo! (1992–Present) were released directly to video as OVAs. The earliest known attempt to release an OVA involved Osamu Tezuka 's The Green Cat (part of the Lion Books series) in 1983, although it cannot count as the first OVA: there is no evidence that the VHS tape became available immediately and

1683-500: A news-release that mainly 25- to 40-year-old adults bought anime DVDs. Few OVAs specifically target female audiences, but Earthian exemplifies the exceptions. Some OVAs based on television series (and especially those based on manga ) may provide closure to the plot – closure not present in the original series. The Rurouni Kenshin OVAs, to name one series, exemplified numerous aspects of OVAs; they were slightly based on chapters of

1782-558: A one- or two-part OVA in the 1980s. They paid money to anime studios, who then haphazardly created an OVA to be released to rental shops. Judging from sales, should a longer series be deemed feasible, TV networks paid for most of the production costs of the entire series. As the Japanese economy worsened in the 1990s, the flood of new OVA titles diminished to a trickle. Production of OVAs continued, but in smaller numbers. Many anime television series ran an economical 13 episodes rather than

1881-444: A person famous for using that card. The value of an autographed card has been debated, often depending on who has autographed it or the scarcity of the autograph. In some cases, an autograph can be seen as damage to the card, or graffiti . It is often said that when playing a CCG, the best way to obtain the cards you desire is not via booster packs, but by buying the individual singles you need for your deck. Purchasing booster packs

1980-414: A personal collection. Ordinary collectible cards serve little function beyond memorabilia , but CCGs are also used in game tournaments . Generally, collectible card games (CCG) fetch initial higher prices than trading cards because of the dual nature of being both a game and a collectible . Prices will fluctuate for CCGs as cards become legal or illegal to play in certain game formats. The value of

2079-590: A player's jersey worn in a real professional game; other memorabilia cards include pieces of bats, balls, hats, helmets, and floors. Authenticated autographs are also popular, as are "serially numbered" cards, which are produced in much smaller amounts than regular "base set cards". Autographs obtained by card manufacturers have become the most collected baseball cards in the hobby's history. This started in 1990 in baseball when Upper Deck randomly inserted autographs of Reggie Jackson into boxes. They are commonly referred to as "Certified Autographed Inserts" or "CAI's". Both

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2178-731: A promotional magazine for the Akihabara store, Gamers . In August of that year, the two appeared in Gema Gema ( げまげま , Gema Gema ) , a four-panel comic-strip in From Gamers drawn by dōjin artist Koge-Donbo . Dejiko was later adopted as the mascot of Gamers. Broccoli Books in the US published the Di Gi Charat Theater series, which contain a number of Di Gi Charat manga by Koge Donbo and several dōjin artists. The comic strip Gema Gema , which still runs in From Gamers ,

2277-575: A series of trading card collections, including Dinosaurs, James Bond - 007, Celebs, Gum Ball 3000, European Football Stars and NBA . In 2011, mytcg Technologies launched a platform that enabled content holders to host their content on. On July 1, 2011, Wildcat Intellectual Property Holdings filed a lawsuit against 12 defendants, including Topps, Panini, Sony , Electronic Arts , Konami , Pokémon , Zynga and Nintendo , for allegedly infringing Wildcat's "Electronic Trading Card" patent. In 2012, Topps also launched their first phone application. Topps Bunt

2376-747: A single episode (essentially a direct-to-video movie) to dozens of episodes in length. The longest OVA series ever made, Legend of the Galactic Heroes , spanned 110 main episodes and 52 gaiden episodes. Many popular series first appear animated as an OVA, and later grow to become television series or movies. Tenchi Muyo! , for example, began as an OVA but went on to spawn several TV series, three movies, and numerous other spin-offs. Producers make other OVA releases as sequels, side stories, music-video collections, or bonus episodes that continue existing as television series or films, such as Love Hina Again and Wolf's Rain . OVA titles generally have

2475-508: A specific audience, rather than the more mass-market audience of films and television series, or may feel less constrained by content-restrictions and censorship (such as for violence, nudity, and language) often placed on television series. For example, the Kiss×sis OVA series generally contains more sexual themes than its television counterpart. Much OVA-production aims at an audience of male anime enthusiasts. Bandai Visual stated in

2574-625: A sporting theme appeared in 1896, a cricket series by W.D. & H.O. Wills of 50 cricketers. The tobacco companies soon realised that sports cards were a great way to obtain brand loyalty. In 1896 the first association football set, "Footballers & Club Colours", was published by Marcus & Company, a small firm in Manchester . Other football sets issued at that time were "Footballers & Club Colours" (Kinner, 1898); "Footballers" (J. F. Bell, 1902); "Footballers" (F. J. Smith, 1902) and "Footballers" (Percy E. Cadle, 1904). The first stage in

2673-895: A standout item: the Chris John Autographed Card 1/1 Red Foil. Notably, this card achieved a groundbreaking sale at an auction, fetching IDR 6,900,000 and attaining the distinction of being the most valuable Indonesian Trading Card at that time. Cricket cards usually feature one or more players or a cricket-related theme. One of the first cricket collections was released by tobacco company W.D. & H.O. Wills in 1896. Other companies that released cricket collections were Australian Sniders & Abrahams in 1905, and Capstan (a Wills brand) in 1909–10. Alexander Boguslavsky Ltd. also released an illustrated sports collection (that included cricket) in 1925. In modern times, cricket cards have been produced by Futera (1993–98) and Topps . Panini released collections of some of

2772-589: A trading card depends on a combination of the card's condition, the subject's popularity and the scarcity of the card. In some cases, especially with older cards that preceded the advent of card collecting as a widespread hobby , they have become collectors' items of considerable value. In recent years, many sports cards have not necessarily appreciated as much in value due to overproduction, although some manufacturers have used limited editions and smaller print runs to boost value. Trading cards, however, do not have an absolute monetary value. Cards are only worth as much as

2871-420: A trading card's value. Cards are considered poor to pristine based on their condition, or in some cases rated 1 through 10. A card in pristine condition, for example, will generally be valued higher than a card in poor condition. Major card grading companies which provide these ratings on a scale of 1-10 include PSA, Beckett, and SGC. They provide individual grades for the centering, corners, edges, and surface of

2970-464: A unified plot. Many OVA titles can be thought of as "long films" that just happen to be released in parts. Release schedules vary: some series may progress as slowly as 1–2 episodes per year. Some OVA titles with a lengthy release-schedule ended up unfinished due to lack of fan support and sales. Many one-episode OVAs exist as well. Typically, such an OVA provides a side-story to a popular TV series (such as Detective Conan OVAs). At an early stage in

3069-598: Is a generic term for a trading card with a sports-related subject, as opposed to non-sports trading cards that deal with other topics. Sports cards were among the earliest forms of collectibles . They typically consist of a picture of a player on one side, with statistics or other information on the reverse. Cards have been produced featuring most major sports, especially those played in North America , including, but not limited to, American football , association football (soccer), baseball , basketball , boxing , golf , ice hockey , racing and tennis . The first set with

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3168-415: Is accomplished by including serial-numbered parallel sets, cards with game-worn memorabilia and more. Time can also make cards more scarce due to the fact that cards may be lost or destroyed. Some singles have been autographed by someone related to the card. The person who autographed the card may be depicted, or their artwork is visible on the card. Cards may also be autographed by the card designer or by

3267-469: Is illustrated for both vintage and modern cards, such as an 1894 American Tobacco Company card featuring Essendon player Will Crebbin which sold for $ 10,110 in 2018 and a 2004 Select AFL Conquest Triple Brownlow Medallist signature card featuring Nathan Buckley , Adam Goodes and Mark Ricciuto which was valued at $ 3,000 in 2018. Baseball cards will usually feature one or more baseball players or other baseball-related sports figures. The front of

3366-650: Is issued by Broccoli, included a Di Gi Charat comic called GemaGema Theater by Koge-Donbo. An animated Dejiko and her sidekick Gema first appeared on in a television advertisement for Gamers, set to the store's theme song , Welcome! by Hiroko Kato. The first anime premiered on the Tokyo Broadcasting System on November 29, 1999. Set in a Gamers store in Akihabara, the original series was sixteen episodes long with each episode running for three minutes. Light-hearted and relatively cheaply animated,

3465-560: Is not the main character. Instead it focuses on Piyoko, Rik, Ky, Coo, and the rest of the Black Gema Gema Gang as they leave Planet Analogue and make their way to Earth to kidnap Dejiko. At Anime Boston 2003, Synch-Point announced they have acquired North American distribution rights to the OVA. It was released on two DVDs on November 15, 2005 and March 7, 2006. Miyuki Sawashiro , the voice actor of Puchiko, also dubbed Puchiko in English for

3564-464: Is now around 15. Until recently, this was also the last animated project to feature the original voices of the characters. The story starts on Christmas with Dejiko working at a cake shop. She meets a young man named Senba Takuro while going home on Christmas night. Dejiko accidentally drops her cake, but Takuro exchanges his for hers, and love starts after several unplanned meetings with each other. A promotional video premiered at Anime Expo 2006 during

3663-581: Is often seen as a form of gambling , since you do not know which cards you will receive until after your purchase. Even though the price for an individual card may be more than the price of booster pack, you will likely save money in the long run, as opposed to randomly getting one from a booster pack. Trading card catalogs are available both online and offline for enthusiast. They are mainly used as an educational tool and to identify cards. Online catalogs also contain additional resources for collection management and communication between collectors. Sports card

3762-532: Is republished in these volumes. Broccoli Books have stated that all the manga will be translated and released. However, due to Broccoli closing their offices in the US in 2008, Dejiko's Adventure and Leave It to Piyoko! were left unfinished. Current Di Gi Charat manga released in North America: Broccoli Books Viz Media Studio Ironcat Comic Di Gi , a bimonthly magazine that

3861-488: The NBA , NCAA , Olympic basketball , WNBA , WBL , or some other basketball-related theme. The first basketball cards were produced in 1910, in a series cataloged as "College Athlete Felts B-33". The complete series included ten different sports, with only 30 cards being associated with basketball. The cards were issued as a cigarette redemption premium by Egyptiene Cigarettes. The number of cigarette packages needed to redeem for

3960-514: The "World Champions" series, among other sportsmen. After the World War II , other companies took over the manufacturing of boxing cards, such as Leaf (1948), Topps (1951) and Donruss . More recently, Upper Deck released several boxing series. In March 2023, Indonesian trading card manufacturer, FanGir, released their debut "Legacy" collection that featured Indonesian Boxing Legends Chris John and Daud Yordan. The collection includes

4059-512: The 1910s, all in full color). In the 1930s, the Australian division of British Godfrey Phillips Co. released a set of football cards. By the same time, Hoadleys, a local confectionery company, released a set of illustrated cards. Another confectionery company, Clarke-Ellis, also released its own set of cards. Other companies that launched cards sets in the 1930s were Pals Periodical, Plaistowe & Co., Carreras (two illustrated sets in 1933,

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4158-843: The 1951 Bowman Baseball set. On August 28, 2022, a Mickey Mantle baseball card ( Topps ; #311; SGC MT 9.5) was sold for $ 12.600 million. Topps purchased their chief competitor, Bowman Gum, in 1956. Topps was the leader in the trading card industry from 1956 to 1980, not only in sports cards but in entertainment cards as well. Many of the top selling non-sports cards were produced by Topps, including Wacky Packages (1967, 1973–1977), Star Wars (beginning in 1977) and Garbage Pail Kids (beginning in 1985). In 1991, Topps ceased packaging gum with their baseball cards, making many collectors happy that their cards could no longer be damaged by gum stains The following year, in 1992, Topps ceased using heavily waxed paper to wrap their packs of cards and began using cellophane plastic exclusively, thus eliminating

4257-466: The 1970s and 1980s.” Panini begins assembling World Cup squads for their sticker album a few months before they are officially announced by each nation, which means surprise call ups often don’t feature in their album. A notable example of this was 17-year-old Brazilian striker Ronaldo who was called up for the Brazil squad for the 1994 FIFA World Cup . Panini’s football trading card game Adrenalyn XL

4356-593: The 1990s, cards designed specifically for playing games became popular enough to develop into a distinct category, collectible card games . These games are mostly fantasy -based gameplay . Fantasy art cards are a subgenre of trading cards that focus on the artwork . Trade cards are the ancestors of cigarette and food (bubble gum) cards. Some of the earliest prizes found in retail products were cigarette cards — trading cards were designed to advertise products (not to be confused with trading cards) that were inserted into paper packs of cigarettes as stiffeners to protect

4455-400: The 1990s. This practice caused many of the cards manufactured during this era to stay low in value, due to their high numbers. The proliferation of cards saturated the market, and by the late 1990s, card companies began to produce scarcer versions of cards to keep many collectors interested. The latest trends in the hobby have been "game used memorabilia" cards, which usually feature a piece of

4554-517: The Di Gi Charat Planet. A small green creature likened to a kappa , is Rabi-en-Rose's sidekick. During the time between DiGi Charat and Reiwa no Di Gi Charat, it takes the place of Rabi-en-Rose in the store, meanwhile she is very busy with the exams and homework. Henna Ikimono ( 変な生き物 , Henna Ikimono , lit. "Strange Creature") A mysterious, tiny, yellow bear. Its face always appears to be angry, crying, depressed and laughing at

4653-489: The Di Gi Charat panel sponsored by TBS, PONYCANYON and Broccoli. The series first aired on TBS on December 23, 2006 and December 24, 2006 and later on BS-i . Most of the characters of Di Gi Charat originally debuted in the yonkoma Gema Gema , and later appeared in the anime series. Across all of the Di Gi Charat series, each catgirl ends their sentence with a cat sounding suffix, such as Dejiko's Nyo . The four DVDs of

4752-468: The Japanese anime industry grew to behemoth proportions. Demand for anime became massive, so much so that consumers would willingly go directly to video stores to buy new animation outright. While people in the United States use the phrase " direct-to-video " as a pejorative for works that could not make it onto television or movie screens, in Japan the demand was so great that direct-to-video became

4851-494: The PC. The game contains several popular mascot characters such as Ecoco and characters from well known visual novels and anime such as To Heart and Tsukihime . This was a fanmade (or doujinshi ) game by the circle French-Bread . Dejiko no Maibura Dreamcast game. Trading card A trading card (or collectible card ) is a small card, usually made out of paperboard or thick paper , which usually contains an image of

4950-519: The UK and bubble gum cards in the US. The first baseball cards were trade cards printed in the late 1860s by a sporting goods company, around the time baseball became a professional sport. Most of the baseball cards around the beginning of the 20th century came in candy and tobacco products. It was during this era that the most valuable baseball card ever printed, the T206 tobacco card featuring Honus Wagner ,

5049-470: The adventures of Dejiko, Piyoko and Gema as they use the spaceship seen in the first episode to travel back to Dejiko's home planet, Planet Di Gi Charat . It was licensed by Synch-Point and announced at Anime Boston 2003 along with Leave It to Piyoko! . Synch-Point planned to include a 13-minute bonus episode called "Kuchi kara Bazooka" ("Rocket From the Mouth Special" or "Upchuck Bazooka") that

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5148-477: The anime as well as collections of original songs sung by the main characters. These albums include drama CDs which expand the Di Gi Charat story. A game titled Di Gi Charat Fantasy was released for the Dreamcast . It's a visual novel style game, in which the player takes on the role of a boy with a crush on Dejiko who, along with Dejiko, Puchiko, and Rabi-en-Rose, gets sucked through a dimensional vortex into

5247-428: The anime, the player takes the role as the manager of the store with the objective of running the store on the little money available. The game takes aspects of the anime into its gameplay including character art and an instrumental music score of popular songs from the anime composed by Manabu Namiki for the games. Glove on Fight Dejiko appeared as a selectable character in the 2D fighting game Glove on Fight for

5346-585: The athlete's and card company's reputations are on the line if they do not personally sign these cards. This has created the most authentic autographs in existence. These cards all have some form of printed statements that the autographs are authentic, this way, no matter who owns the autograph there is no question of its authenticity. CAI's have branched out into autographs of famous actors, musicians, Presidents, and even Albert Einstein. Mostly these autographs are cut from flat items such as postcards, index cards, and plain paper. Then they are pasted onto cards. In 2001,

5445-573: The author Nobuhiro Watsuki 's manga that had not been adapted into the anime television series, had higher-quality animation, were much more violent, and were executed in a far more dark and realistic style than the TV episodes or the manga. Dark realism featured in Masami Kurumada 's famous manga Saint Seiya . The anime adapted two of the three arcs in Kurumada's manga—the project to adapt

5544-399: The card to eventually combine for one final grade. Older cards are generally more sensitive to wear and tear, meaning a '7' might lessen the value of a card printed in 2018, but could significantly increase the value of a card from 1950. While the grade has a major impact on the card's value, the population does as well. For example, there are over 20,000 Luka Doncic 2018 Base Prizm Cards graded

5643-478: The card typically displays an image of the player with identifying information, including, but not limited to, the player's name and team affiliation. The reverse of most modern cards displays statistics and/or biographical information. Cards are most often found in the United States ; however, they are also common in countries such as Canada , Cuba , and Japan , where baseball is a popular sport and there are professional leagues. The earliest baseball cards were in

5742-538: The contents. Allen and Ginter in the U.S. in 1886, and British company W.D. & H.O. Wills in 1888, were the first tobacco companies to print advertisements. A couple of years later, lithograph pictures on the cards with an encyclopedic variety of topics from nature to war to sports — subjects that appealed to men who smoked - began to surface as well. By 1900, there were thousands of tobacco card sets manufactured by 300 different companies. Children would stand outside of stores to ask customers who bought cigarettes for

5841-496: The development of sports cards, during the second half of the 19th century, is essentially the story of baseball cards , since baseball was the first sport to become widely professionalized. Hockey cards also began to appear early in the 20th century. Cards from this period are commonly known as cigarette cards or tobacco cards , because many were produced by tobacco companies and inserted into cigarette packages, to stiffen cigarette packaging and advertise cigarette brands. One of

5940-475: The development of the Internet has given rise to various online communities, through which members can trade collectible cards with each other. Cards are often bought and sold via eBay and other online retail sources. Many websites solicit their own "sell to us" page in hopes to draw in more purchase opportunities. Singles are usually of higher value than contemporary cards which are often sold as "bulk" or as

6039-546: The dimensions of its cards slightly, to 2-1/2 inches by 3-1/2 inches, setting a standard that remains the basic format for most sports cards produced in the United States. In 2005, the long-standing sports card producer Fleer went bankrupt and was bought out by Upper Deck . Not long after that, Donruss lost its MLB license. Since 2009, Topps has held exclusive rights to produce MLB-licensed baseball cards. Basketball cards feature one or more players of

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6138-489: The final episode of Excel Saga was offered only as an OVA, mostly due to content issues that would have made TV broadcast impossible. In these cases the series as a whole cannot be called an OVA, though certain episodes are. This trend is becoming quite common, and furthermore, many recent OVA series pre-broadcast the episodes and release the DVD with unedited and better quality, along with revised animations—thus further blurring

6237-547: The first boxing cards on record in "America's Greatest Boxing Cards" and encyclopedia and check-list of boxing cards, was of John C. Heenan issued by photographs Charles D. Fredericks in the 1860s. The first set of boxer cards was issued by Goodwin & Company in 1886. Other companies, including Duke and Sons and the Lorillard Tobacco Company , also issued boxing cards in this period. American company Allen & Ginter issued several boxing cards in

6336-564: The first of them with footballers caricatures by Bob Miram), Giant Licorice Cigarettes, MacRobertson's and W.D. & H.O. Wills , among others. The most popular set of Australian rules football cards are often the considered to be the 1963 Scanlens card set. Select Australia is currently the longest continuously operating and largest producer of Australian rules football cards. Prices for Australian rules football cards can be relatively high compared to other sporting codes in Australia. This

6435-568: The first part of an OVA series may be broadcast for promotional purposes. OVA titles were originally made available on VHS , later becoming more popular on LaserDisc and eventually DVD . Starting in 2008, the term OAD ( original animation DVD ) began to refer to DVD releases published bundled with their source-material manga . Like anime made for television broadcast, OVAs are sub-divided into episodes. OVA media (tapes, laserdiscs or DVDs) usually contain just one episode each. Episode length varies from title to title: each episode may run from

6534-430: The first six episodes. It marked the first time a Japanese voice actor repeated their role in English for an English anime dub. An alternate story to the original series, Nyo! , aired from April 6, 2003 until March 28, 2004. There were two stories for each of the fifty-two twenty-minute episodes. Winter Garden ( ウィンターガーデン , Uintā Gāden ) is a two part spin-off series. Dejiko is around 20 years old and Puchiko

6633-423: The form of trade cards produced in 1868. They evolved into tobacco cards by 1886. In the early 20th century, other industries began printing their own version of baseball cards to promote their products, such as bakery/bread cards, caramel cards, dairy cards, game cards and publication cards. Between the 1930s and 1960s, the cards developed into trading cards, becoming their own product. In 1957, Topps changed

6732-603: The front of the card, and a tobacco advertisement and short biography of the player on the back of the card. Modern association football trading cards were sold with bubble gum in the United Kingdom from 1958 to 1975 by A&BC, and later by Topps, UK from 1975 to 1981. Similar smaller sized cards were issued in Spain and Italy beginning in the late 1940s. Cards have been produced from 1981 to present, save 1985 and 1986. Under its Merlin brand, since 1994 Topps has held

6831-452: The history of the OVA (1980s) many one-episode OVAs appeared. Hundreds of manga that were popular but not enough to gain TV series were granted one-shot (or otherwise extremely short) OVA episodes. When these one-shot OVAs prove popular enough, a network can use the OVA as a pilot to an anime series. OVAs originated during the early 1980s. As the VCR became a widespread fixture in Japanese homes,

6930-666: The inaugural BRI Liga 1 trading card collection. Australian rules football cards are almost exclusively found in Australia as no top-level leagues are present outside the country. The first Australian rules football cards were produced in conjunction with Goodwin & Co's Old Judge Cigarettes in the late 1880s. In the set were Australian celebrities which included Australian rules footballers from Victoria and South Australia. Other companies that issued earlier football cards were W.D. & H.O. Wills in 1905, and Sniders & Abrahams (featuring scenes of matches in 1908 and then releasing other sets with portraits of football players in

7029-636: The licence to produce stickers for the Premier League sticker album . Launched by Topps in the 2007–08 season, Match Attax, the official Premier League trading card game, is the best selling boys collectable in the UK – with around 1.5m collectors in the UK – and with global sales it is also the biggest selling sports trading card game in the world. Other variations of football products exist, such as marbles, cut-outs, coins, stamps and stickers , some made of light cardboard and attached with glue or stickers, into sticker albums specifically issued for

7128-460: The manager, are drawn as anthropomorphic thumbs, the reason being that Akihabara is one of the largest shopping areas of Earth for video games, among other things, and thumbs are most commonly used by people to press buttons while playing video games. The creative team was given free rein over the content of Di Gi Charat, and it is outrageous at times. The anime is directed by Hiroaki Sakurai , animated by Madhouse and produced by Broccoli. As 2008

7227-435: The most expensive cards in the hobby is a cigarette card of Honus Wagner in a set called 1909 T-206. The story told is that Wagner was against his cards being inserted into something that children would collect. So the production of his cards stopped abruptly. It is assumed that less than 100 of his cards exist in this set. The 1909 T-206 Honus Wagner card has sold for as much as $ 2.8 million. More recently, on August 28, 2022,

7326-643: The most famous bicycle races in Europe, such as the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia . Original Video Animation Original video animation ( Japanese : オリジナル・ビデオ・アニメーション , Hepburn : orijinaru bideo animēshon ) , abbreviated as OVA and sometimes as OAV ( original animation video ), are Japanese animated films and special episodes of a series made specially for release in home video formats without prior showings on television or in theaters, though

7425-400: The other, "2nd Series". The cards were acquired in trade for fifteen Murad cigarette coupons. The offer expired June 30, 1911. Basketball cards were not seen again until 1932, when C.A. Briggs Chocolate issued a 31-card set containing multiple sports. In exchange for a completed set of cards, Briggs offered baseball equipment. The number of basketball cards in the set is not known. One of

7524-447: The possibility of wax stains on the top and bottom cards in the packs. In an attempt to stay current with technology and digital trends, existing and new trading card companies started to create digital trading cards that lived exclusively online or as a digital counterpart of a physical card. In 1995 Michael A. Pace produced "computer based" trading cards, utilizing a CD ROM computer system and floppy discs. In 2000, Topps launched

7623-465: The products. Forming a partnership with FIFA in 1970, Panini first produced a World Cup sticker album for the 1970 World Cup . Initiating a craze for collecting and trading stickers, since then, it has become part of the World Cup experience, especially for the younger generation. The Guardian states, “the tradition of swapping duplicate [World Cup] stickers was a playground fixture during

7722-463: The promotional cards. Following the success of cigarette cards, trade cards were produced by manufacturers of other products and included in the product or handed to the customer by the store clerk at the time of purchase. World War II put an end to cigarette card production due to limited paper resources, and after the war cigarette cards never really made a comeback. After that collectors of prizes from retail products took to collecting tea cards in

7821-450: The resulting design resembling that of playing cards. Topps owner and founder Sy Berger created the first true modern baseball card set, complete with playing record and statistics, the following year in the form of 1952 Topps Baseball. This is one of the most popular sets of all time; its most valued piece was 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle #311, which is sometimes erroneously referred to as Mantle's rookie card, though he had in fact appeared in

7920-527: The same time. It always remains in its box and is always seen as being completely still. On one side of the box, "Please give me a home" is written in Japanese. It can eat things bigger than itself. In Party Night, he ate the Earth . Broccodes She is the goddess of Broccoli 's company. She appears for first time in Reiwa no Di Gi Charat, replacing Dejiko when she and Puchiko are in the Di Gi Charat Planet during

8019-763: The series Panyo Panyo Di Gi Charat are named after each of the four catgirl's onomatopoeia . Piyoko talks in a similar manner. Di Gi Charat ( デ・ジ・キャラット , De Ji Kyaratto ) / Dejiko ( でじこ , Dejiko ) Petit Charat ( プチ・キャラット , Puchi Kyaratto ) / Puchiko ( ぷちこ , Puchiko ) Hikaru Usada ( うさだ ヒカル , Usada Hikaru ) / Rabi~en~Rose ( ラ・ビ・アン・ローズ , Rabi~an~Rōzu ) Pyocola Analogue III ( ピョコラ＝アナローグIII世 , Pyokora Anarōgu San-sei ) / Piyoko ( ぴよこ , Piyoko ) Takeshi - Voiced by: Ryo Naito (Japanese); Taliesin Jaffe (English) and Yoshimi - Voiced by: Morihisa Mori (Japanese); Liam O'Brien (English) A boy who comes into

8118-406: The series are always incredibly random and crazy. An excitable American fan of Di Gi Charat. A thoughtful finger-person who runs Gamers and sends Dejiko on errands. A cat who is Puchiko's sidekick. It can walk sideways and has five kittens; Sa, Shi, Su, Se, and So. During the time between Di Gi Charat and Reiwa no Di Gi Charat, it takes the place of Puchiko in the store when she and Dejiko are in

8217-520: The series follows the story of Di Gi Charat (Dejiko), her new sidekick Petit Charat (Puchiko) and Gema, who arrive in Akihabara , Tokyo . Dejiko dreams of becoming an idol , only to realize that they have no money and nowhere to stay. The manager of a Gamers store takes pity on them, and the series follows their exploits as they work in the shop. The series introduces Dejiko's rival, Rabi-en-Rose , and minor characters Abarenbou, Takeshi, Yoshimi, Takurou and Takurou. All other citizens of Akihabara, including

8316-575: The series remained incomplete. Therefore, the first official OVA release to be billed as such was 1983's Dallos , directed by Mamoru Oshii and released by Bandai . Other famous early OVAs, premiering shortly thereafter, were Fight! Iczer One and the original Megazone 23 . Other companies were quick to pick up on the idea, and the mid-to-late 1980s saw the market flooded with OVAs. During this time, most OVA series were new, stand-alone titles. During Japan's economic bubble, production companies were more than willing to spontaneously decide to make

8415-456: The store to buy trading cards and falls in love with Rabi-en-Rose, in the Reiwa anime, is confirmed that he and Rabi-in-Rose study in the same school. Enjoys melonpan . Not related to Kimura, though they share the same first name. A rich and long-haired man infatuated with Puchiko's cuteness and have a problem with the suffix that some characters use at the end. Not related to Minagawa. A rowdy creature seemingly made of water. His appearances in

8514-417: The story. Time becomes available to expand upon significant background, character, and plot development. This contrasts with television episodes (which must end somewhere between 22 and 26 minutes) and with films (which rarely last more than two hours). In the same way, no pressure exists to produce "filler content" to extend a short plot into a full television series. The producers of OVA titles generally target

8613-544: The third arc to the anime never started. As Kurumada had completed his manga in 1991, its third act was finally adapted to anime, releasing the episodes as OVAs, starting in 2003 and finishing in 2008, at last adapting Kurumada's manga completely to anime. Most OVA titles run for four to eight episodes, and some only have one. They tend to have a complex and continuous plot , best enjoyed if all episodes are viewed in sequence. This contrasts with television series which may either feature short, related "mini-stories" or exist without

8712-433: The time between Di Gi Charat and Reiwa no Di Gi Charat. The only two that knows about the change are Dejiko and Gamers's Manager. Bushimo-no-Mikoto She is the goddess of Bushiroad 's company, she had as aspect of a devil samurai, is kouhai of Broccodes and is a fan of the original anime. She appears for first time in Reiwa no Di Gi Charat A great number of Di Gi Charat albums have been released, including soundtracks to

8811-572: The tobacco cards is not known. The next series of basketball cards were issued in 1911, in two separate series; "T6 College Series", measuring approximately 6" by 8", and "T51 College Series", measuring approximately 2" by 3". These series included a variety of sports, with only 4 cards being associated with basketball, one card from the T6 series and three cards from the T51 series. Both series were produced in two variations, one variation reading "College Series",

8910-544: The traditional 26-episodes per season. Studios often designed new titles to be released to TV if they approached these lengths. In addition, the rising popularity of cable and satellite TV networks (with their typically less strict censorship rules) allowed the public to see direct broadcasts of many new titles—something that previously would have been impossible. Therefore, many violent, risque, and fan service series became regular TV series, when previously those titles would have been OVAs. During this time period most OVA content

9009-500: Was also included in the Japanese release, but it was never released. A prequel of sorts with its own alternate continuity, Panyo Panyo aired from January 5, 2002 until September 29, 2002. The characters are drawn to look much younger. Princess Dejiko and Puchiko wish to escape castle life to help people of Planet Di Gi Charat achieve happiness. Pyocola Analogue III and hologram Digi Devil try to stop her. In this series Dejiko, Puchiko and Gema meet friends Meek and Rinna. Panyo Panyo

9108-477: Was an app that allowed users to connect with other fans in a fantasy league type game environment wherein they can collect their favorite players, earn points based on how well they play and trade and compete with other fans. Three years later, the same company launched a digital experiment in Europe (geotargeted to exclude the USA) with its Marvel Hero Attax, using digital as an overlay to its physical product. Today,

9207-420: Was arranged into five-minute mini episodes in order to make it feel like classic four panel manga. Panyo Panyo did not have the wide open endings which the original series had. Di Gi Charat Theater - Leave it to Piyoko-pyo! ( デ・ジ・キャラット劇場 ぴよこにおまかせぴょ！ , De Ji Kyaratto Gekijō - Piyoko ni Omakase-pyo! ) is an eight episode OVA that was released in 2003. The OVA is the only show in the series where Dejiko

9306-423: Was introduced in 2009. In 2010 Panini released a UEFA Champions League edition of Adrenalyn XL, containing 350 cards from 22 of the competing clubs, including defending champions FC Barcelona . The fourth edition of Panini FIFA 365 Adrenalyn XL was released for 2019, featuring top clubs, teams and players. In 2022, Indonesian manufacturer FanGir established a partnership with PT Liga Indonesia Baru to introduce

9405-404: Was issued under the title of "Club Colours". They featured illustrated images of players on the front of the card, and a tobacco advertisement on the back of the card. Many other cigarette companies quickly created their own series, beginning with Kinner in 1898. A later series of cards was produced in 1934 by Ardath, which was a 50-card set called Famous Footballers featuring images of players on

9504-774: Was limited to a certain maximum. After a sale, the cards were held in a climate-controlled warehouse unless the buyer requests delivery, and the cards could be traded online without changing hands except in the virtual sense. In January 2012, Topps announced that they would be discontinuing their eTopps product line. Digital collectible card games were estimated to be a $ 1.3B market in 2013. A number of tech start-ups have attempted to establish themselves in this space, notably Stampii (Spain, 2009), Fantom (Ireland, 2011), Deckdaq (Israel, 2011), and 2Stic (Austria, 2013). Panini launched their Adrenalyn XL platform with an NBA and NFL trading card collection. Connect2Media together with Winning Moves, created an iPhone Application to host

9603-541: Was limited to that related to existing and established titles. However, in 2000 and later, a new OVA trend began. Producers released many TV series without normal broadcasts of all of the episodes—but releasing some episodes on the DVD release of the series. Examples of this include the DVD-only 25th episode of Love Hina , while several episodes of the Oh My Goddess TV series are DVD-only. In addition,

9702-1046: Was produced. The T206 set, distributed by the American Tobacco Company in 1909, is considered by collectors to be the most popular set of all time. In 1933, the Goudey Gum Company of Boston issued baseball cards with players biographies on the backs and was the first to put baseball cards in bubble gum. The 1933 Goudey set remains one of the most popular and affordable vintage sets to this day. Bowman Gum of Philadelphia issued its first baseball cards in 1948. Topps Chewing Gum, Inc. , now known as "The Topps Company, Inc.", started inserting trading cards into bubble gum packs in 1950 with such topics as TV and film cowboy Hopalong Cassidy ; " Bring 'Em Back Alive " cards featuring Frank Buck on big game hunts in Africa; and All- American Football Cards . Topps produced its first baseball trading card set in 1951, with

9801-421: Was the 10th anniversary of the series Di Gi Charat , Broccoli Inc. decided to recast the actresses of the main characters of Di Gi Charat . The new actress for Dejiko, Puchiko, and Usada were Satomi Akesaka , Nao Minakami , and Rieka Yazawa respectively. However, as of the 15th anniversary in 2013, Broccoli Inc. has since reverted to using their original voice actresses and retconned the 10th Anniversary in

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