# HELP! Early Japanese Poker Set. Can anyone identify?? **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Tags:** general-board\ **Created:** [May 15, 2021, 2:58pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/help-early-japanese-poker-set-can-anyone-identify/32709 "2021-05-15T14:58:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elliottledsam](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/elliottledsam/32/1559_2.png) [@elliottledsam](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/elliottledsam)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 2:58pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/help-early-japanese-poker-set-can-anyone-identify/32709/1 "2021-05-15T14:58:25Z")
Hi everyone. Super interesting set of poker cards that have absolutely stumped me trying to identify Anyone help me out Pics in the link below [imgur.com/gallery/gWqgeOv](https://imgur.com/gallery/gWqgeOv) ---
**Author:** ![zubat93](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/zubat93/32/1520_2.png) [@zubat93](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/zubat93)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 4:18pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/help-early-japanese-poker-set-can-anyone-identify/32709/2 "2021-05-15T16:18:01Z")
Maybe unofficial? I have not seen Pocket Monsters written with that font before on any official product. ---
**Author:** ![pichufan](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/pichufan/32/28182_2.png) [@pichufan](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/pichufan)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/help-early-japanese-poker-set-can-anyone-identify/32709/3 "2021-05-15T16:47:41Z")
With no copyright info this is almost certainly a bootleg deck. It’d be interesting to see all 6 sizes of the deck box to verify. It looks really cool though! ---
**Author:** ![kaminoikari](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/kaminoikari/32/282_2.png) [@kaminoikari](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/kaminoikari)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 6:06pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/help-early-japanese-poker-set-can-anyone-identify/32709/4 "2021-05-15T18:06:18Z")
Absolutely bootleg. English, Chinese and Japanese on the cover. ---
**Author:** ![smokemon](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/smokemon/32/36734_2.png) [@smokemon](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/smokemon)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 7:15pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/help-early-japanese-poker-set-can-anyone-identify/32709/5 "2021-05-15T19:15:37Z")
> [@kaminoikari](#): > > Absolutely bootleg. > English, Chinese and Japanese on the cover. A vast majority of Pokemon cards has English and Japanese in its three forms: hiragana, katakana, and kanji. Kanji is adopted from Chinese characters ---
**Author:** ![elliottledsam](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/elliottledsam/32/1559_2.png) [@elliottledsam](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/elliottledsam)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 7:22pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/help-early-japanese-poker-set-can-anyone-identify/32709/6 "2021-05-15T19:22:26Z")
> [@pichufan](#): > > With no copyright info this is almost certainly a bootleg deck. It’d be interesting to see all 6 sizes of the deck box to verify. It looks really cool though! 6 sides or sizes haha I can get every side for you? I’m happy it wasn’t just me that found it totally bonkers to work out ---
**Author:** ![pigeonsyndicate](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/pigeonsyndicate/32/1594_2.png) [@pigeonsyndicate](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/pigeonsyndicate)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 11:39pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/help-early-japanese-poker-set-can-anyone-identify/32709/7 "2021-05-15T23:39:44Z")
> [@smokemon](#): > > > [@kaminoikari](#): > > > > Absolutely bootleg. > > English, Chinese and Japanese on the cover. > > A vast majority of Pokemon cards has English and Japanese in its three forms: hiragana, katakana, and kanji. Kanji is adopted from Chinese characters I may live in Japan, but I don’t consider myself an expert still. That being said, the front cover definitely looks like Chinese instead of Japanese. Most Japanese has at least a little bit of hiragana or katakana somewhere within a sentence or phrase. And Pokémon products often don’t utilize full blown kanji due to the fact that children often can’t read many of them yet. ---
**Author:** ![kaminoikari](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/kaminoikari/32/282_2.png) [@kaminoikari](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/kaminoikari)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2021, 7:06am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/help-early-japanese-poker-set-can-anyone-identify/32709/8 "2021-05-16T07:06:35Z")
> [@smokemon](#): > > > [@kaminoikari](#): > > > > Absolutely bootleg. > > English, Chinese and Japanese on the cover. > > A vast majority of Pokemon cards has English and Japanese in its three forms: hiragana, katakana, and kanji. Kanji is adopted from Chinese characters I can read both Chinese and Japanese. (Chinese at an intermediate level, and Japanese at fluent level) I can whole heartedly say that the primary displayed language is Chinese.