Hello everyone! My girlfriend really had/has no interest in pokemon, but she wanted to start her own collection of the ones she liked. She barely knows the names of any of these except for bulbasaur, cyndaquil, and Pikachu. I have heard here and there about other people on eFour who’s significant other’s don’t know anything about pokemon, but have decided to start collecting, and I wanted to see what their collections are like. How they choose pokemon, what their reasons are, who is their favorite. That type of stuff.
Feel free to just post/talk about your SO’s collections. I’m really interested to see how other people, boy or girl, choose to collect Pokémon without any/much prior knowledge or experience.
My girlfriends criteria are pretty simple. Cute(Pikachu, cyndaquil, etc.) or awesome(gyarados, Gengar mainly).
She loves bulbasaur, but only likes bulbasaur cards when he appears happy and smiling.
Anything cyndaquil is fair game, probably safe to say that cyndaquil is her favorite Pokémon even though Pikachu has more cards.
She has expensive taste hahaha! She always looks through my binders and asks for ONLY the most expensive cards, and I have to tell her no to all of them. Mind you, she has NO knowledge of the prices, she just sees them and loves the art. Kinda goes to prove why some cards are just more valuable than others.
She is starting to collect eeveelutions, but it’s a slow process, especially for ones like umbreon and espeon that tend to be fairly expensive. Her favorites seem to be glaceon and leafeon. I totally expected sylveon or eevee to be her #1 but I was wrong🤷♂️
Most other cards tend to be on the cute scale. Gengar maybe is the only other outlier.
What I love about her doing this is seeing the enjoyment she gets purely from finding cute art. She is actually quite proud of her collection and has even tried to show it off to one of her friends 
Seeing her go through this process really helps me to appreciate some of the more common cards that I tend to overlook nowadays.
2 normal foils and both were the grass thing from SwSh that idk the name of.
reminds me of why I like slowpoke, his adorably dumb face.
). He wanted all those by himself without me saying anything about it so I’m proud about that. Oh and he got some Eeveelution charms as well and attached some of them on his backpack. I’m happy he’s enjoying Pokemon too even if he isn’t as much into it as I am. It helps a lot and the fact that he has genuine interest to know more about it makes me happy. We also play Pokemon Go together and it’s fun too as most of the time I’ve had nobody to play the game with over here.
Also, always good to have the partner for the game as well. Kind of a side note off your mention of Pokémon go, but it’s impressive how much reach that game has. I see senior citizens here in Japan playing Pokémon go. It’s both awesome yet confusing.
Exquisite taste as well, the whole slow line is exceptional.
