Xileets' Kusube, Egawa, Kawayoo, Komiya & Others Collection

After years of collecting, you’ve probably also found that your favorite arts tend to be certain artists. While I have an entire binder of Every unique Arita art, this binder started on accident several years later, and I decided to actually put it all in one place. Not every art, but every one that I like (don’t mind the proxies) from

  • Aya Kusube
  • Tomokazu Komiya
  • Midori Harada
  • Imakuni?
  • Hajime Kusajima
  • Kawayoo
  • Sowsow
  • Akira Egawa
  • Anesaki Dynamic
  • Metazo
  • Vs Set (sin trainers)

AND my little subsets of

  • Gastly
  • Porygon
  • Xatu

It’s like a trip through the eras of PkMn, a constant work in progress, and I hope you enjoy it too.

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Book 3












And I’m now adding a non-binder portion of the collection. haha, like many of us “I just couldn’t help it!” :sweat_smile:



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I think the Vs Series is my current favorite page. :grin:

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This is so insanely cool. The first Vending page alone is just heavenly. I have actually contemplated doing a similar thing, where I combine all my finished artist binders back to one giant binder that is essentially simply ordered by set, but only with my favorite artists’ cards in there. However, that would require me to finish said individual binders first :melting_face:

We have quite the overlap in our favortite artists, too! Komiya, Kusube and Kusajima are my three holy “K”'s as well. Akira Egawa is one that I absolutely admire, but still feel lucky not to have started an collection for just yet. He’s put out sooo many heavy-hitting full arts lately, I’m just glad I don’t have any obligation to purchase them all right now. And sowsow? Everybody loves sowsow, right? :wink:

Keep 'em coming!

p.s. I see what you did there with the Komiya New Year’s promo :stuck_out_tongue: Can’t be mad tho, it looks amazing as regualr card among the others!

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Where are the sowsow, EGAWA and Xatu?

The collection is great! It’s basically “collect what you like” without feeling like you having to be a completionist with every artist or species. I’ll probably adopt something similar, because there’s just a ton of good artists and fun species out there, and I don’t think it would be reasonable to try and complete everything (at least for now!).

Agree that the VS page is probably my favorite! With the Neo Rev/Destiny coming in second!

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Heh. They’re comin. Haven’t gotten to those pages yet. Sowsow and Egawa will be quite a ways in, since they didn’t start illus until … SunNMoon(?)
:sweat_smile:

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Updated images to include the first 420 cards.
Sowsow, Egawa, and Xatu are now in there. AND I also forgot to mention Imakuni? is in this collection too!

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Apparently you are a man of culture by placing two copies of muk’s best art side by side :sunglasses:

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One has a perfect swirl too. Legendary status art! it’s actually the reason I included dups of the holos!

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Ahh, man, so many great cards! Was a pleasure to look through the updated pictures! Will probably swing back just to take another browse again sometime later.

Thanks for sharing!

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This looks awesome! And reminds me that my Komiya binder is lacking :grimacing: Very cool collection of cards.

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I’ve decided to combine all my artist collections (except Arita) into one on this thread. There was a very happy accident with binder two, where Kawayoo remained in practically the same place as the cover page, so I took it as a sign.

But now everything is laid out largely chronologically, with large runs of each artist from page to page. I really like the journey that it takes you on, as you go through the TCG eras. Cheers!

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Thanks for sharing! I had a blast looking through your binder, what a real treat.

There’s definitely some unexpected cards in there which I love to see.

I can’t imagine how you begin to sort and organise, did you have to plan it out before hand?

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I still have 2 more binders to post. :laughing:

Yes. I took the 3 seperate binders and counted up the total cards (using my excel sheets). Once I knew the number of cards for each artist, I tried to use math, but in the end, I just made stacks of each and filled the pages from Base set through to Modern giving each artist a whole row or two before switching. Sometimes, “dumb” methods are the easiest. :yum:

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Adding PkMn center merch like these: Komiya sunflora, and a Kawayoo blastoise 'kazam battle. And the binders are all updated and complete in the main post now tho, constantly a work in progress… :grin:


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added a few more sleeves! Komiya in this group. Stoked to add this wailord joltik one. Actually, they’re all great. Odd trend with gaping mouths in this post tho…

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