Because Japanese Pokmon cards tend to look higher quality and are typically less expensive to buy new and used, many people prefer collecting them over English cards
One advantage of building around a very narrow theme is the cards you want tend to stay affordable
Within a week or two, youll have them memorised naturally through handling your collection
SpongeBob SquarePants: Lands Under the Sea No point listing all the sweet cards here
This creates a more dynamic game, with greater variability in each match
Because the core fanbase of the series was, according to Thompson, "8-year-old boys (and a few incredible fangirls)", and because the series had little interest from "hardcore, Japanese-speaking fans, the kind who run scanlation sites and post on messageboards" as the series was perceived to be "too mainstream", the Viz editors allowed Thompson "a surprising amount of leeway with the translation"