One Piece Miracle Battle Carddass: Part 16 Kyoto Domei Booster Box

Yikes what a long title! I recently received a very cool box and since my last post about cards seemed well received here is another one.  Here is a review of my most recently acquired One Piece booster box, the Toriko cross One Piece:

First off, the box is lovely! These boxes are always brightly colored and have attractive lettering/kanji.  I imagine these would be easy to spot in a card/comic shop.  I also wanted to feature this box because it is still up for sale on amiami.com for 2,940 JPY (30 bucks USD) which is rare, as these booster boxes sell out really fast!

I have a feeling this box scares people who are either only into One Piece or only into Toriko. I will say if you are buying this box for Toriko cards....you will be disappointed.  only the uncommons (and a couple more rare cards) are Toriko cards, so all in all a person would pull mostly One Piece cards.

I'm not gonna lie, I bought this box because of the omega rare options.  Ace, Boa Hancock, Shanks or Doflamingo!?  Yep, I had to try my luck on getting one of these cards.  It's rare to have so many of my favorites as omega options. Plus Boa Hancock's purple card and Doflamingo's pink card are visually stunning.

 More box shots.  I really like the separator with the character art from the box on it as well.

Previously I neglected to show what opening a pack looks like.  Actually a lot of people do pack openings on youtube, and they are fun to watch.  I recommend taking a look sometime if anyone is interested (most are in Japanese or French).

Packs will consist of 1 rare/super rare/ booster rare/omega card, 2 uncommons, 5 common cards, and a cardlist card.  This one has the next box advertised on the back, the Jump stars booster box! Like I said before these boxes have usually 1 Omega rare and 2 boster rares (miracle rares in older boxes).  It makes completing sets like these very difficult.Time to look at my rares for this box:


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I couldn't ask for better cards! I have my all time wanted Doflamingo card!  Plus Flower Vista and Trafalgar Law? Too cool.  I'm really digging the new foil on these cards too, they catch the light better than previous sets.  I really like my super rares (below) baby 5!

Here are some of the cooler rares and the Toriko cards.  I enjoy Toriko as well, so it's nice to have these in my collection.  Toriko and Sunny look particularly good to me.

Seasoned Collectors of these card will notice the changes on them.  Like the new booster rares vs. miracle rares, the cards have new foils, larger corner numbers and even English writing denoting character cards, action cards, support cards, and dramatic cards.  Nice changes over all, and I think I'll be opening more of these boxes in the future.  That's all for now, and thanks to anyone who is still following my humble blog.

Figuarts Zero: Smoker and Figuarts Zero: Law (Punk Hazard)

I'm still on a wild One Piece kick (as always).  I know, I know, it's a lot of One Piece lately despite getting new cards, new games, new books and other goods, but I can't help it right now (sorry!)  

I wanted to do a quick little review of a couple of figures I picked up that go along very well with the recent episodes involving Punk Hazard: timeskip Smoker and timeskip Law!

First of all, the lighting I had sucked (stormy weather) I'm hoping my next set of photos will turn out better.  As always I start out with the Figuarts Zero boxes, which look good! Typical and not really too interesting, but keeping everything in place and letting you know about the figure inside.  I really need to get Tashigi and Ceasar Clown at some point....

Figure time! Man these guys look good straight out of the box, and pretty nice next to each other.  These two really made the arc for me, so I had to include them in my collection.

Standard bases, Marine for Smoker and Jolly Roger of the heart pirates for Law.  I gotta say, I dig that the feet are positioned just around the logos so you can still enjoy them when viewing.

Smoker has an amazing sculpt, and his vice admiral duds are were addressed in this figure.  My only concern is a few spots on the paintwork involving his green fringe, it tends to bleed onto the white parts of his coat.  It's not bad, but noteworthy.

I really like Oda giving him sunglasses, and the inclusion of them for this figure.  It can be difficult to see Smoker's face with his arm coming across.  There is a second arm to address this that look pretty good resting on his sleeve.

We can't forget about Law though, as he looks really nice in this pose.  It is a rather simple standing pose which may put people off, but that knowing smirk is what really draws myself to it anyway.  I don't know why they missed the chance to give him an alternate arm including either his 'room' or 'tact' hand pose (other than they knew a battle version coming out).  I really don't have any complaints about Law here, everything has a nice paint job and even the texture of his coat is included.

The only extra part they threw in was Law with his hat off.  I guess was used as a big draw for him considering this was the first Law figure to not include his hat.  It looks good, but I much prefer his hat as it feels like a part of his character.

So there they are! There is little to say about these guys since they are overall just very appealing! To anyone who is a fan of either of these One piece guys, I say get them!  Most figure shops still have these guys in stock.