In the early 1970s, the Kewpie Corporation (maker of Kewpie brand mayonnaise) produced a deck of promotional playing cards featuring various pachimon kaiju (imitation monsters modeled after creatures from popular movies and TV shows).
1 -- Kyuradorosu (vampire monster)/ Height: 5 meters/ Weight: 800 kilograms/ From Chiba
2 -- Kashuasu (pollution monster)/ Height: 10 meters/ Weight: 3,000 tons/ From Osaka
3 -- Gohoho (ice monster)/ 18m/ 10,000 tons/ From the South Pole, moved to Tokyo
4 -- Altamegaro (space monster)/ 35m/ Weight unknown/ From Alta W, planet 5
5 -- Deredoron (pesticide monster)/ 20m/ 10,000 tons/ From Tohoku
6 -- Tapikurosaurus (ancient monster)/ 35m/ 9,000 tons/ From Kyushu
7 -- Elekipurosu (electric humanoid)/ 25m/ 15,000 tons/ From Kurobe Dam
8 -- Meji (space wolf)/ 16m/ 5 tons/ From Meteoroid R
9 -- Eru (space monster)/ 32m/ 18,000 tons/ From the planet Pegasus
10 -- Puradon (space monster)/ 32m/ 5,000 tons/ From Galaxy W, planet 8
J -- Mambaa (monster fish)/ 20m/ 15,000 tons/ From the Arctic depths
Q -- Oapiaa (proto-Saharan)/ 6m/ 1 ton/ From the Sahara Desert
K -- Alien Achiira (space monster)/ 15m/ 9 tons/ From the planet Achiira, moved to Japan Alps
1 -- Methanoron (pollution monster)/ 28m/ 30,000 tons/ From Tokyo-Kawasaki-Yokohama area
2 -- Buranpiitaa (ultrahigh-speed monster)/ 25m/ 5,000 tons/ From the planet Narcissus
3 -- Aurororas (South Pole monster)/ 85m/ 80,000 tons/ From the South Pole
4 -- Andromeropius (space monster)/ 60m/ 10,000 tons/ From the planet Sparta
5 -- Peroggaa (adhesive monster)/ 30m/ 30,000 tons/ From Eagle Comet
6 -- Goroboasu (macro monster)/ 108m/ 180,000 tons/ From New York
7 -- Vacuuma (vacuum monster)/ 25m/ 6,000 tons/ From Yumenoshima
8 -- Metrokabayan (space eel)/ 46m/ 40,000 tons/ Origin unknown
9 -- Tibetron (Himalayan monster)/ 5 m/ 10,000 tons/ From the northern Himalayas
10 -- Aamu (radiowave monster)/ 60m/ 80,000 tons/ From Guam, moved to Shizuoka
J -- Jiradon (dragon)/ 15m/ 40 tons/ From the northern Alps
Q -- Kimu (space monster)/ 30m/ 20,000 tons/ From the Methane Nebula
K -- Alien Carter (alien)/ 28m/ 7,000 tons/ From the Carter Nebula
1 -- Oxydron (pollution monster)/ 35m/ 10,000 tons/ From the Tokyo suburbs
2 -- Heater (heat monster)/ 30m/ 10,000 tons/ From Hokuriku (northwest Honshu)
3 -- Jeunesse (Mach speed monster)/ 105m/ 100,000 tons/ From the M18 star cluster
4 -- Spater (space monster)/ 12m/ 2,000 tons/ From the Jupiter Nebula
5 -- Begovia (space monster)/ 70m/ 30,000 tons/ From somewhere in space
6 -- Orix (meteor monster)/ 3m/ 300kg/ From the Orionids
7 -- Kabisantaa (bacteria monster)/ 20m/ 7,000 tons/ From central China
8 -- Peshura (space mouse)/ 40m/ 20,000 tons/ From the planet Corona
9 -- Chiipaa (invisible monster)/ 23m/ 4 tons/ From Europe
10 -- H (hydrogen monster)/ 1,000m/ 500kg/ From Egypt
J -- Raru (monster bug)/ 19m/ 600kg/ From the tropics
Q -- Meromeron (Meron monster)/ 23m/ 30,000 tons/ From the Meron Comet
K -- Alien Morris (alien)/ 20m/ 10,000 tons/ From the Morris meteoroid
1 -- Smogger (pollution monster)/ 45m/ 20,000 tons/ From the Kanto area
2 -- Uradon (nuclear monster)/ 40m/ 30,000 tons/ From the ocean depths, moved to Osaka
3 -- Computron (mechanical monster)/ 35m/ 8,000 tons/ From Tokyo
4 -- Gurora (space monster)/ 95m/ 120,000 tons/ From the planet Beta, moved to Tokyo area
5 -- Perebon (Saturn monster)/ 25m/ 40,000 tons/ From Saturn
6 -- Menakujira (soft-bodied monster)/ 40m/ 40,000 tons/ From Okutama
7 -- Pla-king (plastic man)/ 20m/ 5 tons/ From Kanagawa prefecture
8 -- Okusu (space gorilla)/ 30m/ 30,000 tons/ From the planet Claude
9 -- Betarasu (fifth-dimension monster)/ 7m/ less than 1kg/ From the fifth dimension
10 -- Buruburu (ape monster)/ 45m/ 6 tons/ From the southern slopes of Kilimanjaro
J -- Glamingo (bird monster)/ 3m/ 400kg/ From northern Alaska, moved to Hokkaido
Q -- Pira (solar monster)/ 13m/ 300kg/ From near the sun
K -- Alien Iron (alien)/ 40m/ 20,000 tons/ From the planet Sigma
Jokers[Link: Pachi Playing Cards Flickr set by Fiends Ain't Family]
DANCING NEBULA
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Pachimon playing cards
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