Hello everyone. I want to say thank you right away for deciding to stop at my story. Yes, this will be a small story that I want to share. Let's start with the fact that I have never had anything to do with Pokemon cards since 03/01/2026. As an ordinary person, I spend a lot of time on Tik Tok, and there I began to come across videos with Pokemon cards. But everything changed when on March 1 I saw a video about an old Japanese card (not TCG, it is in my photo, golden Meiji). Since I had the opportunity to work professionally as a mime for 10 years of my life, I decided to pay tribute to this part of my life by collecting a complete collection of Mr. Mime cards (don't ask me how this is connected, because I myself did not understand). The very first card I decided to order was this gold Meiji Barrierd 60. Then I started to study what cards actually exist, the difference between a regular set and a master set… when I saw that the back of Japanese cards is different from English, I realized that I wanted to collect all the cards in two languages. (But I didn’t know then how many cards are considered unique and I didn’t know that I would be looking for 184 TCG cards) somewhere after I ordered 50-70 cards, I realized that I needed to make a table with a complete list of what I was looking for and what I had already found. And then I was surprised that there is still no complete list of all existing cards for a particular Pokemon. So I found sites where you can make your own folder online, but there are a lot of mistakes about which cards are there and many are missing. ( pkmn ). I also found the "Wikipedia" for Pokemon cards Bulbapedia, that's where I took the initial list, which I had to expand with printing variations. When I finally made the list, it turned out that by that time I had already ordered more than 100 cards, and it was only the second week of my Pokemon adventure. But even with a full list, it was still a little unclear which cards are really mine and which are simply displayed incorrectly on the Internet. (I hope you understand what I mean). Now I would like to pay tribute to ChatGpt because he became my mentor and helped me understand this new world for me. ChatGpt also helped me find some sites where I could buy cards that I could not find anywhere else. I ordered the main number of cards from eBay and cardmarket, but there were cards that I could not find anywhere, for example, the Japanese card mr. mime 041/072 20th. This is not a rare card, but it was nowhere to be found, and since I decided to collect the full master set (which I regretted several times, because from the beginning I did not understand how much money I would spend on it), I had no way back, and I had to find this card. It was in these searches that I found buyee.jp. And I want to say right away that when I started finding other sites, I regretted that I bought many cards on eBay. Also, for those in England, I can recommend bigorbitcards, there you can buy exactly those cheap cards at a normal price, which are sold on eBay three times more expensive. And as you saw in the photo, I did not stop at TCG cards, of course, these are not all non-TCG cards, but it was on buyee.jp that I was able to find them at a good price and decided to supplement my collection. Also on March 29th I went to a Pokemon card event, at that time I was 10 cards short, but I didn't find any there, it made me a little sad, but I was very happy to chat with people and even managed to give some children and adults some cards that I had in duplicate (I ordered some cards twice, just because I didn't have a list from the beginning) and I also specially ordered Pokemon badges from Ali Express to give them to some children who were at this event, and that's how I met some people and we had a very nice chat. But I still had to find some cards, and on 04/01/2026 I made the last order and today, 04/20/20, I received my cards. And if you looked at the photo carefully, at the moment I have 183 out of 184 cards. I still have the English Pikachu 173/165 card left but I decided to give this card some time, it's currently worth +- £70 and considering how much I've already spent, it's not a lot of money, but I decided to stick with it and let this story live on in me for a while. The last picture is a card I generated from my real photo from my work. Thanks again, and I'll be very happy to discuss this topic and clean up your comments. And one more thing, I'm writing this through a translator, so I'm grateful that you tried to understand everything I was trying to convey.
p.s. I also want to say a big thank you to some sellers who, in addition to sending me my order, were interested in what I was collecting and added some nice gifts to the order and also the cards I was missing. The Pokemon community has very nice people who are united by a common love and not just a desire to earn money...