That's "Japanese" for Trading Cards (with a looong
"a" at the end)...
I forgot when the hide chan trading cards were published
first.
I think it's already more than two years ago.
There are 126 in total (I don't have all of them...
I wish I did).
All photography was done by Hideo Kanno.
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There are 81 regular cards that come in groups of
9 cards each.
Each group represents one "theme".
For example: group 1 consists of photography from
1993.
(X memorial photo album (Tokyo Dome 1993)). Group
2 is from a certain "Rock-Inf" magazine from 1996 and so forth...
On the backside of the cards are group-wise photos
mostly from hide chan's video clips.
For example on the backside of the regular cards
group 1 photos there are
9 scenes from the "Tell Me" video clip.
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Then there are 27 parallel cards, they come in 3
groups of 9. The first of these groups is not really "parallel", it's photos
from the 1996 "Psyence A GoGo" tour pamphlet and "Psyence" album booklet.
The 2nd and 3rd groups of the parallel cards are
duplicas of the the regular card groups 5 and 8,
however with "silver" inlays (they glitter in contrast
to the regular cards).
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Finally there are 18 special cards (2 groups of 9).
Group 1 is photography from the famous Mugongeki
of 1992
and group 2 is photography from the UV magazine No.
12 or 16 (I always mix them up)
with hide chan on the cover (it's the UV where hide
chan sits on a toilet
wearing the orange "super freak" outfit...
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But not so much talking: Here they are (at least
a few of them)
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Special Cards group 1 - Mugongeki photography...
Backside: more scenes from Mugongeki and if you have
all cards and put them together they become a hide chan puzzle from the
mugongeki where hide chan is dressed like a buddhist priest in gold.
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Special cards group 2 - the toilet...
Backside: Backstage and live photography from the
Psyence A GoGo Tour
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Regular cards group 1 - Photography from X Memorial
Photoalbum 1993
Backside: Scenes from "Tell Me" Video Clip
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Regular cards group 2 - from Rock-Inf (for the release
of Psyence Album)
Backside: Scenes from "Genkai Haretsu" Video Clip
(color version)
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Regular cards group 3 - from UV (the one I mix up
the toilet session thing with all the time)
Backside: Scenes from "Bacteria" video clip
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Regular cards group 4 - Photography from hide - official
calendar 1996
Backside: Scenes from "Misery" video clip
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Regular cards group 5 - Photography from hide - official
calendar 1997
Backside: Scenes from "Pink Spider" video clip
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Regular cards group 6 - Photography from hide - official
calendar 1996
Backside: more photography from hide - official calendar
1996
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Because it's so nice, here is the backside of one
of the regular cards group 6, good old number 69...
chou kakkou ii zo, hide chan!
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Regular cards group 7 - Photography from X - official
calendar 1997
Backside: Now the backside of this group is special,
it's a puzzel again and if you have all 9 of them they make up three more
hide chan photos from the same calendar shooting session
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Regular cards group 8 - Photography from hide -official
calender 1998 (movie posters)
Backside: Scenes from "Rocket Dive" video clip
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Regular cards group 9 - Photography from hide - official
calender 1998 (the non-movie poster photos)
Backside: Scenes from "Ever Free" video clip
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Group 1 of the parallel cards - Photography from
"Psyence" album booklet and
"Psyence A GoGo" tour pamphlet.
Backside: Scenes from "Beauty & Stupid" video
clip
Group 2 of the parallel cards as mentioned before
is the same group 5 of the regular and the group 3 of the parallel cards
is the same as group 8 of the regular cards.
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Hope you liked my little trading card excursion and
stay tuned! On a certain day in December (you know which one I mean) there
will be more trading cards... but this time real rare ones from X...
