Tons of new Pokémon merch being thrown away in Ikebukro.

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1. Is it legal to grab it since it’s just going to the trash?

2. Japan’s pop culture industry really doesn’t seem to understand that the fandoms of their products exist beyond Japan’s borders. There are foreigners who would pay for that stuff.

3. You could resell that for a lot on ebay

4. It looks like a bunch of empty boxes of Pokemon cards to me. No clue about the anime stuff though.

5. Looks like you just found some cash

6. They throwing just the boxes out or were some of these unused/sealed?

7. Were the boxes empty?

8. if it’s in their gomi pile…doesn’t that mean they are fair game?!!😀

9. That’s the new Pokémon TCG set, those must be opened/sold booster boxes, mainly from whales. I remember being in Akihabara when the Oshi no Ko set of Weiss Schwarz released and there were piles of bags of booster pack wrappers.

10. Those appear to be empty boxes.

11. Those boxes look very much opened and cracked; probably from a new release event. Unless you really value the empty booster boxes and pack wrappers, it’s just recyclable garbage.

12. Yoink a few of them. If they’re being trashed, they won’t miss em.

13. Game centres and stuff just grab the good cards and put them up as prizes, always wondered where the rest goes

14. Probably just empty boxes.

15. Empty boxes are not exactly “new merch”.

16. I never hugged a trash bag, but…

17. Where this? Asking for me.

18. Does Japan have laws against trash picking? I know trash rules are pretty strict but I haven’t heard about that one.

19. Ohh no.. anyway

20. Just picked up a bunch of them, and they are not empty boxes. All are opened already, packed full of cards.