Kentaro Yabuki Draws Nami Card for One Piece Card Game Booster Set
The Nami card continues the card game's pattern of commissioning outside manga artists, following the announced Yoshitaka Amano illustrations for the November -The Dominance of God- set.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
The One Piece Card Game announced on Monday that To Love-Ru manga artist Kentaro Yabuki is providing an illustration of Nami for the One Piece Heroines Edition vol.2 [EB-05] booster set, releasing October 31. The card comes in two variations. The set is the game's second extra booster set. The English One Piece social accounts teased it with a short promotional video on Monday.
The One Piece Card Game announced the Yabuki illustration on Monday, and the card itself arrives with the One Piece Heroines Edition vol.2 [EB-05] booster set on October 31. The set is the game's second extra booster set, and the card will be issued in two variations.
The Yabuki commission follows another outside-artist tie-in. In August the card game announced a partnership with Final Fantasy illustrator Yoshitaka Amano for special illustration cards of Loki and Saint Figarland Shamrock, tied to the November -The Dominance of God- booster set, the game's 18th set.
Yabuki is best known as the illustrator of To Love-Ru, which ran in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump from 2006 to 2009, with the sequel To LOVEru DARKNESS running in Jump SQ. from 2010 to 2017. The Nami card ties into the anime of the One Piece: Heroines light novel series, which premiered in July.
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- Anime News Network Interest To Love-ru's Kentaro Yabuki Draws Nami Card for One Piece Card Game