are there any 78-card Anime decks that have all their cards illustrated?
Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 22 May 2003, and now archived in the Forum Library.
| Rusty Neon |
22 May 2003 |
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All the anime tarot decks that I've seen on the web don't have illustations on the numbered cards of the minor arcana. Are there any 78-card anime decks that DO have illustrations on the numbered cards of the minor arcana?
Thanks in advance!
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| Cerulean |
23 May 2003 |
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The Fey looks very much like anime, although it is Italian and is all scenic/Fey types. It is by Lo Scarabeo and one of the few with a book by this publisher.
If Lo Scarabeo's Secrets Tarot by Marco Nizzoli seems anime-like to you---Marco Nizzoli has done SF title drawings (?)--this is all illustrated and has a very interesting booklet.
Mari H.
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| DarkElectric |
25 May 2003 |
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Oh dear, does this include the "Escaflowne" deck? This was a limited edition~ not anime art per-se, but one of the main characters is a girl who reads tarot, and this is a reproduction of her deck. I recently had an opportunity to buy one. Anyone know anything about it?
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| Jeannette |
25 May 2003 |
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There has recently been a large series of "tarot cards" published that feature characters and scenes from a wide variety of anime series. All of the cards are "fully illustrated," but whether or not the illustrations have anything to do with "usual" or "acceptable" tarot symbolism in a manner that most people on this forum would conceive it is highly debatable. They seem to have been developed primarily as collectible items for the anime enthusiast market, without any consideration for the tarot enthusiast market (or tarot/anime hybrid enthusiasts).
I haven't yet been able to determine how many different animes are represented in this format, but I've managed to acquire over two dozen so far, and I know I don't have them all by any means. I've only managed to get a few into our online database, but here's some links to the ones I have so far:
Akuma-Kun Tarot:
http://www.tarotgarden.com/database/dbsearchengine.php?view_title=akuma-kun
Angel Sanctuary Tarot:
http://www.tarotgarden.com/database/dbsearchengine.php?view_title=angel+sanctuary
Clamp Angel Tarot:
http://www.tarotgarden.com/database/dbsearchengine.php?view_title=clamp+angel
Hana Yori Dango Tarot:
http://www.tarotgarden.com/database/dbsearchengine.php?view_title=hana+yori+dango
Slam Dunk Tarot:
http://www.tarotgarden.com/database/dbsearchengine.php?view_title=slam+dunk
There are two Escaflowne tarots, but neither includes the minor arcana -- one is 22 cards, the other is 26 cards (majors + aces).
The Japanese "Pocketable Tarot" is 78 cards and fully illustrated, although it is not based on a specific anime, as far as I've been able to determine.
Another worth looking at is the Iris Lam tarot. It is not "fully illustrated" in the RWS sense, but the minor arcana designs vary in design and decoration, and are rather attractive.
Enjoy!
-- Jeannette
http://www.tarotgarden.com
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| Rusty Neon |
25 May 2003 |
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Thanks jeannette ... It'll be interesting to see if any of the fully illustrated 78 card animes will have major and minor arcana whose divinatory meanings correspond to the divinatory meanings of the RWS cards.
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| isthmus nekoi |
30 May 2003 |
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Amano Yo-shi-taka* (Vampire Hunter D) did a full deck. It's very very elabourate in a art nouveau sort of sense, but I'm not sure the symbolism holds up. The images are gorgeous, sumptuous.
http://mangaart.com/amano/tarot/
*The name is spelt w/o dashes, I put them in so it wouldn't get bleeped out.
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| blue_fusion |
30 May 2003 |
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what i do find rather odd, is that some of those anime deck from china, even if they have illustrated pips, well, the images in the pips do not (oftentimes) correspond to the meanings of the cards. it was as if they just got some picture and placed it there. of course, i'm not speaking of all such decks, just the ones i've seen so far.
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| Cerulean |
31 May 2003 |
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of the Chinese Tarot published by U.S. Games, Inc. I believe that the meanings do have a RWS bent and the art bent reminds me of softer anime. www.tarot.com has full scans under the browse tarot deck portion.
If you like the action-packed anime, actually the Fradella Adventure deck has a startlingly brillant palette on black, that reminds one of the rich colors such as the Los Scarabeo's Dante Tarot or the Bosch--colors only, I'm talking about. The meanings are more like RWS than any other tradition that I can see. The illustrations are rich and full as well. I believe there is a thread that you can search for on Aeclectic.net that shows online scans or you can check out www.tarotgarden.com
Best of luck and hope some of the suggestions above help.
Mari Hoshizaki
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