THE LIBRARY

All nine Sapkowski books and nine Dark Horse comic volumes in English, with the current Orbit ISBN for every novel and the Japanese editions noted.

The order to read the Witcher books: the two story collections first, then the five novel saga, then the two standalones, with current ISBNs.

Sapkowski's first Witcher book in English: the story collection that starts everything, its Orbit editions, illustrated hardcover and Japanese edition.

The second story collection, where Ciri enters the story: current Orbit paperback, and the honest note on its unverified Japanese ISBN.

Blood of Elves through The Lady of the Lake: the five novel heart of the Witcher, with current Orbit ISBNs and verified Japanese editions.

The two novels outside the saga: a mid chronology adventure from 2013 and the 2025 young Geralt prequel, both verified in English and Japanese.

The same novels on two sides of the Atlantic: retitled books, different covers and which edition a buyer is actually looking at.

The shelf forms of the Witcher: illustrated hardcovers, the 2022 hardcover run, and the Stories and Saga boxed sets, all with verified ISBNs.

All nine Witcher novels exist in Japanese from Hayakawa Bunko FT. Seven Japanese ISBNs verified, two honestly blank, one same day world release.

House of Glass through Fading Memories: Dark Horse's five original Witcher comic volumes, with verified trade paperback ISBNs.

A Grain of Truth, The Lesser Evil and The Edge of the World in hardcover panels, plus Ronin, the manga that moves Geralt to an Edo period Japan.

Every Japanese tankobon cover of Tokyo Ghoul, volumes 1 to 14, pictured and dated: Sui Ishida’s Young Jump Comics paintings, 2012 to 2014, plus the Viz volume 1…

Every Japanese tankobon cover of Tokyo Ghoul:re, volumes 1 to 16, pictured and dated: Sui Ishida’s sequel in Young Jump Comics editions, December 2014 to July 2018.

Tokyo Ghoul’s documented history: the 2010 prize one-shot, Weekly Young Jump serialisation 2011 to 2014, the :re sequel to 2018, and 47 million copies in…

Sui Ishida, documented: born in Fukuoka in 1986, webcomics as Nashimoto and Sotonami, second place in the 113th Young Jump Grand Prix, and the works from Tokyo…

Sui Ishida’s art practice, from the record: the painted covers collected in Zakki, an ending-card illustration for every episode of √A, the published “secret…

The Tokyo Ghoul one-shot documented: second place in the 113th Young Jump Grand Prix in 2010, published in Miracle Jump No. 2 in March 2011, plus the Rize and…

Tokyo Ghoul [Jack] documented: Ishida’s seven-chapter digital prequel about the young Arima and Fura, Jump Live 2013, digital-only volume, Viz digital edition,…

The Tokyo Ghoul √A divergence, documented factually: Ishida was asked for an original draft, his version was not used, and the aired season condenses the manga…

The Tokyo Ghoul anime documented: Studio Pierrot, director Shuhei Morita, composer Yutaka Yamada, “unravel”, the four cours 2014 to 2018, the two OVAs, and the…

Tokyo Ghoul’s volume count, verified: 14 volumes of the first series, 16 of :re, the one-volume digital prequel [Jack], four light novels and two Zakki…

Tokyo Ghoul in English, documented: Viz Signature singles (14 volumes, 2015–17; :re 16 volumes, 2017–20), the digital [Jack], the novels, both Zakki hardcovers,…

Tokyo Ghoul’s Japanese and English covers compared from pictured pairs: identical Ishida paintings, rebuilt lettering: both volume 1s and Zakki, side by side.

Tokyo Ghoul’s games, briefly and in order: Carnaval ∫Color and Jail (2015), Dark War (2016), :re Invoke (2017), :re Call to Exist (2019), and Kaneki’s 2025 Dead…

Tokyo Ghoul Zakki documented: Shueisha’s 2014 illustration book of covers, promotional art and unreleased concept art with Ishida’s commentary, the :re…

Jack Jeanne documented: Broccoli’s 2021 Switch theatre game created by Tokyo Ghoul’s Sui Ishida: original work, character designs, world design, illustrations…

Choujin X as context for Tokyo Ghoul: Ishida’s 2021 Tonari no Young Jump series, published irregularly on his own schedule, simulpublished in English, ten…

Identifying a first printing of Tokyo Ghoul: the Shueisha colophon method, why the printing number (第1刷) is the evidence, why the ISBN cannot be, and how to…

Japanese and international card backs side by side: Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Magic and Carddass, with the histories and questions behind them.

Vol.1 in February 1999, a second game in the West from 2002, one court fight over the TCG, and two banlists from 2013.

Two regions, two card backs, two banlists: the OCG runs months ahead, hundreds of its cards have never crossed over, and the two games cannot be mixed in one deck.

Crosses, ankhs, firearms and hemlines redrawn for the international editions, and the names rewritten with them: Black Magician became Dark Magician.

The same foil has two names: Holographic Rare in Japan is Ghost Rare in the West, and an Ultimate Rare is embossed across the whole card only in Japan.

Fourth Edition, April 1995: the first Asian language printing, black bordered first because a card had to earn its white border in its own language.

War of the Spark gave all 36 planeswalkers new Japanese art, including a Liliana by Yoshitaka Amano, printed only in Japanese.

Bandai's vending machine cards from 1988: named for a weather data system, built as an information source for kids, and older than the trading card games that followed.

Yes: Bandai's vending machine cards reached Japan in September 1996, a month before the trading card game, in red and green versions of all 151.