{"id":2701,"date":"2000-11-28T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2000-11-28T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2000\/11\/28\/yu-gi-oh-breaks-sales-records\/"},"modified":"2000-11-28T12:01:00","modified_gmt":"2000-11-28T16:01:00","slug":"yu-gi-oh-breaks-sales-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/yu-gi-oh-breaks-sales-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Yu-Gi-Oh Breaks Sales Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yu-Gi-Oh! Dual Monster collectable card game sales have now reached over 3 billion units, making Yu-Gi-Oh the most successful &#8220;post-Pokemon&#8221; monster collecting franchise in Japan.  Some of the very rare cards have sold to collectors for prices ranging from a few thousand yen to over a million yen (several thousand dollars to over 10 thousand US dollars per card!). Konami corporation, the licensors of Yu-Gi-Oh, have announced disappointment over such fanatic after-market sales, saying, &#8220;To obtain rare cards is similar to winning a gold medal for the fans. It is a sad thing to see these cards being sold for money, because that is like selling gold medals won at competitions.&#8221;  Plans are already underway for the Yu-Gi-Oh anime television series, CCG and Gameboy and Playstation games to make their way to America sometime next year.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animaxis.com\/zine\/news\/archive\/story_002_112600.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Animaxis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yu-Gi-Oh! Dual Monster collectable card game sales have now reached over 3 billion units, making Yu-Gi-Oh the most successful &#8220;post-Pokemon&#8221; monster collecting franchise in Japan. Some of the very rare cards have sold to collectors for prices ranging from a few thousand yen to over a million yen (several thousand dollars to over 10 thousand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}