1. Where can I get the Tarot decks for Ranma 1/2, Fushigi Yuugi, and Sailor Moon that are on your page?
Unfortunately, you can't get them anywhere. I made them myself using pictures found across the Net and image editors. No company is selling them or anything else. The only place you will (or at least, SHOULD) ever see them is on my web page after I upload them.
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2. Where can I get the X Tarot cards?
The X (X/1999) Tarot cards up (or soon to be up) on my page come from the Japanese tankubans. In Japan, each X tankuban released has a painting of one of the X characters as a major arcana Tarot figure. This painting is printed on the inside of the front dust jacket. No Japanese X Tarot decks have been released yet. However, there has been a Chinese X Tarot deck released that includes all of the major and minor arcana. The only place that I know you can find it is on eBay.
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3. Where can I get the Oh My Goddess! Tarot cards?
The Oh My Goddess! Tarot cards are actually a collectible card set (same size as sticker cards and other such goodies). Your best bet on finding them is either through your local comic book/anime shops and (even better) at an anime convention. Look hard and flip through those reamed binders!
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4. How do you choose who will be on each Tarot card?
As I came to each card, I spent a while thinking of who would fit that card best and then seek out a corresponding picture on the Net. Sometimes, I have also had help from fans who wrote to me with their suggestions. (Thank you SO much to everyone who has done so or will do so in the future! You have NO idea how much you help me when you do this!) If a card is blank (black with a big red question mark), it probably means that I still haven't been able to concoct a person/place/thing to fit there. I try to never repeat a character. For example, if I used "Sailor Moon" on a card, I will not use just "Sailor Moon" again. I may use "Usagi Tsukino" or "Princess Usagi" or "Eternal Sailor Moon" for another card, but not the exact same thing.
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5. How do you make the cards?
With LOTS and LOTS of time. If the image I want is fine (needs no further editing), I will use an image editor to crop the part of the picture I want and fix it at the appropriate size. If I want to combine pictures, put a background behind the character, etc. this takes even longer. For these, I combine an image editor and (quite often, believe it or not) the "Paintbrush" program that came with Windows. Yep, that crappy little program, not "Paintbrush Pro" or something similar. I work with limited resources and try to do the best I can with what I've got. Sometimes the simple approach is the best one.
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6. Why does it take you so long to update this site?
Well, because frankly, I've got TONS of things going on in my life: editor of a magazine, attending college, raising and researching my bettas (Siamese fighting fish), etc. Therefore, it's not often that I'm able to come back and work on my page. Updates will be a bit erratic with a week's worth of hard work put in... and then a month or two of nothing. I'm trying to change that, but in the meantime, please have patience!
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7. Do you have any other web sites?
As a matter of fact, I do. Go to my main site to check out what else I've got going. Personally, I recommend that you jump straight to my Riding Bean site; it's the most complete so far.
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