Maybe I am a larper. I had no idea the first Pokémon Trading Cards came from within a Japanese magazine called Corocoro Comic #223… they were a “glossy” Pikachu & Jigglypuff released October 15, 1996 that literally had to be peeled from the sheet inside the book And when I found out that there are currently ZERO PSA 10s of the Pikachu (basically his rookie card), I began my Odyssey. Over the past 6 months, I spent millions of dollars & hundreds of hours chasing a Pokémon card that doesn’t exist. I even tried to peel the two cards from a Corocoro 223 myself, thus destroying the value of the $150,000 book (i.e. when you remove the cards, the book is considered “incomplete”) I submitted the Pikachu & Jigglypuff that I peeled for grading, and received a PSA 2 and a PSA 5… I was shattered. Turns out, 30 years of being glued to a sheet sandwiched between hundreds of pages is the reason these cards are so hard to grade. Out of the 1400+ Pikachus that have been graded, not a SINGLE ONE has ever received a perfect 10. It’s statistically impossible, and after peeling for them myself, I see why… The 57 minute movie I posted on YouTube yesterday is a story that every collector can relate to: obsession —> pursuit —> failure —> regrounding —> ascent. And now, the ascent begins I’m still on the hunt to obtain what I consider to be the most valuable Pokémon card in the world, and on July 30th at 9:30pm EST, I’ll be peeling a PERFECT Corocoro 223 sheet that could contain the first and only PSA 10 Pikachu #1 … live on my YouTube channel. Save the date 🗓️