Here are some Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children cards. (Notice: This series is known as DemiKids in North America.) This set is a CCG (collectable card game) like Yu-Gi-Oh or Magic: The Gathering, for example. I'm not really certain about the premise or the rules, however. I haven't really looked into it - I more or less just collect the cards. These cards can only be aquired in Japan or through importing so they are very rare outside Japan. I mean... extremely rare. Most import stores don't even carry these at all.

If you aren't a fan of the Devil Children series, there won't be much for you here. All of the art is very Devil Children-ish (not up to Persona/Megami Tensei standards) and there aren't many instances where you will recognize anything. But for hardcore Megatenists, this is a must have. For others, you will sometimes come across characters, magic and item cards that are used in other games, such as Jack Frost, Zionga spell or Speed Incense...

This set of cards is called Maden Fukkatsu (which I think means Demon Legend Rebirth, or something to that effect.) It is a set of expansion cards. Since this is one of the earlier sets of cards, it deals with the earlier Devil Children games... namely Red and Black Books. The boxes for this particular set of cards is red and features the heroes from the the Red and Black Books on the cover. Each box comes with 30 packs of cards and each pack has 6 cards in it. That's 180 cards per box. The retail cost for one box of cards is 4500 Yen and each pack comes in at 150 Yen. Really cheap compared to the Digital Devil Story cards.

The entire set of Maden Fukkatsu cards is comprised of 126 different cards and these cards are divided into 3 classes of cards (which you can see in the letter prefix on the card number.) The first set of cards is FC, the second set of cards is SC and the third set of cards is TC. There are 42 of each class of cards. At this point, I'm not sure what the prefixes have to do with anything. Like all cards, this set of cards is divided into different rarity or type classes. They are: