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NEWS: Lucky Star Credit Card Hinted in Japan


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BrianaTheBard



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:34 pm Reply with quote
......LOL.

Well. I guess it has an audience.

Only good part about Lucky Star was Lucky Channel and Konato's dad.
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KendoGirl



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:40 pm Reply with quote
I've just finished LS and it was really hard to watch Anime hyper If only the whole show was more like Lucky Channel, it would have had more fans, I think! LS wasn't B-A-D, just really slow - it never had me laughing, maybe a snigger here and there but that's about it...



I suppose LS had fans after all......good for them, but it's not like these cards will ever be available outside Japan anytime soon Razz
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fighterholic



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:49 pm Reply with quote
I wish that they could have waited at least a year. That way I'm done with school and I'm in Japan with a Japanese address, and I can apply for a Japanese credit card then. I would want Kagami and Konata on mine.
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Leon Evolon



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:53 pm Reply with quote
OMG I can so get that card because I live at 321 Otaku Lane, Japan!

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well, one can dream, right? lol
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enurtsol



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:56 pm Reply with quote
I seem to remember a decade ago, there was a credit card company (NextCard?) that allowed you to submit your card's art design (like Capital One Card Lab does now), and someone submitted and got her card with a Slayers image on it. Laughing
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KanonAirHaruhiShuffle



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:11 am Reply with quote
KendoGirl wrote:
I've just finished LS and it was really hard to watch Anime hyper If only the whole show was more like Lucky Channel, it would have had more fans, I think! LS wasn't B-A-D, just really slow - it never had me laughing, maybe a snigger here and there but that's about it...



I suppose LS had fans after all......good for them, but it's not like these cards will ever be available outside Japan anytime soon Razz


Or never because Americans just don't appreciate Lucky Star enough. Same goes for Haruhi which is quite sad.
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Bluebeard



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:16 am Reply with quote
Oooo... will it have 5% cash back on purchases from comic and anime stores?
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samuelp



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:30 am Reply with quote
fighterholic wrote:
I wish that they could have waited at least a year. That way I'm done with school and I'm in Japan with a Japanese address, and I can apply for a Japanese credit card then. I would want Kagami and Konata on mine.


Good luck getting one if you just got out of school. Getting approved for a credit card is tough. You have to be a permanent resident with a steady job, OR have a 3-year work visa with a significant monthly income before they'll issue one to you.

I've been rejected like 3 times just because my Visa expired in a year, even though I made a lot more money than the average person who just graduated from college. Now that I changed my Visa type I should probably try again, but still, it's not easy for even Japanese people to get a Japanese credit card.
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enurtsol



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 1:11 am Reply with quote
samuelp wrote:
fighterholic wrote:
I wish that they could have waited at least a year. That way I'm done with school and I'm in Japan with a Japanese address, and I can apply for a Japanese credit card then. I would want Kagami and Konata on mine.


Good luck getting one if you just got out of school. Getting approved for a credit card is tough. You have to be a permanent resident with a steady job, OR have a 3-year work visa with a significant monthly income before they'll issue one to you.

I've been rejected like 3 times just because my Visa expired in a year, even though I made a lot more money than the average person who just graduated from college. Now that I changed my Visa type I should probably try again, but still, it's not easy for even Japanese people to get a Japanese credit card.


Unlike the US where credit card companies try to sign up every poor starving collegiate on campus. Laughing
(Then again, Japan is still mainly a paper economy where 24-hr ATM is still a novel concept.)
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 1:26 am Reply with quote
enurtsol wrote:
Unlike the US where credit card companies try to sign up every poor starving collegiate on campus. Laughing
(Then again, Japan is still mainly a paper economy where 24-hr ATM is still a novel concept.)

Of which I would rather have than the other part of how we pay for things, CHECKS. I hate checks, hate having to take them at my work and hate having to write them at all. Which is also why I love cards, because you just pay for everything electronically online, get a confirmation, and move on with your life.
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icepick314



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:15 am Reply with quote
doesn't Capital One allow to choose your own design on your credit card?

https://www.capitalone.com/creditcards/cardlab/#/?linkid=WWW_1208_CARD_A0B0C0D0E0F0_HOME_C2_01_T_CCPCL
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enurtsol



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:29 am Reply with quote
fighterholic wrote:
enurtsol wrote:
Unlike the US where credit card companies try to sign up every poor starving collegiate on campus. Laughing
(Then again, Japan is still mainly a paper economy where 24-hr ATM is still a novel concept.)

Of which I would rather have than the other part of how we pay for things, CHECKS. I hate checks, hate having to take them at my work and hate having to write them at all.


Yeah I hardly use checks nowadays too. But at the same time, you don't really want your boss paying you in paper cash every 2 weeks. Or worse, a robber stealing yours (and other employees') pay after waiting on your boss habitually withdrawing cash from the bank/ATM to carry all that wad in a bag to work (like what still happens in Japan from time to time). Laughing
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Zirdante



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 10:09 am Reply with quote
icepick314 wrote:
doesn't Capital One allow to choose your own design on your credit card?

https://www.capitalone.com/creditcards/cardlab/#/?linkid=WWW_1208_CARD_A0B0C0D0E0F0_HOME_C2_01_T_CCPCL


There comes the problem of copyright, you can't just put any image on it.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:17 pm Reply with quote
Zirdante wrote:
icepick314 wrote:
doesn't Capital One allow to choose your own design on your credit card?

https://www.capitalone.com/creditcards/cardlab/#/?linkid=WWW_1208_CARD_A0B0C0D0E0F0_HOME_C2_01_T_CCPCL


There comes the problem of copyright, you can't just put any image on it.


Which is why I am sure that is is written in bold letters, no copyrighted images. I am sure they don't want a huge lawsuit, so I am sure its written somewhere.

As for the Lucky Star card, as nice as it looks, isn't it just another credit card? Now if the card was made out of titanium, it would be another story.
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fighterholic



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:05 pm Reply with quote
enurtsol wrote:
Yeah I hardly use checks nowadays too. But at the same time, you don't really want your boss paying you in paper cash every 2 weeks. Or worse, a robber stealing yours (and other employees') pay after waiting on your boss habitually withdrawing cash from the bank/ATM to carry all that wad in a bag to work (like what still happens in Japan from time to time). Laughing

True, but the situation in Japan is a bit different from over here. We do have direct deposit options as well. Japan is just a cash country. And not everybody is looking to take any bills lying on the ground for their own when they get the chance. If it's a big bill, most of the time they're going to turn that in to a koban.
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