That eBay auction suggests it was printed in at least 5 non-english languages. Also, starcity is selling japanese weatherlight cards: sales.starcitygames.com/category.php?cat...
so, if the question is "is this a legit card?", I would say the answer is yes.
IIRC, Japanese cards were still using Katakana (the Japanese simplified, phonetic script) in the illustrator line at that time. Korean and Chinese were using "Illus. (artist name)", the Japanese was a few simple symbols and the artist name (in English). At some point, I do not recall when, they stopped using the Katakana on the illustrator line.
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How to tell apart Chinese, Japanese, and Korean: - If there are circles all over the place, it's Korean. - If all the characters are large and look hard to draw, it's Chinese. - If some of the characters are large and hard to draw but others are small and simpler, it's Japanese.
Telling the two different Chineses apart is a little harder though.
I'd assume simplified is simpler, but they were developed in the era of "Quit farming and set up a steel mill in your backyard!" (Note: You cannot make steel in your backyard.)
I'd assume simplified is simpler, but they were developed in the era of "Quit farming and set up a steel mill in your backyard!" (Note: You cannot make steel in your backyard.)
In general, Simplified Chinese characters do have fewer strokes, and thus are simpler in that sense. Since some simplified characters just replace arbitrary parts of the character by something much simpler, like an X, they can be harder to memorize and learn, though.
Magic cards in the two different forms of Chinese were also in different typefaces, and so you don't need to be able to recognize the distinctive radicals which are a shortcut to distinguishing the two scripts (such as the speech radical, the cart radical, and the gate radical).
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