Japanese Eel
Anguilla japonica
Fishstrong against mammals, arachnids
Epic
While active with another fish in play, a fish on your bench absorbs up to 9 of the damage this card takes, without being knocked out (18 with two others).
Anguilla japonica
Photo: © 如此甚好 (original photo) · CC BY 4.0 (licence text) · cropped
Strong against: it deals 20% more damage to them. Weak against: these types deal 20% more damage to it.
The Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica; nihon unagi (日本鰻)) is a species of anguillid eel found in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, and Vietnam, as well as the northern Philippines. Like all the eels of the genus Anguilla and the family Anguillidae, it is catadromous, meaning it spawns in the sea but lives most of its adult life in freshwater.
In Japan, it is called unagi, and is an essential part of the food culture, with many restaurants serving grilled eel called kabayaki. However, presumably due to a combination of overfishing and habitat loss or changing water conditions in the ocean interfering with spawning and the transport of their leptocephali this species is endangered. In Japan, research has been conducted on the full life-cycle aquaculture of the Japanese eel as a means of addressing the underlying problem of declining wild populations. In 2010, Japan became the first country to induce spawning using broodstock that had been raised from artificially obtained eggs. In 2026, kabayaki prepared from fully farmed Japanese eel was commercially introduced for the first time.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Japanese eel, by its authors, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Endangered on the IUCN Red List: that’s what makes this card Epic.
Every Epic card has 145 points, shared between HP, ATK and DEF:
How they’re shared out:
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DEF 55