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Taken from a vintage stationary store toy from the 1970s.

Taken from a panel of the Dr. Slump manga.

Image taken from a Manga sticker sheet.

My attempt at recreating a vintage shirt from Secaucus, NJ.

Image taken from a vintage Korean Blues Brothers advertisement.

Straight from the pages of the manga!

Taken straight from the pages of the Korean version of the manga.

Taken straight from the pages of the Kinnikuman manga. This is the first time The Devil Knights reveal their true identities. The Korean text roughly translates to "Star Chojin and the Devil Knights Fight!!"

Take from a vintage Kamen Rider notebook.

Design and colors inspired by a vintage bootleg Korean sticker I found.

Goku holding a handgun. Image taken from the packaging of a toy gun holster in Korea from the 90s.

Taken from the back of a Korean Maba Zombie boot box.

Taken from a Korean Maba Zombie boot box.

Taken from an old Korean sticker. I touched it up a bit, but decided to stick with the offset colors from the original sticker.

This was a backing card for a set of bootleg kinkeshi figures in Korea. Features Oilman, Stereo Cassette King and Gold Lightan for some reason.

Taken from the pages of a wacky Korean wrestling manga. This panel features WWF's Earthquake squaring off against Jason from the Friday the 13th movies.

Taken from a promo card for the Korean release of the Jademan Street Fighter 2 comic.

The famous claw from the M.U.S.C.L.E. series, AKA Kinnikuman.

Another Korean baby jiangshi because I am obsessed.

VHS cover for a Korean E.T. cartoon.

Korean VHS cover for The Goonies

#SQUADGOALS

Everyone's favorite pervert.

#1 Waifu

Cover for a Korean print of GeGeGe No Kitaro

Taken from a Korean coloring book.

B.B. Hood from Darkstalkers.

From the best video game ever made.

Akuma from Super Puzzle Fighter 2

Astro Boy knocking out a dinosaur. Taken straight from the manga.

The Ox Demon, from the early chapters of GeGeGe No Kitaro. Taken straight from the manga!

Michael Scott's most memorable quote from The Office.

Take from a Korean bootleg Street Fighter trading card. Note that this character is called Balrog and not Vega in Asia.

Taken from a scan of a vintage Korean Dr. Slump Manga.

Straight from the pages of the Ultraman manga. Yamaton sadly never appeared on the show, but he is one of my favorite Kaiju.