We all know Shinrabansho collab and by extension Kapibara-san collab, but most of you outside of Japan may have no idea about it. Let’s talk about interesting and less-known things about the collabs in PAD!

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Shinrabansho chocolate

Shinrabansho Chocolate (choco) (神羅万象チョコ) in real life is a series of chocolate wafers packed with collectible cards, produced by Bandai. Each card has a character illustration and unique stats/personality at the back of the card. These are generally sold in hobby stores and supermarkets across Japan, for 100 yen (+tax, which comes to ~1 USD)! The candy has sold over 100,000,000 packs of wafers since 2005.

In many hobby stores you can find sections where people resell the rarer ones (think regular trading cards).

Find out more here (English), or see the official site (Japanese)!

The two collabs in PAD

Shinrabansho Choco

Many of you know Shinrabansho only as collab, and it’s one of the few collabs that reran 10+ times on the Japanese server.

The collab officially started on April 15, 2013. If you want a comparison, North America server started on November 8, 2012, and Europe server (now gone) started on October 9, 2013. This collab is actually older than EU server, isn’t that crazy?

Now here’s a chart of the reruns on the Japanese server. What surprised myself too is that the collab technically reran for more than 10 times! You will also find that collabs start time has changed from 12am to 10am over the years.

Banner, Date & Time [JP]	Notable Additions
2013 | 4/15 12am ~ 4/28 11:59pm Debut	First announced during 10 Million Downloads celebration (2013 3/12~3/22)! All farmable cards and 1 set of dungeon available. No Egg Machines. were added to Pal Egg Machine during event, with Evo materials.
2013 | 7/12 12am ~ 7/14 11:59pm 48 Hour Revival	Revival, as part of 16 Million Downloads event (Same event as debut for Tengu Descended, when it required 12 cost or lower for subs). 2x drop rate for dungeon on last day. in Pal Egg Machine again.
2013 | 10/14 12am ~ 10/20 11:59pm 2nd Rerun	Some consider this as the first run of the collab.  Revival as part of 19 Million Downloads event (Debut of Takeminakata Descended and Beelzebub Descended). Dungeon (Masterion as boss) updated, enemies changed. in Pal Egg Machine again.
2014 | 1/13 12am ~ 1/19 11:59pm 3rd Rerun (4th return)	Dungeon boss changed from to evolved form in Pal Egg Machine again.
2014 | 3/15 12am ~ 3/16 11:59pm 48 Hour Revival	Revival for 48 hours as part of 24 Million Downloads event (Debut of Gaia Descended). in Pal Egg Machine again.
2014 | 6/29 12am ~ 6/29 11:59pm 24 Hour Revival	Revival for 24 hours only, as part of Shinrabansho Choco Niconico Live Stream. Dungeon score system added, 2x drop rate, and 2x invade rate of Saiga.
2015 | 3/30 12am ~ 4/12 11:59pm 5th Rerun	Rare Egg Machine introduced. Announced during 3rd Anniversary Stream. PADW also had the collab! Mythical level added to dungeon, with cards added as farmables.
2015 | 8/3 10am ~ 8/9 11:59pm 6th Rerun
2016 | 1/11 10am ~ 1/17 11:59pm 7th Rerun	Sakuya Another became available in Monster Point store (300,000 MP), and continued to return since. She’s also the only ★8 in the Egg Machine…
2016 | 7/4 10am ~ 7/10 11:59pm 8th Rerun
2017 | 3/13 10am ~ 3/13 11:59pm 9th Rerun	Limited time revival for 14 hours!
2017 | 9/11 10am ~ 9/18 9:59pm 10th Rerun	This was with boosted rates in the REM depending on the day.

Kapibara-san

Strangely enough, Kapibara-san collab (カピバラさん コラボ) usually tags along. Both collabs started around the same time!

Banner, Date & Time [JP]	Notable Additions
2013 | 4/29 12am ~ 5/12 11:59pm	This started directly after debut of Shinrabansho Choco Collab.
2013 | 12/16 12am ~ 12/22 11:59pm	Second run.
2015 | 3/9 12am ~ 3/15 11:59pm	added, Score system introduced. Collab extended to PADW.
2015 | 8/3 10am ~ 3/15 9:59pm 2016 | 1/11 10am ~ 1/17 9:59pm 2016 | 7/4 10am ~ 7/10 9:59pm 2017 | 3/13 10am ~ 3/13 11:59pm 2017 | 9/11 10am ~ 9/18 9:59pm	Along with Shinrabansho Choco Collab, 6th rerun. Ever since this rerun, the two collabs come together!

North American server

Compared to the 10+ reruns on JP, NA server only had the collab 6 times. The collab started a year later than JP, and is more of a condensed version. Collabs on NA server always start at 12am, unlike JP that switched over to 10am.

Banner, Date & Time [NA]	Notable Additions
2014 | 10/6 12am ~ 10/19 9:59pm Debut	Debut on NA, combination of first 3 runs on JP. [Facebook link]
2015 | 7/6 12am ~ 7/19 9:59pm 1st Rerun	Returned with the Rare Egg Machine (similar to 5th rerun on JP) [Facebook link]
2016 | 1/4 12am ~ 1/17 9:59pm 2nd Rerun	Same as 6th rerun on JP. [Facebook link]
2016 | 6/6 12am ~ 6/12 9:59pm 3rd Rerun	Same as 7th rerun on JP. [Facebook link]
2017 | 6/19 12am ~ 6/25 11:59pm 4th Rerun	[Facebook link]
2017 | 11/6 12am ~ 11/12 9:59pm 5th Rerun	[Facebook link]

Kapibara-san collab actually debuted in North American server before Shinrabansho choco did!

Banner, Date & Time [NA]	Notable Additions
2014 | 9/8 12am ~ 9/21 9:59pm	NA Debut. [Facebook link]
2015 | 7/20 12am ~ 7/26 9:59pm	Started after Shinrabansho collab, not at the same time.
2016 | 1/4 12am ~ 1/17 9:59pm 2016 | 6/6 12am ~ 6/12 9:59pm 2017 | 6/19 12am ~ 6/25 11:59pm 2017 | 11/6 12am ~ 11/12 9:59pm	Reruns along with Shinrabansho collab.

Fun facts from 2013 to 2017

The Wafer Man hate

In the good old days, the collab’s existence was probably skilling up one of the following to many people:

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Shiva

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Astaroth

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Baal

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Dragon Rider

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Pierdrawn

Nowadays you might think, “Yeah I’ll just grab some King Tans and some fodders to skill the cards up! Except:

• Not 100% drop. They are not even 100% chance to spawn.
• Tedious evolutions. Most skillup fodders needs to be leveled and evolved before feeding.
• 2x Skillup rate was rare, and only during events. There were no other ways to skill up cards, and nothing gave 100% skillup back then.

Example: Skilling up Astaroth

For example, to skill up

Astaroth (which by the way has 10 skill levels), you need to do the following:

1. Farm
   
   Kaguya, probably on a 2x drop rate day.
   
2. Feed enough EXP to max level Kaguya. (If you don’t have enough, you’ll have to farm weekday dungeons)
   
3. Evolve Kaguya to
   
   Princess Kaguya. (And if you don’t have evo materials, go farm some before hand on the corresponding weekday. There’s no Tue/Wed/Thu/Fri dungeons on weekend, and no trade function)
4. Feed the Princess Kaguyas to Astaroth, and pray to RNG god that you will get some skill up.
5. Repeat until you max skill ONE card.

So you take the time to farm a bunch of wafers, evolve them, then feed… to get 0 skillups. All frustrated players would love to do this:

This was also the first collab I stoned stamina to farm for Shiva’s skillup, which was a rare spawn and not 100% drop. I managed to farm 2 total, and got no skillups. Sometimes I wonder why I kept playing…

The Three Dungeons

Many of you noticed there are actually three dungeons listed for Shinrabansho collab on PDX:

1. Shinrabansho Choco Collab, that has 4 difficulties only, with 

Blazing Apollo as boss.

2. Shinrabansho Choco Collab, with

Masterion as boss.

3. Shinrabansho Choco Collab 2, with

Kagato as boss.

The first came with the initial release of collab (2013/04/15), and the second one was from introduction of Masterion and replaced the first dungeon. Added on 5th rerun (2015/03/30) was the last dungeon, when the Rare Egg Machine was introduced to introduce the new skillup materials.

Batman collab & ID difference between JP/NA

Depending on the server, early cards from Shinrabansho Choco collab may have different IDs! The same Japanese ID from Shinrabansho collab will give cards from Batman collab on NA server (and vice versa)!

In short, 669-680, 924-935, and 1049-1058 played a little switcheroo. Very fortunately there were same number of cards though.

Counting is hard

Because of the numbering difference, on NA server you’d get weird things like this, where

Light Dragon King Saiga (#1050) ultimate evolves into Awoken Light Dragon King Saiga, who has a lower number ID (#716). Evolved Saiga’s ID is #672 on Japanese server, which is more logical.

Note that Skyozora uses JP numbering, and Puzzle Dragon X (PDX), being an North America (NA) server-focused database, uses the NA numbering. Other example of weird numbering is Crows x Worst collab (which was reskinned to Voltron on NA), I can talk about that another day.

Apollo confusion

This really, is the most Apollos you can find in one collab. On 4th run of the collab (2014) there were even more Apollos added, and this was shown since the other two were Uvo forms.

Shinrabansho choco & Kapibara-san?

Perhaps the biggest mystery is how these two actually relate. The two series were released in PAD back to back in 2013, then eventually both collabs come together. Interestingly, the two series actually collaborated in 2015, you could get Kapibara cards with the wafers.

We believe it’s simply a three-way collab of Bandai/Tryworks/GungHo, which cptkicksville (site owner of Shinrabansho chocolate fan-made site) has kindly confirmed in comments with very detailed explanation!

Kapibara-san Collab in PADW

Less known, but in 2015 there was collab in PADW as well! [Source]

PADW x Kapibara-san merchandise

They really exist, and they are cute. Most of them are pretty hard to find unless you search in Yahoo Auctions (Japan only).

Plushies, 1,600 yen each (December 2013). You can take the hat off / Kapibara-san can be removed from the egg shell! [Source]:

Small figurines from claw machines in arcades (December 2013) [Source]:

PADW version of plushies, from UFO catchers at arcade (June 2015) [Source]:

File folder and pins (2015, from my own collection).

Side note: I’ll make a separate post on my PAD collection at some point.

This really is an old collab.

You know it’s old when you see screenshots like this [Source]…

Cards we will miss (if we never get this again)

Van Crow was originally wanted for the 40% gravity, especially way before Hera Nyx‘s time.

Hakuren was an amazing card during the Light meta. The active still hasn’t aged much…

Kanan has the first no skyfall active in PAD, and to be honest, her active is relevant to this day!

Kagato shined in one Ranking dungeon as a 200x ATK nuke. It may not be useful elsewhere, but it’s certainly one of the most notable niche farmable cards in PAD.

Final comments

Though some don’t like the art style, Shinrabansho Choco collab really is one long-lasting collab in PAD. This is especially true since recent collabs in PAD do not offer this many reruns anymore – They are all once or never. It’s unfortunate that most cards in this collab didn’t age well too. I personally wish they did more with Kapibara collab, but that’s my girly brain talking… Let’s hope we see it once again this year, before the franchise discontinues!

Edit: THE COLLAB CAME BACK YAY! With lots of buffs!!

Let me know in comments if you’d like to see posts like this about other collabs!