Pokémon’s upcoming “The Scream” cards capture 2018’s existential horror

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Gotta dread ’em all

The world is running out of clean water, climate change continues to ravage the planet, and politics everywhere are a total nightmare: nearly every day of 2018 has carried the emotional weight of an entire year. It’s fitting, then, that this is also the year The Pokémon

Company is announcing a partnership with the Tokyo Art Museum to produce special trading cards based on, the promotional cards will be available starting October 27th to celebrate a special exhibition at the Tokyo Art Museum. Each card, which will retail for 450 yen, will feature a pocket monster with a scream attack that causes confusion . Cards will be available through official Pokémon

centers in Japan when fans purchase booster packs, though there will also be other Munch / Pokémon-related merch up for sale, too. Munch’s original work was inspired by a startling sunset in 1892 that painted the sky “blood red.” According to Munch’s journal at the time, the scene left him feeling as if an “infinite scream” had passed through nature. While associating existential dread with a children’s game might seem odd, Pokémon

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