How a card gets checked, and what that is worth
Accuracy is the entire product here, so this page states plainly what has been verified and what has not. If that reads as less confident than a competitor's badge, that is the point.
Current status
Where the cards stand today
There are 13 cards drafted and 13 of them have not yet had a native-speaker register check. Nothing on this site claims otherwise, and the packs will not go on sale at full price until that check is done.
The site deliberately carries no review count and no rating. Seeded social proof is common on products like this one, and on a product whose entire claim is “this is what actually happens”, inventing proof would contradict the thing being sold.
That is what the founding price is for. The first hundred buyers pay $9.99 instead of $19, and in exchange they are buying an unverified draft from someone who says so — and are asked to send back anything that is wrong.
The three checks
What each check actually catches
| Check | What it catches | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The ritual claim | Whether the procedure is right: that you really do pay the machine first, that the door really does open itself, that the charge really is for the seat. | Sourced, and re-checked at each dated revision |
| The Japanese line | Whether the sentence is correct — grammatical, unambiguous, and actually the thing you would say in that room. | Pending — the launch gate |
| Register | Whether it is polite without being stiff. Machine translation gets this wrong in a way that is invisible to a non-speaker and obvious to the person reading the card across a counter. | Pending — the launch gate |
Dating
Why every card carries a month
Japan changes these details more often than guidebooks admit. Machines get replaced, seat charges get added, tax-free thresholds move, and tattoo policies relax one bath at a time.
So every card has the month it was checked printed on it, and every revision is written down in the changelog. A card without a date is a card you cannot judge.
Where something genuinely varies, the cards and the guides say so instead of picking a number. “The threshold has moved twice — read the sign at the counter” is an answer. A confident wrong number is not.
Corrections
If we got something wrong
Tell us: the contact page has the address. Corrections are free, they go out to everyone who bought the pack, and they are logged in public with a date.
You keep your money either way — the refund window is thirty days and is not conditional on anything.