A card shop owner in Japanâs Gifu Prefecture has offered a 1 million yen reward (roughly $6,100) for the capture of a Pokémon and One Piece TCG thief who raided their shop on July 22, but with the disclaimer that said thief must be returned in PSA 10 conditionâor, as they put it, âaliveâ and âbreathing.â

As spotted by Automaton, the Kaitorip Game shop owner in Gifu Prefectureâs Seki put out the bounty following a July 23 post on X. âAround 3:20 AM on July 22, 2026, Kaitorip was burglarized,â reads the initial post (machine translated from Japanese). âThe shop was ransacked, and a large amount of stock was stolen. We are working urgently to resume operations and sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused to those who had planned to visit.â

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However, while their first post didnât receive too much attention online, Kaitorip Gameâs follow-up post, which features CCTV footage of the masked perpetrator riffling through their store, clearly tickled several X users in Japan, after the store owner specifically requested that the thief be returned âaliveâ if anyone wished to claim the 1 million yen bounty on their head.

As a result, users on X began asking the store owner about the potential trade-in value of the thief, relative to the physical condition that heâs returned in, to which Kaitorip Game simply replied: âWe will not reduce the amount as long as they are breathing.â Sounds like the type of condition that some TCG sellers on eBay would refer to as âlightly played.â

As of now, Kaitorip Game has yet to capture the thief, but Iâd be extremely interested to find out if their mugshot would lead to them getting turned away from Pokémon stores in Japan once the facial recognition checks go into effect later this month.