Inspired by global hobby shops and Japanese kaado shops, it's where cards, community, and collecting come together with care. Collecting here isn't a side hobby, it's the whole point. Open weekends, Koramangala.
Graded slabs on the wall, raw singles by binder, and sealed product on the shelf, plus jackets, sneakers, and new drops as we grow. Every piece is checked by hand before it goes out.
Dear collectors,
I spent six months chasing this feeling around the world, and I still can't fully explain it. Singapore, New York, San Francisco, Denver, Los Angeles. Different accents, same hunger. Walk into Bleecker Trading in NYC and you feel it immediately, grown adults hunched over binders like they're reading scripture. Frank & Son in LA isn't a store, it's a pilgrimage, open most days, and people build entire weekends around it. A tiny One Piece shop in San Jose, no sign worth mentioning, fifty people packed in on a random Tuesday. Decks out, nobody performing for anybody. Just want.
Bangalore has that same hunger. It's just never had anywhere to put it. It lives in WhatsApp groups at 2am, in a taxi called PAXI that used to roll up somewhere in the city with a trunk full of slabs and singles, gone before you'd finished looking. No storefront. No home. Just people who love this too much to let it stay invisible.
Bangalore's always been the city where subcultures start. Streetwear running into anime. Tech running into old-school fandoms. Niche hobbies quietly turning into loyal tribes, long before anyone outside them notices. Collecting deserved the same shot at a real home.
So I built it. Obsessed with this stuff, always have been. Couldn't stop if I tried.
Swam, Founder, Fresh Water
