Super Kawaii Pets Review

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We review Super Kawaii Pets, a set collection board game published by Arcane Wonders. Super Kawaii Pets is a game based on the concept of rescuing various kinds of pets and making them happy.

My wife always wanted a dog and, while we lived in a small condo, I had joked with her that I was expecting to come home from work one day and find a dog sitting on our couch. Fast forward a few years and she showed me a picture of a dog at a local rescue and asked if I wanted to meet her. We visited with and brought the dog home. Within a day my allergies started going wild. My wife looked at me compassionately and said, “I’m sorry your allergies are so bad.” And then she tenderly leaned in and whispered, “but we’re keeping the dog.”

And we still have her. There are pictures on our Discord if you want to join us to talk about games and other topics, like pets.

Today’s review is of Super Kawaii Pets designed by William Cavaglieri, illustrated by Pit Baldris, Steano dell’Aria and Hiyoaratory and published by Arcane Wonders. It plays 1-4 players aged 8 and up in about 20 minutes and shouldn’t trigger anyone’s allergies.

There are three main types of cards in Super Kawaii Pets: Pets, Helpers, and Location cards. On a player’s turn, they may select two cards from the available pets and helper cards or their face-down decks.

Then, they may take as many of the following actions as they can:
• Play an animal card (put it down in front of you) and collect any additional cards that the card grants you
• Flip an animal card to their happy side by paying the required resources in specific help cards including using any two cards to act as any other type of card.
• Obtain a location card by assigning the required number of happy animal cards to it. Happy pets with the star icons are wild.

Play continues until someone has 10 horizontal cards (counting both happy animals and locations). Players continue to take turns until everyone has had the same number of turns and then the game is