On the off chance that anyone has either heard of or played a nearly unplayable card game by the name of Ani-Mayhem, yeah, this is the first appearance of Kedamono ever. On an unfinished trading card. Yeah. He also brandished what is possibly a scimitar, for some reason.

I was into this game in middle school, sooooo, 1998-99 at the very latest?

Oh, the things we uncover when we clean~