Amid the COVID-19-induced stay-at-home requests, an age-old pastime is experiencing a renaissance: tabletop games.
Take Nanja Monja, a Russia-born card game featuring colorful illustrations of strange but adorable monsters that was introduced to Japan in 2016 by Sugorokuya, one of the nation¡¯s largest game publishers.
While the game, also known as Toddles-Bobbles in English, has grown popular thanks to influential YouTubers praising its addictive simplicity, sales skyrocketed in April when the government issued a state of emergency over the rising number of coronavirus cases.
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