Dragon Ball Super from Japan

Which Dragon Ball card games are actually sold in Japan?

"Dragon Ball cards" on a Japanese marketplace covers several unrelated products, and the first thing to establish is which one a listing belongs to. The Dragon Ball Super Card Game, Bandai's trading card game launched in 2017, is the game most overseas players mean by the name, but it was released only outside Japan; its 2024 format, Fusion World, is the first version sold in Japanese. Alongside it sits Super Dragon Ball Heroes, the arcade-machine card game whose cards fill Japanese secondhand card listings for the series and are not usable in the Super Card Game. Older still are Carddass cards, Bandai's vending-machine cards from 1988 onwards, which are collected rather than played. All three are listed under ドラゴンボール, so the game name after it is what tells them apart.

Which Dragon Ball card game has Japanese-language cards?

Only Fusion World, among the Super Card Game formats. The original Dragon Ball Super Card Game was never printed in Japanese, so the DBSCG cards listed on Japanese marketplaces are English-language cards imported or resold by Japanese collectors. Fusion World is published by Bandai in Japanese and in English with the same card layout, so its Japanese cards fit the same sleeves and, for casual play, the same decks; check Bandai's current tournament rules before using Japanese-language cards in a sanctioned event in your region. What Japan adds for Fusion World is the promo and premium layer: promo cards from Japanese tournaments and shop events, Japanese product bundles, and the alternate-art versions that Japanese sellers list as パラレル. Super Dragon Ball Heroes has no English edition at all, so its cards exist only through the Japanese secondhand market, which is why they appear so often in Dragon Ball card listings on Mercari and Yahoo Auctions.

What do the rarity terms on a Japanese Dragon Ball card listing mean?

Rarity terms depend on which game the card is from, and Japanese sellers use the abbreviations without spelling out the game. For the Super Card Game and Fusion World the codes are the printed rarity letters; for Super Dragon Ball Heroes the sellers use the arcade game's own rarity ladder. Both appear in titles as short codes.

• C / UC / R / SR / SCR — Super Card Game rarities up to Secret Rare
• SPR / パラレル — special rare and alternate-art parallel versions
• リーダー / L — Leader card
• プロモ — promo card from tournaments, shops or bundles
• UR / SEC (ヒーローズ) — Super Dragon Ball Heroes top rarities
• CP / キャンペーン (ヒーローズ) — campaign cards from Heroes promotions
• キラ — a generic Japanese word for any foil card

Where do Dragon Ball cards come from on the Japanese market?

Current Fusion World boosters are a retail purchase on Amazon Japan and Rakuten; original Super Card Game product reaches Japan only as English-language imports. Everything else, including every Super Dragon Ball Heroes card because they are only ever dispensed by arcade machines, is a secondhand purchase from Mercari, Yahoo Auctions and Suruga-ya. Heroes cards are common in listings and the most fragile: they are handled at the cabinet, so condition notes and photos matter more than they do for a sealed booster.

How should I read condition notes on a Japanese Dragon Ball card?

Read them as a description of a specific card, not a grade; the marketplace's own condition scale is the grade, and the seller's notes explain it. For Heroes cards and Carddass, both of which were handled outside sleeves, 傷あり and 擦れ are normal and the photo under angled light decides the purchase. For Super Card Game foils, 白かけ and 線傷 are the flaws to look for. Cards sleeved straight from the pack are listed as 開封後すぐスリーブ.

• 美品 — fine condition in the seller's view
• 傷あり / 擦れ / 白かけ — scratches / surface scuffing / edge whitening
• 開封後すぐスリーブ — sleeved immediately after opening
• PSA10 / ARS10 — graded and slabbed
• ローダー付き / スリーブ付き — shipped in a toploader / in a sleeve

What does a Dragon Ball card order through a Japan proxy cost?

The item price in yen, OneMall's service fee and the seller's domestic shipping, if charged, are paid when you order; the international shipping is paid after the cards reach our Japan warehouse and you have picked a shipping method. Cards are light, so the total is driven by how many separate parcels you send rather than by what is in them: buy singles from many sellers, consolidate at the warehouse, and ship once. Sealed boxes and Carddass binders are the purchases where parcel size becomes a factor. Import duty, where your country charges it, is collected on delivery.

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