Japanese and other Pokémon languages

We read Pokémon in nine languages, and Japanese is covered as well as English.

Every Pokémon batch says its language when you make it, and every card in it is read, matched and priced in that language.

A card in the wrong batch

We move that card to its own language when two things agree: its name is printed in kana or Hangul, and the English catalog does not hold that card at that number.

Both are needed because a reader sometimes writes an English card’s name in kana. Your batch keeps every card the English catalog recognises.

The batch says how many cards we moved, and each card says so until you close the line. Change the language on that one card when we got it wrong.

Show them, beside that line, narrows the table to those cards.

What each language gets

Every language has its own catalog, and we match your card against that one. The set name we show is the one printed on your card.

Japanese has its own catalog and its own market price per printing.

The other seven languages have no market price anywhere. TCGplayer sells English and Japanese cards only, so we show no price rather than the English card’s price. Set the price yourself.

Korean cards carry no catalog photo, because the source we read holds none.

Reverse Holo says Printed on a Japanese card when that card was printed with one. Japanese sets print far fewer reverses than English sets.