Forget the TCG for a second — these are Carddass, the holo stickers Bandai pushed out of coin-op vending machines across Japan in the 1998-99 Anime Collection run. They are not Wizards cards and they are not Media Factory's game cards; the art is pulled from the anime, so you get the cast (Officer Jenny, Brock, Meowth, Jessie & James, Team Rocket, and of course Ash & Pikachu) rather than Sugimori's monster portraits. Each is a sticker on the front with a card back, and the Prism examples carry that rainbow foil sheen collectors chase. They cost a few yen out of the machine and were meant to be peeled and stuck, which is exactly why clean, un-peeled Prisms survive in small numbers today. A charming, very Japanese corner of late-90s Pokémon.
- 1Sticker face, card-stock back — these peel; surface scuffs and adhesive lift are the usual condition killers.
- 2Prism cards carry a holographic foil sheen; non-Prism stickers in the series are flat-printed.
- 3Artwork is anime characters and scenes, not Ken Sugimori game/monster art — Ash, Pikachu, Team Rocket and the cast rather than monster portraits.
- 4All-Japanese text; sold loose out of Carddass coin-op machines rather than in sealed packs.
These are peel-back stickers, not playing cards, so the foil face scuffs and creases easily — clean Prism surfaces grade scarce. Check the corners and the sticker edge for peel-lift and silvering; centering on Carddass vending product runs loose and is not treated as a defect.
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