Japanese CoroCoro Promos Card List
For six years CoroCoro Comic ran the densest promo campaign of the vintage era: buy the issue, punch the card out. 1996 gave a glossy Pikachu; 1997 gave Flying and Surfing Pikachu, Imakuni?, Meowth, Mew and Mewtwo plus the Song Best Collection CD's Computer Error; 1998 gave a Gym-leader set and the Corrected Illustrator Pikachu, the most valuable card in the family by orders of magnitude; 1999 closed the Kanto run with Giovanni's Nidoking, Koga's Ninja Gym, Togepi and Hama-chan's Slowking; 2000 moved to Johto with Cleffa, Crystal Tower's Entei, Scizor and Wooper. Twenty-five cards are priced here. Eight more — Brock's Onix, Misty's Tentacool, Cubone, Blaine's Growlithe, Sabrina's Abra, Marill, Unown and Smoochum — are real inserts our price source does not list, and two jumbos are held back pending a console fix; all are named rather than given pages with invented figures. This page lists every card with its printings priced separately — 25 printing records — and every one opens its own record with the prices, the printing notes and where to buy.
Card List
Japanese CoroCoro Promos At a Glance
How many cards are in the Japanese CoroCoro Promos?
The set holds 25 cards, released 1996. This site tracks 25 printings of them (CoroCoro 25), each with its own record and price.
What printings does it have?
Magazine inserts, so there is no 1st Edition and no Unlimited run; one printing each, and no collector number on the card — the number shown is the Pokédex number the price source files it by. The non-glossy 1996 Pikachu and one 1996 Jigglypuff came with the separate Easily Understand How to Play rulebook and live on the Asobikata page. Sources: folio.fyi's CoroCoro entries for the enumeration; Bulbapedia per-card articles; price-source naming and scans.
What is the most valuable card in the set?
Illustrator Pikachu at $2,000 raw, about $16,492,000 in PSA 10. One raw copy of every printing here totals $4,989.
How do these cards relate to the English printing?
No English version of these cards exists. These were magazine giveaways in Japan only, so there is no English CoroCoro set. A few images were later reused on English black-star promos Meowth, Mewtwo and the birds among them but those are separate printings in a separate set, not the cards here, so these are the only printings of these cards that were ever made. They are one of just two Japanese releases of the era with no English counterpart at all.
How do I tell a Japanese CoroCoro Promos card apart from the English printing?
Turn it over, which is the quickest tell there is: this set predates July 2001, when Japanese cards carried the Pocket Monsters Card Game back — a design no English card ever had, against the blue Pokémon back. The back changed once, with Pokémon VS in July 2001, so the back alone dates a card to this era.
Either way, the symbol beside the number is the Japanese set's own, not the English set's.
Prices are PriceCharting sold comps read 2026-11-07 and are per printing. This set is not in TCGdex, and no structured fact source covers it, so rarity, type and illustrator are omitted rather than guessed. One raw copy of every printing on this page totals $4,989.