Japanese Topsun Card List
The Topsun set is older than the Pokémon TCG and has nothing to do with it: 150 cards, the first 150 Pokémon, sold inside packets of Topsun brand gum in 1995. There are no attacks, no HP and no energy — a different game's back — which is why these cards have no rarity and no rules text to document. Each card prints its Pokédex number, 1–150, and the set was printed in four buckets that trade apart: Blue Back, Green Back, the scarce Holo finish, and the numberless No Number print — the dearest of the four, where a Charizard is around $1,265 against $416 for its Blue Back. This page lists every card with its printings priced separately — 335 printing records — and every one opens its own record with the prices, the printing notes and where to buy.
Card List
Japanese Topsun At a Glance
How many cards are in the Japanese Topsun?
The set holds 150 cards, released 1995. This site tracks 335 printings of them (Blue Back 150 · Green Back 150 · Holo 16 · No Number 19), each with its own record and price.
What printings does it have?
Four printings, priced separately on every card: Blue Back and Green Back are the two main runs, Holo is the holographic finish, and No Number is a run printed without a collector number. There is no 1st Edition and no Unlimited — those are TCG concepts and this product predates them. A card only has the printings the price source lists — the chips above show which exist for the card you opened. Source: PriceCharting product-row naming; Topsun 1995.
What is the most valuable card in the set?
Charizard #6 at $1,031 raw, about $100,000 in PSA 10. One raw copy of every printing here totals $17,048.
How do these cards relate to the English printing?
No English version of these cards exists. None Topsun is not a Pokémon TCG product and has no English counterpart, 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 Topsun 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 2026-11-06 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 $17,048.