This looks like it’s for the game.
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This is a sealedass Pikachu, not a promo card
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You are my hero right now bro…
We have ruled out:
1997 december bessatsu.
1997 august, september, and november corocoro comics
This is the very last part.
See this thread? they say in 1998 they reprinted it. The original print was 2000. Then a copy print of another 2000. For each card.
My last question is, this should disclose the amount to be 2,000 copies total of Surfing Pikachu 1997. If there was a reprint it would be 4,000. We are getting closer.
This is a thank you promotion for selling 2 million units. As part of their thank you promotion they are distributing the surfing Pikachu and imakuni promos together in the September issue, which was available starting August 8th.
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This thread is not about surfing Pikachu. It is about ivy Pikachu.
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Okay thank you,
So 1 distribution in September, which came out Aug 8th. (Thank you promotion)
Then 1 more distribution in October Corocoro Bessatsu(Special edition)
It seems that way. But the sources seem conflicting in the way that they are written. I’m going to ask a friend to double check in the morning.
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Thank you this is the one that made sense for me. Because corocoro comic come out and bessatsu can also come out as an extra edition same month. So makes sense that it would come out in august as its bessatsu and october same. months 8 and 10.
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The CoroCoro Comic magazines had ~1.8M monthly circulations in 1997, according to this Wikipedia page: CoroCoro Comic - Wikipedia. This pages uses this archived page as source for its numbers: https://web.archive.org/web/20070306085534/http://www.geocities.jp/wj_log/rank/hokan/zassi.html, which are data taken from the official Japan Magazine Publishers Association website (which at time of writing, unfortunately only goes as far back as 2008: 一般社団法人 日本雑誌協会), where most Japanese magazines have published their monthly/annual figures including distribution amounts.
So it’s not an exact number, but if it was in two different monthly CoroCoro Comic magazines of 1997, there were roughly 3.6 million copies of the Japanese Glossy Surfing Pikachu card distributed in total, apparently.
Greetz,
Quuador
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Is it possible that since the magazines were released so close to each other and also that one magazine was a special (bi-monthly) issue and the other being a monthly issue, that some of the wordings were same / similar? Meaning that the audiences for the two magazines don’t necessarily have to overlap. So it was just introduced as new on two seperate occasions?
What I mean is, if I look at this picture which is from the October Corocoro Bessatsu(Special edition), it mentions “Surfing Pikachu Debut” which may indicate that this was the first appearance. Also the fact that the other text in the regular September issue also as translated states it is a new species which is available. However, the Thank You promotion states that both the Surfing Pikachu and Imakuni? were released i the 1997 September issue.
Regardless, thanks for all the info and translation @BANKS and @Spyder . This was a wonderful rabbit hole of history to get into.
Cheers!
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