I recently purchased a Japanese Latios gold star which had a darker and bluer print than others I’d seen online, and when I did some digging I actually found some variations across the blue-green spectrum. A lot of the Japanese ones were closer to blue, though not exclusively, while non-Japanese on…

Yeah I can see that my one in person is definitely not teal, so it’s not just the lighting EDIT: upon closer inspection you could say it has a hint of teal to it, but it’s very blue in person.

You can find Jp. goldstars with lighter/deeper saturation. This is the case for both unlimited and first edition Clash of the Blue Sky set. With Rayquaza for example, the body is a darker color and the border is also noticeably darker. From what I can tell, neither is noticeably rarer.

Japanese and non-Japanese cards can also have adjustments to saturation and things like that. This may explain the Japanese leaning towards one color and non-Japanese towards another? With differences between print runs contributing to places where they might look more overlapped. See Neo Genesis S…

At least a third of the gold stars are either somewhat or completely off from their correct shiny colors, Latios is one of them.

I noticed something strange about Latios Gold Star

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koala December 23, 2025, 4:22am 2

It should be teal, which can lean more toward blue or green depending on the lighting / scan

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I noticed something strange about Latios Gold Star

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