Language exclusive holos are interesting to me because they stand out as a moment of uniqueness across distributions. I’m always curious why a card gets preferential treatment and want to document known language exclusive holos here. Shoutouts to @c0ll3ct0r for inspiring me to start this thread here and to @Drew12 for suggesting the neo additions. Kindly comment any other language exclusive holo cards that you know about!
Reverse holo sets technically count as language exclusive holos because they give a reverse holo to every card, however they are well-documented in other topics.
Not sure if there is any one place that has them all (tbh I don’t even know if there is a complete list for the Korean ones). @Rockets_rares can probably help with the Spanish ones. Another thing that I remembered is that some cards got French exclusive holos in their McDonald’s sets.
It was 2013. Here is the eevee, this is the only language in which the dark explorers artwork has a holo. This photo also has a language exclusive reverse holo
The reverse, happy to. The regular I can try, it’s just in rough condition. Let me know what you need. You can also check my pinned collection if you need others
I’d like a portrait scan like the other cards listed in the gallery, condition isn’t a problem!
If you have other non-en, non-jp language exclusives for scan I will gladly take them!
Portuguese-exclusive HGSS Saturn Holo courtesy of @Rockets_rares – this Saturn holofoil only shows up in some Portuguese HGSS-era cards, and on some Lucario and Manaphy from the DP Trainer Kits
