List of All Japanese Pokemon Phone Cards

Nice idea for a thread. You have quite a few missing though - but that’s to be expected really as there are hundreds and hundreds of obscure ones out there.

Here is a picture I shared of my small collection a few months ago on Discord:

You’ll notice I have (or had as I sold one) 3 PiPiPi cards and there’s actually a very rare 4th which was only awarded to 30 people in a lottery:

The dark red-background card on top of the PiPiPi ones is a telephone card distributed in or with the December 1997 issue of Japanese magazine Televi-Kun to celebrate the upcoming new year.

Then I have the 2 Chrsitmas 2000 telephone cards sealed which both feature Pichu. In terms of Pichu there’s also a very rare Pokémon Shiny Concert 2001 telephone card which I’ve only seen come up for sale twice (I’m offering $1,000 for one of these):

To continue what @thymeee said above, there’s a set of Chilean telephone cards released as part of their Pokémon League. I got very lucky last year and managed to find a Pichu one bundled in as a freebie with a Togepi card I bought:

https://instagram.com/p/CMFAQd0lzQk

hapycakeoven has been collecting telephone cards for years and likely has the largest Pokémon collection of those. I know Mason Kampe has also recently been trying to collect all of them also.

There are still a lot you’re missing though. For some useful resources here are some links:

  • Teleca is one of the largest telephone card stores in Japan;
  • AnimeTeleca is the other Japanese store I’m aware of which has an even larger inventory (NSFW warning);
  • Colnect is a massive database of telephone cards which lists a lot of English cards (both official and unofficial) and is where I learned of those Chilean cards.
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