I was looking through my binder and noticed something a bit funny, the half art Slowking ex sv2p holo is diagonal in Korean, but the holo was horizontal in every other language printing of this card that I have.
I looked up more photos and from every listing I saw, it seems like the Korean holo for this card was diagonal and every other language was horizontal.
But then the odd thing was, it wasn’t entirely consistent for every card. The wo-chien ex from the same set is also diagonal holo for every photo I saw in Korean, but then every photo I saw in Japanese was diagonal as well.
Is this a known thing? I’m confused why the holo would be different directions for different languages, but then be consistent within all printings for that language. It’s also possible I haven’t figured out the pattern in the printings yet because I haven’t looked at enough examples. Curious if anyone has more examples here or has noticed something similar for other sets.
Here’s another two examples where the Korean holo is diagonal and the Japanese / other languages are horizontal, found by DragonClasher on Discord.
His theory (which I agree with based on this evidence) is that the half-art tera exs were “supposed” to get the horizontal sheen holo, but in Korean they were printed diagonally for whatever reason.
Going to update the title to reflect this hypothesis!
I agree with this. In the Japanese SV2P/SV2D set, it seems all Terastallized Pokémon have a different holofoil for their Ultra Rares in comparison to the other Ultra Rares, even though all of them have the RR-rarity indicator in the bottom-left.
The Japanese non-Tera Pokémon seem to use a diagonal sheen holo with starfoil layer on top of it.
The Japanese Tera Pokémon on the other hand use a horizontal sheen holo with a speckled layer on top of it, and are also textured in addition to that.
Based on your pictures above, South Korea did pick up the starfoil/speckled layers and textures, but not the diagonal vs horizontal sheen holo layer.
Cool to see they’ve fixed it eventually in SV6, though. That does make me wonder though, if South Korea even gets multiple print runs to begin with, whether the last set like that (SV5 you said?) might have both diagonal and horizontal versions available. Probably not tbh, but it’s plausible perhaps.
@doomrai Someday I will meet an all-holo-variant Forretress collector and this information will be relevant
@Quuador Glad you agree with the theory! I’ve made the title a bit more specific to indicate the overall pattern. It’s possible SV5 could have multiple versions, but I didn’t see any in my search, so I’m inclined to assume it’s just the one printing until seeing otherwise.
Haha, the good news for any species collectors: since all cards seem to be effected equally by this, all you have to do is buy the card in Korean. They’re pretty abundant and inexpensive
korea is one of those outliers where they print their own stuff. Most of the SEA languages are printed by in Japan. Weird things like this can happen. Korean cards are very smooth and glossy, and very prone to edge chipping when I tried to put them into card sleeves like nothing else. This helped me develop a super advanced secret technique to prevent further damage that I use often on very valuable cards I want to sleeve up.
This info doesn’t shock me. I guess They might share a supply with Japan and I’d assume they were just running though some old stock from the sw/sh era or something, or they just didn’t get the memo on the print floor what to use. Any number of oddities.
