Re: Japanese VS
To be fair, Japanese VS sat for years with virtually no movement. Even during the 2020-21 boom, those cards barely budged.
I’m not saying their price should have doubled overnight (but pretty much everything has the last six months or so), but I fully understand why they are increasing.
They may be set cards, but they aren’t readily available like Base Set, they are Japanese exclusives (aside from Tyranitar Half Deck, which has VERY rare English variants) and they have tremendous art from some of the most popular artists in the TCG.
I’m actually surprised VS didn’t increase sooner.
That being said, I do expect a correction once the market settles. I doubt those cards will ever return to their previous prices, though.