Wrapping up my review of the 2019 releases, here's a summary of everything I know that was released in Japan last year by someone other than BBM, Calbee or Epoch.
Hits was back with three of their "mini colored paper" (or "mini shikishi") team sets. The featured teams were the Carp, the Hawks and the Baystars. I'm not positive but I think Hits was also behind three other team sets that were each called something like "Game Used Ball". These were more traditional card sets with 81 card base sets. The sets were done for the Baystars, Hawks and Swallows.
Konami was back with a second edition of their Baseball Collection set. This is a collectible card game - the cards are apparently used in an arcade game. There's a total of 912 cards - 76 per team.
There were two team issued sets that were distributed in packs nationwide (as opposed to being issued to team fan clubs). For I think the seventh straight year the Eagles issued a comprehensive team set. The Buffaloes also did one.
The only food issue available outside of the ballparks was the fourth edition of Nippon-Ham and BBM's joint "Home Run Sausage" cards for the Fighters. This was the smallest edition ever as it only had one 76 card series plus a set of 20 rare "We Love Hokkaido" cards.
The total number of Japanese sets for 2019 was 73 (not including fan club sets and cards given away with meals at ballparks) which is down slightly from last year.
There were four sets issued by SCC for the KBO in 2019 - the KBO Collection set, the KBO Collection Premium set, the KBO Collection 2 set and the KBO Collection Premium 2 set. In addition, Dan Skrezyna issued another card from his "Vittum" label - this one was for the foreign KBO players from 2015.
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