To wrap up my review of the 2020 releases, here's a quick round up of every card set I know of that was released in Japan last year by an outfit other than BBM, Epoch or Calbee.
Actually this first set I'm going to mention could have been included with the BBM review. BBM teamed up with the Saitama Seibu Lions to produce a 20 card set that I think was sold in one card packs at the Lions team store starting on July 21st.
TIC (or Hits or whatever their name is) issued two of their "mini colored paper" (or "mini shikishi") team sets for the Baystars and Hawks. They were also behind a more traditional looking card set for the Baystars called "Used Ball".
For the third year in a row Konami issued their collectible game card set called Baseball Collection. These cards can be used in an arcade video game. This year's set grew from 912 cards last year to 972 this year (81 cards per team).
Once again the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles made their team issued set available nationwide - this is at least the eighth straight year they've done so.
The total count of Japanese baseball card sets issued in 2020 was 64 - this is not including team issued sets other than what I've mentioned here. This is down from 73 last year and is the lowest number since the 59 issued in 2015. I don't know if this is pandemic related or not.
In Korea, SCC issued four sets for the KBO. The first two were collectible game card sets called "Battle Baseball Card Game" Volumes One and Two. These were followed by the "Premium Collection" and "Golden Premium Collection" sets. In addition Dan Skrezyna issued the latest set in his "Foreign Attack" series - this one featured all the foreign players in the KBO in 2018.
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