There's been a couple new set announcement recently, with one of the sets actually being scheduled for release next week, so I figured it was time to do a quick round up of them.
- Calbee is releasing yet another "Pro Yakyu Spirits A" set next week on January 27th. "Pro Yakyu Spirits A" is a mobile game and this will be the third set that Calbee's done as a tie-in. This looks like it's a follow-on to the set Calbee released at the beginning of December as the card numbers in the new set are starting where that set ended (and now that I look more carefully at the card from that set that Kenny sent me, I see it says "Series 1" on it). This new set will have 49 cards - 24 "2025 Prospi Selection", 24 "2025 Anniversary Players" and one "secret" card. I think the "2025 Prospi Selection" cards (which I assume is something from the game) have kira parallels available while the "2025 Anniversary Players" cards have kira and/or facsimile signature parallels. Not counting the "secret" card, there are four cards per team. There's some big names in the set including Yuki Yanagita, Kensuke Kondoh, Hayato Sakamoto and Teruaki Sato. It somewhat surprisingly includes Munetaka Murakami who I would have thought couldn't be a on an NPB card set for active players but clearly the licensing details aren't what I thought they were. The checklist is kind of surprisingly heavy on foreign players with ten total including Raidel Martinez and Livan Moinelo. What's a bit odd is at least three of those foreign players are, like Murakami, no longer the property of the teams they are listed with. Tayron Guerrero is no longer a Chiba Lotte Marine and Tyler Austin and Trevor Bauer are no longer Yokokama DeNA Baystars. I believe that this is the first time Bauer has appeared on a card in any of the major Japanese card manufacturers and I suspect it will be the last, at least as an active player.
- The Eagles annual team issued set has been issued by Epoch the past few years and I'm starting to wonder if it should still be considered a "team issued" set. When the 2025 edition of this set was announced, I assumed it was the 1st Version set with a 2nd Version set to be released later in the year. That turned out to not be the case so I won't make that mistake with this year's edition which will be released on February 11th. The base set will contain 77 cards of active players, including development players. I believe that the 2025 draft picks/2026 rookie class are included. There are silver and gold facsimile signature parallels of each of these cards. There are three insert sets - "Key Performances", "Mound Star" and "My Routine" and autographed cards of all the players with the exception of any development players who were not 2025 draft picks (if that makes sense). There are also Rui Muneyama uniform cards along with the somewhat ubiquitous "GEM" premium insert cards in both "White" and "Black" varieties.
- TIC (aka "Hits" or "Produce 216") is issuing their first "mini colored paper" or "mini shikishi" team set since their Hawks set last year and, not surprisingly, it's again for the Hawks. Once again, there's 32 oversized cards available - 16 "normal" and 16 "special with foil autograph". There's 16 players listed so everyone has a "normal" and a "special" card. There are real autographs available as well. This year's edition will be released on March 28th.
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