The world's best and rarest cards of "Pokémon Card Game" are now on sale for 200 million yen! At the Pokémon Card Game specialty store "Harukeya 2

Pokémon Illustrator," a promotional card for the "Pokémon Card Game" that costs 200 million yen (including tax) per card, is now on sale at the "Pokémon Card Game" specialty store Harukeya2.

The "Pokémon Card Game" is the first trading card game released in Japan based on the world of the "Pokémon" series, a popular content series that continues to this day. According to the official announcement, as of January 2023, the game has been sold in 13 languages and 77 countries and regions, and the total number of cards manufactured exceeds 43.2 billion.
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Harukeya, which operates the trading card game "Pokémon Card Game" specialty store Harukeya2, has begun selling "Pokémon Illustrator," a promotional card for the "Pokémon Card Game," which has the highest sales price of 200 million yen per card (including tax) among the products it handles.

Pokémon Illustrator" was distributed only to the winners of the Grand Prize and Excellence Award in the "Illustration Artist Contest" held in the monthly magazine "Corocoro Comic" from 1997 to 1998, so it is a very rare card that is not distributed to the general public.

In addition, this product has been certified by Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA), a third-party trading card authenticity and grading service company in the U.S., and received a score of 8.5 out of 10.

In trading card games such as the "Pokémon Card Game," the value of a card fluctuates greatly depending on its condition, so services that seal the card and indicate its score by a third party are actively used.

The "Pokémon Illustrator" card that received the highest score of 10 points from the company's service was registered in the Guinness Book of Records as the "most expensive Pokémon card sold in a private transaction. It is currently owned by a popular overseas video distributor, and in a video posted by him, the value is announced as US$5,275,000 (670 million yen in January 2023).

(*The item is stored outside the store, and only prospective buyers are allowed to check the actual item.)

[Store Information
Harukeya 2
Location ： 1-2-5 Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0021
Business hours: 10:00-22:00
Regular holiday ： None
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Pokémon card game specialty store "Harukeya 2" (Akihabara, Tokyo) is a large-scale card store that sells only Pokémon card game-related products on all six floors of the building. The store stocks both old and rare products as well as the latest items. In addition to sales at the store, it also offers nationwide shipping, a purchase service, and events using Pokémon card games.

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