Hondan (本弾, "main series") is the backbone of Dragon Ball Carddass and the line that launched the whole hobby. Bandai started dispensing these from its Carddass vending machines in November 1988 — drop a 20-yen coin, turn the dial, and a single card slid out, with roughly a 1-in-20 shot at a prism. The main run stretched across 30 parts through September 1997, following Goku from the original Dragon Ball through Z and into the GT era, each part adding a handful of prism rares. These are small, glossy, made-in-Japan vending cards, not pack-fresh TCG stock, so condition is everything. The prisms — Vegito, Majin Buu, the Androids, countless Goku and Vegeta variants — are the cards collectors chase, and clean foil is genuinely hard to find on a card this old.
- 1Dispensed loose from a Carddass vending machine, so most cards show real handling wear rather than pack-fresh corners.
- 2Prism (rainbow-foil) cards ran roughly 1 in 20 pulls; their foil surface scratches easily and is the main grading factor.
- 3'Made in Japan' is printed on the back; each card carries a printed No. used for the checklist.
Dispensed loose from a vending machine, so handling wear is the norm — soft corners, surface scratches on the prism foil, and machine-feed dings along the top edge are common. Prism faces scuff easily; clean, scratch-free foil separates a high grade from an average one. Centering wanders. 'Made in Japan' is printed on the back.
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