This is the Japanese Amada PP Card run, not a Western printing. It launched in 1988 — the same year Bandai's Carddass Hondan vending cards arrived — and Amada was Bandai's main rival in the Dragon Ball card aisle. "PP" stands for Pull Pack: the cards came in corded sachets you tore loose from a vending strip. The series sprawls across Part 0 through Part 32 plus Specials and a memorial card, tracking Dragon Ball straight through the Z era to about 1996-97. The draw is the prisms: early "soft" prisms carry a foil face that peels to reveal a hidden image, while later parts move to fixed "hard" faceted prisms. The prism chase cards are what move — centering plus an unmarked foil surface separate a clean copy from a common one.
- 1'PP' = Pull Pack: cards were sold in corded sachets pulled loose from a vending strip.
- 2Early prisms are 'soft' — a foil square peels off to reveal a second image underneath; later parts use fixed 'hard' faceted prisms.
- 3Amada PP Card is its own line that competed against Bandai's Carddass Hondan; it is not a Bandai Carddass product.
- 4Rarity ladder runs regular, prism, semi-prism, silver, gold, special gold, and a memorial PP card.
The early soft prisms have a peel-away foil square over a second image — handling lifts and chips that top layer, so unpeeled, unscuffed soft prisms grade far higher. Later hard prisms are fixed faceted foil and don't peel. On all of these small 86x59mm cards, watch the foil surface for scratching and check the corners.
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