The Yellow Back最強シール烈伝 第1弾
Amada printed this set twice. Here is how to tell which one you are holding.
Front
Back
The set
Amada’s Hyper Sticker Collection 1: 203 Pokémon stickers, 50 mm square, 1996.
The art is Ken Sugimori’s Red and Green game art, not the anime.
How you got them
Foil packs sold two stickers at a time for about twenty yen over the 駄菓子屋 counter.
Kuji dispensers gave one random sticker for a coin. Both routes ran the same checklist, and both beat the card game to the shops.
Two runs
Amada printed the whole set a second time. Collectors call the results the first and second print runs.
The four photographs above are one prism from each run, front and back.
Telling them apart
The captions above are the method: the holo, the red ink, the colour of the back, the feel of the stock.
Feel is the tell worth trusting. First run is slick, almost plastic; second is matte and papery. It survives bad lighting.
FindingThe copyright line does not help
It is identical on both runs — the same 1995 Nintendo, Creatures and GAME FREAK credit, the same 1996 MADE IN JAPAN beneath it, the same plate.
It cannot separate the runs, and the licensing-change theory does not hold.
FindingThe yellow is not age
Cream and white liner are both catalogue stock (黄セパ・クリームセパ・白セパ), and white is what you specify when the liner is to be printed.
Amada printed Pokédex text on both backs, so the white run made the conventional choice. “Old paper yellowed” is probably wrong.
Hidden Temple Codex, 27 July 2026. Both findings are this archive’s own, read off its contributors’ photographs, which remain their property.