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Browse every Amada Printing Co. Pokémon sticker set, from the 1996 Hyper Sticker Collection through the ADV era, with per-sticker checklists and collector photos.
Amada’s Pokémon sticker line began in 1996. Ensky continued the line from 2005.
Match the printed number and artwork to the correct set. Numbering can continue across releases instead of restarting.
For Hyper Sticker Collection 1, compare the holo pattern and backing paper. The copyright line alone does not distinguish its two print runs.
Early Amada stickers printed attack, defence, level and type stats for schoolyard games. Rules varied between players.
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Japanese Pokémon peel-and-stick seals, sold in packs and lottery pulls. The catalog also includes promotional stickers and album accessories.
Browse Hyper Sticker Collection, Attack Set, Super DX, ADV and promotional releases. Each set page lists its year, checklist and finishes.
Start with the wrapper's brand, then compare the printed number, artwork, finish and back with the set checklist.
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Amada Printing Co. is the Japanese printer that held the Pokémon sticker licence from 1996. Its stickers are peel-and-stick seals sold in foil packs and kuji lottery dispensers, not trading cards. Japanese packaging calls the numbered runs 最強シール烈伝, Retsuden; English-speaking collectors say Amada seals or Amada stickers. Amada is not the sheet-metal machinery company of the same name.
The Hyper Sticker Collection 1 stickers are 50 mm square. Other lines vary, and each set page states what that set holds; the Super DX foils and the oversized promo pieces are not the same size as a standard Hyper Sticker.
Holo Bronze is one of the four finishes in the 1998 Super DX set. Its 88 entries split across Transparent, Holo Bronze, Holo Rainbow and Gold-name stickers, so a Super DX sticker is identified by its finish as well as its number. Super DX also has a 1999 Gold edition and a 2000 set, which are separate products rather than reprints.
The early foil packs held two stickers for about twenty yen, sold over a 駄菓子屋 counter, and kuji dispensers gave one random sticker for a coin. Both routes drew on the same checklist. Contents changed by release, so check the pack art and the notes on the individual set page before comparing two packs.
Yes, and one of them is album-only. Perfect Album 1, the red spiral binder with Mewtwo on the cover, shipped an exclusive holographic Mew numbered #000 that was never sold in a pack or a kuji dispenser. It is on the sticker cases and Perfect Albums page rather than in any pack checklist.
For Hyper Sticker Collection 1: the first run has sun-ray streaks in the holo, softer red ink, and a faint yellow back on slick plasticky stock. The second run has a clean holo, sharper red ink, and a whiter matte papery back. Feel is the tell worth trusting because it survives bad lighting. The copyright line is identical on both runs and cannot separate them. Other sets need their own checks, which are on their set pages.
It is a grading company's label for the 1996 set, not a name Amada printed. The product on the wrapper is Hyper Sticker Collection 1, 最強シール烈伝 第1弾. If you are matching a graded slab to a checklist, use the printed number on the sticker rather than the slab label.
Read the wrapper. Amada prints AMADA in red; from 2005 the same lines print a green-foil enSky mark. Ensky is Amada's subsidiary and it took the sticker line over in 2005 without changing the factory, the artists or the master numbering, so ADV and DP era runs straddle the change and the same printed number can appear under either brand.