The ONE PIECE Card Game is in a phase of scalper countermeasures and high-value card crime. Amazon is running a lottery for the Vol. 18 booster pack Divine Dominion, official shops in Japan have adopted facial recognition, and the BANDAI TCG+ app is adding My Number verification for events. Shueisha has suspended One Piece Card Game promo cards across its magazines.
Shueisha suspended One Piece Card Game promotional cards across Weekly Shonen Jump, V Jump, and Saikyo Jump after scalpers drove the July 13 issue to sell out nationwide. The publisher had increased the print run by 500,000 copies, but resellers still cleared shelves, and the issue also contained the final chapter of Kouji Miura's Blue Box. Shueisha apologized on July 17, opened a made-to-order reprint of Issue #33 without the promo card, and canceled the planned Charlotte Pudding bonus card for V Jump's October 2026 issue. The suspension is a retreat from the magazine promo format.
Bandai Namco has responded on the event and retail side. Starting Aug 22, official shops in Japan use facial recognition during product sales to verify customers, collecting facial information temporarily and not for other purposes. The measure arrived the same day as the World's Strongest Warrior booster pack, which includes a Kaido card drawn by Baki creator Keisuke Itagaki and introduces Rocks. In early August, Bandai's BANDAI TCG+ app added My Number card verification for entry to some events in Japan, starting around September, using the MOALA service and not storing My Number data.
Retail distribution for the latest booster has tightened. Amazon is running a lottery sale for Divine Dominion, Vol. 18 and the second 4th anniversary pack, showing a Request an Invitation button in place of a purchase option. Winners receive invitation emails depending on stock, and one box of 24 packs is eligible. Separately, a PSA 10 Sabo Red Manga Alternate Art card valued at $8,000 was stolen from Key Items Collectibles in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, on Aug 28, with police seeking two suspects.
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The One Piece Card Game announced on Monday that To Love-Ru manga artist Kentaro Yabuki is providing an illustration of Nami for the One Piece Heroines Edition vol.2 [EB-05] booster set, releasing October 31. The card comes in two variations. The set is the game's second extra booster set. The English One Piece social accounts teased it with a short promotional video on Monday.
Bandai will include a newly drawn Nami card by Kentaro Yabuki in the One Piece Card Game extra booster Heroines Edition vol.2. Two versions exist: a standard card with a cat silhouette in the background, and a foil-stamped version built around Nami's expression. The set also features Nico Robin, Boa Hancock, Shirahoshi, Yamato, and others. It releases on October 31, 2026, at 240 yen per six-card pack.
Premium Bandai opened a lottery sale on October 5 for the ONE PIECE Card Game Premium Card Collection -ONE PIECE DAY'26-, a commemorative set of two promotional cards: Monkey D. Luffy and a Don!! Card. Applications run to October 13, 2026, winners are announced in late October 2026, shipping is set for August 2027, and the price is 990 yen. Buyers from the first through fourth reservation sales cannot apply.
Geo is accepting lottery applications for the ONE PIECE Card Game extra booster Heroines Edition vol.2, limited to one box per applicant at 5,728 yen. Applications close October 1 at 17:59, winners are notified October 29, and purchases run October 31 to November 1. Geo cuts the seal tape at the register and keeps the outer box; resale is banned for one year after winning.
Premium Bandai opens a fourth preorder round for the One Piece Card Game Premium Card Collection -One Piece Day'26- on September 28 at 12:00. The set holds two promotional cards: Monkey D. Luffy and a Don!! Card. It costs 990 yen with tax, and shipping is scheduled for June 2027. The set commemorates One Piece Day'26, held August 22-23.
Amazon is running a lottery sale for "Divine Dominion," the ONE PIECE Card Game booster pack Vol. 18 and the second 4th anniversary pack. The product page now shows a "Request an Invitation" button instead of a purchase option, and requests are completed by pressing it. Invitation emails go to winners depending on stock availability, and one box of 24 packs is eligible.
A One Piece Card Game card valued at $8,000 was stolen from Key Items Collectibles inside the Berkshire Mall in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, on August 28, 2026. The missing card is the Sabo Red Manga Alternate Art card, graded PSA 10 Gem Mint by Professional Sports Authenticator, and police believe fewer than 2,000 copies exist. The Wyomissing Police Department is searching for two suspects captured on the store's CCTV footage. One suspect distracted the store owner while the other reached across the counter and removed the card from an unlocked display case. One suspect wore a light-colored Corona T-shirt and a red baseball cap; the second wore a black baseball cap, a black Nike T-shirt with orange lettering, and floral shorts. The PSA slab carries a unique security number that lets owners flag the item as stolen in the official database, and breaking the seal would drop the card's value from $8,000 to roughly $200. "So you're not going to be able to sell it for, you know, what it's worth," said Max Hirneisen, owner of Symbiote Collectibles, to 69News. The theft follows other high-value trading card robberies in Pennsylvania and New Jersey this year.
The Weekly Shonen Jump editorial department will give the One Piece Premium Card Collection Nike Collaboration Edition to all applicants, limited to digital edition subscribers of the magazine. The set includes Don!! Cards modeled after shoes based on the Gomu Gomu no Mi, Mera Mera no Mi, and Ope Ope no Mi, plus a Monkey D. Luffy character card wearing Nike shoes. Applications run from September 18 to October 18, one set per person.
Official ONE PIECE Card Game shops in Japan will use a facial recognition system during product sales starting Aug 22. Bandai Namco says the system will temporarily collect and verify customer facial information when purchasing related products, and that the data will not be used for any other purpose. The move follows a nationwide sellout of a Weekly Shonen Jump issue that bundled a promotional card, which resellers later listed at inflated prices.
The One Piece Card Game booster pack "World's Strongest Warrior," releasing August 22, 2026, will include a Kaido illustration card drawn by Baki the Grappler creator Keisuke Itagaki. The crossover art has drawn enthusiastic fan responses. The pack also introduces Rocks and a new rarity featuring Luffy and Rocks.
Bandai's trading card game app BANDAI TCG+ will introduce identity verification using My Number cards for entry to some events in Japan, starting around September. The system uses the external MOALA account service, reading the card's IC chip via smartphone. Bandai says it will not collect or store users' My Number data.
Shueisha issued a public apology on July 17 after Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #33 sold out across Japan, driven by scalpers targeting the issue's bundled One Piece Card Game promotional card. The issue, released July 13, also contained the final chapter of Kouji Miura's Blue Box. Despite Shueisha increasing the print run by 500,000 copies, copies vanished from stores and resold at inflated prices. In response, Shueisha announced a made-to-order reprint of Issue #33 through the Jump Characters Store, though the reprint will not include the promotional card. The publisher also canceled the planned Charlotte Pudding One Piece Card Game bonus card that was scheduled for V Jump's October 2026 issue. Going forward, One Piece Card Game promotional cards will be suspended across Weekly Shonen Jump, V Jump, and Saikyo Jump while Shueisha reviews its bonus item plans and sales methods. Readers unable to purchase Issue #33 will receive compensation: Issue #35 will include two campaign tickets for the ongoing Jump Ticket Rally Challenge, with the application deadline unchanged at July 31. The previously announced Everyone Wins mail-in campaign for the Straw Hat Crew's Three Strongest Set Cards will proceed as scheduled.
The 33rd issue of Weekly Shonen Jump sold out at bookstores and convenience stores across Japan after scalpers targeted its bonus One Piece Card Game promotional card, leaving many readers unable to purchase the magazine. Publisher Shueisha had increased the print run by 500,000 copies ahead of release in response to demand for the card, but the extra supply was quickly exhausted as resellers bought multiple copies. The shortage particularly frustrated fans of Blue Box, as the issue contained the manga's final chapter after a five-year serialization. While the chapter is available digitally, many readers wanted a physical copy as a keepsake. In an interview with Oricon, a university student admitted buying about 25 copies of the magazine within an hour, reselling the promotional cards for 800 to 1,000 yen each and earning roughly 18,000 yen in profit. When asked about the impact on other readers, he said, "You can read it digitally anyway. I understand why people want the physical copy, but I don't feel like I've done anything wrong." Convenience store employees described the release day rush as unusually intense, with one clerk telling Oricon that customers grabbed copies the moment they were placed on shelves, calling the atmosphere "a little scary."