Every card game has one set that can never be printed again in spirit: the first one. For Dragon Ball Super Card Game Fusion World, that set is FB01 -AWAKENED PULSE-, released in Japan on February 16, 2024 — the day the game itself came into existence. Everything that has happened since, ten numbered boosters and two Manga Boosters deep, traces back to the 140 cards in this box.
FB01 is also a genuinely unusual first set. It shipped with 8 Leader Cards — still the largest Leader lineup of any Fusion World booster — every one of them with an alternative-art version, plus 23 alt-art cards in the product overall and the game’s first two Secret Rares. It launched alongside four starter decks and a digital PC version linked to the physical packs by per-pack codes, a system Bandai has maintained ever since.
This guide covers what’s actually in FB01: the full official rarity breakdown, the Japanese-versus-English pack difference that FB01 uniquely documents, the launch-day starter decks, how the digital link works, and where the set sits in the Fusion World line today. Every product fact here comes from Bandai’s official pages. We’re a Tokyo-based exporter and we stock the Japanese FB01 booster box as sealed product, so we’ll also cover how ordering works — our Fusion World inventory is quote-based rather than fixed-price.
FB01 -AWAKENED PULSE- is the debut set of Dragon Ball Fusion World: 140 card types (8 Leaders, 52 Commons, 36 Uncommons, 30 Rares, 12 Super Rares, 2 Secret Rares), released in Japan on February 16, 2024 with all 8 Leaders getting alt-art versions and 23 alt-art cards in the product. Japanese packs contain 6 cards plus a digital serial code; English packs contain 12. We ship the sealed Japanese FB01 booster box worldwide from Tokyo on a quote basis.
The Day Fusion World Started
On February 16, 2024 — a Friday, per the official Japanese product page — Bandai put a brand-new Dragon Ball TCG on Japanese store shelves. The official launch announcement introduced it as “an action-packed card game where you can turn the tables in an instant by awakening your Leader Card! Battles get more and more exciting as they go on, just like in the Dragon Ball original series!” That awakening mechanic isn’t just marketing copy; it’s literally the set’s name. The Japanese title of FB01, 「覚醒の鼓動」, translates to the “pulse of awakening” that became -AWAKENED PULSE- on the English box.
The English-language version followed one week later on February 23, 2024, with pre-release events held on the Japanese street date of February 16. That one-week stagger — Japan first, English shortly after — became the pattern for the game’s entire first era, which is one reason the Japanese printing of FB01 is, in the most literal sense, the first Fusion World product that existed anywhere.
Launch day wasn’t just one booster set. Bandai shipped FB01 alongside four starter decks — Goku, Vegeta, Broly, and Frieza — giving the game a complete day-one ecosystem: learn with a deck, expand with the booster. And within two weeks, the digital side arrived too, which we’ll get to below.
What’s Inside FB01: The Official 140-Card Breakdown
Bandai’s official product page states FB01 contains “140 types in total”, and unlike some later sets, it publishes the full rarity-by-rarity breakdown:
| Rarity | Card Types | Share of Set |
|---|---|---|
| Leader | 8 | The largest Leader lineup of any FB set to date |
| Common | 52 | The backbone of the card pool |
| Uncommon | 36 | — |
| Rare | 30 | A count that stayed at 30 for years afterward |
| Super Rare | 12 | The standard SR count until FB07 raised it to 15 |
| Secret Rare | 2 | The game’s first Secret Rares |
A few things stand out about this structure with two and a half years of hindsight. At 140 card types, FB01 is one of the two biggest sets Fusion World has ever produced — only FB02 -BLAZING AURA-, at 144 types, is larger, and by 2026 the numbered sets had slimmed down to the low 120s. The 30-Rare and 2-Secret-Rare slots FB01 established held steady across the entire first era of the game, and the 12-Super-Rare count remained the standard until FB07 expanded it to 15 in late 2025.
In other words: FB01 didn’t just start the game, it set the template. The complete official card list lives on Bandai’s product page: FB01 on dbs-cardgame.com.
8 Leaders and 23 Alt-Arts: The Set’s Signature
The single most distinctive number in FB01 is eight. Eight Leader Cards in one booster set — a figure no Fusion World booster has matched since. FB02 dropped to 4 Leaders, and every numbered set from FB03 onward has carried 5. As the set that had to seed an entire game’s worth of playable identities on day one, FB01 simply needed more Leaders than any expansion that followed, and that’s exactly what makes it structurally different from everything after it.
It gets better for collectors: per the official page, all 8 Leader Cards have alternative-art versions. Add the rest of the premium slots and the official count comes to “23 Alternative-art cards in this product” — a substantial alt-art program for a debut set, and one that established the alternative-art treatment as a core Fusion World feature rather than an occasional bonus. Later sets pushed the idea further (ink-brush reprint treatments in FB02, “Super Alt-Art” Secret Rares, and eventually the Toriyama-illustrated Manga Boosters), but the pattern of “the chase layer is the alt-art layer” starts here.
8 Leaders (all with alt-art versions) + 23 alt-art cards + the game’s first 2 Secret Rares, inside a 140-type set — the widest Leader spread and one of the largest card pools in the entire Fusion World line.
One honest note on scope: Bandai’s product page states the counts above but does not publish per-card odds or insert ratios, and we don’t invent them. If you see precise FB01 pull-rate claims anywhere, they’re not coming from an official source.
The Four Launch Starter Decks
FB01 didn’t launch alone. Bandai’s announcement confirms the game arrived with four starter decks, one for each of the franchise’s biggest names:
- Son Goku — the face of the franchise
- Vegeta — the eternal rival
- Broly — the modern-era powerhouse
- Frieza — the definitive villain
The decks and the booster were designed as a pair: the starter decks teach the Leader-awakening loop the launch article describes, and FB01 supplies the card pool to build beyond them. That launch-day structure is also why FB01 works as the natural reference point for the whole line — it’s the set every original player opened first, and the set every player who came in later eventually looks back toward.
Starter-deck characters would go on to echo through the line in interesting ways — a Frieza Leader from Starter Deck FS04, for example, was later chosen for a reprint slot in Manga Booster 02 in late 2025 — but the original four decks belong to the same launch moment as FB01 itself.
The Digital Version Link
Thirteen days after the Japanese launch, on February 29, 2024, Bandai published an official article headlined “Enjoy Fusion World Card Battles on PC, Too!” — announcing the digital version of the game for Windows 10 and 11 (the article lists PC requirements and mentions no smartphone version). The pitch was parity: “Have fun with the same rules and card pool used in the physical version of Fusion World!”
The bridge between the physical and digital games is inside every FB01 pack. As covered above, each Japanese pack carries a serial code and each English pack a promotion code for the digital version — so a sealed FB01 box is, by design, also a stack of digital codes. Bandai has kept per-pack digital codes in every Fusion World booster since, but FB01 is where the physical-digital link debuted, at the same moment as the game itself.
Why Collections Start Here
We deliberately keep this section qualitative — no price talk, no scarcity claims — because the case for FB01 doesn’t need either. It rests on facts that are permanent:
- It is the first set, forever. Set code 01. The card game’s launch date is FB01’s release date. No future printing decision, reprint wave, or new era can change which set started Fusion World.
- It holds structural firsts that were never repeated. The 8-Leader lineup remains the largest in any Fusion World booster; every set since has carried 4 or 5. The game’s first Secret Rares are here. The first alt-art program — all 8 Leaders plus 23 alt-art cards — is here.
- It’s the origin point of the game’s identity. The Leader-awakening mechanic the game is named for, the per-pack digital codes, the rarity template later sets inherited — all of it debuts in this box.
That’s why, whatever a collector’s entry point into Fusion World was — a 2026 box of FB10, a Toriyama alt-art from the Manga Boosters, the digital version on PC — the collection, sooner or later, points back to FB01. It’s the set every complete Fusion World collection starts with, in the same way a first Pokemon or One Piece set anchors those hobbies: not because of any market argument, but because “the set where the game began” is a one-of-one position.
For collectors who care about printings, the Japanese box carries one extra layer of that story: Japan’s February 16 street date preceded the English release, so the Japanese FB01 printing is the first edition of the first set — the version that was on shelves the day Fusion World existed and nothing else did.
Where FB01 Sits in the Line Today
As of mid-2026, Fusion World spans ten numbered boosters (FB01 through FB10 -CROSS FORCE-) plus two Manga Boosters, released at a steady quarterly rhythm since launch. Seen from here, FB01 anchors one end of a clear arc:
- 2024 — the founding year. FB01 (February) through FB04 (November) built the game: big sets in the 133–144 range, ink-brush reprint treatments arriving in FB02, and the FB01 template holding throughout.
- 2025 — the expansion year. FB05 and FB06 brought Dragon Ball Z Dokkan Battle collaboration cards; the SB Manga Boosters added alt-arts officially credited as “illustrated by Akira Toriyama himself”; FB07 and FB08 closed the year with the Super Rare slot expanded to 15.
- 2026 — the current era. FB09 introduced the Fusion Evolve and Ki mechanics, FB10 continued the premium alt-art escalation, and both sets settled at 123 card types.
Every one of those developments — the collaborations, the Toriyama boosters, the new mechanics — is an elaboration on the foundation FB01 laid. If you want the full release-by-release chronology with official dates and card counts for all twelve sets, our Fusion World sets-in-order guide maps the whole timeline, and the Manga Booster guide covers the SB line in depth.
Buying a Japanese FB01 Box from Tokyo
We’re SAMURAI SWORD, a Tokyo-based exporter of sealed Japanese TCG product, and we stock the Japanese FB01 -AWAKENED PULSE- booster box alongside the rest of the Fusion World line. Our Fusion World inventory works on a quote basis rather than a fixed cart price: open the product page, request a quote, and we’ll confirm current availability and come back with today’s price and shipping from Tokyo with tracked delivery.
Three ways to go from here, depending on what kind of collection you’re building:
- Start at the beginning — the FB01 booster box page is the direct route for a quote on the first set itself, in its Japanese first-region printing.
- Browse the whole line — our Dragon Ball collection carries every Fusion World set we stock, from FB01 through the current FB10 -CROSS FORCE- box, plus the Manga Boosters — useful if you’re deciding between eras before you commit.
- Build a mixed order — if FB01 is one piece of a bigger plan (say, the first set plus the newest set, or FB01 alongside an SB01 Manga Booster box), the Quick Order page is the fastest way to assemble multiple boxes into a single quote.
Whichever path you take, everything ships sealed from our Tokyo stock with tracked international delivery.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is FB01 Awakened Pulse?
FB01 -AWAKENED PULSE- is the first booster set of the DRAGON BALL SUPER CARD GAME Fusion World, released in Japan on February 16, 2024 and in English on February 23, 2024. It contains 140 card types — 8 Leaders, 52 Commons, 36 Uncommons, 30 Rares, 12 Super Rares, and 2 Secret Rares — and launched alongside four starter decks (Goku, Vegeta, Broly, and Frieza).
Is FB01 the first Dragon Ball Fusion World set?
Yes. FB01 launched on the same day as the game itself — February 16, 2024 in Japan — making its release date effectively Fusion World’s birthday. All ten numbered boosters (through FB10) and both Manga Boosters came after it.
How many cards are in FB01 Awakened Pulse?
The official Bandai product page states “140 types in total”: 8 Leader Cards, 52 Commons, 36 Uncommons, 30 Rares, 12 Super Rares, and 2 Secret Rares. All 8 Leaders have alternative-art versions, and there are 23 alternative-art cards in the product overall.
How many cards are in a Japanese FB01 pack vs an English pack?
Per Bandai’s official regional product pages, a Japanese FB01 pack contains 6 cards plus one digital-version serial code, while an English FB01 pack contains 12 cards plus one promotion code. FB01 is the set where both regional figures are officially documented. Neither page states the number of packs per box.
What starter decks launched with FB01?
Four starter decks released alongside FB01 on launch day: Son Goku, Vegeta, Broly, and Frieza. Together with the booster, they formed Fusion World’s complete day-one product lineup.
Do FB01 packs include codes for the digital version?
Yes. Every FB01 pack includes a code for the digital PC version of Fusion World — a serial code in Japanese packs, a promotion code in English packs. Bandai’s official article says the digital version uses “the same rules and card pool used in the physical version,” and it runs on Windows 10/11 PCs.
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