BREAKthrough Card List: Japanese XY8 Blue Shock and Red Flash Prints

The Japanese Sets Behind BREAKthrough

Bulbapedia names the Japanese pair Blue Shock and Red Flash, and its infobox gives 65 cards for each, 130 in total. Our PSA 10 listing names write the Blue Shock expansion pack as “Blue Impact”; the expansion code in those names, XY8, is the code the official database uses. On the English side, the new mechanic Bulbapedia names for the set is Pokémon BREAK, a new Evolution type.

Bulbapedia’s Japanese list for each expansion prints 65 rows against a printed total of 059. The six rows past 059 in Blue Shock are Glalie-EX (060/059), M Glalie-EX (061/059), Mewtwo-EX (062/059), M Mewtwo-EX (063/059) and Brigette (064/059), all SR, and a second Mewtwo-EX (065/059) marked UR. Red Flash mirrors the pattern with Houndoom-EX, M Houndoom-EX, Mewtwo-EX, M Mewtwo-EX and Giovanni’s Scheme as SR and Mewtwo-EX as UR at 065/059. The rarities present on both lists are C, U, R, RR, SR and UR. Bulbapedia prints no pack or box configuration for either expansion.

The English set puts ten Rare Ultra cards at 153–162 and two Rare Secret cards at 163–164, so its top tier is twelve cards, the same count as the twelve Japanese rows past 059 across the two expansions.

BREAKthrough Card List: 001–164

The English BREAKthrough list runs from 1/162 to 164/162 on Bulbapedia, with the Pokémon type in the Type column and the English rarity as printed there, including the Rare BREAK label for Pokémon BREAK cards. Bulbapedia’s English set list carries no Japanese number columns, so the Japanese numbering is given for the top-rarity prints in the secret-rare table, matched to the official Japanese card database by card name.

Japanese vs English BREAKthrough: Numbering and What Changes

Bulbapedia states the release gap in one sentence: the English expansion was released after the Japanese expansions, which came out roughly five weeks earlier.

Numbering is where the lists part ways. The English set list is printed against 162, while the infobox gives 164 cards, because 163/162 and 164/162 are numbered past the total. The two Japanese lists are each printed against 059 and carry six rows above it, and because both restart at 001 the same number appears twice: 062/059 is a Mewtwo-EX in Blue Shock and another in Red Flash. A Japanese card is identified by its set code together with its number, such as XY8-Bb 063/059. Bulbapedia states no per-card mapping between the lists, so every Japanese number in the tables is either an official-database match by card name or a number from Bulbapedia’s Japanese lists.

Rarity words differ too. The English list uses labels such as Rare Holo ex, Rare BREAK, Rare Ultra and Rare Secret; Bulbapedia’s Japanese lists show C, U, R, RR, SR and UR. Whether the Japanese prints carry the same promos as the English ones is not stated on Bulbapedia.

The English page also lists 29 promo or exclusive printings of cards from this set, covering theme decks, Battle Arena Decks, League and Regional Championship prizes, tins and blisters. They reuse the English card numbers from the main list and are shown as Bulbapedia prints them.

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