Pokemon Shining Fates Elite Trainer Box vs Japanese Shiny Star V Box

What the Official Page Lists for the Shining Fates Elite Trainer Box

The official page is titled “Pokémon TCG: Shining Fates Elite Trainer Box” and sits in the pokemon.com product gallery. Its date line reads “Launch: February 19, 2021”. The description opens with a statement about the set’s theme: “Shiny Pokémon are so rare that they’re almost never seen, and Trainers who catch a Shiny Pokémon consider themselves to be quite lucky”. It then says the expansion “includes more than 100 Shiny Pokémon on beautifully etched cards” and that “Pokémon V and Pokémon VMAX also make an appearance with more than 30 such powerful Pokémon including a Shiny Charizard in Gigantamax form.”

The page describes the Eevee VMAX card as a “foil promo card”. Bulbapedia’s merchandise page for the Sword & Shield series reports the same contents, with the 10 packs, the 65 Gigantamax Eevee sleeves and the Eevee VMAX promo, and numbers the promo as SWSH Promo 087.

Shiny Star V (S4a): What the Japanese Official Page Prints

The official Japanese page for the set is titled ハイクラスパック「シャイニースターV」 (하이클래스팩 Shiny Star V, rendering). It prints the publisher as 株式会社ポケモン, the release date as 2020年11月20日（金）, the suggested retail price as 希望小売価格：550円(税込), and the set contents as カード／1パック10枚入り, meaning one pack holds 10 cards. A line on the page adds that the cards are packed randomly.

The page does not give the number of packs in a box, so a box total is not an official figure. A price of ¥550 (~$4) per pack and 10 팩당 카드 are the official Japanese numbers; the English ETB page lists 10 packs and a separate promo card.

Card counts differ by source. Limitless TCG lists Shiny Star V (S4a), 20th November 2020, with 326 cards, while Bulbapedia’s Shining Fates page states “Shiny Star V contains 330 cards, with 140 of them being secret cards” and that “The Shining Fates expansion is comprised from the Japanese Shiny Star V subset”. Both counts are third-party, and the official card database prints a “/190” denominator on S4a cards, which is why a card such as 308/190 sits beyond the printed set size.

From the Japanese release on November 20, 2020 to the English launch on February 19, 2021 is 91 days. The English product is the later and the more heavily packaged of the two, because Shining Fates packs reached English buyers inside collections, tins and the Elite Trainer Box.

For the Japanese side of the set, the S4a Shiny Star V card list is the listing page, and the Shiny Star V S4a card list post and the Shiny Star V booster box buying guide cover the set in more detail.

The Eevee VMAX Promo and Its Japanese Twin, S-P 101

The English promo is catalogued by Limitless TCG as Eevee VMAX, Sword & Shield Promos (SP) #87, illustrated by PLANETA Mochizuki. Bulbapedia’s promo list attributes SWSH087 to the Shining Fates Elite Trainer Box and its card page gives the Japanese number as 101/S-P. The official Japanese database has one card named イーブイVMAX in its search results on October 2, 2026, and it is S-P 101/S-P, credited to PLANETA Mochizuki.

The attack text matches in effect. Bulbapedia’s card text for the English version has the opponent flip a coin when the Defending Pokémon tries to attack during the opponent’s next turn, and on tails the attack does not happen. The Japanese card prints 「次の相手の番、このワザを受けたポケモンがワザを使うとき、相手はコインを1回投げる。ウラならそのワザは失敗。」, the same coin-flip rule, together with the VMAX rule 「ポケモンVMAXがきぜつしたとき、相手はサイドを3枚とる。」. The attack name is reported by Bulbapedia as G-Max Cuddle, with the Japanese name キョダイホーヨー glossed as Kyodai Embrace.

Bulbapedia’s release text for the card reports the Japanese distribution in three steps. The card was first given to people who won rock paper scissors competitions held during V Start Battle ~Get Eevee~ events, hosted at participating Pokémon Card Gym venues beginning July 23, 2020, and those events required players to purchase or bring in one of the V Starter Decks. It was given away again in the same manner at two other Pokémon Card Gym events. The first of these, the V Starter Deck Beginner Enhanced Battle, began on December 5, 2020 and ran for as long as stocks lasted, and it required players to purchase two Shiny Star V booster packs and integrate at least one card into an existing V Starter Deck.

The English promo and S-P 101 share a name, an attack and the PLANETA Mochizuki credit; artwork identity between them is not confirmed. Per Bulbapedia, the Japanese card reached players as an event prize beginning in July 2020, ahead of the English box, and Shiny Star V packs were a purchase requirement at one of the events. No S4a print of the card appears in the official database.

SNKRDUNK Lowest Asks for the Box and the Two Headline Cards

SNKRDUNK lowest asks are asking prices from the product-page panels, not sales. Each figure is the lowest ask on SNKRDUNK, as of October 2, 2026, and the grade columns are the PSA 10 and PSA 9 rows of each product’s per-condition grid.

The S4a box ask is ¥18,500 (~$120) against the store’s ¥18,429 (~$120), a ¥71 difference, and the S-P 101 PSA 10 ask is ¥9,500 (~$62) against a ¥10,188 (~$66) back order.

PSA 10 Cards for the S4a and S-P Prints

The Eevee VMAX promo S-P 101 is offered as a PSA 10 back order at ¥10,188 (~$66) — sourced to order; the product page shows the current terms. The Charizard VMAX SSR S4a 308/190 is offered as a PSA 10 back order at ¥33,316 (~$216), and the Crobat V RR s4a 108/190 at ¥4,080 (~$26). The route is described in our PSA 10 back orders guide.

On the physical side, PSA 10 Charizard VMAX SSR 308/190 is listed at ¥33,970 (~$221) (업데이트: 현재 품절 — Quick Order로 재입고 요청).

Where to Buy the Japanese Shiny Star V Box from Japan

As of October 2, 2026, the Shiny Star V product pages are the Booster Box at ¥18,429 (~$120) and the Damaged Box (업데이트: 현재 품절 — Quick Order로 재입고 요청). The PSA 10 back orders are the PSA 10 Eevee VMAX S-P 101, the PSA 10 Charizard VMAX SSR and the PSA 10 Crobat V RR. The listing pages are the S4a card list and the PSA 10 card list, and requests for other Japanese products go through 빠른 주문.

Related reading covers the Japanese set from other angles: the S4a Shiny Star V cards post, the 30th Celebration vs Shiny Star V comparison and the GX Ultra Shiny vs Shiny Star V comparison.

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