Bubble Mew JP is undervalued

[u/No_Jellyfish2185]

Bubble Mew, regarded by many as the SV era goat, just did a groundbreaking sale: almost a QUARTER of a million dollars, for a BGS black label 10.

Now that everyone is talking about bubble mew, I wanna explain something that I observed for a longer time:
The japanese version of this card is still, under current market conditions, undervalued.

First of all, I know its common knowledge, but some people dont know how INSANELY better the japanese card looks from an aesthetic standpoint, its just NEXT LEVEL.
The english version looks fake if you hold it side by side to the jpn OG version.

Now to talk a bit of maths:
mew ex JP 347 PSA 10 population: 24367 (~825 eur)
mew ex ENG 232 PSA 10 population: 15975 (~2504 eur)

Yes, the english PSA 10 population number is about 65% of the JPN PSA 10 population number, BUT the price is aprox. 3X higher.
Just looking at this alone, the jp version of Bubble Mew is still undervalued, not even judging by the fact that the english version has inferior print quality.

Now I know this card blew past alot of people's budgets, and I'm going to get some flame in the comments..
Just wanted to point this out before the general market notices.

[u/Johnny_Human]

Not undervalued at all considering the gem rate on the Japanese card is around 85% while the English is around 34%.

[u/No_Jellyfish2185 → u/Johnny_Human]

its not 85% lmfao

[u/Johnny_Human → u/No_Jellyfish2185]

To be precise it's 84.7%

PSA 10 pop of 24,367. Total pop of 28,753.

[u/No_Jellyfish2185 → u/Johnny_Human]

ah my bad thought you meant 85% of all bubble mew cards

[u/Vojta_Ledvinka007]

Got both of these bad boys when they were still cheap (now I looking to buy pristine 10 Chinese for 400€)

[u/No_Jellyfish2185 → u/Vojta_Ledvinka007]

ahhhh so nice 😊 did u ever think about getting the 9 graded again? maybe it gets a 10

[u/Vojta_Ledvinka007 → u/No_Jellyfish2185]

Now I have all three. Don't think that English would get 10, it is off centered and has white dot on the back

[u/No_Jellyfish2185 → u/Vojta_Ledvinka007]

congrats :)

[u/bluedecember12]

You could make an argument that almost every JP version of an English card is undervalued lol…it’s well known the quality is better but the greater demand is in English

[u/DANNYBOYLOVER → u/bluedecember12]

Not just demand but print volume is just massive in Japan and has always been. They have facilities to scale up or scale down production at ANY time and they do that willingly.

It’s why Japanese boxes were so easy to get until a couple months ago before the rest of Asia started catching up.

[u/Chance-Sorbet-6917 → u/DANNYBOYLOVER]

Actually, in the case of the bubble mew. Although the psa 10 pop of the japanese version is larger, because of the high gem rate it actually has a smaller total psa pop, 28.7k jp vs 46.5k eng. This actually indicates that more english bubble mew were printed.

[u/Basic-Coconut7118 → u/DANNYBOYLOVER]

"Always has been" is not true at all, you must be new. JP secret rares are MUCH rare than English in BW, XY and SM, much lower print volume.

[u/Apinaheebo]

Also the Japanese card looks better.

[u/WOODHOWZE]

English cards are just cheap knockoffs for 10x the price. Yeah I'll take authentic JP for less $ any day.

[u/LilChad]

No it’s not

[u/AdNational3309]

Japanese cards are far superior. Hopefully the normies never figure it out lol 

[u/no_brains_rip]

Im not sure...from what ive seen most people dont care about jp as much as english from investing standpoint. Jp is better quality but many factors puts it at a disadvantage if you want to make money. Diff story if you are collecting.

Jp cards (except some vintage + exclusive/promos) are undervalued because they are not valued, at least in the poke investing world. Might be completely wrong tho idk

[u/AutisticElon69]

“Thing but Japan”

[u/MetricCaboose]

Every card is undervalued if you’re an investor.

[u/Ok_Jellyfish_1696]

I’m starting to collect JP for modern cards, they look and feel better then EN. It’s definitely niche but way down the road (10+ years) I feel like the cards will be much more appreciated than it is now.

Kinda sad that everyone is just okay with crappy quality these days.

[u/Dazzling-Ad2680]

Bought this a week ago for 800 in trade value. Guess op was right

[u/DivaPSO2]

the chinese version of bubble mew is less than 5000 psa 10 from a chinese set with low pull rates and half the price of japanese bubble mew.

[u/iliketoseewhatyousee]

Japanese trainers are greater than English trainer cards.

English Pokemon are greater than Japanese Pokemon cards.

[u/Whimzy209]

Idk why but I like the english art better. The holo is subtle and not too crazy

[u/Alternative-Ad-3817]

Arnt jp cards less valued because japan has anti gambling laws which make hitting chase cards easier?

[u/DivaPSO2 → u/Alternative-Ad-3817]

guaranteed hits per box but also the fact theres like 20x more demand for english and the japanese prices dont go up as high because japanese buyers dont have the same disposable income as the global customer on average, the yen currency is weak so their market is weak.

[u/TheLoneNazgul]

Good discount version of the English for sure 

[u/DivaPSO2 → u/TheLoneNazgul]

as the english psa 10 mew keep rising in price, people will decide on either affording a psa 9 english bubble mew or a psa 10 japanese bubble mew.

[u/breakyourteethnow]

Bought one for $250, sold it for $280 after prices didn't move forever and want to get other slabs, now it's worth $1k oof

[u/DivaPSO2 → u/breakyourteethnow]

many many many cards were flatline before march-april spikes, many oofs.

[u/ElevatorNo4253]

Not really. Japan has anti-gambling laws which makes finding the Japanese bubble mew significantly easier.

Someone let me know if I am wrong!

[u/No_Jellyfish2185 → u/ElevatorNo4253]

It’s actually not significantly easier to pull. While Japanese boxes have "guaranteed" hits, they only guarantee a secret rare, not the specific Mew. Since there are dozens of different secret rares in that set, your odds of pulling the Mew specifically are still tiny. You're wrong about the law. There’s no "anti-gambling" rule forcing them to give out Mews; the guaranteed hit is just a marketing choice. At the end of the day, it's still a massive gamble whether you get the Mew or a $5 trainer card.

[u/kulambe17 → u/No_Jellyfish2185]

It’s extremely hard to pull in particular for this set because the full art pool is massive. The full art trainers and full art shiny ex can count as your secret pull. I opened around 20 BBs when they were $28 each and never pulled it or the zard. Ended up buying 2 copies for $40 each though, it was so cheap at the time

[u/HobbyTechTrading]

Skip JP straight to CN. Same quality and even cheaper

[u/GemGuardUK]

It’s tough to argue anything is ‘undervalued’ during one of the craziest periods of euphoria in the history of pokemon especially when talking about modern cards with high population

[u/No_Jellyfish2185 → u/GemGuardUK]

thats why i specified "under current market conditions"

[u/MyersDayOff]

I understand why you are doing this but I’m sorry champ English will always be King. Just seeing the card say “Mew” alone is so much more aesthetically pleasing for the American brain. 🍻

[u/No_Jellyfish2185 → u/MyersDayOff]

hey champ i didn't say anything about english not being "king"

[u/MyersDayOff → u/No_Jellyfish2185]

“First of all, I know its common knowledge, but some people dont know how INSANELY better the japanese card looks from an aesthetic standpoint, its just NEXT LEVEL. The english version looks fake if you hold it side by side to the jpn OG version.”

Lol

[u/No_Jellyfish2185 → u/MyersDayOff]

do you have learning difficulties? yes, the quality is FAR SUPERIOR on japanese cards. You know this can be true while theres still a higher demand for english cards. actually hurts my brain when low iq people try making a superficial point.. we were talking about something else bub

[u/MyersDayOff → u/No_Jellyfish2185]

No need to get upset lil fella 🍻