Battle Spirits in late 2026: the dated line, the Aikatsu! crossover

By CardSpicy Founder · October 7, 2026

Quick answer

CardSpicy works from the publisher’s own product listings, and Battle Spirits publishes one of the fullest calendars of any Japanese card game. The line is running on a television-anime renewal, and the products around it are dated through to January 2027: the booster pack Zekkai no Hasha on 17 October 2026, two anime starter decks a week earlier on 10 October, a collaboration booster and starter built on Aikatsu! on 26 December 2026, and the next booster, Enkuu no Kitei, on 23 January 2027. Each booster pack is listed at 350 yen including tax.

The calendar is worth reading in full because two of these releases are not Battle Spirits products at all in the way a collector would expect: one is a collaboration line, and one belongs to a separate Diva sub-series with its own deck rules.

What Battle Spirits is, in product terms

Battle Spirits is Bandai’s long-running trading card game, built on two card types: Spirits, which fight, and Cores, which are spent as a resource and moved between cards. It has run through several television anime series, and the current one, Battle Spirits [Re] Zekkai no Sora, is the reason for a run of products carrying the protagonist and rival’s key Spirits.

The game splits its releases into two lines that a buyer has to keep separate. The mainline products carry set codes beginning with the year, and the booster pack is the standard way the card pool grows. Alongside it sits the Diva sub-series, which has its own starter decks, its own booster and its own tournament programme. If any of the labels here need unpicking, our glossary sets out the difference between a booster, a starter deck and a collaboration product.

The dated Battle Spirits line

Two patterns run through that table. The first is the pairing of starter decks with boosters: the two October anime starters land a week before the October booster, and the pattern repeats in December, when the third anime starter arrives a week before the Aikatsu! collaboration products. That staggered habit is common among Japanese publishers, and it is the reason a Battle Spirits “release” for a series is often two dates rather than one. Anyone planning a storage or binder purchase around a set should work from the later of the two dates.

The second is the price band. Mainline boosters sit at 350 yen a pack, and the collaboration booster is priced at 363 yen, which is close enough to be the same band. The starter decks are the expensive end of the line at 1,650 to 1,980 yen, because a starter is a ready-to-play deck rather than a pack.

The October booster: Zekkai no Hasha

The October booster carries the code 26RBS03 and is built on the new anime. The publisher states that it contains the key Spirits of the protagonist, Sora, and the rival, Ibuki, and that it also adds upgrade cards for the anime starter decks.

The rarity table is where the set’s structure lives, and one line of it is new. Bandai states that the set introduces a new family of X Rare Spirits built on the theme of the blade and the flower, and that this booster carries three of them, with three more to follow in the next booster. The banner cards of a set usually carry its chase value, and a first appearance of a new family is the kind of detail a player watches rather than a collector.

The set also runs two parallel rarities worth naming. A Secret version of certain cards appears with new artwork, and the set carries an Over Secret treatment using gold foil, plus a rarer card still. Bandai names the card at the top of that ladder. As with any parallel rarity, the point is that the same card name can exist in more than one printing, and the printing is what a buyer pays for. Our open-it-or-keep-it-sealed page goes through how that usually plays out.

The Aikatsu! collaboration, which is a separate line

The two December products are a collaboration, which in this game means a card pool drawn from an outside property and sold under its own codes. Bandai lists a collaboration booster carrying the code 26RCB02 at 363 yen a pack, alongside a collaboration starter deck carrying 26RSD12 at 1,980 yen, and both are built on Aikatsu!. The starter is the more expensive product because, like the anime starters, it is a complete deck.

A collaboration line behaves differently from a mainline set. It is aimed at buyers who already follow the property, it is priced and configured for that audience, and its cards sit in a set of their own rather than extending the mainline pool. For a collector deciding what to buy, the practical consequence is that a collaboration product is not a substitute for a mainline booster, and the two should be budgeted separately.

Organised play and the rules documents

Battle Spirits runs a full competitive programme, and the publisher dates it as tightly as the products. The current season includes the Battlers Cup for 2026, a Wild Bout series, the Diva Producer Cup, and the Battle Spirits Championship 26-27, which runs qualification events for both one-on-one and three-on-three formats and finishes in a Grand Final. Bandai also runs the BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest, a multi-title event where several of its card games are played in one place.

Two documents sit behind all of that, and both are worth knowing about before buying a single card. The first is the official rules manual for the Standard format, which the publisher keeps versioned. The second is the forbidden and limited card list. A card’s place in a deck can change when that list changes, and that is why a format position should never be treated as permanent. Anyone weighing a single card as a purchase should read our is it worth grading page before doing so.

There is also a legality note attached to the October booster: Bandai states that cards from the set become legal in sanctioned tournaments from the release date itself, 17 October 2026. That is a reminder that the booster is a playable product and not a pure collectible.

What this page does not claim

Four limits, stated plainly.

• Every date, price and product detail here comes from Bandai’s own product listings. The codes, the release dates, the prices, the card types and the rarity breakdown for the October booster, and the product line for the rest of the calendar, are all taken from the publisher’s own pages.
• The dates and prices are the publisher’s Japanese listings. The official product pages are Japanese, and the dates stated here are the Japanese ones, in yen including tax. Other regions follow their own schedules.
• No full card lists are reproduced. Bandai publishes set codes, dates, configuration and rarity breakdowns, not a card-by-card checklist for every product in advance. Nothing here should be read as a list of the cards inside a product.
• No valuation. CardSpicy quotes the publisher’s own suggested retail prices and makes no valuation or investment recommendation about any card or sealed product.

If you are buying from this calendar to open it, our card market report is the place to look for the wider picture of what card prices are doing. If you are storing what you buy, the card protection guide and card sleeve sizes pages cover the two decisions that come first, and the card accessories page covers the rest of what a deck needs on the table.

Frequently asked questions

When is the next Battle Spirits booster released?

The next dated booster is Zekkai no Hasha, carrying the code 26RBS03, on 17 October 2026 at 350 yen per pack. It is followed by the Eternal Booster BS77 on 21 November 2026 and the booster Enkuu no Kitei, code 26RBS04, on 23 January 2027.

How many card types are in the Battle Spirits booster Zekkai no Hasha?

Bandai lists 113 card types in total, split as Common 54, Rare 24, Master Rare 20 and X Rare 15. Each pack holds 9 cards.

What is the new Blade and Flower X Rare family in Battle Spirits?

Bandai states that the October booster introduces a new family of X Rare Spirits themed on the blade and the flower. This booster carries three of them, and the publisher states that the next booster will add three more. The family also appears in a foil Secret treatment.

What is the Aikatsu! collaboration in Battle Spirits?

It is a collaboration line released on 26 December 2026, made up of a collaboration booster, code 26RCB02, at 363 yen a pack and a collaboration starter deck, code 26RSD12, at 1,980 yen. A collaboration line is sold under its own codes rather than extending the mainline card pool.

What is the Battle Spirits Championship 26-27?

It is the game’s current competitive season, run by Bandai, with qualification events for both one-on-one and three-on-three formats and a Grand Final. It sits alongside other official events including the Battlers Cup, a Wild Bout series and the Diva Producer Cup.

Sources

Sources and scope

1. Bandai’s official Battle Spirits product page for the booster pack Zekkai no Hasha, carrying the code 26RBS03, used for the release date of 17 October 2026, the 350 yen per-pack price, the 9 cards per pack, the 113 card types split as Common 54, Rare 24, Master Rare 20 and X Rare 15, the new blade-and-flower X Rare family and the three cards of it in this booster plus three in the next, the Secret and Over Secret treatments, and the tournament-legality note.
2. Bandai’s official Battle Spirits products listing page, used for the full dated calendar and prices: Diva Booster 26RDB01 and Diva Starter 26RSD08 on 26 September 2026, Anime Starters 26RSD09 and 26RSD10 on 10 October 2026, Booster Pack 26RBS03 on 17 October 2026, Eternal Booster BS77 on 21 November 2026, Anime Starter 26RSD11 on 19 December 2026, Collaboration Booster 26RCB02 and Collaboration Starter 26RSD12 on 26 December 2026, and Booster Pack 26RBS04 on 23 January 2027.
3. Bandai’s official Battle Spirits news page, used for the current television anime series, the Wild Bout and Battlers Cup events, the Diva Producer Cup, the Battle Spirits Championship 26-27 and its qualification events, the BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest, and the official Standard rules manual and the forbidden and limited card list.
4. Our own pages on card accessories, grading, card protection, card sleeve sizes, storage boxes, binders and frames, penny sleeves and toploaders, protecting cards with sleeves, opening a box or keeping it sealed, the card market report for October 2026 and the collecting glossary, used for the internal links.
5. Scope note: only details published by Bandai are stated as confirmed. The dates and prices are the publisher’s Japanese listings, in yen including tax. Card lists are not reproduced. CardSpicy makes no valuation or investment recommendation.

Release dates, product contents and prices are set by the publisher and can change. Check Bandai’s own product pages before ordering, and check the listing for your own region.

Related reading

• Is it worth grading a card
• Open a booster box or keep it sealed
• The card protection guide
• Card sleeve sizes, explained
• Card storage boxes, explained
• Binders, boxes and frames compared
• Penny sleeve versus toploader
• How to protect your trading cards with sleeves
• Card accessories
• The card market report, October 2026
• The card collecting glossary
• The Collector’s Library

Where to go next

• The CardSpicy card index — every card we track, with its PSA 10 population and market history (195 cards).
• The illustrator index — every artist behind those cards, card by card (110 artists).