2012 English edition almanac

Japan's two September packs are 114 cards and this set takes 91 of them, so the block below is not a translation check — it is a list of what English left behind and what it built instead. The twelve additions are the six EX, each printed ordinary and again as full art; the twelve are the whole of the English-only column, and the missing column is the 23 Japanese cards that waited.

Not in these Japanese sets (11 names, 13 cards): Arcanine, Emolga, Growlithe, Lapras, Luxio, Reshiram, Reshiram-EX, Shinx, Zekrom, Zekrom-EX, exp.all

Only in the Japanese set (24): Bisharp, Conkeldurr, Cryogonal, Deerling, Duosion, EXP.ALL, Ferrothorn, Groudon-EX, Gurdurr, Kyogre-EX, Leavanny, Lilligant, Pawniard, Petilil, Reuniclus, Sawsbuck, Sewaddle, Solosis, Swadloon, Timburr, Tranquill, Unfezant

Compared with the Japanese cards of 2011.

Dark Rush is 76 cards and this set takes 74 of them. Mandibuzz and Swoobat are the two that stay in Japan. The four cards English held back from September — Kyogre-EX and Groudon-EX, ordinary and full art — were never in Dark Rush, so they sit in the English-only column below rather than in the shared one: late arrivals, not new cards.

Not in this Japanese set (34 names, 37 cards): Bisharp, Chansey, Chatot, Cheren, Crustle, Dwebble, Eevee, Excadrill, Glaceon, Groudon-EX, Gurdurr, Haxorus, Joltik, Kyogre-EX, Larvesta, Leafeon, N, Palpitoad, Pawniard, Professor Juniper, Random Receiver, Scrafty, Scraggy, Scyther, Timburr, Torchic, Torkoal, Tympole, Tynamo, Ultra Ball, Umbreon, Vanillish, Vanillite, Zorua

Only in the Japanese set (2): Mandibuzz, Swoobat

18 of those names also turn up elsewhere in Japan's 2011. That is a statement about names, not cards: the same Pokémon was often printed more than once, with different HP, attacks and art. The English edition never matched a Japanese set one for one, so a name missing from this Japanese set may still belong to a card Japan printed that year.

Compared with the Japanese cards of 2011.

Every one of the 110 cards of Japan's March pair is here, so nothing should be listed as missing on the Japanese side. The names listed as English-only are the set being filled out to a card count, not a substitution.

Not in these Japanese sets (20 names): Deino, Drifloon, Electrike, Foongus, Gabite, Garchomp, Gible, Gyarados, Houndoom, Houndour, Hydreigon, Magikarp, Manectric, Minccino, Roselia, Roserade, Swablu, Zweilous, blend energy gfpd, blend energy wlfm

Only in the Japanese set (2): Blend Energy GFPD, Blend Energy WLFM

5 of those names also turn up elsewhere in Japan's 2012. That is a statement about names, not cards: the same Pokémon was often printed more than once, with different HP, attacks and art. The English edition never matched a Japanese set one for one, so a name missing from these Japanese sets may still belong to a card Japan printed that year.

Compared with the Japanese cards of 2012.

This is the one set of the year where the comparison is exact: twenty Japanese cards, twenty English cards, the same order, plus one secret with no Japanese counterpart.

Not in this Japanese set (2 names): Kyurem, exp.all

Only in the Japanese set (1): EXP.ALL

1 of those names also turns up elsewhere in Japan's 2012. That is a statement about names, not cards: the same Pokémon was often printed more than once, with different HP, attacks and art. The English edition never matched a Japanese set one for one, so a name missing from this Japanese set may still belong to a card Japan printed that year.

Compared with the Japanese cards of 2012.

The comparison is against three Japanese sets, 209 cards in all, of which this set takes 109 card for card. The block counts by name instead, and gets 111: Snorlax and Togepi are printed here at 109 and 110 while Japan's Plasma Gale copies of both went to Plasma Freeze, so those two names match without the cards being the same card. The rest of July's pair and the rest of Plasma Gale are not missing — they are in Plasma Storm and Plasma Freeze in 2013 — so read the missing column as not in this set rather than never printed.

Not in these Japanese sets (41 names, 42 cards): Black Kyurem, Chinchou, Croagunk, Cryogonal, Dewott, Electrode, Emboar, Energy Search, Farfetch’d, Golduck, Gothita, Gothorita, Great Ball, Keldeo, Klink, Makuhita, Mandibuzz, Meowth, Mienfoo, Oshawott, Pignite, Pikachu, Poké Ball, Potion, Psyduck, Rocky Helmet, Samurott, Serperior, Servine, Shaymin, Skarmory, Snivy, Spinda, Switch, Taillow, Tepig, Victini, Voltorb, Vullaby, White Kyurem, Wobbuffet

Only in the Japanese set (98): Amoonguss, Articuno-EX, Beartic, Beheeyem, Bicycle, Blastoise, Charizard, Cherrim, Cherubi, Chimchar, Clefable, Clefairy, Cobalion-EX, Colress, Colress Machine, Combee, Conkeldurr, Crobat, Cubchoo, Dodrio, Doduo, Donphan, Dowsing Machine, Druddigon, Durant, Elgyem, Escape Rope, Ether, Exploud, Foongus, Gallade, Galvantula, Garbodor, Giratina, Golbat, Grotle, Gurdurr, Heatmor, Hypnotoxic Laser, Infernape, Joltik, Kirlia, Koffing, Leavanny, Liepard, Lombre, Lotad, Loudred, Lucario, Ludicolo, Lugia-EX, Lunatone, Magnemite, Magneton, Magnezone, Mamoswine, Manaphy, Maractus, Monferno, Pansear, Patrat, Phanpy, Piloswine, Plasma Energy, Plasma Frigate, Purrloin, Ralts, Random Receiver, Riolu, Rotom, Scrafty, Scraggy, Scramble Switch, Sewaddle, Simisear, Solrock, Swadloon, Swinub, Team Plasma Grunt, Timburr, Togekiss, Togetic, Torterra, Trubbish, Turtwig, Vespiquen, Victini-EX, Victory Piece, Virbank City Gym, Watchog, Weezing, Whismur, Zubat

8 of those names also turn up elsewhere in Japan's 2012. That is a statement about names, not cards: the same Pokémon was often printed more than once, with different HP, attacks and art. The English edition never matched a Japanese set one for one, so a name missing from these Japanese sets may still belong to a card Japan printed that year.

Compared with the Japanese cards of 2012.