We begin our special Pikachu exhibit with a wonderfully cheerful and sunny card. This specimen is a special promotional card released in 2019, featuring a happy Pikachu enjoying a day on the water.
Card Details
- Pokémon Name: Pikachu (ピカチュウ)
- Set: Sun & Moon Promotional Card (Nagoya Special Box)
- Year: 2019
- Card Number: 014/055
- Rarity/Edition: Common (Promotional)
- Artist: nogimiso
- National Pokédex No.: 025
Card Text & Attacks
- Type: Lightning
- HP: 70
- Attack 1: Pika Ball (ピカボール)
- Cost: [Lightning][Colourless]
- Damage: 30
- Weakness: Fighting x2
- Resistance: Metal -20
- Retreat Cost: [Colourless]
- Pokédex Entry:
- Japanese: 電気を ため込む 性質。 ピカチュウが 群れて暮らす 森は 落雷が 絶えず 危険だ。
- Romaji: Denki o tamekomu seishitsu. Pikachū ga murete kurasu mori wa rakurai ga taezu kikenda.
- English: It has a nature of storing up electricity. Forests where Pikachu live in groups are dangerous, with constant lightning strikes.
Collector’s Notes
This Pikachu is a promotional card released in a special box celebrating the renewal and relocation of the Pokémon Center in Nagoya, Japan, in 2019. Promotional cards like this are often highly desirable as they aren’t available in standard booster packs.
The artwork by nogimiso is bright and full of joy. It depicts a winking Pikachu on the wooden deck of a ship, with the blue sky and sea in the background. It perfectly captures a sense of adventure and travel.
As the official Museum Mascot, this card is a perfect fit. Its theme of travel and exploration by sea is a wonderful parallel to the journeys of geologists and palaeontologists who cross oceans to reach new dig sites and study unique rock formations. The Pokédex entry also provides our classic thematic link: the mention of constant lightning strikes connects Pikachu directly to powerful, earth-shaping natural and geological phenomena.
