2005 BBM True Heart Joshi Card Set Checklist and Review

In my collection I have a wide variety of Joshi card sets from over the years, many of which do not have a card list anywhere on the Internet. So I hope to slowly add more of them to Joshi City, with the next set being 2005 BBM True Heart.

Card Set: 2005 BBM True Heart
Release Date: Early 2005
Base Cards in Set: 108 Regular Cards + 9 Subset Cards
Cost per Box: Unknown
Where to Purchase: Third Party Vendors (Buyee, Ebay, etc.)

Even though I was not able to find a picture of the box for 2005 BBM True Heart, and thus couldn’t confirm the price of the box, I was able to track down a complete set plus some autograph cards so I have enough information to do a proper checklist and review. Like other years of True Heart, 2005 BBM True Heart uses good card stock and different pictures on each side of the card which is always a plus. The front of the card shows most of the wrestlers in casual attire and the back shows the wrestler in-action in the ring.  The front also has a full list of all the promotions included in the set in the tiniest font known to man, while the back has the traditional stats and career summary for the wrestler.

The base set is 108 cards, plus nine cards in the “Catch the Rainbow” subset. In addition, all the wrestlers in the set have autograph cards. The autograph cards have a wide range of how many were made per wrestler, and are not the standard /90 to /100 that we see in more modern sets. The autograph cards do have the BBM stamp and are serial numbered however, to ensure authenticity. There were also a small number of “costume” cards as well, but I have been unable to find a listing of all the wrestlers with costume cards. 2005 is in a lot of ways the climax of the “dark ages” of Joshi Puroresu, after AJW and GAEA Japan both closed that year and in general Joshi had fallen out of mainstream wrestling in Japan. Still, a lot of wrestlers in the set are well known by fans today as there is a nice combination of veterans and young wrestlers that later turned into stars. Beyond the “Catch the Rainbow” subset, the base set also includes the inserts “Ladies on Film,” “Farewell”, and “Precious Memories” to give the cards some variety. Here is the full checklist:

Red = Ladies on Film
Blue = Farewell (for Retiring Wrestlers)
Green = Precious Memories
Magenta = Catch the Rainbow

1. Tomoko Watanabe 2. Kumiko Maekawa 3. Nanae Takahashi 4. Saki Maemura 5. Hikaru 6. Sasori 7. Amazing Kong 8. Command Bolshoi 9. Azumi Hyuga 10. Kayoko Haruyama 11. Tsubasa Kuragaki 12. Kaori Yoneyama 13. Erika Watanabe 14. Kyoko Kimura 15. Eco 16. Shinobu Kandori 17. Noriyo Tateno 18. Harley Saito 19. Eagle Sawai 20. Mizuki Endo 21. Sayuri Okino 22. Aiger 23. Mako Ogawa 24. Revn Hiroka 25. Keiko Fujieda 26. Lee Hye-Ran and Choi So Ra 27. Ranmaru 28. Yumi Ohka 29. Kei Akiyama 30. Asami

31. Fuuka 32. Nene Kimura 33. Shu Shibutani 34. MARU 35. Keiko Saito 36. Kyoko Inoue 37. Yoshiko Tamura 38. Misae Genki 39. Yuka Shiina 40. Tanny Mouse 41. Yuki Miyazaki 42. Yuka Nakamura 43. Haruka Matsuo 44. Chiharu 45. Ayako Ishida 46. Yumiko Hotta 47. Sachie Abe 48. Mika Nishio 49. LEO-NA 50. Bull Fight Sora 51. Mirai 52. Kana 53. Mima Shimoda 54. Mariko Yoshida 55. Michiko Omukai 56. AKINO 57. MICKEY*Yuka 58. Baby-M 59. The Bloody 60. Fang Suzuki

61. Obacchi Iizuka 62. Hiroyo Muto 63. Emi Sakura 64. Rei 65. Yui Kanbara 66. Mae Ichii 67. Chika Natsumi 68. Ikumi Yura 69. Rika Takahashi 70. Nozomi Takesako 71. “Sentoin” ko 72. Cherry 73. Yuiga 74. Yuu Yamagata 75. Ofune 76. Apple Miyuki 77. Carolina Akiko 78. Jaguar Yokota 79. Dump Matsumoto 80. Lioness Asuka 81. Etsuko Mita 82. Takako Inoue 83. Shark Tsuchiya 84. Kaoru Ito 85. GAMI 86. Keiko Aono 87. Momoe Nakanishi 88. Megumi Yabushita 89. Sumie Sakai 90. KAZUKI

91. Ayako Hamada 92. Emi Tojo 93. Teruko Kagawa 94. Hikaru 95. Yumi Ohka 96. Kei Akiyama 97. Asami 98. Fuuka 99. Mika Nishio 100. Ai Fujita 101. Kayo Noumi 102. Rie Tamada 103. Akira Hokuto 104. Rumi Kazama 105. Chaparrita ASARI 106. Chikako Shiratori 107. Kaori Nakayama 108. Kana Mizaki CR1. Saki Maemura CR2. Hikaru CR3. Kyoko Kimura CR4. Yumi Ohka CR5. Kei Akiyama CR6. Haruka Matsuo CR7. Mirai CR8. Apple Miyuki CR9. Emi Tojo

Here are scans of the base set, in order:

And finally, here is a sample of the autograph cards in the set: