2006 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 2006 BBM True Heart.

Card Set: 2006 BBM True Heart
Release Date: Early 2006
Base Cards in Set: 108 Regular Cards + 9 Subset Cards
Cost per Box: 8,400 Yen
Where to Purchase: Third Party Vendors (Buyee, Ebay, etc.)

2006 mimicked the 2005 set in a lot of ways, including the number of cards in the base set as well as having nine “Catch the Rainbow” subset cards. Also like 2005, the front of the card shows most of the wrestlers in casual attire and the back shows the wrestler in-action in the ring.  This year, the front of the card has the wrestler’s stats (birthday, height, weight, etc.) and the back of the card has a brief paragraph about the wrestler.

The base set is 108 cards, plus nine cards in the “Catch the Rainbow” subset. In addition, all the wrestlers in the regular base set have autograph cards (with the exception of Mirai as she passed away before the set was made). 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. Like in 2005, 2006 was still in the “dark ages” of Joshi Puroresu, after AJW and GAEA Japan both closed 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 “Thank you for the Memories” (for Mirai, who had passed away), “Forever” (for retiring wrestlers), “in Another Situation”, and “Ladies on Film” to give the cards some variety. The Catch the Rainbow subset has two card versions: a regular Silver version and a Gold version that is serial numbered to 200.

The card set also has other special inserts, including Kiss Cards and Costume Cards. There are a total of six Kiss Cards and two Memorabilia cards in the set, however I have not been able to find a full listing for which wrestlers are featured. If I find additional information on other special cards I will update this page.

Here is the card checklist:

Red = Thank you for the Memories
Blue = Forever (for Retiring Wrestlers)
Green = in Another Situation
Orange = Ladies on Film
Magenta = Catch the Rainbow
Dark Purple? = Kiss Card

1. Command Bolshoi 2. Azumi Hyuga 3. Kayoko Haruyama 4. Tsubasa Kuragaki 5. Kaori Yoneyama 6. Erika Watanabe 7. ECO 8. KAZUKI 9. Shinobu Kandori 10. Noriyo Tateno 11. Harley Saito 12. Eagle Sawai 13. Takako Inoue 14. Mizuki Endo 15. Aiger 16. Sayuri Okino 17. Obacchi Iizuka 18. Glamour☆Angels 19. Yumi Ohka 20. Asami 21. Fuka 22. Shu Shibutani 23. Kyoko Inoue 24. Etsuko Mita 25. Yoshiko Tamura 26. Misae Genki 27. Yuka Shiina 28. Tanny Mouse 29. Yuki Miyazaki 30. Yuka Nakamura 31. Haruka Matsuo

32. Chiharu 33. Michiko Omukai 34. AKINO 35. Tojuki Leon 36. Bullfight Sora 37. Ayumi Kurihara 38. Emi Sakura 39. Rei 40. Mai Ichii 41. Rika Takahashi 42. Moeka Haruhi 43. Natsuki☆Head 44. Miku Saotome 45. Yumiko Hotta 46. Sachie Abe 47. Mika Nishio 48. Kana 49. Dark Angel 50. Saki Maemura 51. Nanae Takahashi 52. Hikaru 53. Meiko Satomura 54. Nozomi Takesako 55. Cherry 56. Yuiga 57. Yuu Yamagata 58. Apple Miyuki 59. Tomoka Nakagawa 60. Bambi 61. Carolina Akino 62. Jaguar Yokota

63. Devil Masami 64. Aja Kong 65. Dynamite Kansai 66. Mayumi Ozaki 67. Chikayo Nagashima 68. Carlos Amano 69. Toshie Uematsu 70. You-You Ran 71. Ayako Hamada 72. Mima Shimoda 73. GAMI 74. Mariko Yoshida 75. Yuna 76. Kyoko Kimura 77. Kaoru Ito 78. Tomoko Watanabe 79. Kumiko Maekawa 80. Dump Matsumoto 81. Sasori 82. Amazing Kong 83. Ranmaru 84. Sumie Sakai 85. Megumi Yabushita 86. Hiroyo Muto 87. Asian Cat 88. Mirai 89. Toshiyo Yamada 90. Momoe Nakanishi 91. Sakura Hirota 92. Mako Ogawa 93. Sugar Sato

94. Teruko Kagawa 95. MICKEY☆YUKA 96. Ofune 97. MARU & Keiko Saito 98. Baby♡M 99. The Bloody & Fang Suzuki 100. Fuka 101. Nishio Mika 102. Apple Miyuki 103. Azumi Hyuga 104. Takako Inoue 105. Mariko Yoshida 106. Michiko Omukai 107. Mima Shimoda 108. You-You Ran CR1. Fuka CR2. Shu Shibutani CR3. Haruka Matsuo CR4. Ayumi Kurihara CR5. Mai Ichii CR6. Natsuki☆Head CR7. Kana CR8. Bambi CR9. Kyoko Kimura K1. ? K2. ? K3. ? K4. Moeka Haruhi K5. Kana K6. Apple Miyuki

Here are scans of the complete base set and Catch the Rainbow subset, in order:

 

Here is a sample of the autograph cards in the set:

 

To show the different “Catch the Rainbow” cards, here is the front and back of both versions:

 

And finally, here is Kana’s Kiss Card: