2013 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 2013 BBM True Heart.

Card Set: 2013 BBM True Heart
Release Date: Early 2013
Base Cards in Set: 117 Regular Cards
Cost per Box: 8,400 Yen
Where to Purchase: Third Party Vendors (Buyee, Ebay, etc.)

After a big 2012, the True Heart series took a hit in 2013. Stardom officially left the True Heart series in 2013, meaning some of the most popular wrestlers were no longer available. While we are used to that now in 2020, at the time it was an issue as previously the True Heart set always had the country’s biggest Joshi stars. The set also did not have any ‘special’ cards outside of Cheki cards, as there were no kiss cards or other memorabilia cards.

The other issue with the set depends on personal tastes, but in my opinion (and many others) both the base cards and autograph cards are a drop down in design quality. The base cards are very busy, as can be seen below, and the autograph cards are very plain looking. This has led to the cards not being very popular as the designs were much better prior to 2013 and after 2014 (which also didn’t have a great design). The main perk of this set is it does include some wrestlers popular today, including Kana and Hikaru Shida, and has the first official trading card of Mia Yim. Otherwise, its a pretty skippable set compared to the ones around it. Here is the card checklist:

Red = Hall of Fame (for Retiring Wrestlers)
Blue = Story Fact (Gravure Modeling Photos)
Green = Checklist

1. Keiko Aono 2. AKINO 3. Aja Kong 4. Apple Miyuki 5. Yukie Abe 6. Mika Iida 7. Aoi Ishibashi 8. Kaoru Ito 9. Kyoko Inoue 10. Takako Inoue 11. Mizuki Endo 12. Yumi Ohka 13. Kujira Oshima 14. Misaki Ohata 15. Mayumi Ozaki 16. Sayaka Obihiro 17. Kaguya (Mio Shirai) 18. Kagetsu 19. KAZUKI 20. Manami Katsu 21. Sonoko Kato 22. Kana 23. GAMI 24. Carlos Amano 25. Nana Kawasa 26. Shinobu Kandori 27. Aki Kambayashi 28. Aoi Kizuki 29. Kyoko Kimura 30. Sakura Hirota

31. Kyusei Ninja Ranmaru 32. Tsubasa Kuragaki 33. Ayumi Kurihara 34. Kurumi 35. Nao Komatsu 36. Command Bolshoi 37. Emi Sakura 38. Sakura Candle 39. Meiko Satomura 40. Sareee 41. Aki Shizuku 42. Hikaru Shida 43. Shuu Shibutani 44. Mima Shimoda 45. Sawako Shimono 46. Jaguar Yokota 47. Syuri 48. Mio Shirai 49. Risa Sera 50. Sendai Sachiko 51. Dynamite Kansai 52. DASH Chisako 53. Cherry 54. Kyuri 55. Command Bolshoi 56. Manami Toyota 57. Meari Naito 58. Tomoka Nakagawa 59. Arisa Nakajima 60. Chikayo Nagashima

61. Hanako Nakamori 62. Maki Narumiya 63. Mika Nishio 64. Neko Nitta 65. Nyamber 66. Nagisa Nozaki 67. Ayako Hamada 68. Moeka Haruhi 69. Kayoko Haruyama 70. Bambi 71. Piyota Mask 72. 235 73. Tsukasa Fujimoto 74. Benten Musume 75. Hamuko Hoshi 76. Shoko Hotta 77. Yumiko Hotta 78. Police Woman 79. Makoto 80. Mask de Sun (Kyoko Kimura) 81. Hiroyo Matsumoto 82. Miyako Matsumoto 83. Mia Yim 84. Chii Tomiya 85. Misaki Guriko 86. Ryo Mizunami 87. Tomoko Mori 88. Misaki Ohata 89. Yapper Man #3 90. Megumi Yabushita

91. Yuu Yamagata 92. Rutsuko Yamaguchi 93. Yuiga 94. Aya Yuki 95. Yuhi 96. Kaori Yoneyama 97. Raideen Hagane 98. Rabbit Miu 99. Riho 100. Lin Byron 101. Ray 102. Leon 103. Rosa Bonita 104. Eri Wakamatsu 105. Tomoko Watanabe 106. Toshie Uematsu 107. You-You Ran 108. Harley Saito 109. Yumi Ohka 110. Misaki Ohata 111. Kana 112. Syuri 113. Mio Shirai 114. Hanako Nakamori 115. Makoto 116. Kana and Mio Shirai 117. noki-A & A☆YU☆MI

 

Here are scans of the complete base set, in order:

 

An example of the autograph cards in the set:

 

And finally, an example of the Cheki cards: