AJW Official Cards Collection Vol. 1 Card List 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 a full card set released by All Japan Women.

Card Set: AJW Official Cards Collection Vol. 1
Release Date: 1996
Number of Cards in Set: 62 base cards, 4 premium cards
Cost per Set: ¥2,000
Where to Purchase: Third Party Vendors

Tracking down information for the AJW Official Cards Collection Vol. 1 set was not an easy task, since there aren’t a lot of details for the set on the Internet. Produced in 1996, the set includes all the main wrestlers of the Joshi promotion All Japan Women. Perhaps even more significantly, the set also includes cards of some of their stars from the 70s and 80s, providing a look back at the wrestlers that helped make All Japan Women one of the best promotions in the world. A second volume was produced as well, which included the younger wrestlers in AJW plus wrestlers from other promotions.

The cards were sold as a complete set, not in packs, and all sets include the 62 base cards. I am not sure if they also included all four premium cards or each set only had a limited number of premium cards, as the box I purchased did not have any premium cards (it was already opened). It did however have all of the base cards, which I scanned below. I really love this set as it covers the full history of All Japan Women (as of 1996) with high quality pictures of wrestlers from across the different eras.

Here is the official checklist:

Red = Premium Card

1. Manami Toyota 2. Aja Kong 3. Yumiko Hotta 4. Kyoko Inoue 5. Mima Shimoda 6. Toshiyo Yamada 7. Etsuko Mita 8. Takako Inoue 9. Mariko Yoshida 10. Sakie Hasegawa 11. Kaoru Ito 12. Tomoko Watanabe 13. Kumiko Maekawa 14. Rie Tamada 15. Chaparita Asari 16. Yumi Fukawa 17. Yuka Shiina

18. Yoshiko Tamura 19. Nobue Endo 20. Misae Watanabe 21. Bull Nakano 22. Akira Hokuto 23. Lioness Aska 24. Reyna Jubuki 25. Blizzard Yuki 26. Reggie Bennett 27. Freedom Force 28. Nagaharu Imai 29. Bob Yazawa 30. Double Inoue 31. Manami Toyota 32. Championship Night 33. AJW Destiny 34. Innocent Stars in Kawasaki

35. Mildred Burke 36. Marie Vagnone 37. Aiko Kyo 38. Jean Antone 39. Sandy Star 40. Sara Lee 41. Miyoko Hoshino 42. Sandy Parker 43. Jumbo Miyamoto 44. Bambi Ball 45. Jackie West 46. Mach Fumiake 47. Mariko Akagi 48. Maki Ueda 49. Jackie Sato 50. Monster Ripper 51. Jaguar Yokota

52. La Galactica 53. Devil Masami 54. Yukari Omori 55. Chigusa Nagayo 56. Lioness Aska 57. Bull Nakano 58. Aja Kong 59. Manami Toyota 60. Dynamite Kansai 61. Misdo Club 62. Aja Kong 63. Manami Toyota 64. Akira Hokuto 65. Bull Nakano 66. Kyoko Inoue

As I mentioned, the box I purchased did not have any premium cards, but here are all the regular cards in order:

Finally, here is a scan of the back of the box: