Dragon Ball Super Divers Explained: The English Collector's Guide

Updated: October 29, 2026

Dragon Ball Super Divers is the Dragon Ball card line most English-speaking collectors have seen on eBay but never held in a store. It's a Japan-only arcade game whose cards come out of a machine, and almost everything written about it is in Japanese. This guide explains, in plain English, what Super Divers is, how the cards are made available, what every rarity code means, and how to collect it from outside Japan.

Dragon Ball Super Divers at a glance

Sources: Bandai, Super Divers beginners' guide, deck and card guide, Set 12 and Set 13 pages, 40th Anniversary advance pack; Famitsu, Nov 2024. Prices are Bandai's retail prices including tax; dollar figures are our conversion at about ¥158/$ (ECB reference rates, Oct 28, 2026), checked Oct 29, 2026.

What is Dragon Ball Super Divers?

Dragon Ball Super Divers is a Japanese arcade card game from Bandai in which you scan real cards into a machine and fight digital battles with them. It launched across Japan on November 7, 2024 (Dragon Ball Official Site, Nov 7, 2024).

It's the successor to Super Dragon Ball Heroes, the arcade line that ran in Japan for about thirteen years counting the original Dragon Ball Heroes. Bandai rebuilt the cabinet for Divers: three touchscreens and three large physical buttons (Kanzenshuu, May 9, 2024).

It's also not the same thing as the two Dragon Ball tabletop games sold in English:

• Fusion World is Bandai's current tabletop trading card game, with English boosters at $4.99 a pack (Bandai).
• Masters is the original Dragon Ball Super Card Game, still running in English (Bandai).
• Super Divers cards only do something inside a Japanese arcade machine. Outside Japan they're purely collectibles.

If you're deciding which Dragon Ball line to start with, our beginner's guide to collecting trading cards compares all five games we cover.

How do you get Super Divers cards?

Most Super Divers cards come out of the arcade machine: you put in ¥100, play, and the machine dispenses one card every time (Famitsu, Nov 2024). Bandai also sells retail packs and gives cards away through campaigns, so there are several routes in.

• Playing at the machine. Insert ¥100, scan up to seven Battle Cards and an Avatar Card, and play. Cards that come out can be used straight away (Bandai).
• The Buy Cards menu. If you only want cards, the machine's menu has a "カードを買う" (Buy Cards) option that skips the game (Bandai).
• Advance packs. These are retail booster packs sold in shops and convenience stores, ¥330 including tax for 3 Battle Cards. The DRAGON BALL 40th Anniversary Edition pack came out on February 28, 2026, and Battle of Saiyan on August 8, 2026 (Bandai, 40th Anniversary; Bandai, Battle of Saiyan).
• Campaigns and login bonuses. Each set runs giveaways. During Set 12, players earned a ticket for a God Rare Son Gohan (Youth) through a login bonus and swapped it for the card at the machine, and a "movie poster" card could drop from a fishing animation while playing or buying cards (Bandai, Set 12).
• Magazines, guide books and events. V Jump and Saikyo Jump regularly include a promo card, and the 2nd Anniversary Super Guide book (November 19, 2026) comes with one (Bandai). A starter pack with 7 Battle Cards, an Avatar Card and a trial Diver Passport was handed out free to elementary and junior-high students at a Bandai event (Bandai).

Two things matter for collectors. First, some cards exist only through one route: a campaign GDR or a magazine promo never comes out of normal play. Second, the advance packs are the only sealed Super Divers product, so they're the closest thing this game has to a booster box.

Super Divers rarities explained

Super Divers has five main rarities, from Normal (N) up to Secret God Rare (SEC), plus special rarities and parallel versions that sit outside the main ladder. Bandai lists them on its card guide (Bandai):

Rarity names: Bandai card guide; GDR foil, GDR★ and EXR: Dragon Ball Official Site, Nov 7, 2024; SEC, SEC★ and PUR examples: Dragon Ball Official Site, Jan 22, 2026; PUR "Ultimate Bout": Bandai, Set 12.

A few things that trip up new collectors:

• Rarity isn't the same as value. A God Rare parallel (GDR★) can be harder to find and more expensive than a regular SEC. The parallel is what collectors chase.
• Bandai publishes no odds. We couldn't find any measured pull rates either, from Bandai or a large community sample. Anyone quoting "1 in X plays" is guessing.
• SEC★ cards have gold and silver foil, according to Bandai's Set 8 announcement.
• The 40th Anniversary advance pack used its own codes (APT-001 and up) and listed 62 card types: 16 N, 8 R, 4 SR, 2 GDR, 30 parallels and 2 "SP parallels", all with Akira Toriyama's artwork (Bandai).

If you collect Pokémon too, the idea is the same as an Illustration Rare versus a Special Illustration Rare: same character, different art and scarcity. Our Pokémon card rarities guide walks through that system.

How do Super Divers sets work?

Super Divers releases a new numbered set roughly every two months, and each one replaces the cards the machines dispense. Card numbers start with the set code, so SDV7-062 is card 62 from Set 7, SDV7-PUR1 is a Pick Up Rare from the same set, and SDV6-SEC is Set 6's Secret God Rare (Bandai). Promo cards use other prefixes such as SDVP.

Recent sets, with Bandai's dates:

Sources: Dragon Ball Official Site, Nov 7, 2024 and Jan 22, 2026; Bandai, Set 12 and Set 13. Set 13's card list hadn't been published when we checked on Oct 29, 2026.

Because sets rotate out of machines, a card from an older set can only be found secondhand once its run ends. That's part of why early God Rare parallels from Sets 1, 3 and 4 still show up near the top of buylists.

Which Super Divers cards do collectors chase?

Parallel God Rares and the 40th Anniversary advance pack's top cards are the most sought-after Super Divers cards right now. We used a Japanese shop's buylist as a signal, because there's no public English sold-price data for this game.

Ranked by PRICE BASE's Super Divers buyback list, which shows what that shop offers to pay for raw Japanese cards, as of Oct 29, 2026. A buyback offer isn't a sale price, so we've ranked the cards and left out the numbers.

The pattern is clear even without prices: 7 of the shop's top 10 are God Rares, mostly ★ parallels, and the rest are two more 40th Anniversary cards (an SR★★ and an R★) and one SEC★ (Son Goku: GT, SDV9-SEC). Goku dominates, as he does in every Dragon Ball game.

If you'd like to see how this compares with another Bandai game's chase cards, our list of the most valuable One Piece cards uses dated sold prices.

Can you collect Super Divers outside Japan?

Yes, but only secondhand. There's no English version, the cards are printed in Japanese only, and Bandai's Super Divers announcements only mention Japanese arcades and stores. The game's own pages are Japanese, and the English news on the Dragon Ball Official Site is machine-translated (Dragon Ball Official Site, Jan 22, 2026).

Where collectors outside Japan usually buy:

• Japanese card shops that ship overseas. Many list Super Divers singles by card number (search the code, such as SDV12).
• Proxy services for Japanese marketplaces such as Mercari and Yahoo! Auctions. You pay the proxy's fee plus international shipping, so small orders cost more per card.
• eBay. Convenient, but compare against Japanese prices and check the seller's photos closely.
• Sealed advance packs from importers, if you want the fun of opening.

A few precautions:

• Search by card number, not name. Many cards share a character name; SDV3-011 is unambiguous.
• Check for the ★. A parallel and a regular God Rare can look alike in small photos. The listing should state GDR★ or "パラレル" (parallel).
• Fakes exist for every popular game. Read our guide to spotting fake cards and resealed packs before paying for a high-end card.

Are Super Divers cards worth grading?

Only the high-end ones, and only if you'd keep them anyway. PSA and CGC do grade Super Divers cards: you'll find PSA 10 and CGC 10 slabs listed on eBay. But the market is small and mostly Japanese, so a grade adds less certainty than it would on a Pokémon or One Piece card.

The math works the same way as for any Bandai game: grading fees and shipping usually cost more than a common or an ordinary Super Rare is worth. Our One Piece grading break-even guide shows how to run that calculation.

Do Super Dragon Ball Heroes cards work in Super Divers?

Mostly no. Super Divers uses new cards and rules, so Super Dragon Ball Heroes cards don't work in the standard game (Kanzenshuu, May 9, 2024). The exception: three cards from Heroes' final set, Meteor Mission #6, were made usable in Divers: the Last SEC Shenron, the SEC Goku: Youth and the UR Goku (Dragon Ball Official Site, Aug 29, 2024).

For collectors, that makes Heroes a finished, closed line and Divers the active one. If you collect both, keep them in separate binders: the card designs and numbering are different.

Where to go next

• How to Start Collecting Trading Cards in 2026: how Super Divers fits next to Fusion World, Masters and the other games
• How to Spot Fake Cards & Resealed Packs: before you buy a high-end card from overseas
• Is It Worth Grading One Piece Cards in 2026?: the grading break-even math for a Bandai game

Track your Dragon Ball cards with CollectorDream

CollectorDream lets you log your Fusion World cards alongside the rest of your collection and keep track of which parallels you're still missing. If a Super Divers card isn't in the catalogue yet, you can request it from the app. The app is out now on iOS: download CollectorDream on the App Store, and follow Alec's daily openings on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram.

FAQ

Is Dragon Ball Super Divers available in English?

No. The cards are printed in Japanese only, and Bandai hasn't announced an English version or overseas machines. Collectors outside Japan buy the cards secondhand.

How much does Super Divers cost to play?

¥100 per play, including tax, and the machine dispenses one card each time. Retail advance packs cost ¥330 for 3 cards.

What is the rarest rarity in Super Divers?

Secret God Rare (SEC) is the top of the regular ladder, and some SECs also come as ★ parallels. In practice, parallel God Rares (GDR★) and super parallels (★★) are what collectors chase most. Bandai doesn't publish pull rates.

Is Super Divers the same as Fusion World?

No. Fusion World is Bandai's tabletop trading card game, sold in English. Super Divers is an arcade game in Japan whose cards are scanned into a machine.

Do Super Dragon Ball Heroes cards work in Super Divers?

Not in the standard game. Only three cards from Heroes' Meteor Mission #6 set were made usable in Divers.