Some 2016 BBM True Heart Autos, and the 2018 Set is Announced!

It's been quite a while since I posted any cards from the BBM True Heart Japanese Women's Pro Wrestling sets. The posts can take quite a while to research and write, so I slack off on them. This one was originally scheduled to go up on April 4th last year, so that shows how long I will put these things off.

These autographs all come from the 2016 version of the True Heart product. Given that there are five of them in this post, I am guessing that this is the result of a box break.

In the upper left is Erin ( えーりん ) , who wrestled from the end of 2012 until the middle of 2016. I don't think she is still active, but I don't know for sure.

The wrestler on the upper left is KAORU, who has been active since a few months before my 5th birthday in 1986.

In the lower left is Miyako Matsumoto ( 松本　都 ), who wrestles for the Ice Ribbon promotion.

On the lower right is Emi Sakura ( さくらえみ ), who founded Ice Ribbon and is credited with training Miyako Matsumoto. She left Ice Ribbon a few years ago, though, and does matches with a lot of different promotions now.

The last autograph is a Cheki or Polaroid photo, signed on the front and numbered on the back. This one features Sawako Shimono ( 下野佐和子 ), who is associated with Pro Wrestling WAVE, but also wrestles frequently for other promotions.

This wasn't a bad group of autographs, although it could be said that you can't really pull a bad group of autographs from these products. It's always nice to pull a Cheki photo, as they are the hardest things to get out of these boxes.

I was pretty excited to see today that pre-orders finally went up for the 2018 True Heart product. It looks to be scheduled for a late February release, with around 150 base cards in the set, and the usual assortment of autographs and cheki photos. I'll probably be ordering at least a few boxes, and I'll post my usual review when I get them.