Updates

Coming in the next update

These are built and tested, and arrive with the next version of the extension (0.1.2), once the Chrome Web Store has reviewed it.

Australia and Canada

• Australia: your proxy charges 10% GST at checkout on parcels up to A$1,000, with no duty. Over A$1,000, 5% duty and GST are charged at the border, plus the A$50 import processing charge.
• Canada: nothing to pay on parcels of C$20 or less. Above that, cards from Japan are duty-free, and you pay GST, HST or provincial tax at your province's rate (choose your province in the settings), plus Canada Post's C$9.95 fee or the courier's.
• Prices can be shown in Australian or Canadian dollars, and the sold-price links use eBay Australia and eBay Canada.

Buying from inside Japan

• A new "Japan" setting for people who live in Japan and buy directly: the card, the listing price and shipping inside Japan, with no proxy, international shipping or import costs.

12 November 2026: 35 more sets

Yenlens now knows 2,793 more cards, from every set that was still missing from its card list apart from the ADV sets and World Champions Pack:

• Sword & Shield: Sword, Shield, VMAX Rising, Rebellion Crash, Explosive Walker, Infinity Zone, Legendary Heartbeat, Amazing Volt Tackle, Matchless Fighters, Eevee Heroes, Blue Sky Stream, 25th Anniversary Collection, Time Gazer and Pokémon GO, including their rainbow (HR) and gold (UR) cards.
• XY: every main set from Collection X and Y to Explosive Fighter and Cruel Traitor, plus PokéKyun Collection, Premium Champion Pack, Mythical & Legendary Dream Shine Collection and 20th Anniversary.
• Sun & Moon: the Detective Pikachu movie pack and Pikachu's New Friends.

The names and numbers come from the official Japanese card search. The official list leaves out most rainbow and gold cards from these years, so those were added where two separate card lists agree on them.

12 November 2026: Shiny Star V and the LEGEND sets

Yenlens now knows 671 more cards, from sets that were missing from its card list:

• Shiny Star V (s4a), all 330 cards, including the shiny Pokémon, the Amazing Rares and the gold Eternatus, Zacian and Zamazenta cards.
• The five LEGEND sets: HeartGold Collection, SoulSilver Collection, Reviving Legends, Clash at the Summit and Lost Link, with their Prime and LEGEND cards.

The names and numbers come from the official Japanese card search. Before this, listings for these cards showed the cost but couldn't say which card it was.

12 November 2026: EU buying guide

A new guide: buying Japanese Pokémon cards in the EU. It covers the €3 duty, the new €2 handling fee, VAT in all 13 countries Yenlens supports, what the post office charges at the door, and Japan Post's stop on deliveries to Germany, with worked examples.

12 November 2026: EU costs checked

We checked Yenlens's EU rules against official sources, so EU estimates no longer carry a "not fully verified" warning:

• The €3 customs duty on parcels up to €150 (since 1 July 2026), charged once per parcel of cards.
• The new €2 EU handling fee (since 1 November 2026), on parcels of any value.
• VAT at each country's own rate, and the post office or courier fee for collecting it.

12 November 2026: rarities for secret rares

715 secret rares in 19 recent sets had no rarity in our card data, so a title like "Gardevoir ex SAR" with no card number couldn't tell the SAR from the SR. They now have the rarity printed on the card: AR, SR, SAR, UR, S, SSR, CHR, CSR, HR, K, RRR or ACE.

• Sets: Scarlet ex, Triplet Beat, Clay Burst, Snow Hazard, Ruler of the Black Flame, Raging Surf, Ancient Roar, Future Flash, Shiny Treasure ex, Crimson Haze, Stellar Miracle, Paradise Dragona, Super Electric Breaker, Terastal Festival ex, Battle Partners, Heat Wave Arena, Star Birth, Battle Region and Paradigm Trigger.
• Every set was checked against a published card list, and the cards at both ends of every rarity range against our own names.
• Base cards in high-class packs (like Shiny Treasure ex and VSTAR Universe) and decks have no rarity printed on them, so they still show none.

12 November 2026: Yenlens is live

Yenlens is on the Chrome Web Store (version 0.1.1).

• Identifies Japanese Pokémon cards on Mercari, Buyee, ZenMarket, Yahoo! Auctions, PayPay Flea Market and Rakuma listings, from the title and the seller's description.
• Adds up the cost to your door: proxy fees, shipping, and import charges for the UK, the US and 13 EU countries.
• Change your country, shipping method and currency on the panel itself, and show prices in pounds, dollars, euros or yen.
• Warns about fakes, non-Japanese cards and auctions, and links to recent sold prices.

Before launch, we also brought the cost rules up to date:

• US: cards sent by Japan Post now include US duty at any value. Only gifts and documents under $100 are duty-free, not purchases.
• Germany: Japan Post stopped taking parcels from online purchases to Germany on 10 November 2026. Estimates for Germany by post now say so and suggest a courier.