This Pikachu Card Sold for $19K in 2025. Now It's $8.4M

> Quick answer: A PSA 10 2015 Japanese XY Promo Art Academy Fujishima Pikachu sold for $8.4M on Fanatics Collect on Sept. 28, 2026, including a 20% buyer's premium. That makes it the second-most expensive Pokémon card ever publicly sold, behind only Logan Paul's $16.492M PSA 10 Illustrator Pikachu.

A card drawn by a fan, printed as a contest prize, and never sold in any store just became one of the most valuable Pokémon cards on the planet.

Only a year earlier, a PSA 10 copy sold for $19,200. This time it went for $8.4M. Here's what happened, where the card came from, and why it matters to collectors.

What Pikachu card sold for $8.4 million?

The card is the 2015 Japanese XY Promo Art Academy Fujishima Pikachu, graded PSA 10 Gem Mint.

It sold on Fanatics Collect on September 28, 2026. The final price of $8.4M includes a 20% buyer's premium.

The auction drew 64 bids. That's a lot of serious interest for a card that had never sold anywhere near this level before.

Where did the Art Academy Pikachu card come from?

The card started with a video game, not a booster pack.

The Pokémon Art Academy contest ran from late 2014 to early 2015. It was built around Pokémon Art Academy, a Nintendo 3DS game that teaches players to draw Pokémon.

Fans sent in their artwork. The winners saw their drawings turned into real, official promo cards.

Y. Fujishima was one of those winners, with an illustration of Pikachu in a red raincoat. That fan artwork is the card that just sold for $8.4M.

How rare is the Fujishima Pikachu promo?

Very rare, and in a way most cards aren't.

Each contest winner received 100 copies of their promo card. That was the prize. The card never had a retail release, so you could never pull it from a pack or buy it off a shelf.

PSA currently lists 57 copies in Gem Mint 10.

That number matters. A card with a tiny print run, a one-of-a-kind origin story, and a known population of top-grade copies gives bidders a clear picture of what they're competing for.

How much did the Fujishima Pikachu sell for before?

This is where the story gets wild.

Before this sale, Fanatics had never sold a PSA 10 copy for more than $20,000. Earlier sales on the platform looked like this:

• July 2024: $12,600
• June 2025: $19,200
• September 28, 2026: $8.4M

That's a jump of more than 400 times the June 2025 price in a little over a year.

A card that sat in the five-figure range suddenly landed in the same conversation as the most famous Pokémon card in the hobby.

What is the most expensive Pokémon card ever sold?

The record still belongs to Logan Paul's PSA 10 Illustrator Pikachu, which publicly sold for $16.492M.

Paul originally bought that Illustrator for $5.275M in 2021. It has since become the benchmark for top-end Pokémon cards.

The Fujishima Pikachu now sits in second place among publicly sold Pokémon cards. It's worth noting what the two cards share: both are Pikachu, both are PSA 10, and both come from illustration contests rather than regular retail sets.

Why did this card jump so much in value?

We can only point to what's on the record.

The card has a story collectors love. It was drawn by a fan, created for a contest, and given out in tiny numbers.

It was never sold in stores, so there's no retail supply to find.

The top grade is tracked. PSA lists 57 Gem Mint 10 copies, so buyers know exactly how scarce a PSA 10 is.

And the auction was competitive. Sixty-four bids pushed the price far past anything the card had reached before.

Is $10 million next for the Fujishima Pikachu?

That's the big question, and nobody can answer it yet.

What we do know: this sale set a new high for the card, and there are still other PSA 10 copies out there. The next time one comes to auction, the whole hobby will be watching to see whether $8.4M was a one-off or a new floor.

At Greedy TCG, this is exactly the kind of card we track: the ones with a real story, real scarcity, and a price history that can change fast. Follow along so you don't miss the next one.

FAQ

How much did the PSA 10 Fujishima Pikachu sell for?

It sold for $8.4M on Fanatics Collect on September 28, 2026, including a 20% buyer's premium. The auction drew 64 bids.

How many Art Academy Fujishima Pikachu cards exist in PSA 10?

PSA lists 57 copies in Gem Mint 10. Each contest winner received 100 copies of their promo card, and the card never had a retail release.

Is the Fujishima Pikachu the most expensive Pokémon card ever?

No. It's the second-most expensive Pokémon card ever publicly sold. The top spot belongs to Logan Paul's PSA 10 Illustrator Pikachu, which sold for $16.492M.