One Piece EB-05 Heroines vol.2 Release Date: Oct 31, ¥240, $4.99 EN

You saw the EB-05 art, you want the Heroines cards, and the question is whether to line up a Japanese preorder or sit tight. Here is the short version: EB-05 is ¥240 for a 6-card pack in Japan on October 31, 2026, and USD $4.99 a pack in English on October 30, 2026, so for the first time in this line the English edition is dated before the Japanese one. Both official pages now give 75 + 2 card types (checked October 3, 2026). That timing is the whole story, and it changes the usual import math.

When is EB-05 released in Japan and in English?

EB-05 releases on Saturday, October 31, 2026 in Japan and on October 30, 2026 in English, per Bandai’s two product pages (checked October 3, 2026). The three earlier Extra Boosters that got an English version reached it 97, 104 and 118 days after Japan, so EB-05 is the first with the English edition dated ahead.

Bandai’s Japanese release-event page (発売記念イベント) schedules launch events at official shops from October 31 to November 15, 2026, with dates that vary by shop and lottery entry through BANDAI TCG+ from September 25 to October 4. The window now opens on the release day itself, since the product page reads 2026年10月31日[土]発売.

What Bandai has actually confirmed about EB-05

The name, the release days, the price, six cards per Japanese pack, and a 75 + 2 type count with a rarity split. Packs per box is still missing in both languages. Here is EB-05 against every Extra Booster that came before it, read off the official product pages (earlier sets on September 17, EB-05 on October 3, 2026).

The Japanese title is エクストラブースター ONE PIECE Heroines Edition vol.2【EB-05】, and the English one is EXTRA BOOSTER -ONE PIECE HEROINES EDITION vol.2- [EB-05]. Bandai’s own blurb on both pages is one line: the second Extra Booster featuring Heroines, with new cards to strengthen your deck.

Set size arrived with the release day, and it lands in the middle of the line’s range.

EB-05’s published split is 7 Leaders, 29 Commons, 21 Rares, 9 Super Rares, 1 Secret Rare, 8 Special Cards and 2 DON!! cards. Against vol.1, EB-03 (1 Leader, 29 Commons, 21 Rares, 9 Super Rares, 2 Secret Rares, 9 Special Cards and 4 DON!! cards), the Common, Rare and Super Rare counts are identical. The difference is six more Leaders and one fewer Secret Rare.

Why EB-05 costs ¥240 when every earlier Extra Booster was ¥220

Because the whole Japanese line moved. EB-01, EB-02, EB-03 and EB-04 all list 220円(税込) on their official pages. So do the Japanese OP-14 (November 22, 2025), OP-15 (February 28, 2026) and OP-16 (May 30, 2026) booster pages. The first ¥240 figure on the Japanese side appears on OP-17, released August 22, 2026, and EB-05 is simply the first Extra Booster to arrive after that change.

In per-card terms the Japanese pack went from about ¥36.7 to ¥40. The English MSRP did not move with it: EB-02, EB-03 and EB-05 are all USD $4.99, and the only English price change in the Extra Booster line was EB-01’s $4.49 rising to $4.99 for EB-02.

How an Extra Booster differs from a main set like OP-17

An Extra Booster is a smaller, side-release set. OP-17 carries 131 types plus 4 DON!! cards; EB-03 carried 71 plus 4, and EB-04 carried 67 plus 1. They use the same ¥240 pack price and the same 6-card Japanese pack, so you are paying main-set money for a smaller pool. The upside of a smaller pool is that completing the base set takes fewer cards. The downside is that the chase in these sets sits almost entirely in parallels and Special Cards, which are not counted in the published type total at all.

That second point is the one that trips up new importers. A Japanese card number does not identify a single card, because parallels share the base card’s number and often its rarity letter too. We broke that down card by card in our guide to Japanese One Piece rarities, and it applies to Extra Boosters exactly as it does to OP-17.

Extra Boosters also lean on other sets’ numbering. EB-03’s published split includes 9 Special Cards, and in the One Piece line those are typically alternate-art versions of cards first printed elsewhere, keeping their original card numbers. OP-17’s set list is the clearest example: it includes EB04-007 and EB04-061, two cards with EB-04 numbers that come out of OP-17 packs. Expect the same crossover behavior around EB-05 and do not assume every EB05- number will be found by searching “EB05-”.

Import EB-05 now, or wait for the English version?

On the published dates, waiting costs you nothing this time, and that is genuinely new. For EB-01, EB-02 and EB-03 the English version landed 97, 104 and 118 days after Japan, so importing bought you three to four months of lead time. For EB-05 the English page says October 30, 2026 and the Japanese page says October 31. There is no wait at all: the English edition is dated a day earlier, before forwarding time from Japan is even counted.

So the decision collapses to two ordinary questions.

Do you want Japanese-language cards specifically? Then import, because no amount of waiting produces them outside Japan. Japanese prints are their own collecting target, and for most readers that is the honest reason to buy them. The routes are unchanged and we laid them out in buying One Piece cards from Japan.

Do you want these cards on a table at your local shop? Then buy English, in nearly every region. See the legality section below before you spend anything.

If what you actually want is Heroines art in English and you would rather not wait at all, the vol.1 set already exists in both languages: EB-03 shipped in English on February 20, 2026, and sealed and single EB-03 listings (paid link) are already on the open market. Vol.2 being announced does not remove vol.1 from shelves.

What is not confirmed, and why it matters for preorders

The release day and card count are settled now. Two blanks remain on the official pages (checked October 3, 2026), both of them things preorder listings will happily fill in for you:

• Packs per box, in either language. Bandai has published that figure exactly once in this line, on the English EB-01 page, and neither EB-05 page states it. The English page no longer restates cards per pack either.
• Anything about parallels or a Treasure Rare. The Japanese page counts 8 Special Cards but says nothing about parallel versions or pull rates.

There is one more reason to hold the JP-to-EN pattern loosely. EB-04 EGGHEAD CRISIS released in Japan on January 31, 2026 and has no standalone English Extra Booster page at all. Instead the English booster index carries two sets with combined codes, BOOSTER PACK -THE AZURE SEA’S SEVEN- [OP14-EB04] on January 16, 2026 and BOOSTER PACK -ADVENTURE ON KAMI’S ISLAND- [OP15-EB04] on April 3, 2026. Bandai does not explain on those pages how the EB-04 content is distributed between them, and we did not verify the card-by-card split, so we are reporting the codes and stopping there. The point stands regardless: one of the last four Extra Boosters did not cross over as an Extra Booster.

Can you actually play Japanese EB-05 cards?

In most of the world, no. The official English Tournament Rules Manual is explicit. Players in North America, Latin America and Oceania must use English language cards for their Leader Card and Main Deck at all tournament events. Players in Europe must use English and/or French. Officially distributed DON!! cards in any language may be used at all levels of official tournament events.

The same manual sets the timing: official Bandai card sets are legal at level 2 and 3 events 7 days after the official release date, and at level 1 events on the release date, including the pre-release date. The English EB-05 page repeats the second half of that as a footnote.

For the wider version of this decision, including how the English and Japanese calendars have drifted across the main sets, see our OP-17 Japanese vs English release comparison. Everything Bandai has dated for the next few months sits on our releases page.

The two figures worth carrying out of this article are ¥240 and October 31, because the price and the day are what Bandai has committed to for the Japanese pack, with the English edition a day ahead. We will update this piece if a packs-per-box figure appears on either official page.