What is the difference between Japanese Ultra Rare and Secret Rare?

On a Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh card, Ultra Rare has a gold-foil name and a non-holographic picture. Secret Rare has a holographic name and a sparkle across the artwork. English listing titles often call an Ultra a Secret.

What does Over-Frame mean on YAC1?

Konami’s YAC1 product page says 10 of the 38 Prismatic Secret Rares are Over-Frame cards, on JP001 through JP010. It is not a plain Secret Rare.

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レア The foil the title skipped.

Japanese rarity names are shorter than the English ones, and sellers translate them loosely. Ultra titled as Secret is the usual miss. YAC1 makes it worse, because one character name can be four manga finishes plus an Over-Frame on a different card.

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Japanese code, English name

Code	Japanese	English	What to look at
N	ノーマル	Common	Plain card. No foil name.
R	レア	Rare	Foil name, usually silver. Artwork is not holographic.
SR	スーパーレア	Super Rare	Foil name, often a different color treatment from a plain Rare. Still not a full-art holo.
UR	ウルトラレア	Ultra Rare	The name is gold foil. The artwork is not covered in holographic film. This is the finish English titles often miscall Secret.
SE	シークレットレア	Secret Rare	The name is holographic, and the artwork carries a diagonal sparkle. Not the same card as the Ultra of the same name.
UL	アルティメットレア / レリーフ	Ultimate Rare	Embossed gold artwork, the relief. YAC1 puts this on 14 Super Rares. It is not a Secret.
CR	コレクターズレア	Collector's Rare	A textured collector finish. YAC1 puts it on 14 Super Rares, a different 14 from the Ultimates.
PSE	プリズマティックシークレットレア	Prismatic Secret Rare	Denser rainbow foil than a plain Secret. YAC1 has 38 of these.
OF	オーバーフレームカード	Over-Frame	Konami’s name for 10 of the YAC1 Prismatic Secrets, JP001–JP010, plus an Ultra Over-Frame on those same 10 names. The product page does not describe the foil. Do not guess it from a blurry photo.
GMR	グランドマスターレア	Grand Master Rare	Ten YAC1 Ultras. Each card has its own serial number. Konami says they will not exchange or return it. The pricing sheet found no day-one retail price, so none is listed here.
QCSE	クォーターセンチュリーシークレットレア	Quarter Century Secret Rare	The 25th-anniversary secret finish used in other products. YAC1 does not use this name.
MANGA	MANGA-STYLE カラー / モノクロ	Manga style, color or mono	Thirty YAC1 names, JP071–JP100. Each exists as Ultra and Secret, and each of those as color and mono. That is four prices for one name.

YAC1’s counts are from Konami’s product page, checked 13 Oct 2026: https://www.yugioh-card.com/japan/products/yac1/. Ultra 25, Super 45, manga Ultra 30. Prismatic Secret on 38 names, 10 of them Over-Frame. Secret versions of the Ultras and Supers. Ultimate on 14 Supers, Collector’s on 14 Supers. Manga Ultras also have Secret versions, in mono and in color.

YAC1, the worked example

青眼の白龍 is YAC1-JP073. On 13 October 2026 CardRush asked ¥29,800 for the color Secret, ¥5,980 for the color Ultra, and ¥10,800 for the mono Secret. Launch weekend’s sheet had working figures near ¥18,000, ¥5,200, and ¥8,000. 神を超えたしもべ-青眼の究極竜 is a different card, YAC1-JP004, the Over-Frame Prismatic, ¥10,800 at CardRush that same day (the September working figure was about ¥15,000). A title that only says “Blue-Eyes Secret” can be any of those.

YAC1-JP073 · SE COLOR

青眼の白龍

¥29,800 shop ask

YAC1-JP073 · UR COLOR

青眼の白龍

¥5,980 shop ask

YAC1-JP073 · SE MONO

青眼の白龍

¥10,800 shop ask

YAC1-JP004 · PSE/OF

神を超えたしもべ-青眼の究極竜

¥10,800 shop ask

Red flags

The title says シークレット or Secret, and the photo shows a gold name with a flat picture. That is an Ultra.
The title says Secret and also レリーフ or Ultimate. Relief is embossed. It is not Secret.
The title says プリズマ and シークレット as if they were the same finish. On YAC1, ask whether it is one of the 10 Over-Frame cards.
青眼の白龍 with no カラー or モノクロ. Those are different prices.
青眼の究極竜 or 神を超えたしもべ sold as if it were the White Dragon.
ハーピィ・レディ with no 華麗なる分身, no SC, and no JP number. JP003 is the Over-Frame chase. JP082 is the manga Harpie Lady.
No set code. A usable YAC1 title includes YAC1-JP and three digits.
The word 買取. That is a shop’s buy price, not the price you pay.
A Grand Master Rare with a vanity price and no photo of the serial.
An English rarity word on a Japanese card. “Secret Rare” is how Ultras get sold to people who cannot read the foil.

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ポケカ Pokémon codes

Japanese pack codes are shorter than the English names on the international set. The picture style is the part sellers mix up. Storm Emerada uses these on the price pages.

Code	Japanese	What the English set usually calls it
RR	ダブルレア	Double Rare. The ordinary Pokémon ex.
AR	アートレア	Art Rare. English sets usually print this artwork as an Illustration Rare.
SR	スーパーレア	Super Rare. A textured full art of the Pokémon ex, not the special illustration.
SAR	スペシャルアートレア	Special Art Rare. English packs call the matching card a Special Illustration Rare.
UR	ウルトラレア	Ultra Rare. The gold card.
MUR	メガウルトラレア	Mega Ultra Rare. The gold mega chase in the current Japanese series.

A title that only says “Rayquaza SAR” can still be the wrong Rayquaza. On Storm Emerada the MUR is 113/076, the SAR is 110/076, and the SR is 095/076. Those three asks.