Dragon Ball Super Card Game: Fusion World has moved fast — nine Japanese booster series in, and the range keeps growing. If you are new to it, or just trying to work out which box is actually worth buying, the naming alone (FB01, FB02, all the way to FB09) does not tell you much on its own.
Here is what each series actually is, how to think about buying sealed versus singles, and why where you buy from matters as much as what you buy.
What Fusion World actually is
Fusion World is the current era of the Dragon Ball Super Card Game, built around a new mechanic: fusing two characters into a single powerful card during a match. It replaced the previous Dragon Ball Super Card Game format entirely, so if you are coming back to the game after a break, this is not an expansion to your old cards — it is a fresh start.
Japan releases the game first, in booster series numbered FB01 upward. English releases follow later and are not numbered the same way, which is the main source of confusion for newer collectors — an English "set" often does not map neatly onto a single Japanese FB number.
How the FB series break down
Broadly, the FB series fall into two categories:
- Numbered mainline series (FB01, FB02, FB04, FB06, FB09, and others) — the core sets that carry the game's ongoing story and mechanics forward.
- Special and manga-art series — premium sets that reprint or reimagine cards in a different art style, aimed more squarely at collectors than at players building a competitive deck.
The practical difference matters when you are deciding what to buy. Mainline series are the ones you want if you are building a deck to actually play. Special series are where the display-piece cards live — the ones that end up in a binder rather than a sleeve at a tournament.
Sealed or singles: the same question as everywhere else
If your goal is to play, sealed product makes sense — you need playable copies of commons and the support cards a deck runs, and boxes get you there efficiently.
If your goal is a specific chase card from a specific series, singles are almost always the cheaper and more certain route. A booster box gives you a fixed shot at a rare card; buying that exact card as a single removes the gamble entirely.
The one thing sealed Fusion World box gives you that a single never can: an unopened box from an early, smaller-print series becomes its own collectible over time, independent of what is inside it. That is a different kind of buy — a bet on scarcity, not on pulling a specific card.
Why importing Japanese Fusion World yourself is harder than it looks
Because Fusion World is Japan-first, a lot of UK collectors default to importing directly. Three things usually go wrong when they do:
- Customs charges that were not factored into the original price, arriving as a surprise on delivery.
- Long wait times — typically two to three weeks from a Japanese seller, sometimes longer.
- Exchange-rate exposure — the price you saw when you ordered is not always the price you pay once currency conversion and fees are applied.
Buying from a UK-based seller who has already imported the stock removes all three. It costs slightly more per box than the raw Japanese retail price, but the total cost — once customs and shipping are honestly accounted for — is usually close, and the box is in your hands in days rather than weeks.
What we stock, and how we handle it
We carry Fusion World Japanese booster boxes and packs across multiple FB series, factory sealed, already in the UK. No customs surprises, no three-week wait — dispatched in 1–3 working days.
For singles from any Fusion World series, the same rule applies as everywhere else in our store: every card is individually scanned, front, back and all four corners, at 600 DPI. What is on screen is exactly what ships — not a stock photo of a different copy.
You can browse our Fusion World booster boxes here, or browse Dragon Ball singles if you are after a specific card rather than a box.