What the hololive OFFICIAL CARD GAME is, how it plays, and what is inside the Summer hologram Extra Booster and Ayakashi Vermilion. From TCGGuy.
By TCGGuy Team
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The quick version
- Summer hologram is the first English Extra Booster for the hololive OFFICIAL CARD GAME. It released September 25, 2026.
- Each box holds 8 packs of 10 cards. Every pack has at least one SR or higher, and the set carries 102 cards plus 112 parallels.
- 68 of the 102 cards are reprints from the first five sets, so a new player can build a deck from this set alone. 34 cards are new.
- The hololive card game is COVER Corporation's own game, launched in English in July 2025. It is separate from the hololive sets in Weiss Schwarz.
- Ayakashi Vermilion, the sixth booster set from June 2026, is the best current pickup if you want a full 141-card set with ten new Oshi holomem.
If you follow hololive, you have probably seen the card game in stream clips and wondered whether it is worth buying into. This guide covers what the hololive OFFICIAL CARD GAME is, where it came from, how big it has become, and what is inside Summer hologram, the new Extra Booster that opens the English game's second year.
The hololive OFFICIAL CARD GAME (players shorten it to hOCG or hololive OCG) is a trading card game built around the talents of hololive production, the VTuber agency run by COVER Corporation. COVER develops and produces the game in-house. Bushiroad, the company behind Weiss Schwarz and Cardfight!! Vanguard, handles retail distribution and official tournaments for both the Japanese and English editions.
That in-house design shows in the theme. The game is framed as a live performance, not a battle. You are a fan producing a stage for your favorite talent. Your holomem cards perform from center, collab and back positions, and the discard pile is called the Archive, a nod to archived streams.
Each player picks one Oshi holomem card, which stays in play all game and carries Oshi skills, including a once-per-game SP skill. Alongside it you run a 50-card main deck of holomem and support cards, plus a separate 20-card cheer deck. Your Life total is set from that cheer deck.
A turn moves through Reset, Draw, Cheer, Main, Performance and End steps. During Cheer you attach a cheer card to a holomem, which powers up its Arts. In Performance your holomem use those Arts to knock out the opponent's holomem, and each knockout removes Life from the opponent. You win by reducing your opponent's Life to zero, by clearing every non-Oshi holomem off their stage, or if they run out of cards to draw.
The four card types, left to right: an Oshi holomem card, a cheer card, a holomem card and a support card.
The official site has a free Player's Guide and quick manual if you want the full rules before you buy.
The Japanese edition launched in September 2024 with the Start Deck Tokino Sora & AZKi and the first booster, Blooming Radiance. It won the Media Create New TCG Award in May 2025, and COVER reports the number of Japanese shops carrying the game grew from about 380 at launch to 867 by December 2025. Its first World Grand Prix at Makuhari Messe in January 2025 drew roughly 2,700 visitors.
The English edition arrived on July 11, 2025, sold mainly in North America through card shops and online. English sets so far, in order:
| Set | Code | English release |
|---|---|---|
| Blooming Radiance | hBP01 | July 11, 2025 |
| Quintet Spectrum | hBP02 | October 17, 2025 |
| Elite Spark | hBP03 | December 19, 2025 |
| Curious Universe | hBP04 | February 20, 2026 |
| Enchant Regalia | hBP05 | April 17, 2026 |
| Ayakashi Vermilion | hBP06 | June 19, 2026 |
| Summer hologram (Extra Booster) | hEB01 | September 25, 2026 |
Organized play followed the cards. English players have had the Bloom Cup DX Challenge events in Houston, Pasadena and Philadelphia, a team Festa in Torrance in August 2026, and a Final Challenge in Tokyo in October 2026, plus weekly shop tournaments. Two more boosters are already announced: Diva Fever on November 20, 2026 and Bouncer Bound on January 29, 2027.
No, and this trips up a lot of first-time buyers. Weiss Schwarz has printed hololive production sets since 2022 (their card numbers start with HOL/), but those are Weiss Schwarz cards that play only inside Weiss Schwarz. The hololive OFFICIAL CARD GAME is a separate game with its own rules and its own card codes (hBP, hSD, hEB). Cards from one cannot be used in the other. If the box says hololive OFFICIAL CARD GAME with the COVER mark, it is this game.
Booster Packs (the hBP sets) are the main line and each adds new talents and mechanics. Extra Boosters are a separate line where each release is built around a theme. Summer hologram is the first one, and its theme is "that summer spent with your Oshi." Most of the cards, new and reprinted, carry summer illustrations.
The numbers, from the official product page:
The three new-color Oshi holomem cards, Tokino Sora, Houshou Marine and Hakui Koyori (official sample images):
Because more than half the set is reprints, it works as an on-ramp. A new player can open a box and build a playable deck without hunting older sets. The summer alternate art is the collector angle, and the SEC comment cards are the pull most people will be chasing.
The trade-off is the box size. Eight packs per box is smaller than the twelve-pack Booster Pack boxes, so if you are chasing a specific parallel, the case (12 boxes, 96 packs) is the sealed option that gives you real odds. If you mainly want the new Sora, Marine or Koyori Oshi cards and a deck to play, a single box is the sensible start.
The SY special cheer cards also get new summer illustrations in this set:
Ayakashi Vermilion (hBP06) is the most recent full booster set, released June 19, 2026. It is a bigger product in every way: 12 packs of 8 cards per box, 12 boxes per case, and 141 standard cards (OSR 10, RR 17, R 23, U 38, C 53) with 141 parallels (SEC 5, OUR 8, HR 6, UR 12, SR 44, S 60, SY 6).
The headline is ten talents getting their first Oshi holomem card: Robocosan, Natsuiro Matsuri, Nakiri Ayame, Kazama Iroha, Moona Hoshinova, Hakos Baelz, Raora Panthera, Isaki Riona, Rindo Chihaya and Koganei Niko. Himemori Luna, Mori Calliope and Inugami Korone return in new colors. Five hot-stamped signature cards appear as SEC, there is an alternate art illustrated by Raora Panthera herself, and the SY cheer cards got updated artwork starting with this set. Selected reprints mean you can build a deck from this box alone too.
If you want one product that covers the most talents and the deepest card pool, Ayakashi Vermilion is that box. If you want the summer art and the new-color Oshi cards, Summer hologram is the one to pick up.
Bottom line: Summer hologram is a themed, reprint-heavy Extra Booster that makes a good first purchase and a good collector set, with the SEC comment cards as the chase. Ayakashi Vermilion is the larger, fuller set available today. Both are the real hololive OFFICIAL CARD GAME, not Weiss Schwarz.
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Reviewed and edited by TCGGuy.
Set, rules and event details are from the official hololive OFFICIAL CARD GAME site, en.hololive-official-cardgame.com, and COVER Corporation announcements. Key visuals and card images ©COVER Corp., shown as published on the official site.
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