GachaJP Review: Code AW468C, 1,100 Free Points and What a 1,000pt Pull Really Lands

GachaJP gives every new account 500pt once you verify your phone. Enter code AW468C when you sign up and you get 100pt straight away, then another 500pt when your first purchase is 1,000pt or more. With a ¥1,000 first purchase you start on 2,100pt: 1,000pt bought and 1,100pt free.

AW468C is our code, so when your first purchase qualifies, GachaJP gives us 500pt too. Free points from phone verification, codes, referrals and coupons expire 6 months after they're added and are always spent before the points you buy, which never expire.

GachaJP serves adults living in Taiwan, Hong Kong and other regions it approves, and it ships to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and eligible US states. You must be 18 or over, or 21 in the US. Residents of Japan can't use it at all and the UK isn't covered, so British readers should skip it.

You may hold one account, and a phone number can only be registered once: delete your account and you can't sign up again with the same number.

The 500pt referral reward counts the amount you actually pay, not the points you receive. GachaJP's first purchase offers up to 80% off, and its monthly plans open with a cheap first month (¥550 for the 1,000pt plan, ¥100 for the 500pt plan). Either one uses up your single first-purchase discount, and a first payment under ¥1,000 won't unlock the 500pt.

So pay ¥1,000 or more on your first purchase, in one go. Prices are in yen and your card issuer does the conversion; GachaJP takes Visa, Mastercard, JCB, American Express and WeChat Pay, and the NT$ or HK$ figures on the site are only a guide.

Every GachaJP pack lists its total openings and how many cards of each tier are sealed in it, and a bar beside the price shows how much is left. The counts describe the pack at the start of sale and shift as it sells. Cards that aren't pictured can turn up in tiers 3 and 4, and the reveal animation tells you nothing about the result.

Take the Pokémon Balance Pack at 1,000pt a pull. At the start of sale it held 2,400,000 openings: one copy each of 15 tier 1 cards, 120,000 tier 2 cards and 240,000 tier 3 AR cards. Everything else, about 85 in 100 pulls, is tier 4: a random Pokémon card with a conversion value of 10pt. That is 10pt back from a 1,000pt pull, and it is the most likely result.

Cards wait in My Cards for 14 days from the pull. Request shipping, or convert them to points at the rate GachaJP set for that card when the pack was made; the rate doesn't move with the market. After 14 days GachaJP converts them automatically, and a conversion can't be undone.

The Newcomer Bonus card, a special pull on your phone-verification points before your first purchase, has its own rules: it has no 14-day limit and can be shipped, but converting it (to 5,000pt) unlocks only once your purchases total 15,000pt.

Shipping is paid in points: 2,500pt for 1–10 cards to Hong Kong, Taiwan or Macau, then 1,000pt for each further 15 cards; the US costs 3,600pt, then 1,500pt per further 15. Requests to the same address made around the same time are combined, so batch your cards. One shipment costs more than the whole 2,100pt starting balance.

GachaJP ships within 21 days of a request, usually after about a week. Delivery then takes 2–14 days to Taiwan, 3–14 days to Hong Kong or Macau and 5–25 days to the US. Duties and import taxes are yours, except in the US, where GachaJP prepays them. Taiwan deliveries clear more smoothly if you register on EZ WAY for real-name customs first. Report a damaged or wrong card within 7 days of delivery, and film the unboxing.

1pt is ¥1. Points can only be spent on packs and shipping, can't be cashed out and aren't refunded once used. Residents of Taiwan and Macau can cancel within 7 days of a card's delivery and get back the points spent on that pull, and can cancel unused purchased points within 7 days of buying them. Deleting your account forfeits your points and unshipped cards, and GachaJP can close an account left unused for 24 months.

GachaJP is run by VicMe LLC in Roppongi, Tokyo. Its terms are governed by Japanese law, with Tokyo District Court for disputes, and the Japanese text controls if a translation differs.

Use AW468C if you're an adult in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau or an eligible US state and want Japanese cards delivered: pay ¥1,000 or more once, start on 2,100pt, and use the sealed counts to see what a pack really holds before you pull.

Skip it if you live in the UK or Japan, would buy points only for the bonus, or hope to turn pulls into cash. Most pulls are low-tier cards, every result is random and points can't be withdrawn, so never buy points to chase a card.