2025 Topps Baseball MLB World Tour Tokyo Series Takashi Murakami | What You Can Expect

If you’re a fan of art and sports cards, this collab is a dream come true. Topps has partnered with famous Japanese artist Takashi Murakami with the 2025 Topps Baseball MLB World Tour Tokyo Series Takashi Murakami Box.

Takashi Murakami is a well-known Japanese contemporary artist and founder of the “Superflat” art movement. “Superflat” art is characterized by anime and manga, helping to emphasize the flattened forms found in Japanese visual art and pop culture. These base card variations take on that “superflat” style, featuring a vibrant look. Each Murakami short print is numbered to ten, making them a challenging but highly desirable chase for collectors who love art-inspired cards.

Takashi Murakami is known for blending pop culture with fine art; his work in this set is no different. These Murakami-designed cards are infused with psychedelic flowers and rainbow cartoons. This collaboration brings a twist to the traditional base card, turning a regular base card into a pocket-sized piece of art in your collection.

This exclusive Japanese product includes only Dodgers and Cubs players like Shohei Ohtani, Yamamoto, Kyle Tucker, Suzuki, Pete Crow-Armstrong, and Shota Imanaga, among other stars from those teams. This 25-card complete base set features 13 Dodgers players and 12 Chicago Cubs. All of the cards in this collection are numbered to 199 and lower. To highlight this checklist, find 10 different autographs of players like Ohtani, Yamamoto, and Imanaga.

This isn’t the first time Topps has dropped a collaboration with artists. Project 70, which celebrated Topps’ 70th anniversary, and Project 2020 involved artwork from people like Snoop Dogg, Bobby Hundreds, and Mister Cartoon. These projects featured reimagined baseball cards that included Hall of Famers like Ricky Henderson and Tony Gwynn. In the same way, these cards were looking to add art into the sports card space, this partnership with Murakami does the same.

You’ll undoubtedly know when you hit a Murakami short print. By peeking into the pack, you’ll immediately see the bright pink floral design on the border with Murakami’s iconic “Smile On” rainbow flower. This short print has horizontal and vertical parallels, making the chase even sweeter.

This is not just another drop! It’s a rare collaboration between the biggest name in sports cards and one of the most influential modern artists. There are only 10 copies of each variation, meaning these cards have severe scarcity and crossover appeal that targets art enthusiasts and collectors alike. Here at Dave & Adam’s, we expect demand to be high, and if you land one, you’ve got a true gem in your collection.

2025 Topps Baseball MLB World Tour Tokyo Series Takashi Murakami Box is now available for pre-sell on dacardworld.com. The release date for this exclusive collaboration is April 11th. We’re excited to see what you pull from this box; tag at @dacardworld when you pull a Takashi Murakami short print!