Persona 5 Royal Trading Cards: Kayou's Phantom Treasure Collection
If you’ve been around the channel for any length of time you know I love Persona. It’s a video game series from Atlus, and Persona 5 in particular is one of those games I keep crawling back to — I’ve played through it four or five times and sunk hundreds of hours into it. So when Kayou announced an officially licensed Persona 5 Royal trading card set, I did the only reasonable thing: I started replaying the game again while I waited for the box to show up. These are those cards. The set is called the Phantom Treasure Collection, Series 1, and yes — it’s everything I hoped for.
Here’s the full opening if you’d rather watch me fumble the shrink wrap for ten minutes:
Buying Kayou Direct: the FUNTCG Story
Before the Persona cards, the bigger story. For years the only way to get sets like this — anything made by Kayou, the company with the little ant logo — was through resellers on AliExpress or similar marketplaces. That mostly works, but there’s always a nagging worry: those same stores sell singles, and where do the singles come from? Searched boxes. You can never be 100% sure the box you bought wasn’t picked over for its big hits first.
That’s changed. Kayou has started selling directly through their Hong Kong division at FUNTCG (funtcg.com), and this is the real deal — I emailed them to confirm it’s actually Kayou and not another middleman. Not every set is listed (no Three Kingdoms yet, oddly), but a lot is: the My Little Pony TCG, SpongeBob, Tom and Jerry, and of course these Persona cards. The Persona box runs about $32 — the exact same price as AliExpress — and there’s a flat shipping fee (roughly $26 for me) that doesn’t change no matter how much you order. Buy one box or a whole case, same shipping. And because it ships straight from Kayou, you know it wasn’t searched. For collectors that’s a genuinely big deal.
They even tucked some bonuses into my order — a 3D Toothless promo, a couple of pony promo cards, and one of their new oversized “Polaroid” cards. Little touches like that go a long way.
The Box
The box art is pure Persona 5 — that unmistakable red, black, and white palette with Joker striking a pose front and center. The Phantom Thieves aesthetic is one of the most distinctive in gaming (Persona 5 famously won “most stylish game” plenty of times), and Kayou leaned all the way into it. It’s a great looking box that’s going to be genuinely hard to open without wrecking the seal — they glue these things shut and add tamper strips, which is exactly what you want to see on a sealed product.
The Set
Flip the box over and you get the breakdown. There are 18 packs per box, and Kayou does its usual split: 9 packs follow one configuration (a TR, three R’s, and an SR), while the other 9 carry the chances at everything higher. So in practice only half your box is really chasing the top rarities — classic Kayou. The full set is 189 cards across 12 rarities, climbing from TR at the bottom up through R, SR, and on to the SP cards at the top, which have 10 variants.
The headline cards are the signature inserts, and they’re wild for a set at this price:
Those are the CR signature cards — printed autographs from the voice actors, numbered to just 200 copies each. When I saw “/200” on the flier I did a double take. Numbered cards are great anywhere, but numbered signature cards straight from Kayou is another level.
And it goes further: the LR signature cards are autographs from the game’s producers and character designers, numbered to only 20. Twenty. In a $32 box. That’s the kind of chase card you’d expect in something many times the price.
Further down the ladder, the SP cards are these adorable chibi takes on the Phantom Thieves done in a pop-art, graffiti style — there are 10 of them and they’re some of my favorites on the whole flier.
The UR cards are built around the game’s signature poses — Joker, Violet, Crow, all caught mid-strut. Posing is practically a gameplay mechanic in Persona 5, so leaning the high rarities into it is a perfect call.
The Persona 5 Royal Cards
So how’d the pull go? Like a typical Kayou set, honestly — you end up with a big stack of base-rarity cards and a handful of nicer hits sprinkled on top. That’s not a knock; it’s just how these are built.
The base R and SR cards are the character and scene cards, and even these look great — clean printing, that signature Persona styling, and a surprising amount of variety. Persona 5 has a whole anime woven through it, and the card art captures that animated look really well.
I also pulled one of those chibi SP cards I was gushing about up above — every bit as cute in hand as it is on the flier.
Working up the ladder you start hitting the good stuff — SSR’s, textured cards with real embossing you can feel, and pose cards like this Queen. Pro tip for Kayou sets: if a card has one of those little holograms on it, you’ve got a real hit — most cards in the set won’t.
And the one I was really hoping for: Morgana, the talking cat (and series-best character, I will not be taking questions). A clear card that lets the artwork behind it shine through — exactly the kind of hit that makes cracking a Kayou box fun.
Conclusions
This is a traditional set — no gimmicks, no gold or diamond cards, just a well-made trading card set that nails what makes Persona 5 special. And honestly, as a fan, that’s exactly what I wanted. Kayou clearly understood the assignment: capture the style, the weirdness, and the cast, give it some genuinely exciting chase cards, and let the artwork do the talking. If you love this game even half as much as I do, the Persona 5 Royal Phantom Treasure Collection is an easy recommendation.
You can grab a box on AliExpress using the buttons above, or order it directly from Kayou’s FUNTCG store for the same price, shipped straight from the source. While you’re here, I’ve opened plenty of other Kayou sets too — the gorgeous Saint Seiya cards and the massive Three Kingdoms set are both worth a look.