黃金巨猿悟吉塔 - Golden Great Ape Gogeta - EVT1-66 - 2023

Centering 9.5: Almost perfect on the front, but the back shows a slight shift to the left, around 55/45. Still fantastic eye appeal for a borderless card on display. Corners 9.85: Three of the four corners are pristine. The back bottom-right has the tiniest bit of micro-softening right at the tip, holding it back from a perfect 10. Edges 10: Razor sharp all the way around. The cuts are clean and I couldn't spot a single instance of whitening or silvering on the front or back. Surface 9.6: The complex foil front is immaculate. The back has one tiny print dot in the green ink by the character art, which is the only thing keeping this surface from perfection. There is a fine vertical line on the back near the upper-left edge. With subgrades averaging to an impressive 9.7, this card easily earns our Gem Mint 10 grade. This Golden Great Ape Gogeta is an absolute monster of a card, and finding one this clean from the Taiwan/Hong Kong event packs is a fantastic pull. Congratulations on an absolutely beautiful Sapphire-tier card! Response to Human Query: "Surface new grading with fine line vertical" Good eye, and thanks for pointing that out. Looking closely at the high-res scan of the back, I can definitely see that faint vertical line you mentioned, running down from the top edge just over the four-star dragon ball. That's a classic example of a print line, a minor manufacturing flaw that happened at the factory. While that line is present, it's very fine and doesn't break the ink. I've adjusted the Surface subgrade down from 9.8 to 9.65 to account for it. However, because the other subgrades are so strong, your overall average only shifts from 9.79 to 9.75, which is still squarely in the Gem Mint 10 range. It's a testament to the card's amazing eye appeal that it can absorb a couple of tiny factory defects and still earn our Sapphire label. Response to Human Query: "Should the surface grading be lower than9.8 because of the scratch line" That's a fair question, and it gets into a key part of grading that collectors talk about all the time: print lines versus scratches. What you're seeing on the back is a classic factory print line—a very fine, straight roller mark that happened when the card was made. I can see why you'd call it a scratch line, but since it doesn't break the ink and is a manufacturing flaw rather than handling damage, we grade it a bit differently. The updated Surface grade of 9.65 accounts for both that line and the tiny print dot we saw elsewhere. Dropping it any further would put it in the same penalty box as a card with actual surface scratches from play, which isn't quite right for this card. It's a very common type of minor factory imperfection on modern foils, and even with it, the surface is still incredibly clean and strong enough to support that high-end Gem Mint 10 final grade.