The Bat-Dragon Behind Pokémon Mezasta’s Noivern Sticker

Noivern Pokémon Mezasta Holographic Wafer Sticker No.21

Meet Noivern: The Bat-Wyvern of Generation Six

Noivern is Pokédex No.715, introduced in Pokémon X and Y for the Nintendo 3DS in 2013. Its design fuses the anatomy of a bat with the silhouette of a wyvern — a two-legged winged dragon drawn from European mythology. The result is a creature with deep purple-black wings, teal accents, and cream-colored fur at its neck, a color scheme that the sticker faithfully reproduces. Its large, speaker-shaped ears reflect its in-universe ability to weaponize ultrasonic waves. The English name blends “noise” with “wyvern,” a construction mirrored in the Japanese name’s own etymology, though the franchise has never officially confirmed the precise derivation.

Noivern carries dual Flying and Dragon typing, a combination that gives it a dramatic visual profile and a strong presence in competitive play. Its recognition grew further when Ash, the anime’s central trainer, caught one during the Pokémon XY animated series, broadcast on TV Tokyo from 2013 to 2016. That main-character role extended Noivern’s visibility well beyond the games alone.

Wafer Stickers and the Pokémon Mezasta Connection

The item belongs to a category known in Japan as shokugan — snack goods sold with a small toy or collectible enclosed. Wafer stickers have been part of this tradition since the sticker booms of the 1980s and 1990s, when Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, and Dragon Ball drove enormous demand for serialized, numbered sets sold through convenience stores, small candy shops, and game centers. Pokémon became a dominant subject for the format from the late 1990s onward.

This sticker is tied to Pokémon Mezasta, an arcade token-collection game launched in September 2020 by Bandai Namco Amusement. Mezasta followed two earlier arcade Pokémon series — Pokémon Tretta (2012–2016) and Pokémon Ga-Olé (2016–2020) — and continued the format of physical collectible discs used within the game itself. Related merchandise including wafer sticker series bearing the Mezasta branding was produced and sold separately alongside the arcade machines. Based on Mezasta’s operating period, this sticker likely dates from somewhere in the 2020–2025 window; the exact release year is not confirmed by the item itself. The manufacturer of this particular sticker series is not identified in the listing, though Bandai Candy handles many comparable Pokémon wafer sticker lines in Japan.

A Numbered Series and the Appeal of the Holographic Format

The holographic finish on the sticker surface is standard for the premium tier of Japanese wafer stickers — the prismatic treatment gives the design a shifting shimmer that distinguishes it from flat-printed equivalents. No.21 marks this piece as one entry in a larger numbered run, a format designed with completionists in mind: each number represents a specific character or design in the set, and the sequential structure naturally encourages collectors to pursue the full series.

Pokémon Mezasta was primarily an arcade experience concentrated in Japan, and merchandise from the line rarely reaches international retail channels. For collectors drawn to Noivern’s angular, dark aesthetic — which sits apart from the franchise’s more familiar soft designs — this sticker combines character identity, a format with decades of Japanese pop-culture history behind it, and the kind of geographic specificity that makes domestically distributed items genuinely difficult to find outside Japan.