The ones on the left, #1023 from set 23,  and those on the right, #1174 from set 26.  Each set has a soft prism on the left
and the matching hard prism on its right. Even with the whole card showing it is obvious that the pattern of the prism is different.  Not only the pattern, but the card itself.  The soft ones are very pliable, like the regular cards from the series.  The hard ones feel stiffer, more like what the Trading Collection prisms or the US JPP/Amada prisms feel like.

This scan shows the soft prism on the left and the hard one on the right for the PP23 set.  Notice how the hard prism
pinwheels out from the center for each square in the pattern.  The soft prism has a much softer (get it?) effect.  If you look very closely at the soft prism you can see that the same pinwheel effect is there, but there is no clear distinction in the lines of the pattern.  They are blurred so that it is almost indiscernible in the dark colors.

The scan below shows the prism patterns next to each other from the PP26 cards.
The right one is the hard prism and the left one is the soft prism.  Notice that the right one has a
continuing wedge pattern all the way around the square.  The soft prism doesn't appear to have anything like it.

Here is a closer view of the PP26 prisms.  I have isolated one square in the pattern for each type of prism.  Note that the soft prism on the left does appear to have the same patterning, but as in the set 23 prisms, it is very difficult to see where each segment of the geometric design ends and the next one begins.

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