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1996, Benimaru Itoh aka “Ashura". Trivia vignettes for Lapras, Drowzee and Poliwhirl from the book ポケットモンスター図鑑 (”Pokédex”, more literally “An Illustrated Book of Pocket Monsters”), printed in April 1996. More to come ò.o, scanned by @LoopKoopTroop
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More Arbok variations from the 1997 4Koma collection (Pokémon 4Koma Encyclopedia) by Takahiro Yamashita. Translated by @catstorm26 who's also a great artist we recommend following :D
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Yatta! In the next two weeks, we’ll be posting the elusive 2001 Pokémon Card VS set by Ken Sugimori! Thanks to the wonderful pokechars.tumblr.com who sent me on this quest one year ago! These are, of course, Karen and Bugsy. More details on our Tumblr(s).
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September 1996, Proto-base set Charmander card by Mitsuhiro Arita and its well known final release, published in CoroCoro Comic. You want to know more about the proto-tcg set? We've got a whole dossier about it helixchamber.com/2019/04/08/pro…
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Enhanced version of the concepts for the sprites of the gen 1 Gym leaders, by Ken Sugimori, possibly dating 1993-95. You can clearly see Yujirou was supposed to be the first one, more about him here helixchamber.com/2019/02/16/wha…
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Finally! The -almost- complete 2001 Pokémon Card VS set by Ken Sugimori, feat. all the Johto Gym Leaders, Elite 4, Champion Lance and Janine! Thanks to pokechars.tumblr.com . Part 2 will come with the incomplete ones and the Kanto mugs. Download it here mediafire.com/file/0gcupyois…
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1996, Slowbro wearing an Exp. Share by Ken Sugimori, featured on one of the Jumbo Carddass. Thanks to @linkdu83 for the original scans :D check out their collection on instagram!
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Ken Sugimori, "nurse" and Pikachu from the "Pokémon Journal Vol. 0" a flyer distributed in Japan for the Pokémon Center Tokyo store first opening in April 1998. Original scan by @linkdu83 enhanced by us, check out the whole contents of the flyer instagram.com/p/Bo7A2hAgKS4/
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I love this piece! Published on August 1996 on the cover of 'Pokémon 4Koma DX', by Ken Sugimori of course! Mid '96/'97 has been quite a weird time for Pokémon designs XD 4000px Stupid Res version link mediafire.com/view/a9m7va0tg…
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