posted on by Ken Iikura-Gross
All other Pokémon may already be dead
Tetsuo Hara‘s X (formerly Twitter) account announced that the legendary manga artist has drawn card art for the Pokémon Trading Card Game on December 3. Hara illustrated the Palafin EX Special Art Rare card for the forthcoming Terastal Festival ex set launching on December 6.
— 原哲夫 【公式】 (@haratetsuo_jp) December 3, 2024
【WORK】
I drew an illustration of Palafin EX (SAR) for the Pokémon Card Game’s High Class Pack Terastal Festival ex launching on December 6☆
I hope you all like it✨️
Please get it☆ (Tetsuo Hara)
The Coamix website posted an interview excerpt from the February 2025 issue of Monthly Comic Zenon magazine about Hara’s work on the Pokémon card. When asked what he focused on when creating the illustration. Hara stated (roughly translated) he wanted to add his unique coolness while maintaining the Pokémon feel. He added, “This time I drew a lot of fists, and paid particular attention to expressing the reflections of light and water, and finished with the image of the fists leaving afterimages, like the Hokuto Hyakuretsu Ken [attack].” The February 2025 issue of Monthly Comic Zenon will go on sale on December 25.
Hara is known as the artist behind Fist of the North Star, Fist of the Blue Sky, the Gifū Dōdō!! Naoe Kanetsugu -Maeda Keiji Hana-gatari series, Ikusa no Ko – Oda Saburō Nobunaga Den, among others. He has also provided card art for Magic: The Gathering in 2023, promotional art for Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, and promotional art for McDonald’s Japan, among others. Hara currently serves as a board member for Coamix Inc.
Sources: Tetsuo Hara‘s X/Twitter account, Coamix‘s website (link 2), Pokémon Card Game’s website