Kalos - Blog Posts

A blog about one of my favorite artists, Atsuko Nishida!

Atsuko is a video game artist. She works for the Pokemon company and has been ever since the first games! Originally most of the Pokemon designs were supposed to appear scary or tough like Charizard or Tyranitar, but she took some of the designs and gave them a cutesy look!

Atsuko is also the mastermind behind the company’s mascot Pikachu! She also designed a couple of the eevee evolutions and even designed my favorite Pokemon Zoroark! Not only that but if it wasn’t for her, Ivysaur would look like this!

Another cute fact about this artist is she’s super camera shy, during an interview in 2018 she spent the entire thing hiding behind a Pikachu plush!

Atsuko’s work is very important to the company because without her design we wouldn’t have a balance of designs within the Pokemon games. We mainly have intimidating ones such as Garchomp or Metagross.

Atsuko is an inspiration to me because not only are her designs diverse and loved by all but they also hold purpose in a way. The main rule of a pokemon design is that they need to look like they’d be your friend, I feel that Atsuko pulls this off really well! I try and make my work to have the same feel, some of my characters may look intimidating but deep down inside they’re total sweethearts who will have your back no matter what, either that or they’re just goofballs who want to have a good time with you!

One of the things that amazes me about her is that when she made the design for the company’s mascot, Pikachu, she didn’t make any concept sketches! She went straight to the computer and started punching dot’s to create him. She even quoted it herself in one of her interviews!

I like her designs because of how much character they hold and the color schemes and inspiration behind them are interesting! Not only that but the designs are also loved by many people and I wish to have people enjoy my designs, similarly to how they enjoy Atsuko’s!

Oh my fucking god, the Pokémon Legends Z- A trailer just dropped, and I'm so happy. Pokémon games usually look like shit graphics-wise, but this one actually looks pretty good, and the starters are really good. I'll probably be picking Totodile, but it is confusing that they picked two Johto starters since in Legends Arceus they were all from different regions. I'm most excited about how they changed battles, though they seem much more skill-based, and you can actually dodge attacks like in the anime. Also, it takes place in the Kalos region, which is one of my favorites, but yea, these are my thoughts. I'm so hyped fuck yesssss

The protagonists of all time.

I'm gonna replay X&Y, refreshing my Kalos experience in preparation for Legends ZA.

Ik these games aren't really looked on fondly by a lot of people, but the box legendaries (especially Yveltal) were childhood favorites of mine, so I have a big fondness for them.

I do hope in ZA they do a lot with the graphics, because XY to me is one of if not the most visually appealing games too me.

Anyway I'm gonna go ruminate on what starter to pick now.

you could've been mine🌷