Renowned Japanese artist Hitoshi Ariga revealed on his deviantART page that he had a hand in some of the design work in Pokemon X & Y. Specifically, he had designed these Pokemon:
- Pangoro
- Inkay
- Malamar
- Honedge
- Doublade
- Aegislash
- Tyrunt
- Tyrantrum
- Amaura
- Aurorus
Hitoshi Ariga has worked on numerous video games and manga works and is most famous for his contributions to the Rockman manga series (Mega Man in the west). He also did some illustrations for the Pokemon trading card game. What do you think of his contributions to Pokemon X & Y?
“I’ve actually been doing video game work for quite a while now (over two decades), including projects for things like PCE, MD, and SFC. Apparently the Pokemon art director, Sugimori, had taken notice of some of my past work and that’s why he asked me if I’d be interested in doing some design work for Pokemon XY.
So in some ways, designing Pokemon for XY was like an extension of my days of drawing monsters for “ActRaiser 2” and “Beyond Oasis”. I am a Pokemon Trainer as well as an illustrator, so needless to say I was incredibly honored and pleased to have this opportunity.
I just thought the Pokemon XY players following me might find this information interesting!” – Hitoshi Ariga
Good desings
Always nice to have some new blood the room of creativity. New blood all over the ceiling, your balls, everywhere. Seriously though, the talent is good.
PS4 has better rain graphics
I agree, except for Inkay and Malamar.
I love those guys
@4:16 every thing looks same…. LOL but on wii U she has darker hair
gf ask him to do this ?
Honedge is one of my new favorites. Now only if I could get my hands on a shiny one…
Yeah he seemed to get some hate, but I love him and pangoro
At first glance, I had held a small grudge against another inanimate object pokemon.
However, the Pokedex entry sold me.
“If anyone dares to grab its hilt, it wraps a blue cloth around that person’s arm and drains that person’s life energy completely.”
He gets all my respect and gratitude for making Pangoro and Tyrantrunm.
Total respect for Hitoshi Ariga, Aegislash is one of my favorite Pokémon.
considering some of those are actually pretty cool designs, the man is talented.
Malamar is a fucking BEAST. The AI just looses it’s shit at reverse stat effects. Just using Superpower and getting attack boosts
For real!? I didn’t knew that, holy shit, Malamar has to be a freaking tank!
I just wish it got STAB on it. Psycho Boost would be great.
Im so tired of honedge. Every battle i have online someone has it
so he created tyrunt and tyrantrum.. but what the hell happened when he created honedge? “fuck it. those autistic diaper fags will buy this shit anyway”
Honedge is fucking awesome.
Aegislash is boss.
Awesome – a lot of my favourites from gen 6 in there, including Aurorus, my absolute favourite.
Oh my God! All the pokemon on the list are my favourite pokemon from the latest generation.He did a good job on the design and creativity of the pokemon~Salute for him!
And Sylveon! Hitoshi did Sylveon too!
Inkay! I knew some of those Pokemon looked a little cooler than usual.
He also did some work on the Trading Cards.
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