Midori Harada
Midori Harada (Japanese: 原田みどり Harada Midori) is an artist for the Pokémon Trading Card Game. She has done work for various Pokémon materials and merchandise since 1996, but she began illustrating cards for the TCG later in the series, from about 2002 onward.
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Example of Midori Harada's TCG artwork
She is known for her style, called Aire Verte, of calm European landscapes. This is carried over for the official Hoenn, Battle Frontier, Sinnoh, and updated Kanto and Johto maps seen in guidebooks.
Here is a list of cards illustrated by Harada:
- Battle Frontier (EX Emerald 75)
- Ariados (Mysterious Treasures 20)
- Masquerain (Mysterious Treasures 55)
- Exeggutor δ (EX Holon Phantoms 41)
- Gardevoir (EX Ruby & Sapphire 7) (EX Power Keepers reprint only)
- Slaking (EX Ruby & Sapphire 12) (EX Power Keepers reprint only)
- Magneton (EX Dragon 17)
- Lanturn (EX Hidden Legends 38) (EX Power Keepers reprint only)
- Pidgeotto (EX FireRed & LeafGreen 45)
- Pidgeot (EX FireRed & LeafGreen 10)
- Pidgey (EX FireRed & LeafGreen 73)
- Skitty (EX Ruby & Sapphire 44)
- Treecko (EX Ruby & Sapphire 75)
- Grovyle (EX Ruby & Sapphire 31)
- Sceptile (EX Ruby & Sapphire 11)
- Magnemite (EX Dragon 62)
- Ralts (EX Power Keepers 59)
- Lairon (Mysterious Treasures 53)
- Bayleef (Mysterious Treasures 41)
- Mantyke (Diamond & Pearl 55)
She has also contributed to the following Pokémon merchandise:
- Gold & Silver Tales #8, "Look Out Delvil!", an illustrated preschooler storybook
- "Map Image Illustration" for Ruby and Sapphire, Emerald, FireRed and LeafGreen, Diamond and Pearl, Platinum, and HeartGold and SoulSilver.
Trivia
- Her favorite Pokémon is Cubone.
External links
Aire Verte, Harada's personal site (mostly in Japanese)
Pokémon-Card.com, card list (in Japanese)
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