Keiko Moritsugu

Keiko Moritsugu (Japanese: 森次慶子 Moritsugu Keiko; born January 7, 1985) is an artist and painter who has worked for the Pokémon video game series and Trading Card Game. While working under Game Freak, she created multiple designs for Pokémon and the character N.^[1]

Keiko Moritsugu

Moritsugu's first known involvement with the Pokémon franchise was in the staff of Pokémon Platinum under "Special Thanks", although it is currently unknown exactly what role she played in the development of that game. She later illustrated a card in the Arceus expansion: Heatran. In the staff of Pokémon Black and White, she is listed under "Pokémon Character Designer". This is a résumé shared by Reiko Tanoue and Mana Ibe, who both illustrated a single card from the Arceus expansion and are listed under the same roles in both sets of credits.

Designs

Pokémon

The following is a list of Pokémon designed by Moritsugu.

According to Moritsugu, Zekrom's final design is mostly similar to her draft, while Reshiram's final design ended up being significantly different from her draft. Both were finalized by Ken Sugimori.^[4]

Characters

The following is a list of characters designed by Moritsugu.

N^[1]^[5]
Ghetsis^[5]^[6]

Cards illustrated

Keiko Moritsugu is an artist in the Pokémon Trading Card Game. She has only illustrated one card.

Heatran (Arceus 3)

Games

Title	Platform	Release date	Position
Pokémon Platinum	Nintendo DS	2008-09-13	Special Thanks
Pokémon Black and White	Nintendo DS	2010-09-18	Pokémon Character Design
Pokémon Black 2 and White 2	Nintendo DS	2012-06-23	Pokémon Character Design