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Y Iris’s Fighting Spirit · Journey Together · 2025
Illustrator 2022 – 2025

yuu

yuu has been credited on Pokémon TCG illustrations from 2022 to 2025, spanning Scarlet & Violet and Sword & Shield releases. The work leans cartoonish and anime-inflected, with playful energy, balanced staging, and vibrant-to-pastel color that keeps characters clearly in focus.

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Main period
2022 – 2025
Cards illustrated
31
Most represented era
Scarlet & Violet
Most valuable card
$16.23
Iono · 2023
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About the artist

Credited from 2022 through 2025, yuu has illustrated more than 30 Pokémon TCG cards across Scarlet & Violet and Sword & Shield, with frequent appearances in Scarlet & Violet, Paldean Fates, and Paldea Evolved. The portfolio also includes Trainer cards, extending the same character-forward clarity across different card types.

Across these credits, yuu’s approach reads as cartoonish and anime-leaning, built around clean character design and a consistently playful, energetic mood. Compositions tend toward balanced, focused staging—often with foreground emphasis—then shift into dynamic framing when motion is needed, keeping silhouettes readable and expressions direct. Color is typically vibrant, softened by pastel passages and harmonious contrasts that maintain a lighthearted tone. A representative card is Iris's Fighting Spirit. Among the most sought-after cards illustrated by yuu is Iono.

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Best cards by yuu

Curated reading of the corpus — composition, atmosphere, and lasting standing.

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Iris’s Fighting Spirit

Journey Together

Iris’s Fighting Spirit 2025
Hilda

White Flare

Hilda 2025
Poppy

Obsidian Flames

Poppy 2023
Iono

Scarlet & Violet Black Star Promos

Iono 2023
Orbeetle

Lost Origin

Orbeetle 2022
Acerola’s Premonition

Brilliant Stars Trainer Gallery

Acerola’s Premonition 2022
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Signature Pokémon

Creatures most associated with yuu’s body of work.

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Defining sets

The sets where yuu’s work appears most often.

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Visual affinities

Recurring elemental and thematic threads across the work.

  1. Psychic
    6
  2. Fire
    2
  3. Grass
    2
  4. Fighting
    2
  5. Lightning
    2
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Iconic cards

Cards that travel beyond the archive — defining works, frequently cited.

Iono

Iono

Scarlet & Violet Black Star Promos 2023
Hilda

Hilda

White Flare 2025
Zeraora V

Zeraora V

Silver Tempest Trainer Gallery 2022
Acerola’s Premonition

Acerola’s Premonition

Brilliant Stars Trainer Gallery 2022
§ VII

The full archive

12 of 31 cards · every credit, every era.

Hilda

White Flare

Hilda 2025
Hilda

White Flare

Hilda 2025
Combusken

Destined Rivals

Combusken 2025
Tauros

Destined Rivals

Tauros 2025
Iris’s Fighting Spirit

Journey Together

Iris’s Fighting Spirit 2025
Iris’s Fighting Spirit

Journey Together

Iris’s Fighting Spirit 2025
Marill

Temporal Forces

Marill 2024
Chinchou

Paldean Fates

Chinchou 2024
Greavard

Paldean Fates

Greavard 2024
Klefki

Paldean Fates

Klefki 2024
Ralts

Paldean Fates

Ralts 2024
Tinkatink

Paldean Fates

Tinkatink 2024