From the original 151 to the latest debuts, every species ever painted on a Pokémon card is here. Artchu indexes the roster not as a game checklist, but as a museum-grade record of 1,025 creatures painted across 9 generations.
№ 006 · Pokémon of Kanto
A chronology of the catalogue — nine generations of Pokémon, region by region, painted across three decades.
Where the catalogue begins. Sugimori-led design and a small team of painters set the editorial DNA — clear silhouettes, hand-rendered light, the original 151 as a complete artistic statement.
The roster expands without breaking style. New evolutions, new regional mood. Painted with the same restraint as Kanto, the Johto generation grafts onto the founding language without disturbing it.
The catalogue opens to new biomes. Saturated tropical palettes, dragon and water archetypes, and the first generation to lean confidently into colour as a defining tool of the world.
Quieter hues, mythological weight. Sinnoh sets a slower, colder editorial tone — creation myths painted with restraint, and the most painterly legendary roster of the early catalogue.
A clean break. No Pokémon from earlier generations at debut — Unova introduces an entire new cast and a more graphic, urban silhouette language. The most editorially distinct chapter to date.
The first 3D generation. Painters move into rendered light. Kalos brings fashion, lineage and a French editorial elegance — a self-conscious chapter about painting heritage.
Looser composition, warmer palette, regional variants. The Alola chapter reframes earlier Pokémon in island light — the first generation to openly retell the catalogue's own art history.
Industrial Britain through a Pokémon lens. Stadium scale, moor light, gigantamax silhouettes. Galar is the catalogue's most architectural chapter — painted with crowds, weather, and material.
Open-world space. New painters bring an unusually quiet, sun-soaked register — academia and adventure, dragons and ancient pasts, painted with a noticeably more cinematic eye.
Eighteen types — the medium’s oldest taxonomy. Each plate opens a curated room of its Pokémon and the artists who painted them.