#motofumi fujiwara

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Milcery -- Motofumi Fujiwara

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So I was curious to see what Pokémon the designer of Eevee, Jolteon and Flareon had designed and… it’s just those three

[hippopopotas]

0092. Gastly

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Motofumi Fujiwara 2007

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Pokémon — Kanto teams 4/?

Grass-type Gym Leader Erika's Pokémon team, based on her teams from Pokémon Red and Blue, Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, and Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!

Artwork by:

kodama (Full Art) for SM Tag All Stars (Erika) Atsuko Nishida for SM Lost Thunder (Tangrowth) Motofumi Fujiwara for Pokemon VS (Jumpluff, Bellossom) Masakazu Fukuda for DP Mysterious Treasures (Exeggutor) Tika Matsuno for SS Battle Styles (Victreebel) Kagemaru Himeno (Full Art) for SM Cosmic Eclipse (Vileplume)

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Don't you think it's fucked up?

Pokemon is a massive franchise, its entire backbone is a series of monster designs that resonated with people. When it comes to who actually designed those monsters, the media for the series seemingly credits all of the people who worked on each game, but there's actually a crucial way in which it slacks at crediting artists, which is that in many cases we've never been told who specifically did a given design. Take for instance Ruby and Sapphire, games that introduced over 130 pokemon (the third highest count any game in the series has). We can say with decent confidence that this full roster was a collaborative effort between Ken Sugimori, Atsuko Nishida, Motofumi Fujiwara, Shigeki Morimoto, Hironobu Yoshida, Muneo Saitō, Satoshi Ohta, Rena Yoshikawa, Asuka Iwashita, Aimi Tomita, Takao Unno, Kanako Eo, & Jun Okutani. Feel free to verify that list by the way, I may have missed someone. That's all fine and good, but please tell me, which of those names designed Delcatty? How about Absol? Gardevoir? The Regis? None of these have confirmed answers. Likewise, in the cases where we can pinpoint a designer, we often can't list all of that designer's work within a generation. For example, we know that Ken Sugimori designed the Blaziken line, Latias, Latios, Kyogre, and Groudon, but we don't know if that's the full list. In fact, for most artists that have ever been credited in this series, we have no idea what they designed at all, such as Aimi Tomita; we know she worked on Ruby and Sapphire, but we can't confirm anything about her involvement. A way to answer all of the questions surrounding this, which I think the capitalist ghouls at the pokemon company would be interested in since they can sell it, would just be to release an art book that properly credits them. Additionally, it'd be really interesting to see some insight from the creators on what the process of some of these designs was like. I don't have reach by the way, if you want anything done about this the best we can do is spread awareness of this issue and similar ones within other media. I'm positive it's not unique to pokemon, I just think it's a particularly jarring case given how much the series rides off the work of these designers.

A card with some art done by Aimi Tomito, it turns out the TGC is better at crediting artists than the main series.

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Pokemon - Fanart- Eevee 01

Draw, line and color by Me Pau3AlfarOoO Original character: Motofumi Fujiwara/Pokémon Red and Blue

[moroniica]

pure cats - certainly no, partially inspired by cats - yes. even the creator, Motofumi Fujiwara, himself stated that eevee "has traits of foxes, dogs, and cats, it is not based on any specific animal" (quote from Bulbapedia) and he made a pokemon inspired by a dog- or cat-like creature he saw once in his childhood.

anyway, some eeveelutions - like espeon - are based on cats purely but that does not make eevee a cat, more like a LUCA for other eeveelutions.

[for the purpses of keeping it simple, "eevee" encompasses all evolutions of the pokémon. thus, if one member of an evolutionary line is determined to be cats, then they are all cats.]

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Pancham -- Motofumi Fujiwara

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illus. Motofumi Fujiwara

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I vaguely understand why Jolteon isn't very popular - it's outdone by the other Eeveelutions (from my favourite to least favourite: Flareon is floofy (I have two Flareon in Violet, one of them is called Floofball and the other is called Floof. I couldn't tell you from memory which is the fixed Tera one), Espeon is purple with tufts and has a cool orb on its forehead (also it's the most catlike Eeveelution), Glaceon has a nice colour scheme and interesting diamond pattern, Leafeon... idk it just randomly grew on me (pun not intended), Sylveon has cool ribbons, Umbreon... looks like it could be a goth or emo in the best possible way, I like Vaporeon's mermaid tail (and it has the best shiny imo) and Jolteon... just doesn't have anything to make it stand out) - but I don't understand why Flareon isn't very popular (if the Eeveelution tournament has anything to say about it, it's actually LESS popular than Jolteon - at least Jolteon was able to win a poll (admittedly, someone had to win between Jolteon and Flareon). The other Pokémon that their designer, Motofumi Fujiwara, designed, Eevee, was in third-last place which says something about how little people like his designs. It could alternatively say something about the audience of that tournament because I've never really heard much about how much people like Vaporeon (which gets hate indirectly due to being a gen 1 Eeveelution but probably isn't actually hated that much because it actually made 3rd place), Leafeon, Glaceon and Espeon (but then again, I don't hear much about Decidueye and I saw a YT poll where it beat Skeledirge and Hisuian Typhlosion, both of which I've noticed are quite popular), but it's probably not best to go and say "this isn't representative of the fandom as a whole" because that's what the votes said and it probably wouldn't have changed much with a bigger sample size anyway). I know the Eeveelutions are popular in general but I honestly think that Jolteon and Flareon would be unpopular if they weren't Eeveelutions. I think the two of them need something to boost their popularity but honestly, Game Freak isn't gonna randomly give these two something just for the sake of it. Also, any special "thing" is gonna go to Eevee, not J and F

There are definitely some design elements that are present on both Jolteon and Flareon, at least a few of which are also present on Eevee. It's not exactly subtle the three of them share a designer

I guess this is a Jolteon and Flareon appreciation post. Here, have some gifs from Journeys

Fittingly ending with gifs of the unpopular Eeveelutions crying. I apologise