Midori Harada

Midori Harada.

Midori Harada (Japanese: 原田みどり Harada Midori) is an illustrator for the Pokémon Trading Card Game. She has done work for various Pokémon materials and merchandise since 1996, but began illustrating cards for the TCG later in the series, from about 2002 onward. Thus far, Harada has illustrated 363 cards for the TCG. For a complete list of cards she has illustrated, see here.

She is known for her style, called Aire Verte, of calm European landscapes. This is carried over for the official Hoenn, Battle Frontier, Sinnoh, Battle Frontier, and updated Kanto and Johto maps seen in guidebooks.

Harada has also contributed to the following Pokémon merchandise:

• Gold & Silver Tales #8, "Look Out Houndour!", an illustrated preschooler storybook
• "Map Image Illustration" for Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, FireRed, LeafGreen, Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold and SoulSilver.

Sample work

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  Battle Frontier in Generation IV^{[citation needed]}

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  Ecruteak City in HeartGold and SoulSilver^{[citation needed]}

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  Gengar & Mimikyu-GX
  from Team Up

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  Battle Frontier
  from EX Emerald

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  Mysterious Mountains^{[citation needed]}

Trivia

• Harada's favorite Pokémon is Cubone.

External links

• Aire Verte, Harada's personal site (mostly in Japanese)
• Harada's Pixiv Account
• Pokémon-Card.com, card list (in Japanese)
• Harada's Twitter page (mostly in Japanese)