Takahiro Yamashita

Takahiro Yamashita (Japanese: やましたたかひろ or 山下たかひろ, born November 22, 1969 in Kyoto) is the creator of several Pokémon manga and the Pokémon Trading Card Game, having illustrated 2 cards. Yamashita has worked on authoring and illustrating many video games into manga adaptations which were published in the CoroCoro magazines, these franchises including Fatal Fury, Saturn Bomberman, Star Fox 64 and Fatal Fury. Additionally, Yamashita has published manga for the magazine Shogaku Sannensei where his Virtua Fighter manga adaptation appeared in.

Pokémon manga by Takahiro Yamashita

• Pokémon 4Koma School
• Pokémon 4Koma Encyclopedia
• Pokémon 4Koma Encyclopedia Gold and Silver
• Pokémon 4Koma Encyclopedia (Generation III)
• Pokémon 4Koma Encyclopedia Diamond and Pearl
• Pokémon 4Koma Encyclopedia Gag Stars
• Pokémon 4Koma Plaza
• Machamp's 24-Hour Strength Police!!
• Is It Really Scary? Know the Pokémon
• Get Fired Up! Dragon Type!
• Slowpoke 4Koma manga
• Delibird's Present

Cards illustrated

Movie Commemoration Random Pack

• Arceus (DP Promo 50)
• Spiky-eared Pichu M (Movie Random Pack 9)

Illustrations

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  Movie Random Pack print
  (010/022)
  Illus. Takahiro Yamashita

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  Movie Random Pack print
  (022/022)
  Illus. Takahiro Yamashita

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  Cover art for Pokémon 4Koma School Volume 1.

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  Cover art for Pokémon 4Koma School Volume 2.

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  Cover art for Pokémon 4Koma School Volume 3.

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  Cover art for Pokémon 4Koma School Volume 4.

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  Cover art for Pokémon 4Koma School Volume 5.

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  Cover art for Pokémon 4Koma School Volume 6.

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  Cover art for Pokémon 4Koma School Volume 7.

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  All covers for Pokémon 4Koma Encyclopedia.

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  Cover art for Pokémon 4Koma Encyclopedia Gold and Silver.

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  Cover art for Pokémon 4Koma Encyclopedia (Generation III) Volume 1.

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  Cover art for Pokémon 4Koma Encyclopedia (Generation III) Volume 2.

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  Cover art for Pokémon 4Koma Encyclopedia (Generation III) Volume 3.

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  Cover art for Pokémon 4Koma Encyclopedia (Generation III) Volume 4.

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  Cover art for Pokémon 4Koma Encyclopedia (Generation III) Volume 5.

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  Cover art for Pokémon 4Koma Encyclopedia Diamond and Pearl.

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  Cover art for Pokémon 4Koma Encyclopedia Gag Stars.

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  First page of the Machamp's 24-Hour Strength Police!! manga.

Non-Pokémon adaptational works

• Adventure of Esparks (1993)
• Fatal Fury Special (1994)
• Saturn Bomberman (1996)
• Crash Bandicoot (1996)
• Virtual Fighter (1996)
• Mole Mania
• Star Fox 64 (1997)

Trivia

• Yamashita's favorite Pokémon are Slowpoke, Quagsire and Cubchoo.
• The two Pokémon cards Yamashita has illustrated are both Pokémon that are integral to the plot of Arceus and the Jewel of Life

External links

• Twitter (Japanese)
• Japanese Wikipedia page
• Pixiv
• Tumblr

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