Beautiful Traditional Japanese … Pokémon

Susana Polo

Published: Jan 25, 2010 04:37 pm

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We can’t speak Japanese or read kanji, but we don’t have to in order to appreciate these beautiful drawings of Pokémon, done in what appears to be the style of the Edo period.

(The preceding statement has been thoroughly researched over a period of ten seconds on Wikipedia. Please be kind.)

The Unown and Onyx are particularly cool interpretations. Click the pictures for incredibly high-res versions.

(blog.livedoor.jp via Reddit)

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Susana Polo

Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.