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300
- ↓ 0.04
- ꩜ 0.08
- ↑ 3.00
{C} → Nice-Nice Catch
Draw 2 cards.
{C}{C} → Bye-Bye Throw : 60×
Discard up to 2 cards from your hand. This attack does 60 damage for each card you discarded in this way.
illus. Sumiyoshi Kizuki
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In their search for comfortable trees, they get into territorial disputes with groups of Passimian. They win about half the time.
Twylis
Kizuki brought back her Neo artstyle for this card, likely as a nod to her Neo Revelation’s Aipom.
She did a similar thing with Legendary Treasures Mismagius, likely as a belated partner to Legends Awakened Misdreavus.
I miss her Neo and Rocket artstyles so much :(
Her modern art is bland at best and uncomfortably warm-toned at worst. Back in the day though, she was one of my absolute favorite illustrators.
Ambassador
I’m of the impression she was either asked, or else decided to, change her artstyle starting with Gen 5 of the TCG.
She continued to work in her unique artstyle as she’s displayed on her site, with one example on her seesaa blog c.2016 https://archive.ph/d4LDf and a newer example on her Note as of this year https://note.com/sumiyoshikizuki/n/nc1759a3dfcee
This could be an old unsubstantiated guess/”rumor” I’m bringing back, but back in the day it was stated as fact on some TCG site* that her artstyle was a deliberate homage to old eastern European art styles. Her blog is named “micromania” – and so too her old site has a few mentions of “micromania” on pieces of artwork and other things, and in at least one instance it’s stylized as “micRomania”. https://web.archive.org/web/20071010052525/http://www.jade.dti.ne.jp/~skizuki/
* I don’t remember which. It’s something I picked up by osmosis that I know I didn’t figure out myself, so I presume I read it online, on some site, at some point.