Midori Harada

Midori Harada.

Midori Harada (Japanese: 原田みどり Harada Midori) is an artist for the Pokémon Trading Card Game. She has done work for various Pokémon materials and merchandise since 1996, but she began illustrating cards for the TCG later in the series, from about 2002 onward.

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.

For a list of cards Harada has illustrated, see here.

She 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

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  Ecruteak City in HeartGold and SoulSilver

Trivia

• Her 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)