Hitoshi Ariga Did Design Work For Pokemon X & Y

[Serious_M]

Renowned Japanese artist Hitoshi Ariga revealed on his deviantART page that he had a hand in some of the design work in Pokemon X & Y. Specifically, he had designed these Pokemon:

Pangoro
Inkay
Malamar
Honedge
Doublade
Aegislash
Tyrunt
Tyrantrum
Amaura
Aurorus

Hitoshi Ariga has worked on numerous video games and manga works and is most famous for his contributions to the Rockman manga series (Mega Man in the west). He also did some illustrations for the Pokemon trading card game. What do you think of his contributions to Pokemon X & Y?

“I’ve actually been doing video game work for quite a while now (over two decades), including projects for things like PCE, MD, and SFC. Apparently the Pokemon art director, Sugimori, had taken notice of some of my past work and that’s why he asked me if I’d be interested in doing some design work for Pokemon XY.

So in some ways, designing Pokemon for XY was like an extension of my days of drawing monsters for “ActRaiser 2″ and “Beyond Oasis”. I am a Pokemon Trainer as well as an illustrator, so needless to say I was incredibly honored and pleased to have this opportunity.

I just thought the Pokemon XY players following me might find this information interesting!” – Hitoshi Ariga

[CloudStrife7x]

that's why these pokemon look awesome ;)

[thegutta]

Jesus they milking Pokemon games so much they running out of names lol