The newest Pokemon TCG Pocket set, The Knowledge of Sea and Sky, arrived right this moment, bringing with it a bunch of playing cards based mostly on Pokemon Gold and Silver. That included a pair of Ho-Oh and Luiga immersive artwork playing cards, besides it seems that the artwork for the Ho-Oh card could have really traced over some commissioned fan artwork from 2021.
The artist behind the fan artwork Lanjiujiu shared a comparison between their artwork and the Pokemon TCG Pocket card, with the Ho-Oh trying practically equivalent between them. In flip, The Pokemon Firm has launched a press release acknowledging the problem.
“It has come to our consideration that there was a manufacturing problem concerning the illustration of Ho-Oh featured within the immersive card art work for Ho-Oh EX (3-Star) and Lugia EX (3-Star),” the statement explains. “After inside overview, we found that the cardboard manufacturing workforce offered incorrect supplies as official paperwork to the illustrator commissioned to create these playing cards. In consequence, each playing cards have been changed with a brief placeholder that the workforce is actively working to exchange with new art work as quickly because it’s prepared.”
It additionally notes {that a} “broader investigation” is underway to ensure that there isn’t any different plagiarised artwork within the recreation. The playing cards are nonetheless accessible to tug in-game, however as shown by some users online, as a substitute of any artwork there may be simply textual content that reads “New Art Coming Quickly.”
Lanjiujui additionally released a statement earlier right this moment following The Pokemon Firm’s, thanking it for its “attentiveness and swift motion in eradicating the picture.”