Ken Sugimori (杉森建 Sugimori Ken?) (born January 27, 1966 in Tokyo) is a Japanese illustrator most famous for being the art director of Pokémon franchise. Events 98 - Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva. Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. The are the dominant Ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent of these approximately 127 million are residents of Japan For the vector -based drawing program by Adobe Systems, see Adobe Illustrator. If you came here to express your personal opinion about Pokémon please go somewhere else A friend of Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of the franchise, Sugimori is responsible for the bulk of Pokémon art and almost single-handedly designed the first 251 Pokémon (since Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, others have helped to design the characters). is a Japanese electronic Game designer and the creator of Pocket Monsters, known outside of Japan as Pokémon. If you came here to express your personal opinion about Pokémon please go somewhere else Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire, released in Japan as, are both the third installments of the ''Pokémon'' series of role-playing He is also responsible for designing many of the main characters in the Pokémon video games, such as Red, Blue, and the various Gym Leaders. Also among his work is a majority of early Pokémon cards. The Pokémon Trading Card Game (Pokémon TCG is a Collectible card game based on the Pokémon Video game series first introduced in Japan in Ken Sugimori also helped with the design of Pokémon characters on the popular video games Super Smash Bros. and Super Smash Bros. Melee, and was the prime character designer for Pulseman, an earlier game by Game Freak for the Sega Mega Drive. is a crossover Fighting game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. often abbreviated SSBM or Melee, is a crossover Fighting game released for the Nintendo GameCube shortly after its launch in ( in the Pulseman (パルスマン is an action Platform game developed by Game Freak and published by Sega for the Mega Drive in 1994 in is the Japanese Video game developer behind the Pokémon series of RPGs as well as several other games The is a 16-bit Video game console released by Sega in Japan in 1988 North America in 1989 and the PAL region in 1990 He also participated in the Game Freak event in which he and two others traded their Psyducks for Ponytas.