“Pokemon GO” Cards Getting Exclusive Artwork in China, Including Charizard and Radiant Eevee!

[Water Pokémon Master]

China’s next compilation set, CS5 Brave Stars, will contain some cards from 2022’s Pokemon GO set. Each booster pack will focus on four Pokemon types and release in 5 or 25-card configurations. The set will release in China on June 18th.

Surprisingly, some of the Pokemon GO cards feature new artwork that hasn’t been seen anywhere else in the world! They also lack the “Pokemon GO” logo over the artwork. Chinese fans have posted some of the cards from a prerelease-style event that took place last weekend:

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[ronangorski]

Loved that Snorlax art. Hope we get new hisuian typh and zero cause still missing them for my carddex ):

 

[sewerfuneral]

New Eevee and Snorlax brings me smiles. New Slowbro and Bibarel brings me suffering.

 

[Quuador]

Cool to see some more artworks exclusive to a certain language. I wonder if they'll eventually release some of these artwork in Japanese/English sets as well, or perhaps as promos.

I'm also looking forward seeing the other new artworks of this S. Chinese set.

 

[Frost]

ughhh more stuff to hunt for on ebay

 

[Grim Thoughts]

No way we’re ever getting these arts. They are really nice though

 

[Polaris]

That's so cool, now Charizard won't be the only one with a simple background and a detailed background. Eevee and the starters will all get that too.

 

[Chicken008]

The Chinese government needs to chill, it's just a logo.

 

[Dabfamlet]

Bro that’s actually unfair

 

[VitaminD3]

No Pokemon GO stamp, where can I purchased these!!???

 

[Charmaster:)]

The Chinese government needs to chill, it's just a logo.

To be fair, you'd also be pretty upset as a customer if you bought a product advertising another product you couldn't buy in a very bold and obvious way. I specify "bold and obvious" because of how just about every form of Pokémon media is, to some degree, an advertisement for the rest. To use an example from the United States, I discovered first the anime and then the video games through the cards, while a friend eventually got into Pokémon after realizing what his long-beloved Servine figure from McDonalds was. To use an example from China, the anime (Most of which was available in China) is based largely on video games which, up until Sun and Moon, were not officially available in China.

 

[Nintenfreak]

Someone let me know if there's an exclusive Tomokazu Komiya art will you?

 

[iriya]

ughhh more stuff to hunt for on ebay

Worst part is this will increase prices for all chinese cards :/
I got a chinese card for $30 that's worth over $1k english

 

[Tails19950]

Loved that Snorlax art. Hope we get new hisuian typh and zero cause still missing them for my carddex ):

This was me too when I bought all the forms of Alcremie off Etsy

 

[TrumoN]

it's not the best kouki saitou exemplar. yet, that radiantsaur is way more radiant than the one we have haa