{"id":942,"date":"2025-07-30T11:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T11:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/?p=942"},"modified":"2025-07-30T15:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:10:10","slug":"pokemon-removes-new-tcg-pocket-ho-oh-art-after-online-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/30\/pokemon-removes-new-tcg-pocket-ho-oh-art-after-online-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon removes new TCG Pocket Ho-Oh art after online backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following severe online backlash regarding the new immersive Ho-Oh ex and Lugia ex cards, <strong>Pok\u00e9mon TCG Pocket<\/strong> has removed the two three-star artworks and replaced them with placeholder text. This is due to the card\u2019s artist tracing fan art of Ho-Oh, which constitutes art theft.<\/p>\n<p>On July 29, just one day before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/pokemon-tcg-pocket\/new-packs\">new Pok\u00e9mon TCG Pocket packs<\/a>, Wisdom of Sea and Sky, were due to launch, fan artist lanjiujiu <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lanjiujiu\/status\/1950044196842459644\">pointed out<\/a> glaring similarities between their illustration of Ho-Oh from 2021 and the new immersive card for the legendary in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/pokemon-tcg-pocket\">Pok\u00e9mon TCG Pocket<\/a>. They provided a speed paint video of their process creating the original artwork, which features Ho-Oh and several other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/flying-pokemon\">flying Pok\u00e9mon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s clear that Pok\u00e9mon takes this issue very seriously, as today, Pok\u00e9mon TCG Pocket released a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PokemonTCGP\/status\/1950406273150693652\">statement<\/a> addressing the offending artwork and removing it from the game. According to the statement, \u201cafter internal review, [Pok\u00e9mon TCG Pocket] discovered that the card production team provided incorrect reference materials as official documents to the illustrator.\u201d Pok\u00e9mon is famously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pokebeach.com\/2023\/12\/a-rare-look-into-the-design-process-and-feedback-between-creatures-and-pokemon-card-illustrators\">very protective<\/a> of its character designs, so card artists referencing or even tracing official artwork to ensure fidelity is to be expected. In this situation, the card artist, Sie Nanahara, used the resources that Pok\u00e9mon incorrectly gave to her.<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\tContinue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/pokemon-tcg-pocket\/ho-oh\">Pok\u00e9mon removes new TCG Pocket Ho-Oh art after online backlash<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\tMORE FROM POCKET TACTICS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/pokemon-tcg-pocket\/tier-list\">Pok\u00e9mon TCG Pocket tier list<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/pokemon-tcg-pocket\/friend-codes\">Pok\u00e9mon TCG Pocket friend codes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/pokemon-tcg-pocket\/decks\">Pok\u00e9mon TCG Pocket decks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following severe online backlash regarding the new immersive Ho-Oh ex and Lugia ex cards, Pok\u00e9mon TCG Pocket has removed the two three-star artworks and replaced them with placeholder text. This is due to the card\u2019s artist tracing fan art of Ho-Oh, which constitutes art theft. On July 29, just one day before the new Pok\u00e9mon TCG Pocket packs, Wisdom of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}