Discovering Saya Tsuruta's Illustration Easter Eggs

[Dyl]

@pfm

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

[pfm]

I don’t think it’s ever on the Pokemon though

[Dyl]

Everything is a Pokeball. Make it stop.

[koala]

Here? It has a clearly defined centre and a surrounding dark & light half 'n half

[Llyrwenne]

So far, the Poké Ball has always been in the background, never on the Pokémon itself. This is why cards for which Tsuruta did not have control over the background (like the Shiny Vault cards) don’t have a Poké Ball easter egg.

Unfortunately, it would appear the resolution of the image has rendered the Poké Ball near-illegible. There’s several spots that could be it - round + color separation / dividing line / center button - but they’re impossible to verify until we have the physical card in hand.

Out of all the spots it could be, I’ll plant my flag on this little mud glob;

[nanp90]

My guess is this one, looks similar to some previous ones specially the charmander card. but is just squished.

[smpratte]

I just love how deeply this is being analyzed! It’s the most difficult one so far. All of their other pokeballs are more defined.

[qwachansey]

I reckon it’s this

[Llyrwenne]

Zoom & enhance of all the spots I’m interested in;

[expedition]

My best guess

[Slade]

Don’t they trim down the artwork when they put it on the card? Isn’t there a chance that the hiding PokeBall was cropped out?

[koala]

Tsuruta confirmed the ball is not within the Paldean Wooper card artwork window

つるたさや Saya Tsuruta

[smpratte]

I still love the effort put into trying to find the pokeball!

[nanp90]

is awesome that she let us know. we were already going crazy looking for it I guess this Paldean Wooper will be known as “the no balls Wooper” lol

[zubat]

Bless him

[mrtz]

Awesome to see how tuned in they can be with collectors

[stagecoach]

How could she do this to us.

[thsigma]

[Llyrwenne]

The one that rolled away …

[bk2021]

Tsuruta is a woman.