If someone is wondering where does that piece of paper with the Kanji signature and the occidental signature at the top come from… It was just a tip we put on the artist’s table, to ease people in the choice of the signature language.
I think it is visibile in the second Youtube video I linked in the main post (EX Dragon Charizard drawing)…
I thought it was perfect as the ‘‘title’’ for this patchwork
I noticed that when you go directly to the PhotoBucket link of the image, it sometimes (not always though) shows up. So you could save them to your local PC and re-upload them to imgur or another image hosting website.
Are you sure nothing got lost in translation? (I mean that figuratively; I know Arita speaks English, and I’m not assuming you don’t speak Japanese.) If I recall correctly, per Mr. Fuji, the Marowak in the Pokémon Tower is the ghost of the deceased mother of a Cubone. Another Cubone coincidentally also lost its mother? (Well, on the mother-skull theory, all Cubones lose their mothers and take their skulls, because all Cubones wear skulls?) That seems implausible.
Also, I agree there’s a rough resemblance between the three Pokémon (although I also see significant differences between the baby Kangaskhan in the pouch and Cubone). And I’m aware of the coding connection with respect to Missingno (but that connection seems to suggest that there might have been a connection between the three Pokémon, not that there is a connection).
Finally–and this is more a metaphysical question about artistic interpretation–suppose Arita did draw a sad Cubone because, in Arita’s interpretation, it lost its Kanghaskhan mother. Is what Arita thinks about Cubone’s history Cubone’s history?
Arita’s signings were the most generous I have ever witnessed. His signing prices were stupid low, and the time he put into the signings is above and beyond. I wonder how frequently he will do them moving forward.
There is no other Cubone There is one Cubone who lost his mother indeed, as we know because of the ghost Marowak. That Cubone grew up alone, with a different lifestyle, had to adapt to a new environment etc, and eventually became a new species : a Kangaskhan. With the pain that he felt when he lost his mom, he evolved in a way that he could always protect his kid, I guess.
What Arita told me is not his interpretation, it is what The Pokémon Company told him about the Pokémon, and it is the reason why he drew this sad Cubone looking at the stars.