Xileets' Mitsuhiro Arita Collection

21 - Platinum and the OG Tag Team card? :confused: I love all the red and gold in the backgrounds on this page

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Book 2 Cover - Aquapolis Umbreon and Expedition Feraligatr

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book2 1 - Platinum, promo, and a Shiny Vulpix! The extras are palkia and dialga from IDK where, and a Pokemon Center Deoxys binder scan

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bk 2 2 - Platinum, Rising Rivals, and Supreme Victors

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bk2 3 - Love me some Ghosts, 7-11 / toys R us Arceus alternate, and HeartGold SoulSilver through Triumphant

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bk2 4 - An Italian Pikachu released only in Japan… OK… Call of Legends, Black and White, and some great work from the ugly duckling set: Emerging Powers

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bk 2 5 - Next Destinies, Dark Explorers, Dragons Exalted, Vault, and Plasmas. There are some Awesome arts on this page!

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I’m going to finish today’s post with a rather austere and commonly missed boxed set: WAKU WAKU Battle! The dark cards with the Zoroark symbol are from that and they’re AMAZING!

bk2 6 - Plasma Storm, Freeze, Blast, Legendary Treasures, XY starter, Promos, Awesome 'Quaza, and WAKU WAKU Everyone’s Exciting Battle!

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Holy crap I need these

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@xileets, I am super impressed with your collection. The fact that you own a collection of arts from just this artist is amazing. I really enjoyed looking at all the cards and I know it must’ve taken a lot of time to build this collection! Respect!

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@nostalgiacollector , Many thanks! Yes, it’s been a 22 year journey for me. Had some great luck, dumb luck, and bad luck along the way, but overall, super rewarding and glad I can share it here!
Also, “Holy Crap, I NEED this!” Is exactly what I said when I saw that HGSS binder. :grin: Definitely a great piece to have if you can find it.

Thanks hopefully I can find those binders because that art on there is incredible. I want those blown up on posters lol

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bk2 7 - XY Base, Flashfire, Fists, Forces, Primal Clash

I enjoy that weird Girafarig more than I should. And Spinda is great! Haha. Love when Arita throws-in weird perspectives and clearly just had fun.

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bk2 - 8 - Team Aqua/Magma Returns (ie. Double Crisis :wink: ), Roaring Skies, Origins, and BREAKS.

We’ve finally hit those awesome Full arts! Mewtwo x two, baby!

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bk2 9 - Promos, Battle Festa, Steam Siege, Fates Collide, Giovanni, Shining Legends
Even though half the cards here are proxies, these are some of my favorite arts. A very fun page in my book.

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How did you print those proxies?

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I just got a good quality for the card art, and then printed them with a high print quality and plain paper. Could use cardstock if you want…
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If you’re referring specifically to pikachu trophy proxies, I merges from a merging of several higher quality images. I could not find any good quality ones that included the full image or the image without the holo.

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bk2 10 - Sun n Moon, Guardians Rising, Burning Shadows. This is the start of those prerelease Arita Promos, and they’re great!

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bk2 11 - Shining Legends, Crimson Invasion, Ultra Prism, and a re-hash of Alto Mare’s Latio/as
There are some little trivia gems are this page.

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bk2 12 - End of Sun n Moon era, and into Team Up…
There are a lot of team ups. Love that Gengar! And the wailord wasn’t printed small in english, was it?

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