>>53030140I’ll grant the raichu actually looks good, especially for nishida. She definitely has some stand-out cards (her Neo Espeon, most obviously), but almost all her cards from this era look flat, formless, strangely glossy or glassy, and for some reason they often look hazy or steamy. I don’t know why she’s so bad with texture. These illustrations look like the result of someone just learning a new illustration software or something (and for all I know, that’s literally what they are). She’s often also terrible with perspective and anatomy, and not in a funny intentional way like Tanaka or Komiya, just in a bad way.
>>53030267Kusajima has a lot of really good cards, even in the same period he’s putting out these sorts of airbrushed messes. The expedition Kadabra, for instance, is fantastic.