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Some small facts (I added some more after last time) about the Pokémon Designers in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet.
- A total of 14 Pokémon Designers were responsible for the Pokémon designs in SV, 5 women and 9 men.
- There are 3 newcomers who have never designed Pokémon before.
- One of the newcomers is Kazuyuki Kurashima (designed Greavard and Houndstone), he is a Super Mario RPG character designer.
- Another newcomer is Mari Shimazaki, who is one of the main designers for Bayonetta.
- The last newcomer is Ryosuke Oshiro (director of the anime Akichi Asobi: Playground) and he probably designed Glimmora since he liked some pictures of it on Twitter.
- Tomohiro Kitakaze (designed Venipede line, Mega Charizard X and more) has started designing Pokémon again after not having been a Pokémon Designer since Pokémon X and Y.
- Takao Unno (designer since Generation 3) and Yusuke Ohmura (designer since Generation 4) didn't design any Pokémon this time.
- Atsuko Nishida is the only designer that have designed Pokemon in all 9 main games, Motofumi Fujiwara comes after her with 8 main games.
- It's the second generation after Generation 8 where Ken Sugimori didn't design any Pokémon.
- Mana Ibe (designed Victini, Stunfisk and more) is the first female Art Director in the history of Pokémon for a new Generation and replaced James Turner after Generation 8.
- This is likely to be the last generation in which James Turner will be involved as a Pokémon designer. But there is a possibility that he is still involved as a freelancer in later games.
- Hitoshi Ariga designed a total of 5 Pokemon for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, but he's only confirmed 4 because he can't talk about the 5th one yet. This could mean that he designed something for the DLC, as he also didn't confirm one for the Sun and Moon and that a long time before Ultra Sun or Ultra Moon were even announced. This unconfirmed Pokémon later turned out to be Ultra Necrozma.
