Cards by Kunihiko Yuyama: TCG Illustrator Guide

Kunihiko Yuyama (湯山邦彦) (b. 1952) is an animation director who has been involved with many of the products of Pokémon animation. He is also an illustrator for the .

Yuyama is one of the founding members of OLM, the animation studio that produces Pokémon animation. He began his career in the 1970s as an in-between artist on the original Space Battleship Yamato (aka Star Blazers in North America) and subsequently became an episode and series director on series for Tatsunoko Productions, Ashi Productions (now Production Reed), and Kaname Productions. Other than Pokémon, his most noteworthy work is likely the original Magical Princess Minky Momo series, on which he worked with the original Pokémon animation head writer Takeshi Shudō.