Iron Moth Illustration Rare
Then in the other temporal direction, we have Iron Moth. And it’s another astonishingly beautiful card. Iron Moth is the Future form of Volcarona, and is an intrinsically cool design.
But this art from Takeshi Nakamura takes an already neat monster to a whole other place, that spectacular galactic backdrop recreating the conflation of science fiction and volcanic geography so perfectly. This is only Takeshi’s third card for the TCG, following on a couple of basics in Obsidian Flames and 151, but this is no noob—he’s an anime director and artist, working since 1977. He was animation director on 1988’s Akira and 1981’s TV series Golden Warrior Gold Lightan. What a joy to have this 68-year-old contributing Pokémon art now.
