Artist collection · 1996 to 2026

Mitsuhiro Arita

Every Pokemon card drawn by the artist behind the Base Set Charizard, from 1996 to this year's sets, priced by TCGBerg.

Cards: 1,099
Years: 30
Graded copies: 2.07M
Market cap: $1.80B

His most valuable card
Charizard #4
Base Set · 1999
$399.39M of graded copies · 73,516 slabs

The weight of one artist

1 in 32 cards.
1 in 8 graded dollars.

Arita drew 3.1% of the cards, and they hold 12.0% of the value of every graded card we track: 3.8 times his share of the cards.

Of every card we track3.1%

1,099 of 34,898 English and Japanese cards

Of every graded copy8.8%

2,070,427 slabs carry his art

Of the graded market12.0%

$1.80B of $15.01B

Thirty years, card by card

Every block is a card he drew.

Stacked by the year it came out, coloured by era, brighter where its graded copies are worth more. Hover a block to see the card; pick a Pokemon to light up every time he drew it.

Base eraNeo & e-CardEXDiamond & PearlBlack & WhiteXYSun & MoonSword & ShieldScarlet & Violet

'96

'97

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'26

Who he drew most

Charizard, 15 times.

Pick one to light it up on the timeline. Each row runs oldest card first.

The gallery

His ten most valuable cards.

Ranked by graded market cap: every graded copy of the card, at its grade's fair value.

Owning his work

What one of each costs.

One of each, raw Near Mint

$31,902

790 of 1,099 cards priced raw

One of each, in PSA 10

$3.90M

838 of 1,099 cards with a PSA 10 value

The dearest PSA 10

Charizard

Expansion Pack · 1996 · No Rarity Symbol

$1.29M

33.1% of the whole PSA 10 run

The catalogue

All 1,099 cards.

1,099 cards

How this collection is built

830 cards are credited to him in the catalog's card data. 224 more are the Japanese prints of those cards, the same artwork, which the catalog carries without a credit. 45were added by hand from Bulbapedia's and tcgdex's credits, each with its source, and 2 credits were removed where the sources disagree.
Graded market cap is every graded copy of a card, at the fair value of its grade, summed over its printings, as of Nov 13, 2026. "One of each" prices every card once, at its main printing.
English and Japanese cards only. A few of his cards are not in our catalog yet, among them the 1997 No.1 Trainer trophy.
TCGBerg is not affiliated with Mitsuhiro Arita or The Pokemon Company.

Sources:tcgdex.net tcgdex.net (Japanese)bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net

Mitsuhiro Arita

1 in 32 cards.1 in 8 graded dollars.

Every block is a card he drew.

Charizard, 15 times.

His ten most valuable cards.

What one of each costs.

All 1,099 cards.

How this collection is built

Mitsuhiro Arita

1 in 32 cards.1 in 8 graded dollars.

Every block is a card he drew.

Charizard, 15 times.

His ten most valuable cards.

What one of each costs.

All 1,099 cards.

How this collection is built

1 in 32 cards.
1 in 8 graded dollars.

1 in 32 cards.
1 in 8 graded dollars.