Souichirou Gunjima (軍島曹一郎) is a working freelance illustrator with a card count in triple digits, a start that traces back to entering the Pokemon Card Game Illustration Grand Prix as a participant, and a notably human footnote — a multi-year gap between wanting to draw a specific Pokemon and finally getting the assignment.
Before illustrating for the Pokemon Trading Card Game in an official capacity, Gunjima entered the Pokemon Card Game Illustration Grand Prix, submitting a piece featuring Metagross. Bulbapedia records the participation itself, not a result, so this guide treats it as exactly that — an entry, not a placement. The first card Gunjima illustrated officially was Indeedee, released in the Shining Fates expansion.
This guide walks through what’s verifiable about Gunjima’s career, surveys a representative slice of the catalog, covers the merchandise and trivia that Bulbapedia documents outside the card game, and ends with the PSA 10 copies listed in our vault as of this guide’s stock check (2026-08-12). Every card credit below was checked directly against its Limitless TCG page rather than assumed from a search-result snippet, and every biographical claim traces back to a single Bulbapedia article — where that article stops, this guide stops with it.
Searching Limitless TCG’s illustrator index for Souichirou Gunjima returns 107 cards in the English-language database and 152 cards in the Japanese database — separate catalogs, not additive totals. Three Gunjima-illustrated PSA 10 cards were listed in our vault as of this guide’s stock check (2026-08-12), including Flareon V, S6a 073/069 (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order), currently listed at ¥44,434, and Pikachu VMAX, S8b 223/184 (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order), currently listed at ¥46,634.
Who Is Souichirou Gunjima?
Souichirou Gunjima (軍島曹一郎, Gunjima Sōichirō) is a freelance illustrator who has contributed artwork to the Pokemon Trading Card Game. The documented starting point of that career isn’t an official Pokemon Company assignment — it’s a competition entry. Gunjima was a participant in the Pokemon Card Game Illustration Grand Prix, submitting an illustration of Metagross. Bulbapedia’s record stops at “participant,” and so does this guide; no placement or award is claimed anywhere in the sourcing.
The first card Gunjima illustrated in an official capacity was Indeedee, from the Shining Fates expansion. From that starting point, the catalog has grown into triple digits across two separate tracking systems. Searching Limitless TCG’s illustrator index for “Souichirou Gunjima” returns 107 cards found in the English-language database and 152 cards found in the Japanese database — both exact-match searches, confirmed against individual card pages that show the literal credit “Illustrated by Souichirou Gunjima.” Bulbapedia’s own independent tally lists 102 TCG cards, plus a further 89 cards in Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket. Three different counting methods, tracking overlapping but not identical bodies of work — none of the numbers above should be summed against each other.
For readers comparing artists across our ongoing illustrator series, Gunjima’s catalog sits alongside KEIICHIRO ITO, Teeziro, and Naoki Saito — each with a dedicated guide covering their own most notable printings.
One thing worth flagging up front: Bulbapedia’s article on Gunjima is comparatively thin next to some of the illustrators covered elsewhere in this series. There’s no stated birthplace, no stated birth date, and no documented employer history — just the Grand Prix entry, the Indeedee debut, the card counts, and the merchandise and trivia covered further down this page. Where a fact isn’t in the source, it isn’t in this guide either.
The Verified Catalog: A Representative Slice
With 107 to 152 cards depending on which database you’re counting, no single article can list the full Gunjima catalog. What follows is a representative sample pulled directly from Limitless TCG, each one individually confirmed against its card page.
The three cards above already span multiple releases across the Sword & Shield and Scarlet & Violet eras — VMAX Climax and Eevee Heroes, then the early Scarlet & Violet set Triplet Beat — which tracks with a catalog large enough to run across generations rather than one release window.
Further into the catalog: Eevee (VMAX Climax, S8b #210, Character Holo Rare) and Mega Feraligatr ex (Starter Decks 100 Battle Collection, MC #763), the latter covered in more detail in the vault section below. The table below lists the full representative sample together, with each card’s set and rarity as labeled by Limitless.
| Card | Set (JP code) | Number | Rarity (Limitless label) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pikachu VMAX | VMAX Climax (S8b) | 223 | Character Super Rare |
| Flareon V | Eevee Heroes (S6a) | 73 | Secret Rare |
| Quaquaval ex | Triplet Beat (SV1a) | 98 | Special Art Rare |
| Revavroom ex | Ruler of the Black Flame (SV3) | 135 | Special Art Rare |
| Gallade V | Dark Phantasma (S10a) | 89 | Character Super Rare |
| Eevee | VMAX Climax (S8b) | 210 | Character Holo Rare |
| Mega Feraligatr ex | Starter Decks 100 Battle Collection (MC) | 763 | — |
Limitless does not list a rarity label for the Mega Feraligatr ex entry, so none is shown in the table above — this guide doesn’t fill that gap with a guess.
Read as a set, these seven cards illustrate why a 100-plus card count doesn’t necessarily mean one recognizable “house style” the way it might for an artist with a single signature alt art. Pikachu VMAX and Eevee both come from the VMAX Climax subset. Quaquaval ex and Revavroom ex are both Special Art Rares from early Scarlet & Violet-era sets. Gallade V is a Character Super Rare and Flareon V is a Secret Rare. Mega Feraligatr ex comes from the Starter Decks 100 Battle Collection product rather than a mainline expansion. None of that is commentary on Gunjima’s personal artistic voice — Bulbapedia doesn’t describe one, so this guide doesn’t invent one — it’s simply that these seven confirmed cards are spread across multiple sets and rarity tiers rather than clustering in one release.
Fire Stacking Tin, Summons Board, and the Kabutops Story
Outside the card catalog itself, Bulbapedia documents a small handful of credits. On the merchandise side, Bulbapedia’s collection lists Gunjima as the illustrator behind the Fire Stacking Tin, whose artwork includes Charizard, Scorbunny & Braixen, and Victini. Outside the TCG entirely, Gunjima worked as a Guest Illustrator on Summons Board, a Nintendo 3DS title released February 10, 2014.
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Bulbapedia’s trivia section also documents something about a Pokemon that hasn’t appeared in any of the cards listed above: Kabutops. It states that Kabutops is Gunjima’s favorite Pokemon, and that on October 20, 2021, Gunjima tweeted that drawing an official Kabutops illustration was one of their dreams. Two years later, in 2023, the “151” special set included a Kabutops card illustrated by Gunjima — the dream tweeted about in 2021, fulfilled on an actual print run. It’s a verifiable arc: a stated ambition, a date, and a confirmed follow-through.
Bulbapedia’s external links list Bluesky, Pixiv, and Twitter accounts for Gunjima; this guide has not independently verified the content of those accounts and makes no claims about what’s posted there beyond their existence as cited links.
Taken together, the Grand Prix entry, the Summons Board work, the Fire Stacking Tin credit, and the Kabutops arc sketch a career that runs wider than the trading card game alone, even though the card game is where the documented record is deepest.
In Our PSA 10 Vault
We checked Gunjima’s representative catalog against our current PSA 10 inventory directly, rather than assuming a large card count means a deep in-stock bench. As of this guide’s stock check (2026-08-12), three matches came back, each individually confirmed against its Limitless card page showing “Illustrated by Souichirou Gunjima.”
| Card | Number | Price | Product |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flareon V, SR | 073/069 | ¥44,434 | View (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order) |
| Pikachu VMAX, CSR | 223/184 | ¥46,634 | View (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order) |
| MEGA Feraligatr ex, SAR Style | 763/742 | ¥39,305 | View (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order) |
Flareon V (S6a 073/069) is currently listed at ¥44,434 (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order), from the same Eevee Heroes set covered in the catalog section above. Pikachu VMAX (S8b 223/184) sits at ¥46,634 (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order). Neither of these is a claimed promo-distribution rarity beyond what Limitless states — we’re not asserting anything about print runs or scarcity that the source database doesn’t confirm.
The third match, MEGA Feraligatr ex (MC 763/742, SAR Style), is currently listed at ¥39,305 (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order). None of the other cards discussed in this guide — Quaquaval ex, Revavroom ex, Gallade V, or Eevee — had a graded PSA 10 copy in our vault as of this guide’s stock check (2026-08-12). If one of those is specifically what brought you here, our Quick Order page is the fastest way to flag interest for when a copy surfaces and gets graded.
Three matches out of a 100-plus-card catalog is a narrow slice, and that’s by design in how this crossmatch was run: a match required the in-stock product’s collector number, and set code where present, to correspond to a specific card in Gunjima’s Limitless catalog — a shared Pokemon name between an in-stock item and a Gunjima print was never treated as enough on its own. That stricter bar is why this section reports three confirmed matches rather than a longer, looser list.
Where to Buy Souichirou Gunjima Cards from Japan
Three Gunjima-illustrated PSA 10 cards were listed in our vault as of this guide’s stock check (2026-08-12).
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For the wider PSA 10 catalog, browse our PSA 10 collection or our full PSA 10 card list to filter by set, illustrator, and price. If you’re comparing illustrators across our ongoing series, KEIICHIRO ITO and Naoki Saito both have dedicated guides covering their most notable printings. For anything not currently listed, our Quick Order page is the fastest way to build a request.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Souichirou Gunjima?
Souichirou Gunjima (軍島曹一郎) is a freelance illustrator who has contributed artwork to the Pokemon Trading Card Game. Before working officially, Gunjima was a participant in the Pokemon Card Game Illustration Grand Prix, submitting a Metagross illustration. Their first official card was Indeedee, from the Shining Fates expansion.
How many cards has Souichirou Gunjima illustrated?
Limitless TCG’s illustrator index returns 107 cards in the English-language database and 152 in the Japanese database for Souichirou Gunjima. Bulbapedia’s independent count lists 102 TCG cards plus 89 cards in Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket. These are separate counting methods and should not be added together.
What is the Kabutops connection to Souichirou Gunjima?
Kabutops is Gunjima’s stated favorite Pokemon. On October 20, 2021, Gunjima tweeted that drawing an official Kabutops illustration was one of their dreams. In 2023, the “151” special set included a Kabutops card illustrated by Gunjima.
What cards does Samurai Sword have listed from Souichirou Gunjima (as of 2026-08-12)?
As of this guide’s stock check on 2026-08-12, our PSA 10 vault held three Souichirou Gunjima-illustrated cards: Flareon V (S6a 073/069) at ¥44,434, Pikachu VMAX (S8b 223/184) at ¥46,634, and MEGA Feraligatr ex (MC 763/742) at ¥39,305.
Did Souichirou Gunjima win the Pokemon Card Game Illustration Grand Prix?
No result or placement is documented. Bulbapedia records only that Gunjima was a participant who submitted a Metagross illustration; no award or ranking is claimed.
What is Souichirou Gunjima’s merchandise work outside the TCG?
Bulbapedia credits Gunjima with the Fire Stacking Tin artwork, which includes Charizard, Scorbunny & Braixen, and Victini. Outside the Pokemon TCG, Gunjima worked as a Guest Illustrator on Summons Board, a Nintendo 3DS title released February 10, 2014.
What was Souichirou Gunjima’s first official Pokemon card?
Indeedee, released in the Shining Fates expansion, per Bulbapedia. This came after Gunjima’s earlier participation in the Pokemon Card Game Illustration Grand Prix as a participant, entered before any official Pokemon Company assignment.
How were the in-stock Souichirou Gunjima matches verified?
Each in-stock product’s collector number, and set code where listed, was matched against a specific card in Gunjima’s Limitless TCG catalog, and each match’s artist credit was individually confirmed on the corresponding Limitless card page. A shared Pokemon name alone was not treated as sufficient to count as a match.
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