Uninori doesn’t come with a career retrospective the way some Pokemon TCG illustrators do — no interview archive, no early-career gallery, and no biographical detail beyond a card catalog. What does exist is that catalog: 27 credits in Limitless TCG’s Japanese database and 24 in Serebii’s Cardex, almost entirely concentrated in the last two years of Scarlet & Violet and the MEGA era that followed it.
This guide works from that catalog — Limitless TCG’s Japanese card database and Serebii’s Cardex, cross-checked card by card — to cover how the name entered the current print run, which sets carry Uninori artwork, and where we currently stock sealed product from those sets. We don’t have a graded Uninori single in stock right now, so where the record runs out, we say so instead of filling the gap with guesswork.
Uninori has 27 card credits in Limitless TCG’s Japanese database (24 in Serebii’s Cardex), concentrated in Scarlet & Violet’s late sets and the MEGA era — from SV5K (Wild Force, 2024) through M5 in 2026. We don’t currently carry a graded Uninori single, but five sealed box sets carrying Uninori artwork are currently listed, including Black Bolt (SV11B) at ¥24,128– and Terastal Festival ex (SV8a) at ¥19,760–.
Who Is Uninori?
Searching Limitless TCG’s Japanese database for the artist name “Uninori” returns 27 cards, verified individually against each card’s own page, which prints the credit line as “Illustrated by Uninori” in plain text. Serebii’s Cardex, using its own count that includes reprints, lists 24 cards under the same name. There’s no stated real name, birth date, nationality, or public biography in the sources checked for this guide — no interview, no career-retrospective feature, nothing beyond the card credits themselves.
What the catalog does establish is timing. Uninori’s Limitless-listed cards run from Scarlet & Violet’s late-2024 sets through the MEGA era’s M5 expansion in 2026, with new credits appearing in nearly every intervening Japanese release. Compared to illustrators with a decade or more of documented history, Uninori’s profile is that of a newer name that has become a regular presence in recent Special Art Rare and Art Rare slots rather than a long-running career story.
For readers comparing artists across our ongoing illustrator series, this guide treats Uninori the same way we treat every artist in it: a verified card list first, and a biography only where one is publicly documented. Since no such biography turned up in this research, none is invented here.
The verification method for this guide was the same one we use across the series: a broad artist-name search against Limitless TCG’s Japanese card database, followed by re-checking each individual card’s own page for the printed credit line.
The Catalog: SV5K to M5
According to Serebii’s Cardex, Uninori’s earliest listed credit is Meganium, from a Mega Promos card (Mega Promos #1) rather than a numbered main-set expansion. From that promo entry, the Limitless Japanese database shows the artist’s card count building steadily through Scarlet & Violet’s later Japanese sets — starting around SV5K (Wild Force, 2024) — and continuing without a gap into the MEGA era, with the most recent credit checked for this guide appearing in M5 (Abyss Eye, 2026).
That span covers roughly two years of near-continuous Japanese releases, which is short by the standards of veteran Pokemon TCG illustrators but consistent with an artist who has become a fixture of the current SAR/AR era rather than someone with decades of scattered credits to sort through.
Inside the Uninori Catalog
Six cards were checked individually against their Limitless card pages for this guide, spanning six separate Japanese expansions. Four of them — the Special Art Rares and Art Rares below — carry an individually re-verified “Illustrated by Uninori” credit line.
Team Rocket’s Nidoking ex (Glory of Team Rocket, SV10 #126, released 2025-04-18) and Raging Bolt ex (Terastal Festival ex, SV8a #222, released 2024-12-06) are both Special Art Rares, each individually confirmed on Limitless as “Illustrated by Uninori.” Krookodile (Black Bolt, SV11B #143, released 2025-06-06) and Appletun (Paradise Dragona, SV7a #74, released 2024-09-13) are Art Rares from the same general era, continuing the same full-scene, alternate-art pattern rather than a straightforward portrait.
The catalog also includes two lower-rarity cards that round out the range: Trevenant (Ninja Spinner, M4 #39, Regular Rare, released 2026-03-13) and Latios (Mega Symphonia, M1S #50, Uncommon, released 2025-08-01), showing the credit list isn’t limited to chase-tier slots alone. Laid out chronologically, the six cards trace a run from late 2024 into early 2026 — Appletun and Raging Bolt ex in the back half of 2024, Team Rocket’s Nidoking ex and Krookodile through the first half of 2025, and Latios and Trevenant carrying the name into the MEGA era in 2025–26.
Across the six cards checked in detail for this guide, the sets span Paradise Dragona (SV7a), Terastal Festival ex (SV8a), Glory of Team Rocket (SV10), Black Bolt (SV11B), Mega Symphonia (M1S), and Ninja Spinner (M4) — six separate Japanese expansions from late-SV through the MEGA era. That describes the sample checked in depth for this guide, not a claim about the full 27-card catalog, which we have not re-verified card by card.
Card credits are set at the individual print level. Two SAR or AR chase cards for the same Pokemon in the same generation of sets are often illustrated by different artists, so the set code and collector number — not the Pokemon name alone — are what confirm an Uninori credit.
What Uninori Is Known For
Based on the cards verified for this guide, Uninori’s most visible work sits in the Special Art Rare and Art Rare tiers that define the current Scarlet & Violet and MEGA-era chase-card market: full-scene, alternate-art treatments of ex Pokemon like Team Rocket’s Nidoking ex and Raging Bolt ex, alongside Art Rare single-Pokemon scenes like Krookodile and Appletun. The lower-rarity Trevenant and Latios credits show the same artist also working outside the chase-card tier, on Regular Rare and Uncommon prints.
That mix — a handful of headline SAR/AR cards anchoring a broader, lower-rarity supporting catalog — is typical of an artist who has become a regular contributor to a set’s rarity ladder rather than one specializing in a single print tier. Of the six cards checked in detail for this guide, four sit at the SAR/AR chase tier and two sit at Regular Rare or Uncommon, a split that tracks how quickly the name has moved from occasional credits to a recurring presence in the SV-to-MEGA rarity structure.
That trajectory — a newer name building a Scarlet & Violet-era catalog rather than a decades-long one — puts Uninori in similar territory to other recent additions to our illustrator series, such as GIDORA, whose card count is likewise concentrated in the current generation of Japanese sets rather than spread across multiple TCG eras.
Sourcing Uninori Cards: Our Box Inventory
We checked Uninori’s Limitless catalog against our live inventory directly, rather than assuming a growing card count means singles are already in stock. Right now, they aren’t — we don’t currently carry a graded or raw Uninori single. What we do carry is sealed booster box product from five of the expansions in the catalog above, each one a way to pull directly at the cards documented in this guide.
This is a deliberately different model from the graded-vault sections in some of our other illustrator guides, where a name’s catalog happens to overlap with cards we’ve already had graded through PSA. For a catalog this new, sealed box product is the more honest starting point: every copy of Team Rocket’s Nidoking ex, Raging Bolt ex, Krookodile, Trevenant, and Latios in the market came out of a box from one of the five sets below, so buying the box is buying direct access to the print run rather than waiting on a single graded copy to surface.
| Set | Uninori Card Inside | Box Price | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| SV11B Black Bolt | Krookodile, AR | ¥24,128– | View Product |
| SV10 Glory of Team Rocket | Team Rocket’s Nidoking ex, SAR | ¥23,400– | View Product |
| SV8a Terastal Festival ex | Raging Bolt ex, SAR | ¥19,760– | View Product |
| M4 Ninja Spinner | Trevenant, R | ¥11,172– | View Product |
| M1S Mega Symphonia | Latios, U | ¥8,960– | View Product |
Prices above are currently listed box prices, not a guarantee that any single pull will match the Uninori card pictured in this guide — each box contains the full set’s print run, not a targeted single. If you’re specifically after a graded Uninori copy rather than a box, our Quick Order page is the way to file a sourcing request.
Where to Buy Uninori Cards from Japan
We don’t currently list a graded Uninori single, so the direct route to this artist’s work right now is sealed product: SV11B Black Bolt at ¥24,128–, SV10 Glory of Team Rocket at ¥23,400–, or SV8a Terastal Festival ex at ¥19,760–. We ship sealed Japanese product out of Tokyo with tracked delivery worldwide.
For a graded single specifically, use Quick Order to file a sourcing request. If you’re comparing illustrators across our ongoing series, our GIDORA cards guide covers another current-era Scarlet & Violet artist with a similarly compact catalog.
Since three of the five boxes above are from the MEGA era, our MEGA Evolution chase card guide is useful background on how that era’s rarity tiers and pricing work. And because Uninori’s chase-tier cards aren’t in our graded inventory yet, our PSA10 vs. raw Japanese cards guide is a good next stop if you’re deciding whether to pull raw from a box now or wait and source a graded copy later. For the specific set behind the SV10 Team Rocket’s Nidoking ex SAR pictured above, our Glory of Team Rocket set guide covers the rest of that expansion’s chase cards.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Uninori?
Uninori is a Pokemon Trading Card Game illustrator credited with 27 cards in Limitless TCG’s Japanese database and 24 in Serebii’s Cardex. No real name, birth date, or nationality is documented in the sources checked for this guide.
What was Uninori’s first Pokemon TCG card?
Per Serebii’s Cardex, Uninori’s earliest listed credit is Meganium, from a Mega Promos card (Mega Promos #1) rather than a main numbered expansion. The Limitless Japanese database shows the catalog building from around SV5K (Wild Force, 2024) onward.
What is Uninori known for illustrating?
Based on cards verified for this guide, Uninori’s most visible work is in the Special Art Rare and Art Rare tiers — full-scene alternate-art treatments such as Team Rocket’s Nidoking ex (SV10) and Raging Bolt ex (SV8a), alongside Art Rares like Krookodile (SV11B) and Appletun (SV7a). The catalog also includes lower-rarity cards like Trevenant (M4) and Latios (M1S).
Can I buy a graded Uninori PSA10 single from SAMURAI SWORD TOKYO?
Not currently. We don’t have a graded or raw Uninori single in stock right now. We do stock sealed booster boxes from five sets in the catalog, and Quick Order is the way to file a sourcing request for a graded copy.
Where can I buy Uninori-illustrated cards from Japan?
Through sealed booster boxes from the sets carrying Uninori artwork — SV11B Black Bolt, SV10 Glory of Team Rocket, SV8a Terastal Festival ex, M4 Ninja Spinner, and M1S Mega Symphonia are all currently listed. For a specific graded single, use Quick Order to request sourcing.
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