GIDORA Pokemon Cards: Illustrator Guide & PSA 10 Catalog

Who Is GIDORA?

Per Bulbapedia, GIDORA is an illustrator who has contributed artwork to the Pokemon Trading Card Game. That single sentence accounts for most of what’s documented about the artist’s background in the sources we checked — there’s no stated real name, birth date, nationality, or Japanese-language rendering of the stage name. Bulbapedia refers to GIDORA as he/him; beyond that attributed usage, this guide refers to the artist by name.

What the wiki lacks in biography, the card databases make up for in volume. Limitless TCG’s Japanese-language database returns an exact match of 135 cards for the artist name “GIDORA,” while the English-only database returns 80 cards — two separate counts covering largely overlapping print runs, not a total to add together. Bulbapedia’s own internal tally, using a different counting method again, lists 61 cards for the core Trading Card Game plus 14 more in Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket.

For readers comparing artists across our ongoing illustrator series, GIDORA’s profile sits closer to the newer, Scarlet & Violet-era names than to the veteran illustrators with decades of documented history — a working card credit list rather than a curated career story.

The anchor card and each of the three cards in our PSA 10 inventory were checked two ways: first with a broad “artist” search against Limitless TCG’s card database, then re-verified on the individual card’s own page, which prints the credit line as “Illustrated by GIDORA” in plain text. Because “GIDORA” is a short, distinctive stage name, running an exact-match search alongside the broader substring search returns the identical 135 JP-database and 80 EN-database counts — there’s no shorter name embedded inside a longer one that would need to be filtered out.

Inside the GIDORA Catalog

Searching the Limitless Japanese database for “GIDORA” and re-verifying individual card pages, the cards we verified for this guide are all Scarlet & Violet-era, mostly Trainer characters — human characters rather than Pokemon — at the Special Art Rare or Secret Rare tier.

Perrin (Crimson Haze, SV5a #92) and Dendra (Triplet Beat, SV1a #99) are both Special Art Rares, each individually confirmed on Limitless as “Illustrated by GIDORA.” Grusha (Snow Hazard, SV2P #90) and Kieran (Mask of Change, SV6 #122) are Secret Rares from the same era, continuing the same Trainer-character pattern.

The catalog also includes Brassius (Terastal Fest ex, SV8a #190, Secret Rare) and Bill’s Teleport (Pokemon Card 151, SV2a #199, Secret Rare) — a Trainer card rather than a character portrait, showing the credit list isn’t limited to character portraits alone.

Across the seven representative cards checked in detail for this guide, the sets span Triplet Beat (SV1a), Pokemon Card 151 (SV2a), Snow Hazard (SV2P), Crimson Haze (SV5a), Mask of Change (SV6), Super Electric Breaker (SV8), and Terastal Fest ex (SV8a) — seven separate Japanese Scarlet & Violet expansions. Three of the seven are Special Art Rares (Pikachu ex, Perrin, Dendra) and four are Secret Rares (Bill’s Teleport, Grusha, Kieran, Brassius). That split describes the sample checked in depth for this guide, not a claim about the full 135-card catalog, which we have not re-verified card by card.

In Our PSA 10 Vault

We checked GIDORA’s Limitless JP catalog against our live PSA 10 inventory directly, rather than assuming a recognizable name means a deep in-stock bench. The result is narrow: three matches, each confirmed against its individual Limitless card page showing “Illustrated by GIDORA.”

The crossmatch itself works from collector numbers, not Pokemon or Trainer names alone — a match required the set code and number on a listed PSA 10 product to line up with an entry in GIDORA’s Limitless JP list, then a confirmation on the individual Limitless page for that exact number. That’s the same standard applied to the “not GIDORA’s” Pikachu ex printings flagged above: same Pokemon name, same set, different collector number, different illustrator credit.

None of the other cards discussed above — Grusha, Kieran, Brassius, Bill’s Teleport, Charizard, or Boltund V — are currently listed (as of 2026-08-12) as a graded PSA 10 copy. If one of those specifically is what brought you here, the Quick Order page is the easiest way to flag interest for when a copy surfaces and gets graded.

Where to Buy GIDORA Cards from Japan

Three GIDORA-illustrated cards are currently listed (as of 2026-08-12) as graded PSA 10 — Pikachu ex 132/106 SAR (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order), Perrin 092/066 SAR (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order), and Dendra 099/073 SAR (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order). Because each listing is a single graded copy, availability and price can change.

For the wider graded catalog, browse our PSA 10 card list, or check the PSA 10 collection to filter by set and price. If you’re comparing illustrators across our ongoing series, Kirisaki, Sowsow, and Sui each have their own dedicated guides covering their most valuable printings. For anything not currently in stock — including the non-vault cards named throughout this guide, like Grusha, Kieran, or Brassius — the Quick Order page is the easiest way to build a request and get notified if a matching copy is graded.