In a new statement posted on the Japanese Pokémon TCG Pocket account on X, the company stressed that the issue arose when its own card production team sent concept sketches to the illustrator (seemingly based on the existing art), and asked the illustrator to simply recreate it.

A Chinese Pokémon fan has noticed that a piece of fan art of Ho-Oh that they say they created appears to have—based on leaks—been mirrored and included in the forthcoming Wisdom of Sea and Sky set, coming to mobile app Pokémon TCG Pocket tomorrow.