Southern Islands · 2001

Explore the islands card by card.

The eighteen cards were designed as six connected panoramas. Choose an island, visit a scene, and touch each Pokémon to reveal the card that completes the landscape.

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Interactive atlas

Where does the journey begin?

  1. 1Island
  2. 2Panorama
  3. 3Card
Tropical IslandChoose a place on the map
Touch a point on the island
Illustrated map of Tropical Island
Behind the collection

When the frame ends, the landscape continues.

Southern Islands was conceived as one continuous work. The cards stand on their own, but reveal another reading when returned to their place in the panorama.

01/18 · Sky

Mew opens the collection and the sky.

Numbered 1/18 in the English edition, Mew occupies the left side of the Sky panorama. Pidgeot and Onix complete the same scene—three cards becoming one illustration.

Mew card from the Southern Islands collection
The central idea

One image, three cards.

Each of the six scenes was divided into three artworks. Placed in collection order, their borders visually disappear and the Pokémon share the same place again.

Mew Pidgeot Onix
From Japan to the world

Two editions, the same journey.

  1. The Japanese edition debuted on July 17 alongside the second movie, in two nine-card promotional folders: Tropical Island and Rainbow Island.

  2. The English collection arrived on July 31 with all 18 numbered cards, a decorated folder, postcards, and three booster packs.

01
Tropical Island

Naoyo Kimura

Jungle · Beach · Sea

02
Rainbow Island

Keiko Fukuyama

Sky · Riverside · Fields of Flowers

Mew card from the Southern Islands collection
01/18

Mew

Sky · Rainbow Island