Pokemon | Pokemon 151

The Pokemon Company of Japan has just launched a new line of clothing called Pokemon 151, which is essentially a series of T-shirts focusing on the first batch of Pokemon (001-151) introduced in the Red/Blue/Green games.

The shirt designs veer away from the cute Ken Sugimori drawings and instead lean more on adult-oriented stylized images, which makes them virtually unrecognizable as Pokemon shirts unless you look very closely. 4 initial designs are currently available: 097 - Sleeper (Hypno), 104 - Karakara (Cubone), 144 - Freezer (Articuno), and 150 - Mewtwo.

Front and back designs of the current 4 Pokemon T-shirts:
top left - Hypno; top right - Mewtwo; bottom left - Articuno; bottom right - Cubone

Looking at the designs, the Cubone one looks like some kind of tattoo, while the Articuno & Mewtwo designs resemble Old English family crests. The Hypno design is downright creepy though, since it looks like a human abducting a couple of kids...ewww. Can't wait to see how they'll come up with a Pikachu design, hehe.

The shirts retail for 4,350 Yen, or about P 1,832 *gasp* Unfortunately, the shirts are just available online (for Japan residents only) or at the various Pokemon Centers. Too bad, as most of the shirts actually manage to look cool.