Tony's Typhlosion (Japanese)

I made a Japanese card, using Zeo's Japanese blank. Here it is:

Tony's Typhlosion
LV. 47, HP 120
Evolves from Tony's Quilava
Put on the Stage 1 card
This card can't be used on official tournaments.

Attack(s):
(Fire)(Fire)(Fire) Oracion Effect
Choose 2 of your opponent's Pokémon. If AJ's Blaziken is in play, you may flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 20 damage to those Pokémon. You can't use this attack unless AJ's Blaziken is in play.
Weakness - Water
Illus. Ken Sugimori

Not too shabby for your first Japanese fake, but you still have plenty of room to improve. Judging by the quality, it appears that you used Paint to make this. Personally, I don't reccommend that program. If you do use paint, though, use the Circle Tool to clean up the white dots around the energy symbols.

The Pokemon's name seems like it should be bolder. Also, to make a Neo template Gym Style, you need to do away with the gold bars next to W/R/RC. It also seems strange to me that this card has no retreat cost.

I've never seen a Pokemon card with Kanji in the attack name. I've also never seen a Japanese Pokemon with alphabetical characters in it. I can see "AJ" being in it, but, as for words won't translate directly into Japanese, don't leave the alphabetical characters. In Japan, words adopted from other languages are normally written in Katakana (so I've heard), so I believe that "Oracion" would be written as オレシオン (ORESHION). Of course, Oracion means "prayer," so it may also be written as イノリ (INORI). I think the proper way to write the name of this card's attack would be テクニックのオレシオン (TEKUNITKU NO ORESHION/ Oracion Technique) or テクニックのイノリ (TEKUNITKU NO INORI/ Prayer Technique).

The wording in the effect text is odd. How about you give this a try: This attack can only be used if AJ's Blaziken is in play. Choose 2 of your opponent's Pokemon and flip a coin. If heads, put 2 damage counters on those Pokemon.

Wait! This is a Neo-style template. Neo came before the ADV sets, so Blaziken wouldn't have existed during this time. I also noticed a few un-needed spaces in the effect text.

Sorry if this comment seemed rough, but I'm just trying to do my best to help you out.

I didn't use MS Paint to get the energy symbols - I use Paint.NET. "AJ" in the card refers to my best friend, whose favorite Pokémon is Blaziken. (AJ means Achilles Jae) I may edit it if I have time.

EDIT: The Trainer in the lower right corner - I use MS Paint for that, and I extracted that from a movie snapshot, that's why Tony is the Trainer.

Shaggy Typhlosion said:

I didn't use MS Paint to get the energy symbols - I use Paint.NET. "AJ" in the card refers to my best friend, whose favorite Pokémon is Blaziken. (AJ means Achilles Jae) I may edit it if I have time.

EDIT: The Trainer in the lower right corner - I use MS Paint for that, and I extracted that from a movie snapshot, that's why Tony is the Trainer.

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Does Paint.NET have an circle select option? If so, it may be better if you use it to copy the symbol on the template (the type) and scale it down. That way, the while dots around them will not be present.

Myself, I use GIMP for my Japanese fakes.