It is no secret that Pokemon is an incredibly popular franchise. With over 900 Pokemon at the time of writing, and games that have been coming out since the 1990s, Pokemon has plenty of fans around the world and a great amount of potential for some impressive fan art to be created. Pokemon fans have often created tributes to their favorite region, Pokemon, or game, such as one player who recently created a piece of art that featured Gengar, Gastly, and Haunter resembling a field of stars.
Now one Pokemon fan has created what could be the ultimate piece of wall art. Shown on Reddit, some fans initially thought that the design of user synthetikxangel was a custom PC case, with one fan even commenting that they thought they saw a motherboard in the background. On closer inspection, it can be seen that the background of the art is a Pokemon map and not a motherboard. In the foreground is a collection of some original Pokemon titles on the Game Boy, featuring Pokemon Red, Pokemon Blue, and Pokemon Yellow from Gen 1, alongside Pokemon Gold, Pokemon Silver, and Pokemon Crystal from Gen 2.
There are also some gym badges from the first and second generation of Pokemon games that can be spotted above the cartridges, and the aforementioned map in the background. Synthetikxangel explained that the map is actually a combination of the Kanto and Johto regions. Considering that Johto is connected to Kanto through the West of the latter, it makes sense that a map could combine the two, and for a while some fans have wanted a Pokemon game where a player can explore both regions at once.
The Kanto and Johto regions are some of the most beloved areas by Pokemon fans, and there was plenty of praise for synthetikxangel's work in combining them both. One comment asked what the artist would be looking to make next, to which synthetikxangel replied that they were planning an N64 Pokemon fan art, complete with an original copy of Pokemon Snap.
While some fans like synthetikxangel are creating tributes to the Pokemon games of the past, other fans are looking ahead. With the announcement of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet slated to come out later this year, plenty of Pokemon fans have been creating ideas of what new Pokemon could look like in that game or what new regional forms of existing Pokemon could be.