Claim: Ken Sugimori is a is a Japanese video game designer, illustrator, manga artist, and director that illustrated a gaming franzine called Game Freak, and is best known as the character designer and art director for the Pokemon franchise designing the first 151 Pokemon.
Evidence: Ken Sugimori (Japanese: 杉森 建, Hepburn: Sugimori Ken, born January 27, 1966 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese video game designer, illustrator, manga artist, and director. From early 1981 until 1986, Sugimori illustrated a gaming fanzine called Game Freak, which had been started by Satoshi Tajiri. Sugimori is best known as the character designer and art director for the Pokémon franchise and designed the first 151 Pokémon with Atsuko Nishida, Motofumi Fujiwara, and Shigeki Morimoto. 
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