Pokémon Jungle Set (Italian) — 19 Cards Signed by Mitsuhiro Arita

The Jungle expansion, released in Italy in 2000, is one of the foundational sets of the Pokémon Trading Card Game and the one that gave the game its forest-wilderness iconography. This collection brings together nineteen cards from the Italian printing, each signed by Mitsuhiro Arita, the illustrator whose linework defined how the original Pokémon were seen.

The group spans both holographic and standard cards: the holos — Clefable, Electrode, Kangaskhan and Wigglytuff — carry the reflective treatment that shaped early Pokémon collecting, while Dodrio, Fearow, Lickitung, Marowak and Rapidash complete it with Arita's characteristic rendering of Pokémon in natural habitats. A run of Arita-signed Italian Jungle cards of this size is not something the market produces often: signatures from the original illustrators have become one of the most contested layers of the hobby, and the Italian-language printing adds a further dimension of scarcity for collectors assembling language-specific sets.