YamaP: Let’s buff cards around PAD illustrator’s birthdays!
As mentioned in the Fujimi buff post!
The reason
Slayer’s artist, Araizumi’s birthday was celebrated with a buff for Lina Inverse! YamaP then proposed to buff cards based on illustrator’s birthdays, if they want their birthdays to be public.
パズドラのイラストレーターさんで、誕生日を公開してもOKという方は、イラスト進行管理宛にメールをください！
誕生日近辺の日に、本人が描いたキャラの中から1キャラをパワーアップをさせて頂きます！
— 山本大介 (@DaikeYamamoto) February 4, 2021
PAD Illustrators and their birthdays
Many Japanese players started searching for illustrators’ birthdays… Here’s a quick list I made, highlighting 2 art from them you may recognize.
Note that this is not a complete list of PAD illustrators; I have not included ones who specializes in collab artwork in this list.
| Birthday | PAD Illustrator | Some PAD arts |
| 1/19 | NINNIN |   |
| 2/15 | sena |   |
| 2/25 | Yosuke Adachi 安達洋介 |
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| 3/28 | Miho Midorikawa 緑川美帆 |
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| 5/12 | Yusuke Kozaki コザキユースケ |
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| 6/2 | Akira Matsumoto マツモト明 |
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| 7/1 | Yoichi Ito イトウヨウイチ |
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| 7/6 | Saichi 茶壱 |
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| 8/18 | Ikeya 池屋 |
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| Sometime in August | Rintaro Murase 村瀬倫太郎 |
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| 9/29 | Sunohara 寿ノ原 |
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| 10/17 | Souichirou Gunjima 軍島曹一郎 |
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| 10/27 | Raita Kazama 風間雷太 |
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| 11/26 | Shinnosuke Hino 日野慎之助 |
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| 11/29 | Nakamura8 中村エイト |
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| 12/16 | Daisuke Yamamoto (YamaP) 山本大介 |
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I’m not sure how accurate the forum is, but according to this list: https://puzzleanddragonsforum.com/threads/list-of-pad-artists-and-characters-theyve-worked-on.106447/ , Sakuya’s artist is no longer Yusuke Kozaki. It seems they were replaced by an artist named Chaichi
Saichi drew Sakuya after this evolution, yep. Hard to put down who else for Kozaki sensei though, since most are earlier arts. Hmmm…
Maybe Kozaki has fond memories of PAD and will be fine with it?
I have high hopes and crossing my fingers that creator Miho Midorikawa picks Yog Sothoth for a greatly needed buff Yog has Fallen out of the Meta and I’d like to see him get a buff based on or similar to Captan Marvel to put him back in the Meta since there is so much uncertainty Whether N.A will be getting the Marvel collab….
Crossing my fingers🤞🤞🤞 for YOG!!!