{"id":131855,"date":"2023-02-14T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-145122"},"modified":"2023-02-14T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T11:30:00","slug":"random-pokemon-fan-and-tattoo-artist-inspired-to-ink-em-all-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/14\/random-pokemon-fan-and-tattoo-artist-inspired-to-ink-em-all-for-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Pok\u00e9mon Fan And Tattoo Artist Inspired To Ink ‘Em All For Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A tattoo artist from Stowmarket, Suffolk is aiming to tattoo all 151 original Pok\u00e9mon on fans and customers to raise money for the Blue Cross animal welfare charity.<\/p>\n

William Langford, who owns Zen Tattoo Art<\/a>, has been a tattoo artist for 12 years and loved Pok\u00e9mon as a kid, BBC News reports<\/a>. Langford wanted to “spend the year doing something good for people\/animals” and, as a result, decided to start tattooing the first 151 Pok\u00e9mon and donating the money from those tattoos to charity.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m aware many animals got rehomed or given away during the lockdowns and it always happens around Christmas time too”, Langford says on why he chose Blue Cross. He was inspired to focus this challenge around the original 151 Pokemon after the reveal that Ash Ketchum’s time in the anime was coming to an end<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And what a fabulous cause, too. It certainly helps that the tattoos look really darn good \u2014 we’re thinking about popping for a drive over to Suffolk. You can check of all of the designs over on Langford’s Instagram page<\/a>, but here are a couple that we really like so far:<\/p>\n