Pokemon Coloring Pages at ColoringPagesOnly.com is the largest single collection on the site – 3,300+ free pages organized across more than 100 individual sub-collections covering the full Pokémon universe: the iconic starter Pokémon from every generation, individual Pokémon from Kanto through Paldea, the Legendary and Mythical Pokémon that define each game’s story climax, the Trainers and human characters from the anime across its 25+ years of broadcast, Mega Evolutions, Pokémon card art designs, and the Eevee evolution family that has become its own dedicated collecting culture within Pokémon fandom. Whether you are looking for a simple Pikachu page for a young child, a detailed Charizard for an older fan, Ash and Misty from the original anime, or a recently introduced Paldea Pokémon, this collection has each character organized in its own sub-gallery. The full Cartoons collection on this site is available through our Cartoons Coloring Pages hub.
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About Pokémon
Pokémon (ポケットモンスター, Pocket Monsters) is a media franchise created by Satoshi Tajiri and Ken Sugimori, developed by Game Freak, and published by Nintendo. The first games – Pocket Monsters Red and Green – released in Japan on February 27, 1996, a date now celebrated annually as Pokémon Day. The international release of Pokémon Red and Blue followed in September 1998. The Pokémon anime series premiered in Japan on April 1, 1997, and ran for over 1,200 episodes following protagonist Ash Ketchum – known as Satoshi in Japan – before concluding Ash’s story in January 2023 and transitioning to a new protagonist pair, Liko and Roy, in Pokémon Horizons: The Series.
The franchise has released nine generations of mainline games as of 2024, from the original Kanto region games through Pokémon Scarlet and Violet (2022), which introduced the Paldea region. The total number of Pokémon species reached 1,025 with the Indigo Disk DLC for Scarlet and Violet. Pokémon is the highest-grossing media franchise in history, with cumulative revenue across games, merchandise, the trading card game, and other media estimated at over $147 billion – exceeding Star Wars and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The Pokémon Trading Card Game, launched in 1996 in Japan and 1998 internationally, has printed over 43 billion cards and maintains an active competitive scene and secondary market. The Pokémon card pages in this collection draw from the trading card game’s art style and have become particularly popular as coloring subjects for fans who collect and play the physical card game.
What’s in This Collection
The Starter Pokémon – Most Searched
The three original Kanto starters from Generation 1 are the most-searched Pokémon coloring subjects on the site and have the deepest individual coverage in this collection.
Pikachu is Pokémon’s global mascot – the Electric-type Mouse Pokémon that appears on every piece of official franchise branding and served as Ash’s iconic companion throughout the original anime. Pikachu pages are the simplest and most accessible in the collection, making them the standard first choice for young children and the most frequently printed pages overall.
Charizard is the fully evolved form of Charmander – a large, winged dragon-like Fire/Flying-type Pokémon that has been among the most popular in the franchise since 1996. Charizard pages are more compositionally complex than Pikachu pages, with detailed wing and flame elements that reward careful coloring and appeal most strongly to older children and adult fans.
Charmander is the first-stage Fire-type starter from Kanto – a small, bipedal orange lizard with a flame burning at the tip of its tail. Charmander pages occupy the sweet spot between Pikachu’s simplicity and Charizard’s complexity, making them accessible for younger children while still feeling character-specific and detailed. Bulbasaur is the Grass/Poison-type starter – a blue-green quadruped with a seed bulb growing on its back. Squirtle is the Water-type starter – a small blue turtle with a curled tail shell. Together, Charmander, Bulbasaur, and Squirtle constitute the original starter trio that players first chose from in 1996, and they remain the most emotionally resonant Pokémon for the generations that grew up with the original games and anime.
Totodile and Chikorita bring the Generation 2 Johto starters into the collection. Totodile is the Water-type Johto starter – a blue crocodile with a red ridge along its back; Chikorita is the Grass-type – a pale green dinosaur-like Pokémon with a large leaf growing from its head and a necklace of smaller buds around its neck.
Fan Favorites with Deep Coverage
Eevee is the Normal-type Evolution Pokémon and one of the most beloved characters in the franchise – a small, fox-like Pokémon with a cream-colored ruff and tail tip, brown body, and large expressive eyes. Eevee’s extraordinary popularity comes largely from its eight different final evolutions (Vaporeon, Jolteon, Flareon, Espeon, Umbreon, Leafeon, Glaceon, Sylveon), each corresponding to a different Pokémon type. Leafeon – the Grass-type Eevee evolution, rendered in warm spring green with leaf-shaped tail and ear tips – is the Eevee-family member with dedicated coverage in this collection.
Gengar is the Shadow Pokémon – a Ghost/Poison-type that has been one of the franchise’s most popular characters since Generation 1, appearing in the original games as the final evolution of Gastly. Gengar is easily recognizable: a round, dark purple body with a wide grinning mouth, stubby limbs, and red eyes. Mewtwo is the Psychic-type Genetic Pokémon – the climactic Legendary of the original Kanto games, genetically engineered from the DNA of Mew, depicted in the first Pokémon movie. Mew is the Mythical Psychic-type – a small, pink, cat-like Pokémon with a long, thin tail, considered the ancestor of all modern Pokémon species in the game’s lore.
Blastoise is Squirtle’s final evolution – a large, heavily built blue turtle with two water cannons mounted on its shell. Jigglypuff is the round, pink, song-singing Normal/Fairy-type Pokémon whose anime appearances – putting audiences to sleep with its song and drawing on their faces in frustration – became one of the most beloved recurring gags in the original series. Mimikyu is the Ghost/Fairy-type Disguise Pokémon from Generation 7, hiding its true form beneath a hand-drawn Pikachu costume – one of the franchise’s most conceptually interesting recent characters, with a significant fan following.
Sprigatito is the Grass-type Cat Pokémon starter from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet (Generation 9, Paldea region) – a small green cat with a distinctive flower-like patterning on its face.
Legendary and Mythical Pokémon
Legendary Pokémon is the dedicated sub-collection covering the powerful, rare Pokémon that form the narrative centerpiece of each mainline game – including the box Legendaries from each generation and other rare story-significant Pokémon like the legendary birds (Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres), the legendary beasts (Raikou, Entei, Suicune), and generation-defining Legendaries such as Kyogre, Groudon, and Rayquaza. Kyurem – the Boundary Pokémon from Generation 5 Unova, an Ice/Dragon-type legendary with a distinctive angular, crystalline form – has a dedicated page in the collection. Mega Pokemon covers the Mega Evolution forms introduced in Pokémon X and Y (Generation 6), which temporarily transform certain Pokémon into more powerful versions with altered designs.
The Pokémon Card Collection
Pokemon Card is one of the most distinctive sub-collections in the hub – pages formatted in the trading card game’s visual style, with individual Pokémon depicted in the pose and presentation they appear on TCG cards. Pokémon card coloring pages appeal specifically to players of the physical card game who are familiar with card art as a visual medium distinct from the games and anime, and to collectors who want to color reference cards for Pokémon they own or want.
Trainers and Human Characters
The collection covers the full roster of human characters from the Pokémon anime across its complete run – organized by series era.
The original series trainers: Ash Ketchum (the protagonist of the anime’s first 25 seasons), Misty (the Water-type Gym Leader and Ash’s original companion), Brock (the Rock-type Gym Leader and recurring companion), Professor Oak (the Kanto region’s Pokémon researcher and the voice who introduces every new player to the game), Gary Oak (Ash’s rival), Ritchie Pokemon (Ash’s occasional friend and rival from the Indigo League arc), and Tracey Sketchit (the Pokémon Watcher who joined Ash and Misty during the Orange Islands arc). Team Rocket – Jessie, James, and Meowth – are among the most beloved recurring characters in the entire anime franchise.
The Advanced Generation companions: May and Max – the siblings who traveled with Ash through Hoenn. The Diamond and Pearl companion: Dawn, the Pokémon Coordinator from Twinleaf Town. The Black and White companion: Iris and Cilan. The XY companions: Serena, Clemont, and Bonnie. The Sun and Moon companions: Lillie, Kiawe, Lana, Mallow, and Sophocles. The Journeys companions: Goh and Chloe Cerise. The Horizons protagonists: Liko and Roy – the new main characters who took over from Ash in 2023.
Generation 7 and 8 Individual Pokémon
A large portion of the collection covers individual Pokémon from the Alola region (Generation 7, Sun and Moon) and the Galar region (Generation 8, Sword and Shield). Notable Alola pages include Salandit (Fire/Poison-type lizard), Pikipek (Normal/Flying-type woodpecker), Trumbeak and Toucannon (the Pikipek evolution line), Yungoos and Gumshoos (Normal-type mongoose-inspired Pokémon), Morelull and Shiinotic (Grass/Fairy-type glowing mushroom Pokémon), Fomantis and Lurantis (Grass-type orchid mantis Pokémon), Mareanie (Poison/Water-type), Mudsdale (Ground-type draft horse), and the Ultra Beasts – Nihilego, Pheromosa, Naganadel, and Poipole – the dimension-crossing Pokémon that form the narrative spine of the Alola games.
Notable Galar pages include Wooloo and Dubwool (the beloved round woolly sheep), Gossifleur and Eldegoss (Grass-type cotton plant Pokémon), Cramorant (Water/Flying-type cormorant), Corvisquire (Flying-type corvid), Impidimp, Morgrem, Grimmsnarl, and Hattrem, Hatenna, Hatterene (the Fairy-type evolution lines), Greedent (Normal-type), Skwovet (Normal-type squirrel), Rookidee (Flying-type), Rolycoly, Sizzlipede, Toxel, Nickit, Thievul, Milcery, Morpeko, Falinks, Eiscue, Duraludon, Dreepy and Drakloak (Dragon/Ghost pre-evolutions), the fossil Pokémon Dracozolt and Dracovish, the Isle of Armor Pokémon Kubfu and Urshifu, and the Crown Tundra Legendaries Glastrier, Spectrier, and Regidrago. Pokemon Characters covers multi-character ensemble pages drawing from the broader cast.
Coloring Guide for the Most Popular Pokémon
Pikachu is pure yellow – specifically the vivid, warm yellow-orange that has been Pikachu’s canonical color since 1996. The ears are black at their tips and tips only. The cheeks carry the iconic red circles – a small, clearly defined red circular patch on each cheek, not pink and not orange, but a clean, vivid red. The tail is yellow with a brown zigzag base section. The back stripes are dark brown, not black. Getting the cheek color right – vivid red, small and round, sitting cleanly on yellow – is the single most important coloring decision in a Pikachu page.
Charizard is orange – a vivid, warm orange for the body, with a lighter cream-tan on the underbelly and inner wing surfaces. The wings’ outer membrane is the same orange as the body exterior, but the visible underside surface when the wings are spread is a noticeably lighter, more blue-tinted cream. The eyes are vivid blue-teal. The tail flame is vivid orange-yellow at the base, with the flame itself graduating toward red at the outer edges. Charizard’s horn tips are cream-tan like the belly. The nostrils are small and dark.
Gengar is the specific purple that has defined the character since 1996 – a medium, slightly cool purple that leans slightly more blue than red-purple. It should be distinctly purple rather than blue-purple, with a slightly darker value in the shadow areas under the arms and along the sides. The mouth interior is a very dark, near-black purple. The eyes are red, with the specific red of Gengar’s eyes being a vivid, slightly orange-red rather than a cool red.
Eevee is a warm brown – lighter and more golden-tan than chocolate brown, with the fluffy ruff and tail tip in a clean, bright cream. The ears have a slightly darker inner surface. Eevee’s eyes are a very dark brown that reads as near-black at a distance. The overall palette is warm, soft, and natural – no vivid or saturated colors except in the eyes.
Mewtwo is a pale, cool lavender-gray – lighter and more desaturated than Gengar’s purple, with a slightly pink or lilac bias rather than a blue-gray bias. The lighter areas on the torso and face are nearly white. The tail is a mid-length, fairly thick appendage in the same lavender-gray as the body. Mewtwo’s eyes are a striking pale blue.
Legendary Pokémon generally follow a palette logic where the type identity of each Legendary is reflected in its dominant color – ice Legendaries in white and pale blue (Glastrier, Kyurem), fire Legendaries in red and orange, ghost Legendaries in dark and faded tones. Kyurem specifically is a very pale, cold white-gray – the specific color of ice that has aged and become slightly more translucent, with darker gray in the crevices and joints of its angular form.
FAQs
How many Pokémon are there? As of the Indigo Disk DLC for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet (2023), there are 1,025 Pokémon species in the National Pokédex.
What generation does the collection cover? The collection covers Pokémon and Trainers from all nine generations, with the strongest coverage in Generation 1 (Kanto), Generation 7 (Alola), and Generation 8 (Galar), plus Trainers spanning the anime’s full broadcast history from 1997 to the current Horizons series.
Who is the most popular Pokémon for coloring pages? Pikachu consistently generates the highest search volume of any single Pokémon on this site, followed by Charizard, Eevee, Gengar, and Charmander.
What color is Pikachu? Pikachu is vivid warm yellow with red circular cheek markings, black ear tips, brown back stripes, and a brown zigzag section at the base of the tail. The red cheek circles are the most important coloring detail.
Is there a Pokémon for every type? Yes. The collection covers Pokémon of all 18 types, from common types like Fire, Water, and Grass through rarer types like Ghost, Dragon, and Fairy.
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