This Pokemon Concept Art Proves Ash Almost Looked Very Different When it comes to Pokemon, fans of the anime know Ash Ketchum like the back of their hands. The series has never tried to keep anything about the hero in the shadows, and fans have gotten to know Ash over the last twenty years. In fact, fans can trace back Ash to his very first moment, but one piece of surfaced concept art shows how differently Ash could have looked. The artwork came to light once more thanks to Twitter user Arkeus88. It was there Pokemon fans were introduced to a slew of Ash sketches, and it turns out the show's team was not set on one part of the trainer way back when. The team was wishy washy about Ash's hat, so his now-iconic cap could have looked very different.