Yekaterinburg gets a second giant granite sphere painted to look like a Pokéball. (This time, it's blue.)

Yekaterinburg now has two giant granite spheres painted to look like “Pokéballs” from the popular game Pokémon Go. The same local artist responsible for the first Pokéball, which city officials decided not to wash clean, has taken credit for painting the second sphere. He says he planned to create two giant Pokéballs from the start.

“I did not strive to communicate my, or even a general, love for the game through this Pokéball,” the artist has said. “Instead, I create an alternative Pokéball game for myself. This is a trap, is it not? I gathered many of these little monsters into the trap. People taking photographs beside the Pokéball are now in my [Pokémon] collection. These are [now] my Pokémons. There are even rare ones among them.”

“I don't see any harm in it,” Yekaterinburg Mayor Evgeny Roizman said about the first giant Pokéball, adding, “People like to play, and this is how they express their emotions. If this art object isn't angering anyone, then let it stay there.”