Pokemon

***Pokémon***, also known as ***Pocket Monsters*** in Japan, is a Japanese media franchise managed by the Pokémon Company, a company founded by Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures. The franchise was created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1995, and is centered on fictional creatures called "Pokémon", which humans, known as Pokémon Trainers, catch and train to battle each other for sport. Works within the franchise are set in the Pokémon universe. The English slogan for the franchise is "Gotta Catch 'Em All".

The franchise began as *Pokémon Red* and *Green* (later released outside of Japan as *Pokémon Red* and *Blue*), a pair of video games for the original Game Boy handheld system that were developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo in February 1996. It soon became a media mix franchise adapted into various different media. *Pokémon* has since become the highest-grossing media franchise of all time, with $90 billion in total franchise revenue. The original video game series is the second-best-selling video game franchise (behind Nintendo's *Mario* franchise) with more than 368 million copies sold and one billion mobile downloads, and it spawned a hit anime television series that has become the most successful video game adaptation with over 20 seasons and 1,000 episodes in 169 countries. In addition, the *Pokémon* franchise includes the world's top-selling toy brand, the top-selling trading card game with over 30.4 billion cards sold, an anime film series, a live-action film, books, manga comics, music, merchandise, and a theme park. The franchise is also represented in other Nintendo media, such as the *Super Smash Bros.* series.

In November 2005, 4Kids Entertainment, which had managed the non-game related licensing of *Pokémon*, announced that it had agreed not to renew the *Pokémon* representation agreement. The Pokémon Company International oversees all *Pokémon* licensing outside Asia. In 2006, the franchise celebrated its tenth anniversary. In 2016, the Pokémon Company celebrated *Pokémon*'s 20th anniversary by airing an ad during Super Bowl 50 in January and re-releasing the first *Pokémon* video games 1996 Game Boy games *Pokémon Red, Green* (only in Japan), and *Blue,* and the 1998 Game Boy Color game *Pokémon Yellow* for the Nintendo 3DS on February 26, 2016. The mobile augmented reality game *Pokémon Go* was released in July 2016. The first live-action film in the franchise, *Pokémon Detective Pikachu*, based on the 2018 Nintendo 3DS spin-off game *Detective Pikachu*, was released in 2019.

The most recently released core series games, *Pokémon Sword and Shield*, were released worldwide on the Nintendo Switch on November 15, 2019.

## Synopsis

A young boy named Ash embarks on a journey to become a "Pokémon Master" with his first Pokémon, Pikachu. Joining him on his travels are Takeshi, a girl-obsessed Rock Pokemon Trainer, and Kasumi, a tomboyish Water Pokémon Trainer who may have a crush on him. Satoshi and Co. end up traveling through various regions, including Kanto, the Orange Islands, and Johto, and then enter the Pokémon League competitions there. Along the way, they run into many confrontations with Musashi, Kojirou, and Nyarth, a trio of Pokémon thieves who are apart of an evil organization called "Team Rocket". But everytime Team Rocket try to do their evil deeds, they fail thanks to Satoshi and his Pokémon.

## MAL Info:

Score:7.35

Ranked:#2105

Popularity:#266

Studios:OLM

Source:Game

Duration:24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG - Children

Producers:TV Tokyo, TV Tokyo Music, Studio Jack