Premise: Resident Evil , known as in Japan , is a survival horror video game-based media franchise created by Shinji Mikami and Tokuro Fujiwara and owned by the video game company Capcom . The franchise focuses around a series of survival horror video games , but has since branched out into comic books , novels , novelizations , sound dramas , live-action films , animated sequels to the games , and a variety of associated merchandise , such as action figures . The eponymous first game in the series was released in 1996 as a survival horror video game , but the franchise has since grown to encompass other video game genres .
Hypothesis: Resident Evil is a franchise built around survival horror video games.
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