About Pokemon

Pokémon

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Pokémon
The official logo of Pokémon for its international release; Pokémon is short for the original Japanese title of Pocket Monsters.
Creator	Satoshi Tajiri Ken Sugimori Game Freak
Original work	Pocket Monsters Red and Green (1996)
Print publications
Short stories	Pokémon Junior
Comics	Various Pokémon manga
Films and television
Films	See list of Pokémon films
Short films	Various Pikachu shorts
Animated series	Pokémon (anime) Pokémon Chronicles
Television specials	Mewtwo Returns The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon
Television films	Pokémon Origins
Theatrical presentations
Musicals	Pokémon Live!
Games
Traditional	Pokémon Trading Card Game Pokémon Trading Figure Game
Video games	Pokémon video game series Super Smash Bros.
Audio
Soundtracks	Pokémon 2.B.A. Master See also list of Pokémon theme songs
Miscellaneous
Theme park	Poképark

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Pokémon (ポケモン Pokemon^?, /ˈpoʊkeɪˌmɒn, -kᵻ-/ POH-kay-MON, POH-ki-MON)^[1][2] is a media franchise owned by The Pokémon Company, a Japanese consortium between Nintendo, Game Freak and Creatures.^[3] The franchise was created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1995,^[4] and is centered on fictional creatures called "Pokémon", which humans known as Pokémon Trainers catch and train to battle each other for sport.
The franchise began as a pair of video games for the original Game Boy, developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo. The franchise now spans video games, trading card games, animated television shows and movies, comic books, and toys. Pokémon is the second-most successful and lucrative video game-based media franchise in the world, behind only Nintendo's Mario franchise.^[5]
Cumulative sales of the video games (including home console games, such as Hey You, Pikachu! for the Nintendo 64) have reached more than 200 million copies.^[6] 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. Pokémon USA Inc. (now The Pokémon Company International), a subsidiary of Japan's Pokémon Co., now oversees all Pokémon licensing outside of Asia.^[7] As of May 2016, the Pokémon media franchise has grossed revenues of ¥4.8 trillion worldwide^[8] (equivalent to 46.2 billion USD).
The franchise celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2006.^[9] The twentieth anniversary was celebrated with a commercial at the 2016 Super Bowl^[10] using the theme: "I can do that". 2016 marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the original games, with the company celebrating by airing an ad during Super Bowl 50, and issuing re-releases of Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow.^[11][12] The year will also see the launch of the next generation of games, Pokémon Sun and Moon, and the release of the new mobile augmented reality game Pokémon Go.