21 Facts About Pokemon

Pokemon is a Japanese media franchise managed by The Pokemon Company, a company founded by Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures.

Pokemon is estimated to be the highest-grossing media franchise of all time.

Nintendo initially feared that Pokemon was too Japanese for Western tastes but Alfred Kahn, then CEO of 4Kids Entertainment convinced the company otherwise.

In November 2005,4Kids Entertainment, which had managed the non-game related licensing of Pokemon, announced that it had agreed not to renew the Pokemon representation agreement.

Name Pokemon is a syllabic abbreviation of the Japanese brand Pocket Monsters.

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Pokemon already owned by other Trainers cannot be captured, except under special circumstances in certain side games.

All of the licensed Pokemon properties overseen by the Pokemon Company International are divided roughly by generation.

In July 2021, it was announced that a live action Pokemon series is in early development at Netflix with Joe Henderson attached to write and executive produce.

Pokemon CDs have been released in North America, some of them in conjunction with the theatrical releases of the first three and the 20th Pokemon films.

Pokemon Trading Card Game is a collectible card game with a goal similar to a Pokemon battle in the video game series.

Pokemon has been criticized by some fundamentalist Christians over perceived occult and violent themes and the concept of "Pokemon evolution", which they feel goes against the Biblical creation account in Genesis.

The cards were intended for sale in Japan only, but the popularity of Pokemon led to import into the United States with approval from Nintendo.

In March 2000, Morrison Entertainment Group, a toy developer based at Manhattan Beach, California, sued Nintendo over claims that Pokemon infringed on its own Monster in My Pocket characters.

Pokemon, being a globally popular franchise, has left a significant mark on today's popular culture.

The various species of Pokemon have become pop culture icons; examples include two different Pikachu balloons in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Pokemon-themed airplanes operated by All Nippon Airways, merchandise items, and a traveling theme park that was in Nagoya, Japan in 2005 and in Taipei in 2006.

Pokemon appeared on the cover of the US magazine Time in 1999.

Pokemon Centers are fictional buildings where Trainers take their injured Pokemon to be healed after combat.

The store featured a Pokemon Distributing Machine in which players would place their game to receive an egg of a Pokemon that was being given out at that time.

Pokemon gained popularity because it provides a sense of identity to a wide variety of children, and lost it quickly when many of those children found that the identity groups were too big and searched for identities that would distinguish them into smaller groups.

IGN's Lucas M Thomas stated that Pokemon is Digimons "constant competition and comparison", attributing the former's relative success to the simplicity of its evolution mechanic as opposed to Digivolution.

Smogon is affiliated with an online Pokemon game called Pokemon Showdown, in which players create a team and battle against other players around the world using the competitive tiers created by Smogon.