Pokémon

The Japanese character Satoshi was named after the creator and founder of Pokemon: Satoshi Tajiri and his rival (Gary in America) was named after the founder and current owner of Nintendo. Satoshi was born in a small Tokyo sub-division called Myoto it was once covered in grass land and trees while he was living there. Satoshi loved to capture insects in the forest. He eventually started a magazine called Game Freak at that time there were not many magazines reporting and reviewing video games. When the original Gameboy came out, Satoshi saw the link cables and imagined little creatures (preferably his bugs) crawling across them. Hence Game Freak turned their attention to developing video games as well as their original intentions. Satoshi saw the franchise "monsters in my pocket" and he hatched the perfect idea, Pocket Monsters. The other company tried to sue and lost but the name still got changed to Pokemon, although it is still called Pocket Monsters in Japan, Pokemon is even more popular. The first games to come out were Pokemon Red Version and Green Version. Later Japan released a more updated version called Pokemon Blue Version. Pokemon Green was never released in America. Later on came Yellow and that game in itself is unique. In no other game can you get all three starters, but in that one you can. That game follows the path of the anime.

The title card for Pokémon: Black and White, the fourteenth season of the anime.

Ash, Cilan, and Iris in the anime.

The original video game the franchise is based on a role playing game in which the player acts as a collector of Pokemon, animal-like creatures that can be trained to fight in tournaments. The player wanders around the world, capturing wild Pokemon and training them in battle against other wild Pokemon. The player then advances through different stages throughout the world by fighting in battles against other trainers' pokemon. An extremely popular anime adaptation of the game began airing in Japan in 1997 (and hit American airwaves in 1998) which featured a boy named Satoshi (or Ash Ketchum in the English version) who starts on his quest to become the ultimate Pokemon trainer, along with his first pokemon, a Pikachu. So far, the anime has spawned 14 seasons (the latest being Black & White). Pikachu has become the franchise's official mascot out of 649 different Pokemon species. The franchise has also spawned 14 anime movies to date, as well as 16 manga adaptations. There are 37 Pokemon video games (excluding PC games) to date and several more planned.