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Pokémon first came out as media franchise by Japanese video game company, Nintendo, created by none other than the brilliant Satoshi Tajiri back in 1996.
It was originally released as a Game Boy role-playing video game. Pokémon has now become the second most successful and lucrative video game-based media franchise in the entire world.
Since its booming popularity, Pokémon has been merchandised into an anime, manga, trading cards, toys, books and many other media formats.
The anime adaptation of Pokémon was directed by Kunihiko Yuyama together with the people from OLM, Inc. Ever since its debut last 1997, it didn’t take long for 4Kids Entertainment and The Pokémon Company to license the show for a North American release.
The anime still continues today with more than 1000 episodes released this far making it one of the longest running anime in history.

Pokemon has been one of the biggest franchises in history whether you’re a game fanatic or anime aficionado. It has been warmly welcomed by the audience of all ages, especially big fans of the game.
The anime alone has a whooping 850+ episodes. There have been a number of movies released thus far in its name coming to a total of 19 movies.
Pokemon also has 8 TV specials, 25 side-story episodes, 7 winter vacation short episodes and 8 ANA flights shorts.

Other quite similar to Pokemon would definitely include Digimon, Monster Rancher, Magi Nation, Meda Bots and Bakugan Battle Brawlers all of which are anime shows where they can summon monsters to battle for them.

*(2022-06-11)/Doopliss