Positive. It’s a bit complicated, nevertheless it is sensible if you happen to have a look at it. Pocket Monsters and the entire associated IP (Pokemon, Ash Ketchum, the assorted areas, every particular person pokemon’s likeness, and so forth.) are owned by The Pokemon Firm.
The Pokemon Firm is owned by three corporations: Nintendo, GameFreak, and Creatures Inc.
These three corporations (Nintendo, GameFreak, Creatures) all work collectively on creating Pokemon-related media.
- Nintendo publishes the video games and handles the logistics – certification, distribution, manufacturing, localization, and so forth.
- GameFreak is the first sport developer for the mainline video games.
- Creatures handles the Pokemon Buying and selling Card Recreation, Pokemon-branded toys, and the Pokemon CG Studio, which is devoted to modeling and animation in 3D for Pokemon. Creatures primarily serves as a assist studio for different sport devs, primarily supplying the 3D fashions and animation for the Pokemon video games. They supply the fashions and animation for the mainline video games, in addition to spinoff titles like Pokemon Go, Detective Pikachu, and Pokemon Legends: Arceus.
We should always observe that The Pokemon Firm remains to be its personal separate firm with its personal org construction and staff. The Pokemon Firm handles the entire formally branded retail Pokemon shops in Japan, in addition to licensing of Pokemon for different merchandise like toys and merch. It additionally handles the entire animated sequence, all function movies, and the Pokemon manga. Technically, The Pokemon Firm’s house owners (Nintendo, GameFreak, Creatures) should license the Pokemon IP from The Pokemon Firm nevertheless it’s principally like asking your self for permission. Legally it’s distinct and owns the IP so some other legally distinct entity should acquire a license to make use of it. That is primarily for accounting and authorized functions.
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