#the pokemon company international

[dailyfigures]

Pikachu & Eevee & Pichu & Aipom & Sobble & Chespin & Snorlax & Machamp & Yamper & Vulpix & Scraggy & Wooloo & Jigglypuff & Cubone ; Pokémon ☆ The Pokémon Company International

[graphicpolicy]

Pokémon Company International has an issue with the Alliance Entertainment purchase of Diamond Comic Distributors

[9823678]

[jaredthebc2]

Pokemon Official being back here on Tumblr means theres a very real chance the company or at the very least the social media intern has seen the current era of Pokemon Tumblr and tbh that sounds terrifying. What horrors will they lay their eyes upon

[cucarachachavez]

My Favorite Pokémon that Ash has caught or befriended of each Type:

Grass -. Bulbasaur.

Fire -. Charizard.

Water -. Squirtle.

Electric -. Pikachu (who's, of course, the only Electric-Type that Ash has; I also love his Pikashunium-Z, and his Gigantamax Form).

Ground -. Donphan.

Ice -. Glalie.

Rock -. Dusk Form Lycanroc (I also love their Lycanium-Z).

Steel -. Melmetal.

Flying -. Swellow.

Poison -. Muk.

Bug -. Heracross.

Dragon -. Dragonite.

Pyschic -. Nebby the Solgaleo (I especially love their Radiant Sun Phase).

Fairy -. Mimey the Mr. Mime.

Ghost -. Gigantamax Gengar.

Dark -. Incineroar.

Fighting -. Mega Lucario.

Normal -. Snorlax.

[bulletbilltime]

On the Minecraft boycott post I reblogged, I saw someone in the notes go "uhh just play a better game" and I'm like. Are we really going to do this "oh MC was always bad actually" shit here? The game's quality is irrelevant to this conversation. Recommend alternatives if you want but get off your high horse about it holy shit.

[operationrainfall]

Pokémon GO Tour: Unova - Los Angeles Was A Lot of Fun With Some New Twists to In-Person Events

[trinketfairy]

A reminder that Jazwares CEO - the company behind toy brands like Kellytoy, Squishmallows, Bum Bumz, Hello Kitty, Pokemon (in North America), Nerf, and many others - is a staunch supporter of Israel, with half of their recent intern cohort from Reichman University being called back to fight in the IOF. Not only this, but he and his wife Laura are working with the organization known as Brothers For Life that gives aid to Israeli soldiers, as well as supporting the infamous Canary Mission, which is responsible for doxxing pro-Palestinian students.

Buying new Jazwares products is going towards a CEO who supports genocide, please continue to boycott Jazwares brands and seek out alternative brands or strictly buy from secondhand sources when looking for new gifts for yourself or your loved ones. Do not continue to put money in Jazwares's pockets.

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[aquanutart]

I was talking and I mentioned that I have my old Game Boy and original Pokemon cartridge. I said, "I think they still work."

I was told, "The internal batteries on the Game Boy cartridges have run out. They're all dead."

"Oh," I said, trying not to show how crestfallen I was. I felt like I was losing nerd cred for not knowing that, although I never kept up with that type of info anyway. I'm here for the fantasy and imaginative aspects of games, and tend not to follow the competitive or technical details.

I tried not to feel anything as I went home. If they were real animals, I reminded myself, I would have had to say goodbye long ago.

But like so many other people, Pokemon was my childhood. It was all I thought about and dreamed about, and the closest thing I could imagine to heartbreak was the knowledge that they weren't real. I spent nearly all my time writing longhand self-insert Pokemon fanfiction--far more than I spent actually playing the game. My Pokemon were with me in my imagination wherever I went. I started playing Pokemon Blue when I was 5, and the last time I had played it was probably when I was 9 or 10. I remembered I had turned it on again one more time after that, not to play it, but to look at my childhood Pokemon.

It was during high school, after a move overseas that completely upended my life, and I was struggling with the crushing blow of being taken away from everything I knew and trying to make sense of anything (least of all adolescence) in another language. All I wanted was to go back to childhood and have everything go back to how it was before.

Seeing my Pokemon, just as I'd left them, had comforted me. I had looked at their stats pages, taken photos of them with my digital camera (that I don't even know if I still have), and then turned it off without doing anything.

That was probably 9 or 10 years after the games came out. It had been a long time since then. I had long since taken the AA batteries out of my Game Boy Color and left it untouched. I didn't even have AA batteries anymore.

It had worked then. But now it had been 27 years... I thought about not trying to turn my cartridge back on. As long as I didn't turn it on, I could believe my Pokemon were still there, the way I remembered them.

On my day off, which happened to be Pokemon Day, I googled and read that some people on forums and Reddit were still able to play their original Pokemon games.

Then... it was possible. I went out to buy toothpaste. At the store, I asked where I could find AA batteries.

It was a big thing for me to be able to go to the store and buy things myself. When I moved at age 13, I felt like something went wrong with growing up. It was difficult to follow what people were saying, and people didn't always understand what I said either. I had been introverted even in English, but now I had enough negative experiences that I became afraid and stopped trying to talk to people altogether.

I threw myself into video games and reliving childhood memories. The internet was where I could communicate in my first language and understand. I lived online and didn't interact with the real world. On the internet I felt like I was understood and could find people who shared my interests the way I did, but in the real world it always felt like I could get hurt if anyone knew me.

I realize now that I could have had a better experience overseas if I'd known how to adapt and socialize, but this was not something I knew even in English, and trying to learn in another language made it ten times harder. I'm sorry now for missing out on interactions that I know I could have had, but I just didn't know how. I wouldn't know how until I learned, and it took me a long time to learn.

I grew up online, in the company of others who had trouble fitting in with the real world, even in their own language. Those experiences shaped me, and the friendships I've made and support I've received online are invaluable to me. The internet gave me a way to live, and through it I learned how to interact with others. But in many ways, for many years, it felt like my life was put on hold and I stopped growing up.

Several years ago I moved back, to not far from where I was born, and I was able to work for the first time. I began to interact with people and feel like I had a place in the real world.

After shutting myself away for so many years, every little step I made out in the world felt terrifying. But every little thing I did on my own made me feel like I was living for the first time.

Even something as little as going to the store and buying a pack of batteries.

I was directed to a shelf at the end of an aisle, and found myself looking at a rack of lithium AA batteries. Did they not sell the old kind anymore?

I walked around to the other side and was relieved to find the familiar black and brown Duracell batteries I'd known from my childhood. I felt more confident about putting in a battery that looked the same as I remembered. The smallest pack they sold was an 8-pack for $12.99. I really didn't need 8 batteries. I didn't have any other devices that used them.

I thought, what if I turn it on and it doesn't work and I'll have wasted $12.99?

I also thought we might already have batteries. I might be able to say, "Mom, do we have any batteries?" and she'd pull out two AAs from a drawer somewhere and I'd save my money.

But somehow I felt like part of what was important about this was being an adult and being able to buy my own batteries.

Yet... what if it just ended up making me sad? Was it better not to know?

I went to the checkout with just the toothpaste and stood hesitating at the edge of the checkout line.

If I didn't get the batteries now, and it turned out we didn't have any batteries, I wouldn't try it. I knew I would just put it off until even more time passed, and then... "Are you in line?" someone asked me.

"No," I said, and I turned around and went back to the shelf.

I bought the batteries.

At home, I took out my original Game Boy Color from the drawer where I left it, the one my dad had surprised me with when I was 5 years old and that I had brought overseas and back.

I put the batteries in and turned it on without a cartridge first to make sure the batteries were inserted correctly. The Game Boy logo scrolled across the screen and it made the familiar blinging Game Boy startup noise. I turned it off again, satisfied.

I took out my original Pokemon Blue cartridge, momentarily having to remember which way it went in, and slotted it in.

I turned it on, watched the whole Pokemon Blue intro out of nostalgia, and then pressed START.

My heart leaped for joy.

MY POKEMON!!!! MY POKEMON ARE ALIVE!!! 🥺🥺🥺

My original Pokemon, that were with me in 1998 when I was 5-6 years old, are still with me 27 years later. I want to cry!!! I love the old sprites, I'm SO happy to see them again 😭😭😭 the Pokemon look so little and cheerful at the same time, which I love 🥺🥺🥺 I know there are people with many more hours on their games, who have leveled all their Pokemon to 100. But these are my Pokemon who were with me through my childhood, and I spent many more hours making up stories about them than actually playing the game. I'm so happy to see them again 😭😭😭

All I want is to see my Pokemon. My other Pokemon are in boxes. Now, how do I get to the nearest PC? Where am I?

Oh... Oh. I have to confess something. When I was a kid, I was scared of the dark cave areas, and whenever I got to them, I stopped playing for a while. (I was stuck at Mt. Moon until I was like, 7.) So I never actually beat the game.

And here I am on Victory Road, with the team of Pokemon I was taking to the Elite Four, without an Escape Rope.

The only way for me to see my other Pokemon is... to finally make it through Victory Road, after 27 years?!

[dailyfigures]

Pikachu & Munchlax & Eevee & Pichu ; Pokemon ☆ The Pokémon Company International

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Pokémon Rings in the Holiday Season with New Festive Merchandise from the Pokémon Center

Pokémon Rings in the Holiday Season with New Festive Merchandise from the Pokémon Center #pokemon

The Pokémon Company International is inviting families and fans to ring in the holiday season with Pokémon through new seasonal merch and gift ideas and additional offerings from the brand coming soon.New Pokémon Center 2024 Holiday Collection It wouldn’t be the holiday season without the release of an all-new holiday collection at Pokémon Center, the premier online destination for official…

[blazingstar400]

Wait what

CARMINE IS GONNA BE IN THE ANIME?!?!?!?!

Oooh this is cool.

If Carmine comes that means Kieran will, right?

And if that happens then that means the Loyal 3 and Ogerpon and then Pecharunt RIGHT?!

RIGHT?!?!?!

Jokes aside I'm not gonna get my hopes too high in case they crush my hopes and dreams again /j /lh

[n0rtist]

Here's my take on a Dragon-type Eeveelution that I went over in my last video.

As I can write longer posts here, I'll bring up my few thoughts on a particular kind of comment I'm starting to see on fakemon designs.

Due some comments saying "stop making fan designs, Pokemon will run out of ideas", I'll say that I feel like this is actually the time to make Pokemon Legends Z-A fakemon because the Pokemon in that game should already be made by now and that any similar design would feel like a coincidence (unless the game is delayed for several more months). Many of my Z-A designs have French-inspired themes or are megas which are both subjects that would most likely not be touched by Pokemon again after this game (though new Megas are a possibility). Regardless of the improbability of my designs being referenced in future Pokemon, let alone even being looked at by Pokemon's designers, I find these comments calling for the prevention of posting and sharing original fakemons to be quite daft.

Additionally, contrary to some comments, such a statement about "cancelling a Pokemon due to a fan design" was never officially announced by Game Freak and was only found in an internal note on a turned-down design in last year's data leak. Not only is the note's translation unconfirmed, but it's important to state that this note was not a public statement.

Any corporation does not and should not have the right to monopolize the mere act of drawing an original piece of work.

Pokemon is a company that can afford the rights to a single design from an artist if they really need it. Lastly, if I was able to make a unique design after all these years of fan designs, so can other designers, especially those who design as a profession.

[cucarachachavez]

I feel that these three would get along with each other just fine. I can feel that Ash and Charlie would be like a Little Brother and Big Sister Team. She would absolutely love the Hell (pun intended) out of Pikachu.

[fallershipping]

Right now enjoying the idea based on two videos I watch that Giovanni and Team Rocket was a much more complicated and adult scheme.

Like it wasn't just a gang-- Rocket Co. was his company/conglomerate with a chokehold on Kanto's enterprises. He owned pachinko parlors, entertainment establishments, and even Laboratories where he was financing their research just as long as they did a few favors for him. Team Rocket was just his personal yakuza, his dogs to make sure those promises are kept.

Giovanni took opportunity of people, such as Dr. Fuji, who were desperate to get funding on their research. Of course Team Rocket gracefully provided research material-- with poaching and stealing. Scientists are eager to work on stem cell research and genetic cloning. Some are even eager to work on illegal and controversial human cloning, perhaps seeking a potential to save lives or bring lives back.

The main man himself would feel like the kind of guy who wanted a foothold on the international cloning and genetic race. Giovanni commissioned them to make the ULTIMATE, STRONGEST POKEMON. This is the peak of designer genetics; this is modifying DNA to be everything he wanted. Intelligent, too. Capable of thinking like a human... Perhaps looks a little too human...

"Former Executive Ariana and several anonymous individuals have not confirmed the allegations of Team Rocket using donated eggs from their employees for the purposes of human genetic experimentation."

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

hey..... come here..... take some of my isat/pokemon au headcanons that were spinning around in my brain while i was figuring out how to write yesterday night. i know you want them.

Worldbuilding Specific

On account of humans being able to master Craft skills as a use of self defense, it's less common- but not unheard of- for children to get their first pokemon when they're so young. Many consider it a better use of time to learn how to master your own Crafts first, before relying on a pokemon to protect you. Then, in a worse case scenario if your pokemon were to faint, you aren't completely defenseless

Receiving your first pokemon, then, becomes a sort of rite of passage for a lot of children. A demonstration that they've internalized and practiced their Craft to the point where their parents trust them enough to bestow them a pokemon

Scholars are constantly at each other's throats about the nuance of Craft types and how they compare to pokemon's elemental abilities. Some believe that Craft types are exclusive to humans. Others believe that some pokemon can learn Craft, but only if they have a strong enough sense of self. Others still believe that every attack can be sorted into some classification of a Craft type (slicing physical damage for Piercing Craft, bludgeoning damage for Protector Craft, and special/ranged damage for Creative Craft)

The only thing that they can come to a consensus on is that Craft attacks from humans are classified as 'normal' type attacks to pokemon (leading some to believe that pokemon may have evolved from humans, or vice versa). This can be proven rather easily, considering Craft attacks are completely ineffective against ghost type pokemon

There was a brief attempt made to rename either Rock Craft or the rock elemental type due to the fact that they are two separate things. Trying to change it, however, proved more difficult and confusing than the previous issue they had, so they just leave it as is. Worst case scenario, you just elaborate by specifying Protector Craft.

Though pokemon battling is pretty much a worldwide sport, it originated in Ka Bue, and to this day that's the country that goes in the hardest on it. Pokemon battling is to Ka Bue as football is to America (<- most terrifying sentence I think I've ever written but it's true)

However, pokemon contests, on the other hand, originated in Vaugarde and spread from there. While not nearly as popular, it's taken root in the world all the same.

For those who follow the Change belief, it's very common to have at least one pokemon with a branching evolutionary line. It doesn't have to be a battling pokemon- usually it's just something to keep you company around the house. A lot of the times, children will grow up alongside their family pokemon, and seeing them change in fascinating ways affirms their beliefs about the religion and the beauty of change

Minior only crash land in one place

Jirachi is I think something but you'll have to come back to me later on that one

Character Specific

Bonnie didn't reach a point where their sister officially gave them a pokemon partner before everything started freezing in time. On their journey, however, they found a Cyndaquil, and the whole gang helped them catch it for themself

(Note that catching it was not at all essential to them having it. It already liked them. It probably would have stayed regardless. Bonnie wandered into camp one night just holding it like a cat and asked to keep it. It was just a fun bonding moment for them all)

Isabeau has a few pokemon, but his branching-evolutionary one was a Rockruff he had since childhood. Outgoing, energetic, playful, brave. It was everything he wasn't, back then.

The two of them Changed at around the same time, Isabeau first, and his Rockruff second, into a Midday Lycanroc. Normally, you give your pokemon a different name after its Changed to better reflect who it's Changed into. Isabeau could never figure out what to name it, though, and has just been calling it Lycanroc until he can think of a good name. He doesn't tell anyone but it's kind of stressing him out a little.

Mira has an Eevee, which is rather predictable of Housemaidens. However, it's kind of stressful for her because so many of the evolutions are triggered via a stone, which means that she would have to choose what the Eevee would become, and that's!! So much weight on her shoulders! What if it doesn't want to be what she chooses it to be?! What if she forces it to become something it hates and she hurts it on accident?!

It takes her a while to realize that 85% of this is self projection

Odile doesn't really have the time to care for a lot of pokemon, so she only has one. A very large Persian that's probably older than she is. It is terribly strong, but also terribly lazy, so there's a 50% chance it simply won't participate in a battle at all unless it really wants to (or, of course, if Odile is in genuine danger)

In her youth, the only social interaction Odile ever really had with her peers was battling them. And she was good at it, too. Wiping out someone's team of pokemon was the quickest way to get people off her back, so she did this easily and often.

Eventually though, this begun to backfire when people begun seeking her out looking for difficult fights. As a result, this intensified her shut-in behavior tenfold.

To this day she could still probably sweep a full team with just a handful of pokemon, battle strategist she is. She's not a braggart, though, so it's just another one of those things that her friends don't know about until she just blurts it out one day out of the blue and now everyone has several questions that she's purposefully never going to answer.

Siffrin

... Um. Hah. Siffrin, uh-

Siffrin...

...

Well, uh. Siffrin can't remember ever owning any pokemon! Haha!

Isabeau's helped them catch a few once or twice, but it never felt quite right, and they would always let them go soon after... It's a good skill to learn, certainly, but something about it feels... off, and they can never really explain why.