Pokémon (ポケモン, Pokemon? , / ˈ p oʊ k eɪ m ɒ n / POH-kay-mon )[1] [2] is a media franchise owned by The Pokémon Company ,[3] and created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1995.[4] It is centered（拠点） on fictional creatures called "Pokémon" , which humans capture and train to fight each other for sport.
The franchise began as a pair of video games for the original Game Boy , developed by Game Freak and published（発表する） by Nintendo . The franchise now spans（期間） video games, trading card games, animated television shows and movies, comic books, and toys. Pokémon is the second-most successful and lucrative（有利な） video game-based media franchise（特権） in the world, behind only Nintendo's Mario franchise .[5]