Jan Genomonic Man
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Pokemon is estimated to be the world's highest grossing media franchise and is one of the best-selling video game franchises.
The franchise originated as a pair of role-playing games developed by Game Freak from an original concept by its founder, Satoshi Tajiri.
Released on the Game Boy on the 27th of February 1996, the games became sleeper hits and were followed by manga series, a trading card game, and anime series and films.
From 1998 to 2000, Pokemon was exported to the rest of the world, creating an unprecedented global phenomenon, dubbed Pokemania.
By 2002, the craze had ended, after which Pokemon became a fixture in popular culture, with new products releasing to this day.
In the summer of 2016, the franchise spawned a second craze with the release of Pokemon Go, an augmented reality game developed by Niantic.
Unlike most IPs, which are owned by one company, Pokemon is jointly owned by three, Nintendo, Game Freak and Creatures.
Game Freak develops the core series RPGs, which are published by Nintendo exclusively for their console, while Creatures manages the trading card game and other related merchandise, occasionally developing spin-off titles.
The three companies established the Pokemon Company in 1998 to manage the Pokemon property within Asia.
The Pokemon anime series and films are co-owned by Shogakukan.
Since 2009, the Pokemon Company International, a subsidiary of TPC, has managed the franchise in all regions outside Asia.
Now on to today's mnemonic.
Mnemonic.
And the mnemonic for Pokemon top five most popular is become Pikachu or Eevee.
Now, all those words are spelt normally.
And for become, we take all of the consonants and all the vowels are assisting.
And Pikachu is Pikachu and Eevee, Eevee.
And for this one, picture yourself morphing into your favourite Pokemon, Pikachu or Eevee.
And just before I get into it, this list is according to Makeshift Project, and they are not in order, as the order changes frequently.
So we'll get into it.