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Pokémon Sun and Moon are role-playing video games with adventure elements, set in the fictional Alola region (loosely based on Hawaii), [1] presented in a third-person, overhead perspective. [2] The player controls a young trainer who goes on a quest to catch and train creatures known as Pokémon, and win battles against other trainers. [1]
The season originally aired in Japan from November 17, 2016, to September 21, 2017, on TV Tokyo, [1] and in the United States from May 12, 2017, to December 9, 2017, on Disney XD, making it the first Pokémon series to premiere on that channel. Prior to this, a preview of the first two episodes aired on the network on December 5, 2016.
A live-action film, Pokémon Detective Pikachu, was produced by American studio Legendary Entertainment, directed by Rob Letterman, and written by Letterman and Nicole Perlman. [1] It was distributed in Japan by Toho and outside of Japan and China by Warner Bros. [ 2 ] It was released on May 10, 2019.
UK sales were down 60% on the sales of Pokémon Sun and Moon, the preceding games in the franchise, [51] due to the Switch having a smaller install base than the Nintendo 3DS and stock problems. [ 49 ] [ 51 ] The games sold over 338,270 physical retail units in 2018, [ 52 ] making them the year's eleventh best-selling retail games in the UK.
Pokémon, known in Japan as Pocket Monsters (ポケットモンスター, Poketto Monsutā), is a Japanese anime television series produced by animation studio OLM for TV Tokyo.
Mimikyu (/ ˈ m iː m iː k j uː / ⓘ; Japanese: ミミッキュ, Hepburn: Mimikkyu) is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon franchise. Designed by Megumi Mizutani for the 2016 video games Pokémon Sun and Moon, it is referred to as the "disguise Pokémon" in the series due to its appearance, which resembles a ragdoll form of Pikachu, the series mascot.
However 'Gorochu' was removed due to cartridge space concerns, and a pre-evolution for Pikachu, Pichu, was later added in the sequel titles Pokémon Gold and Silver. Pikachu is widely considered to be the most popular and well-known Pokémon species, largely due to its appearance in the Pokémon anime television series as the companion of ...
The series follows the young ten-year-old Pokémon trainer Ash Ketchum [a] and his adventures with his electric mouse partner Pikachu (voiced by Ikue Ōtani), and a varying group of friends in his quest to become a Pokémon Master.