I Can’t Sleep - Pokémon | Calm Bedtime Reading for Sleep

Episode Date: April 9, 2019

Drift off with calm bedtime reading about Pokémon to ease insomnia and sleepless nights. This soothing episode explores the origins and growth of the beloved franchise, from its beginnings as a video game to its expansion into trading cards, television, movies, and worldwide cultural impact. Benjamin’s gentle cadence turns the colorful world of creatures and trainers into a peaceful journey of learning. With no whispering or hypnosis—just calm, fact-filled storytelling—you’ll feel your mind settling, stress easing, and sleep arriving naturally. Press play, relax, and drift into rest. Want More? Request a Topic: https://www.icantsleeppodcast.com/request-a-topic Ad-Free Episodes: https://icantsleep.supportingcast.fm/ Shop Sleep-Friendly Products: https://www.icantsleeppodcast.com/sponsors Join the Discussion on Discord: https://discord.gg/myhGhVUhn7 This content is derived from the Wikipedia article on Pokémon, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. Read the full article: Wikipedia – Pokémon. Happy sleeping! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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With over 200 episodes in our catalog, this podcast is for you if you're ready to crush self-doubt, conquer challenges, and become stronger than ever with therapist-approved strategies that can change your life. Listen to Mentally Stronger with Therapist Amy Morin, wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the I Can't Sleep Podcast, where I read random articles to pour you to sleep with my soothing voice. I'm your host, Benjamin Boster. This episode is from a Wikipedia article titled, Pokemon. Pokemon, also known as Pocket Monsters in Japan, is a media franchise managed by the Pokemon Company, a Japanese consortium between Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures.

The franchise copyright is shared by all three companies, but Nintendo is the sole owner of the trademark. The franchise was created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1995 and is centered on fictional creatures called Pokemon, which humans, known as Pokemon trainers, catch and train to battle each other for sport. The English slogan for the franchise is, quote, Gotta Catch them All. Works within the franchise are set in. in the Pokemon universe. The franchise began as Pokemon Red and Green, released outside of Japan as Pokemon Red and Blue.

A pair of video games for the original Game Boy that were developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo in February 1996. Pokemon has since gone on to become the highest grossing media franchise of all time, with $90 billion in total franchise revenue. The original video game series is the second best-selling video game franchise behind Nintendo's Mario franchise, with more than 300 million copies sold, and 1 billion mobile downloads, and it spawned a hit anime television series that has become the most successful video game adaptation with over 20 seasons and 1,000 episodes in 124 countries.

In addition, the Pokemon franchise includes the world's top-selling toy brand, the top-selling trading card game with over 25.7 billion cards sold, an anime film series, a live-action film, books, manga comics, music, and merchandise. The franchise is also represented in other Nintendo media, such as the Super Smash Bros. series. In November 2005, for Kids Entertainment, which had managed the non-game-related licensing of Pokemon, announced that it had agreed not to renew the Pokemon representation agreement.

The Pokemon Company International oversees all Pokemon licensing outside of Asia. The franchise celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2006. In 2016, the Pokemon Company celebrated Pokemon's 20th anniversary by airing an ad during Super Bowl 50 in January. issuing re-releases of Pokemon Red and Blue and the 1998 Game Boy Game, Pokemon Yellow, as downloads for the Nintendo 3DS in February, and redesigning the way games are played. The mobile augmented reality game Pokemon Go was released in July. The most recently released games in the main series, Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu, and Let's Go Evie, were released worldwide in the Nintendo Switch on November 16, 2018.

The first live-action film in the franchise Pokemon Detective Pikachu, based on Detective Pikachu, began production in January 2018, and is set to release in 2019. The upcoming and latest games in the main series Pokemon Sword and Shield are scheduled to be released worldwide on the Nintendo Switch in late 2019. Name The name Pokemon is the romanized contraction of the Japanese brand Pocket Monsters. The term Pokemon, in addition to referring to the Pokemon franchise itself, also collectively refers to the 8-Henstein. 909 fictional species that have made appearances in Pokemon media.

As of the release of the 7th generation titles, Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu and Let's Go Evie, Pokemon is identical in the singular and plural, as is each individual species name. It is grammatically correct to say one Pokemon and many Pokemon, as well as one Pikachu and many. Pikachu. Concept. See also gameplay of Pokemon. Pokemon executive director Satoshi Tajiri first thought of Pokemon, albeit a different concept

and name, around 1989, when the Game Boy was released. The concept of the Pokemon universe, in both the video games and the general fictional world of Pokemon, stems from the hobby of insect collecting, a popular pastime which Tajiri enjoyed as a child. Players are designated as Pokemon trainers and have three general goals. To compete, to complete the regional Pokedex by collecting all of the available Pokemon species found in the fictional region where a game takes place, to complete the national polka decks by transferring Pokemon from other regions, and to train a team of powerful Pokemon from those they have caught

to compete against teams owned by other trainers, so they may eventually win the Pokemon League and become the regional champion. These themes of collecting, training, and battling are present in almost every version of the Pokemon. Pokemon franchise, including the video games, the anime and manga series, and the Pokemon trading card game. In most incarnations of the Pokemon universe, a trainer who encounters a wild Pokemon is able to capture that Pokemon by throwing a specially designed mass-producible spherical tool called

a Pokeball at it. If the Pokemon is unable to escape the confines of the Pokemon, it is considered to be under the ownership of that trainer. Afterwards, it will obey whatever commands it receives from its new trainer, unless the trainer demonstrates such a lack of experience that the Pokemon would rather act on its own accord. Trainers can send out any of their Pokemon to wage non-lethal battles against other Pokemon. If the opposing Pokemon is wild, the trainer can capture that Pokemon with a Pokea ball, increasing their collection of creatures.

In Pokemon Go and in Pokemon, Let's Go Pikachu and Let's Go Evie, Wild Pokemon encountered by players can be caught in Pokeballs, but generally cannot be battled. already owned by other trainers cannot be captured, except under special circumstances in certain side games. If a Pokemon fully defeats an opponent in battle so that the opponent is knocked out, feints, the winning Pokemon gains experience points and may level up. Beginning with Pokemon X and Y, experience points are also gained from catching Pokemon in Pocaballs. When leveling up, the Pokemon's battling aptitude statistics, stats, such as

attack and speed, increase. At certain levels, the Pokemon may also learn new moves, which are techniques used in battle. In addition, many species of Pokemon can undergo a form of metamorphosis and transform into a similar but stronger species of Pokemon, a process called evolution. This process occurs spontaneously under differing circumstances and is itself a central theme of the series. Some species of Pokemon may undergo a maximum of two evolutionary transformations, while others may undergo only one, and others may not evolve at all.

For example, the Pokemon Pichu may evolve into Pikachu, which in turn may evolve into Raitu, following which no further evolutions may occur. Pokemon X and Y introduced the concept of mega evolution, by which certain fully evolved Pokemon may temporarily undergo an additional evolution into a stronger form for the purpose of battling. This evolution is considered a special case, and unlike other evolutionary stages, it is reversible. In the main series, each game's single-player mode requires the trainer to raise a team of Pokemon to defeat many non-player character, NPC trainers, and their Pokemon. Each game lays out a somewhat linear path through a specific region of the Pokemon

world for the trainer to journey through, completing events and battling opponents along the way, including foiling the plans of an evil team of Pokemon trainers who serve as antagonist to the player. Excluding Pokemon Sun and Moon and Pokemon Ultra Sun, and Ultramoon, the games feature eight powerful trainers referred to as gym leaders, that the trainer must defeat in order to progress. As a reward, the trainer receives a gym badge, and once all eight badges are collected, the trainer is eligible to challenge the region's Pokemon League, where four talented trainers, referred to collectively as the Elite Four,

challenge the trainer to four Pokemon battles in succession. If the trainer can overcome this gauntlet, they must challenge the regional champion, the master trainer who had previously defeated the Elite 4. Any trainer who wins this last battle becomes the new champion. Video Games Main Articles List of Pokemon Video Games and Pokemon

video game series. Generations. All of the licensed Pokemon properties overseen by the Pokemon Company International are divided roughly by generation. These generations are roughly chronological divisions by release. Every several years, when a sequel to the 1996 role-playing video games Pokemon Red and Green is released that features new Pokemon, characters, and gameplay concepts. That sequel is considered the start of a new generation of the franchise. The main Pokemon video games and their spinoffs, the anime and manga,

and trading card game are all updated with the new Pokemon properties each time a new generation begins. Some Pokemon from the newer games appear in anime episodes or films, months or even years before the game they are programmed for came out. The first generation began in Japan with Pokemon red and green on the Game Boy. The franchise began the seventh generation on November 18th, 2016 with Pokemon Sun and Moon on the Nintendo 3DS. The most recent games in the main series, Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu and Let's Go Evie, were released on the Nintendo Switch on November 6th, 2018. Pokemon Sword and Shield will begin the 8th generation on the Nintendo Switch

and are scheduled to be released in late 2019. In Other Media Series Main Article Pokemon Anime Pokemon, also known as Pokemon the series, is an anime television series based on the Pokemon video game series. It was originally broadcast on TV Tokyo in 1997. As of 2018, it has produced and aired over 1,000 episodes, divided into six series in Japan and 21 seasons internationally.

The anime follows the quest of the main character, Ash Ketchum, known as Satoshi in Japan, a Pokemon master in training, as he and a small group of friends travel around the world of Pokemon along with their Pokemon partners. Various children's books, collectively known as Pokemon Jr., are also based on the anime. Films Main Article List of Pokemon Films In addition to the TV series, as of January 2019, 22 animated Pokemon films have been directed by Kunihiko Yuama and Tetsuyo Yajima,

and distributed in Japan by Toho since 1998. The pair of films, Pokemon the movie, Black, Victini, and Roshiram and White, Victini and Zekram, are considered together as one film. Collectibles as promotional trading cards have been available with some of the films. Live Action Film Main article, Pokemon, Detective Pikachu. A live action Pokemon film directed by Rob Letterman, produced by legendary entertainment,

and distributed in Japan by Toho and internationally by Warner Brothers, began filming in January 2018. On August 24th, the film's official title was announced as Pokemon Detective Pikachu. It is set for release on May 10, 2019. Soundtracks Main article, List of Pokemon theme songs. Pokemon CDs have been released in North America, some of them in conjunction with the theatrical releases of the first.

first three and the 20th Pokemon films. These releases were commonplace until late 2001. On March 27th, 2007, a 10th anniversary CD was released containing 18 tracks from the English dub. This was the first English language release in over five years. The soundtracks of the Pokemon feature films have been released in Japan each year in conjunction with the theatrical releases. In 2017, a soundtrack album featuring music from the North American versions of the 17th through 20th movies was released. For more information

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