Pokémon (Japanese: ポケモン , Hepburn: Pokemon, Japanese: [pokemoɴ] ; English: ) is a media franchise managed by The Pokémon 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 "Pokémon", which humans, known as Pokémon Trainers, catch and train to battle each other for sport.
The franchise began as a pair of video games for the original Game Boy that were developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo. It now spans video games, trading card games, animated television shows and movies, comic books, and toys. Pokémon is the second best-selling video game franchise, behind only Nintendo's Mario franchise, and the highest-grossing media franchise of all time. The franchise is also represented in other Nintendo media, such as the Super Smash Bros. series.
Cumulative sales of the video games (including home console games, such as Hey You, Pikachu! for the Nintendo 64) have reached more than 300 million copies. In November 2005, 4Kids Entertainment, which had managed the non-game related licensing of Pokémon, announced that it had agreed not to renew the Pokémon representation agreement. The Pokémon Company International (formerly Pokémon USA Inc.), a subsidiary of Japan's Pokémon Co., oversees all Pokémon licensing outside Asia. As of March 2017, the Pokémon franchise has grossed revenues of ¥6.0 trillion worldwide (equivalent to US$55.15 billion).
The franchise celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2006. 2016 marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the original games, with the company celebrating by airing an ad during Super Bowl 50, issuing re-releases of Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow, and completely redesigning the way the newest games are played. The mobile augmented reality game Pokémon Go was released in July 2016. The first seventh-generation games Pokémon Sun and Moon were released worldwide on November 18, 2016. A live-action film adaptation based on Detective Pikachu began production in 2017. The English slogan for the franchise is "Gotta Catch 'Em All".
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Enakyo Wonderland is an amusement park located in Nakatsugawa City, Gifu Prefecture.
It was originally a field athletic field, and later developed as an amusement park, and opened in 1970 as Ena Gorge Land. With the main feature of Enakyo being served by a ropeway (Enakyo Ropeway), 25 types of amusement facilities such as a large ferris wheel were prepared, and at the peak in 1991, the number of visitors per year was 500,000. However, the business turned to a downward trend under the influence of the economic downturn and declining birthrate, and the number of visitors near the closing of the park dropped to less than one third of the peak, giving up management. It was closed on November 30, 2000.
One and a half years later, it was reopened as "Enakyo Wonderland" by Okamoto Manufacturing Co., Ltd., which deals with the play equipment regeneration business in April 2002. There are more than 37 types of play facilities.
Seasonal business only from mid-March to the last Sunday of November.
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