Pokémon
Japanese media franchise
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| 2025 | Sarah Natochenny cast as Simus Al Bakharov in Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX, continuing her voice acting career in anime |
| May 30 2025 |
Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
Scarlet & Violet: Destined Rivals set released, continuing the Trainer's Pokémon theme with popular trainers like Cynthia, Ethan, Arven, Misty, Marnie, and Steven.
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| May 27 2025 |
Pokémon episodes
Release of Season 22 Complete Season DVD, covering episodes 1034-1087.
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| May 5 2025 | On her 40th birthday, Nakagawa announced her first pregnancy and the establishment of her own agency called 'miracle', with a business partnership with Watanabe Entertainment. |
| 2025 | Sarah Natochenny is nominated for Best Voice Actor Performance (English) at the 9th Crunchyroll Anime Awards for her role as Alisa 'Alya' Mikhailovna Kujō in 'Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian' |
| April 1 2025 |
Pokémon Jet
Garuda Indonesia introduced an Airbus A330-300 (PK-GPY) with a Pikachu wearing Batik, becoming the first Airbus widebody aircraft with a Pokémon-themed livery.
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| March 28 2025 |
Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
Scarlet & Violet: Journey Together set released, with prereleases starting March 15, marking the ninth set in the Scarlet & Violet series.
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| 2025 | Upcoming release of Pokémon Legends: Z-A for Nintendo Switch |
| 2025 | Set to voice Elsa Nautilus in The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside by My Fiancé and Sold to Another Kingdom |
| February 25 2025 | Anthropic started streaming 'Claude Plays Pokemon', a homage to the original Twitch Plays Pokémon concept, with Claude playing Pokémon Red. |
| February 24 2025 |
Pokémon Fossil Museum
The Pokémon Fossil Museum exhibition at the Hofu Science Museum is scheduled to conclude.
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| January 17 2025 |
Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
Prismatic Evolutions set was released, featuring 'eeveelutions' and rare, exclusively illustrated cards, causing significant collector interest and scarcity.
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| 2024 |
Pokémon World Championships
Pokémon World Championships winners: Sakuya Ota from Japan won the Juniors division (U11), Evan Pavelski from the United States won the Seniors division (11-14), and Fernando Cifuentes from Chile won the Masters division (15+).
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| 2024 | Narrated 'The Registration Rewritten' |
| 2024 | Veronica Taylor voiced Eternal Sailor Pluto/Setsuna Meio in the English dub of Sailor Moon Cosmos |
| 2024 | Mike Pollock voiced Dr. Eggman, Classic Eggman, and Professor Gerald Robotnik in Sonic X Shadow Generations |
| 2024 | Mike Pollock made a cameo as Dr. Rabbitnik the Easter Egg Man in a YouTube animation titled 'And Beyond' |
| 2024 | Creatures Inc. co-develops Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket for iOS and Android platforms with DeNA |
| 2024 | Pandoland published by WonderPlanet for iOS and Android |
| 2024 | Voices Runrūn in Puniru Is a Cute Slime |
| 2024 | Voiced Pi-Pi-chan in Ghost Cat Anzu. |
| 2024 |
Pokémon episodes
Pokémon anime series begins Season 27: The Search for Laqua, marking a new storyline in the Pokémon animated series.
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| 2024 |
Pokémon World Championships
Hong Kong's Yekai0904 wins the Masters (17+) Pokémon World Championships
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| 2024 |
Pokémon World Championships
Pokémon World Championships winners are Kevin Han (Juniors) from United States, Ray Yamanaka (Seniors) from Japan, and Luca Ceribelli (Masters) from Italy
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| 2024 |
Pokémon World Championships
Japan's team Fennel won the Pokémon World Championships, marking a significant victory for Japanese players including Haruki Yoshiura, Yuma Sato, Mashika Shirakawa, Yumeto Tanabe, and Shouki Takada.
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| 2024 | Online Pokémon Center stores for Australia and New Zealand were launched. |
| 2024 | Palworld released, the latest game in the monster-taming genre influenced by Pokémon |
| November 9 2024 |
Pokémon Fossil Museum
The Pokémon Fossil Museum began its exhibition at the Hofu Science Museum in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.
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| November 8 2024 |
Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
Scarlet & Violet: Surging Sparks set was released, continuing to introduce Stellar Tera Pokémon ex and featuring themes from the Terarium setting.
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| October 2024 | Nearly a terabyte of data was stolen from Game Freak's servers, including development builds, source code, test sprites, code names for upcoming Pokémon games, and prototypes of unreleased game remakes. |
| September 13 2024 |
Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
Scarlet & Violet: Stellar Crown set was released, focusing on Terastallized Pokémon and content from The Indigo Disk, featuring 175 cards including various rare card types.
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| August 2024 | Unauthorized access to Game Freak's servers resulted in a significant data breach. |
| August 2 2024 |
Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
Shrouded Fable, the third extra set, was released focusing on the Kitakami region and featuring the Loyal Three legendary Pokémon from the Scarlet & Violet DLC: The Teal Mask.
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| July 23 2024 |
Pokémon episodes
Complete Season 25: Ultimate Journeys DVD box set is released, covering episodes 1178-1205, 1207, 1209-1212, 1214, 1216-1234.
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| July 19 2024 |
Pokémon Fossil Museum
Pokémon Fossil Museum exhibited at Gifu Prefectural Museum in Seki, Gifu, Japan
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| June 17 2024 | La Poste (France) issued a commemorative booklet containing 12 Pokémon-themed postage stamps. |
| May 24 2024 |
Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
Scarlet & Violet: Twilight Masquerade set was released, featuring more Ancient and Future Pokémon and introducing Pokémon from the Kitakami region.
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| March 22 2024 |
Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
Scarlet & Violet: Temporal Forces set was released, continuing the Ancient and Future Pokémon concept and reintroducing ACE SPEC cards from the fifth-generation set.
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| March 20 2024 |
Pokémon Fossil Museum
Pokémon Fossil Museum exhibited at Mifune Dinosaur Museum in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
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| March 1 2024 | The official Pokémon Instagram account posted a video featuring Omastar and Omanyte to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the original Twitch Plays Pokémon run. |
| February 27 2024 | Pokémon Legends: Z-A is announced by The Pokémon Company, set to release in 2025 as a prequel to X and Y. |
| February 22 2024 |
Pokémon Jet
Garuda Indonesia became the fourth non-Japanese airline to introduce a Pokémon Jet, with a Boeing 737-800 (PK-GMU) featuring water-themed Pokémon characters.
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| February 18 2024 |
Pokémon Fossil Museum
The Pokémon Fossil Museum exhibit at the Iwate Prefectural Museum reached 30,000 visitors.
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| January 26 2024 |
Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
Paldean Fates, the second extra set in the Scarlet and Violet era, was released with over 240 cards, including more than 100 Shiny Pokémon and 6 hyper rare cards.
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| January 11 2024 | Epilogue to The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero is released. |
| 2023 | Nomura directed the mobile game Monster Hunter Now. |
| 2023 | Game updated with new voice actors Ian Cardoni and Harry Belden replacing Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon for character voices. |
| 2023 | Veronica Taylor voiced Micaiah in Fire Emblem Engage English dub |
| 2023 | Voiced Lopmon in the English dub of Digimon Adventure: |
| 2023 | Shoko Nakagawa reprised her role as Diana in 'Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos The Movie', a 2-part film covering Season 5 of Sailor Moon Crystal (Shadow Galactica arc). |
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