The Pokémon Company

Background
The Pokémon Company is a Japanese company that is responsible for marketing and licensing the Pokémon franchise, formed a joint venture between Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures, Inc. The company has a subsidiary called The Pokémon Company International which serves American and European territories, formed as a merger between Pokémon USA, Inc. (founded in 2001) and Pokémon UK in 2009.

1st Logo (1998- )
Logo: A still of the text "The Pokémon Company" on a white background.

Variants:
 * An animated variant exists and can be seen on Pokémon Colosseum, Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, Pokémon Channel among others, it was also seen on commercials for the Pokémon Trading Card Game and used as an opening logo on international prints of the Pokémon films.
 * This logo will often appear above or below other company logos in various spin-off games.
 * The logo is sometimes inverted to have white text on a black background.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: None. For the animated variant, a 2-note sounder.

Availability: Current. Seen on certain Pokémon side series and spin-off games, such as Pokémon Box Ruby and Sapphire, Pokémon Colosseum, Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, Pokémon Channel, as well as the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series of games. It is also seen on mobile apps and games such as Pokémon GO, Pokémon Masters EX, Pokémon Home, Pokémon Smile and Pokémon Unite. It also appears on the Generation V core series games Pokémon Black Version, Pokémon White Version, Pokémon Black Version 2, and Pokémon White Version 2 above the Nintendo logo, but not any core series game before or since then.

Editor's Note: None.

2nd Logo (September 9, 2006- )
Nickname: "In-Credit Text Pokémon Logo"

Logo: Just an in-credit text logo featuring the company name with the copyright year seen on the left of the name.

FX/SFX: Mostly none.

Music/Sounds: Closing theme to the show.

Availability: Current. Seen on all episodes of the Pokémon anime dubs beginning with the ninth season, Pokémon: Battle Frontier.

Editor's Note: None.

3rd Logo (May 10, 2019)
Logo: On a black background, a 3D model of the Earth fades in spinning, eventually getting faster before turning into a Poké Ball as a shining effect appears. The ball shakes once as its center lights up, making the ball disappear in a flash of light, revealing the 3D text "The Pokémon Company" in its corporate font, which slowly zooms out.

FX/SFX: CGI animation. This was made by yU + co.

Music/Sounds: A "bling" sound effect as the globe turns into the Poké Ball, followed by the iconic sound effect (a warbling noise, followed by a click) when a Poké Ball is used in the games.

Availability: Seen on the company's first (and only) live-action film, Pokémon: Detective Pikachu.

Editor's Note: None.

(October 11, 2002-October 28, 2005)
Logo: On a black background with a shining light on the top left, we see the metallic with a black border text "Pokémon USA, Inc." The light shines until the background turns white. The text then shines.

Variant: On Pokémon movies, a filmed version of this logo is used.

FX/SFX: The text shines, the background changes to white.

Music/Sounds: A set of rattling sounds as the text zooms out, then a held-out string synth note, and a zapping sound as it shines. On movies, the opening theme is used.

Availability: Rare. First seen on Pokémon 4Ever after the 4Kids logo. Its also seen on Pokémon Team Turbo for the PC.

Editor's Note: None.