The Pokémon Company

Background
The Pokémon Company International is an American/British company that is responsible for marketing and licensing the Pokémon franchise to the Americas and Europe.

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

Variants:



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: Current. Seen on the company's first live-action film, Pokémon: Detective Pikachu.

Editor's Note: None.