Net profit of Creatures, one of Pokémon’s three founding companies, for its year to March 2020

What this is

Net profit of Creatures, one of Pokémon’s three founding companies, for its year to March 2020: about ¥3.87bn.

How it’s built

1. Read from Creatures’ annual results notice in Japan’s official gazette, as transcribed by catr.jp, a site that collects those notices.

What we assumed

Nothing. The figure is used as published.

Sanity check

This is the only Creatures results notice anyone has found; nothing later has been published online, so it cannot show how profits moved after the card boom.

Where it comes from

The line in the source

純利益 ¥3,871,855,000

Where it’s used

• StoryThe founders
• Chart · The foundersEach founder’s profit has surfaced once, both times alongside a merger notice
• Chart · The foundersEach founder earned more than three times the most that fees for its work could explain
• ProfileCreatures Inc.
• ProfileGame Freak and Creatures public notices
• ProfileCompanies House and other company registries

Related figures

Built from this one

• EstimateA corrected estimate of Creatures’ headcount in March 2020, about 127–155, and what it implies

The same measure, other periods

• EstimateUndated (aggregator; latest-year label unresolved)¥3.9bn