What this is
How often companies are credited on Japanese Pokémon books, 1997–2026: The Pokémon Company 42 times as supervisor and twice as author; ShoPro 56 times as supervisor and 35 for art; Game Freak 18; Creatures 12; Nintendo 3.
How it’s built
- Counted credit roles by company across Pokémon book records in Japan’s national library catalogue and other catalogues.
- Re-ran the count and got an identical result.
What we assumed
- Uncredited records do not change the picture.1,379 of 2,830 records carry no credit text, and 20 records naming a company could not be parsed, so every count is a floor.
Sanity check
These are counts of catalogue records, not of books sold, and say nothing about money.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes.
Show the working
- Archived664 TPC 監修: 1
- Rerun identical to count result json: yes