Who is paid, and for what, under each known Pokémon toy licence from 2000 to 2026

What this is

Who is paid, and for what, under each known Pokémon toy licence from 2000 to 2026: ShoPro as agent in Japan; The Pokémon Company International in the West.

How it’s built

Japan: read the counterparty named in Takara Tomy’s yearly licence row: ShoPro and The Pokémon Company in 2015, ShoPro alone after.
West: TOMY International’s row names The Pokémon Company International as licensor; other Western deals rely on press or are presumed.

What we assumed

Western deals with no named licensor pay The Pokémon Company International.It runs licensing in-house outside Asia, and ShoPro’s role is Japan-only.
ShoPro acts as an agent, passing money on less a fee.ShoPro calls itself a “merchandising management window”; the money flow itself is not disclosed.

Sanity check

No row in any filing gives an amount. A later update raised the Disguise costume payee from presumed to press-reported.

Where it comes from

Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes:

Show the working

Classification per C-Q16-5 from the text of each row
Japan: counterparty column of Takara Tomy's 経営上の重要な契約等 row by year
West: TOMY International row names TPCi (USA) as licensor, A
'presumed TPCi' for other Western rows follows

Where it’s used

Related figures

Built from this one

EstimateOwner flows map, 2016–2026

The IP

The companies

The business lines

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