Puma Japan's November 2022 release for its PUMA x Pokémon collection names The Pokémon Company International, the US arm, as its partner, not ShoPro or the Tokyo company

How it’s built

1. Read from Puma Japan's press release announcing the collection on sale in Japan from 12 November 2022.

What we assumed

Nothing. The figure is used as published.

Sanity check

It is a global collection, which may explain why the US arm is named. The release has no licensing or ShoPro wording and no copyright line, so it names a partner, not the contract.

Where it comes from

The line in the source

プーマ ジャパン株式会社（本社所在地：東京都品川区）は、「The Pokémon Company International（ザ ポケモン カンパニー インターナショナル）」とポケモンの世界をテーマにした初のコラボレーション「PUMA x Pokémon（プーマ ｘ ポケモン）」コレクションを2022年11月12日（土）より発売します。

In English

Global collection; Japanese release names TPCi as collaboration counterparty. Does not trigger Q163-F1 (株式会社ポケモン alone) but is a non-ShoPro counterparty in Japanese release text.