Squirtle & Charmander

Pokemon is that rarest of animé and manga franchise phenomenona: an animé and manga franchise who managed to completely traverser, croix over from the seconde best-selling video game franchise to the the world's largest mainstream animé and manga franchise. Other video game franchises like Mario and Sonic performed similar moves in which notably became enduring mainstream icones based on their video game franchise work -- but Pokemon shed video game franchise roots like they were a seconde skin; it was a necessary molting to reveal Pokemon was perhaps the sharpest, savviest, populist animé and manga franchise...