Jessica is a writer for Game Rant with a background in language-focused content. She is fluent in Japanese and got her start writing articles teaching about the culture and language. She graduated ...

Pikachu is very much the face of the franchise, thanks to its marketability and design. But if it had been called, say, Elemouse, would it have had quite the same staying power? I posit not, as that ...

There’s a lot of creativity to be found within the Pokemon series, from the Pokemon’s designs to the etymology of their names. Some are just fun puns, while others draw from mythological, history, and ...