Why I Love Pokemon

This is not something that I would readily admit, being a 30 year old man, but as I’ve been thinking back to my childhood (first baby is on the way), I have realised how Pokemon, and the ability to remember how it was to be a child, has had a positive effect in my life.

The Pokemon franchise was created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996, and is centered on fictional creatures called Pokemon, or Pocket Monsters. In the franchise, humans…