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Intellectual Property and the Japanese Media Mix: video games between Fan culture and business strategies. Japanese video games have become a significant segment of the global entertainment and media industry, while also serving as a defining element of Japanese popular culture enjoyed worldwide. Many of the industry's key technological advancements have been driven by Japanese companies, and numerous iconic video game franchises trace their origins to Japan. Notably, these games are often integrated into a broader media mix strategy, in which publishers expand a single narrative across various media formats—such as anime, manga, and video games—featuring shared characters and immersive fic…

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Meowth (, mee-OW-th), known in Japanese as Nyarth (Japanese: ニャース), is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon media franchise, and the first stage of its evolved form, Persian. First introduced in the video games Pokémon Red and Blue, it has received multiple new forms, including regional variants called Alolan Meowth and Galarian Meowth in Pokémon Sun and Moon and Pokémon Sword and Shield respectively. These two forms are Dark and Steel as opposed to Meowth's Normal form. Sword and Shield also introduced a giant-sized Meowth transformation that causes it to become very long, called Gigantamax Meowth. It has appeared in multiple games including Pokémon Go and the Pokémon Tra…

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