[happymellon]

> Inventive ideas like Pokemon may not exist if people could just reuse other people's IP to make a buck.

Ironic.

Pokémon drew inspiration from a number of areas including Ultraseven, which had the concept of the main character having number of capsules containing miniaturized monsters, which come out and return to their original sizes when the capsule is thrown into mid-air.

Pokémon initially was named Capsule Monsters.