Pokémon

Few entertainment properties sprawl the way Pokémon does: 91 catalog entries across games, movies, TV, and books, running from 1998's Pokémon Yellow to 2025's Pokémon Legends: Z-A. The games are the heart. Pokémon Crystal (8.7) remains a high-water mark of the classic catch-and-train formula, and Pokémon Legends: Arceus (2022) showed the series could rethink its own structure, while oddball spinoffs (Snap, Pinball, Mystery Dungeon) and Super Smash Bros. cameos orbit the core.

Start with the mainline games: Crystal for the classic shape, Legends: Arceus for the modern one. On TV, the 1997 anime (8.0) is the nostalgia engine, but Pokémon Horizons (2023) actually rates higher at 8.7. The spinoffs are genuinely uneven; Pokémon Stadium 2 (6.8) and Battle Revolution (6.1) sit well below the main line, so treat them as dessert rather than dinner.

The Pokémon franchise spans 11 series, 5 books, 38 games, 38 movies in the CrossBinge catalog.