Sources and methods

Theoretical, cultural and educational edited volume; chapters on motivations, social aspects and health.

Limitations: Catalog entry and contents read; not the full text of the book.

Publisher abstract: 14 studies and 8 families of motivations; links with adaptive and problematic behaviors.

Limitations: Chapter 71–93 of the same book; not the full text.

PHE position favoring activity and social contact, with caution and a call for evaluation; no refusal of partnership expressed.

Limitations: Historical 10-minute reference; do not present as a current recommendation.

The official Dong-A store reproduces the announcement of two Orthomol sets, with Pikachu or Charmander and accessories. The text announces availability from 1 May 2026 at Olive Young.

Limitations: The page is dated 30 July, whereas the announced launch is 1 May. The original Dong-A announcement is indexed as 30 April. No benefit specific to the Pokémon license is demonstrated.

The manufacturer presents Kids toothbrushes for ages 1–6 and 6–12, as well as a Pocket Monsters variant. It advertises a head and handle adapted to children.

Limitations: Commercial features; no measurement of the character’s effect on brushing or caries.

Written commentary critiques extrapolation from short-lived step gains to national mortality.

Limitations: Text read, not audio; covers activity only.

GO popularization: activity, social aspects, addiction, obesity/diabetes and accidents; links to press releases and media.

Limitations: Editorial comparator only, with causal wording sometimes stronger than the evidence.

Narrative review of activity, psychological health and risks, with studies and press examples.

Limitations: Launch period; not a synthesis across products.

Seven-page Japanese synthesis on digital games, health, risks, sleep, cognition and gamification; GO as an introductory example.

Limitations: Not a study of Pokémon alone; repository file timestamped 2025 but article from 2024.

The Pokemon_cojp account announces availability of the Pokémon Sleep edition Fitbit Air and screen-free sleep tracking.

Limitations: Brand announcement only; neither effectiveness nor independent evaluation.

The caption announces a campaign starting on 15 September, inviting ten groups to stay in Hokkaido.

Limitations: Commercial communication about rest, without effectiveness measurement. The date was displayed in relative form; the visuals were not analyzed.

Canon Medical and Pokémon offer an MRI preparation video with unaltered real sounds and a child-height view; Snorlax/Sudowoodo illustrate staying still, Magnemite illustrates metal objects.

Limitations: Staff feedback quoted and successful examinations without sedation described without a sample size/comparator; do not conclude a causal reduction in sedation.

Pokémon Smile was developed with LITALICO, which handles programming, while Pokémon manages design and the team; camera, brushing-zone instructions and collecting reward brushing.

Limitations: LITALICO’s inclusion context does not prove adaptation or effectiveness for all disabled children.

Announced start on 1 May 2026; around 1000 AED locations in Tokyo, then a target of around 13000 in Japan by mid-July. Pawmot and AED N@VI data used to make defibrillators familiar.

Limitations: 13000 is an announced target, not verified achievement; no measurement of rescue or survival.

The official Pokémon Taiwan portal announces a Pikachu edition of Rohto Digieye eye drops on 21 June 2021. Licensing for Asia is explicitly stated.

Limitations: Blue-light claims belong to this commercial announcement. No independent clinical validation was read.

Official site contains sleep education supervised by Yanagisawa. Explicitly states entertainment only, neither screening nor diagnosis nor treatment.

Limitations: The presence of education demonstrates neither learning nor a clinical effect; it does not validate every medical statement.

Sleep data saved on the server, excluding audio; configurable sharing with friends, identical rewards when sharing is reduced.

Limitations: Declarative documentation as of the reading date; functions may change.

Support states that video used to detect the face and movements is neither stored nor sent. Decoration photos remain local. It describes a four-hour interval between brushing sessions and the lack of recognition of electric toothbrushes.

Limitations: These statements concern the functions described; they do not demonstrate the absence of all other data collection.

Audio kept on the device, never sent to the server, available for 24 h or until the next tracking session.

Limitations: Audio function only; does not describe all personal data.

Official sleep knowledge portal: glossary, questions, sleep debt, advice; score is not diagnostic and articles are mostly for adults.

Limitations: Subarticles not read in full; official commercial interest.

Policy against discrimination/harassment and responsibilities of individuals and organizers at official events.

Limitations: Sets out policy and procedures; implementation and health not evaluated.

Location and activity; user-enabled background tracking; HealthKit/Google Fit data excluded from marketing; detailed sharing with other players.

Limitations: Declarative policy, not a technical or legal audit.

Eligibility includes pediatric facilities; use authorized during routine care subject to conditions; external promotion and additional charges excluded.

Limitations: Rules in force at the time of reading, not legal advice or evidence of effectiveness.

Survey following the 1997 episode: 1373 children attending clinics voluntarily, 80% viewers; 67 symptomatic, including 10 reported seizures.

Limitations: Selected clinical sample; the various symptoms are not all epileptic; no population incidence estimate.

Randomized thesis study: 38 recruited/randomized, 32 completed. Four weeks of Fitbit + goals + psychoeducation, with or without GO. No demonstrated superiority of GO for steps at week 4 (complete-case analysis p=.43; imputed p=.60).

Limitations: Thesis, not a peer-reviewed article; target of 65 not reached; predominantly female sample; baseline measurement differed from the Fitbit used in the intervention; missing data; no follow-up beyond 4 weeks; a nonsignificant result does not prove equivalence.

240 adolescents aged 12 to 16 participated for ten weeks. Four apps were randomly assigned within classes; the distinction between active and inactive participants was not randomized. Of 59 GO participants, 17 dropped out (28.8%), including 13 of the 29 initially inactive participants (44.8%). The overall difference in dropout between apps was not significant (p = 0.318); the difference in the inactive subgroup was significant (p = 0.012).

Limitations: Convenience sample in two schools, with a 10% incentive on the physical education grade and targets of 4.5 to 8 km three times a week. This analysis has no group without an app. The cohort probably overlaps with the 2024 trial, given the identical sample sizes and allocations. There are multiple comparisons, and the reported η² thresholds are inconsistent: a value greater than 1 is impossible. No significant before/after change in problematic phone use is reported for GO.

Survey of 230 adults: stronger childhood attachment associated with greater nostalgia and less frequent play; older age associated with motivation for activity and greater frequency.

Limitations: Retrospective survey of 230 adults; paywalled full text not read.

The indexed primary abstract describes CHIPPS: five items, a score from 0 to 10. It helps identify an anomaly in the score reported in Sasi 2024.

Limitations: Publisher passage read in search results; direct access blocked (403). Aggregating days 1 and 2 could exceed 10, but this method is not explained in Sasi.

Investigation of 18 patients who experienced symptoms after the 1997 broadcast; 16 showed photosensitivity to visual patterns.

Limitations: Selected patient series: it provides information about a mechanism and a vulnerability, without estimating population risk or evaluating current games.

BCTTv 1 training: 161 trainees (109 workshops, 52 tutorials). Agreement with experts and confidence improved, but not inter-coder agreement. Coding concerns the techniques described, not their clinical effectiveness in Pokémon.

Limitations: Methodological study outside Pokémon.

79048 Japanese employees, 2.1 million nights/28 days; associations between duration/quality/regularity and presenteeism.

Limitations: Cross-sectional; self-selection; company data; sleep accuracy differs from PSG; Yanagisawa is a paid Pokémon consultant.

Questionnaire studies n=273 in Germany before release and n=244 in the USA in August 2016. Nostalgia/meaning associated with entertainment experience; indirect link to psychological well-being. No direct link; well-being R² .04/.05. Authors rule out causal conclusions.

Limitations: Convenience samples, correlation, low explained variance, neither prevention nor therapy.

Analysis of 1,025 active Twitch streamers covering the Pokémon trading card game. Of these, 257 (25.07%) show use or promotion of alcohol, cannabis or tobacco, creating potential exposure to inappropriate content.

Limitations: Keyword selection and snowball sampling. The analysis concerns the content of selected streamers, without measuring minors’ consumption or a causal effect of Pokémon.

7-day diary: daily time associated with satisfaction/vitality/interactions, not daily exercise; total play associated with exercise.

Limitations: Associational; not a therapeutic effect.

Eight-week follow-up of 190 adolescents aged 12 to 15: 87 in the GO group, 103 controls. Differences in attention, concentration and sociability are reported.

Limitations: Publisher abstract and preview read; random allocation not demonstrated. Adjustments do not eliminate self-selection risk. No evidence of a general benefit for intelligence or health.

Japanese national database; 886 road deaths in summer 2016; post-launch change 0.017/million CI[-0.036,0.071], not significant.

Limitations: Ecological; short time window; does not demonstrate absence of individual risk.

Hong Kong time series from 2012 to 2018, covering 13,463 visits for self-harm. An adjusted decrease of 34% is reported after the launch of Pokémon GO.

Limitations: Ecological analysis with no individual playing status and subject to temporal confounding. It does not demonstrate suicide prevention.

Ten-week study of 123 primary school pupils in Taiwan: 61 in the GO group and 62 controls. Improvements are reported in attention, concentration, imagination, emotionality and sociability. Results for memory, well-being and self-control are not significant.

Limitations: Only the original abstract was read. The experimental design is mixed and randomization is not established; the authors call for randomized trials. There are multiple outcomes and no demonstration of clinical transfer.

7 children aged 5, the same children in two sessions; plaque fluorescence; significant pre/post decrease with Smile and nonsignificant decrease with usual brushing; increased interest.

Limitations: Original abstract reproduced in DOAJ; publisher firewall. Tiny sample; comparing significant/nonsignificant results does not prove a between-condition difference; no long-term effect.

Quasi-experimental study with post-intervention measurement: 50 children aged 5 to 12 who had undergone abdominal surgery, divided into two groups of 25. Ten minutes of augmented reality Pokémon play accompany wound dressings on days 1 and 2. The authors report better pain and comfort scores.

Limitations: Purposive selection without randomization, comparator receiving usual care and unidentified app. Analgesia, blinding and time-point aggregation are not specified. The control group’s mean pain score is 12.20 although CHIPPS is usually scored from 0 to 10: an anomaly or aggregation requiring clarification. Do not reproduce this quantitative effect or present this study as robust evidence.

75 children aged 6 to 8, three groups of 25: conventional toothbrush, Batman/Barbie electric toothbrush, and Colgate Magik with its app. This is not a Pokémon Smile trial.

Limitations: Direct PDF unavailable (502); methods consulted in the indexing of the original PDF. Study excluded from Pokémon trials.

School physical activity program featuring explorers/heroes/guardians, not Pokémon Sleep. Adjacent source excluded from Pokémon evidence.

Limitations: Analogy only; no transfer of findings to Pokémon.

Students aged 18 to 35: 255 recruited, 249 randomized and 246 analyzed according to the publisher extract. The abstract mainly covers daily steps transmitted through an app.

Limitations: No result attributable to Sleep or brand-specific effect is isolated. Full text inaccessible (403). The study starts in April 2024 and the registry is submitted in January 2025: do not describe it as prospective preregistration. No results for the sleep outcomes planned in the registry were identified in the accessible passages.

Institutional reproduction of the same Liu abstract, not a second study. Confirms the step outcome and 246 analyzed; no sleep results in the abstract.

Limitations: Does not replace the full text; does not count as replication.

262 respondents reporting critical incidents; 8 changes and 13 features; catching and geolocation associated with all types.

Limitations: Retrospective qualitative study; proposed mechanisms, not isolated causality.

fMRI distinguishes Pokémon cortical responses in adults with expertise since childhood; figures indicate 11 experts and 11 novices for fMRI.

Limitations: Organization of the visual cortex; no evidence of improved intelligence, general memory or health. PMC blocked by browser check.

Visual memory experiments: more familiar first-generation characters remembered; no better precision of representations.

Limitations: Prior familiarity, not randomized training or general transfer; sample sizes not given in the abstract.

Two experiments: faster visual memory consolidation for familiar Pokémon; advantage depends on encoding time.

Limitations: Test of a specific familiarity mechanism, not a therapeutic effect or dementia prevention; sample sizes not in the abstract.

Functional MRI case study of an autistic participant interested in Digimon. Pokémon features in the typically developing comparison participant.

Limitations: This is not a Pokémon trial in autism. The Digimon finding cannot be attributed to Pokémon or generalized to a population.

Thematic analysis of environmental narratives in games released between 1996 and 2023: pollution and changes linked to human activities.

Limitations: Analysis of games, with no participants or measurement of learning, ecological behavior or health.

Crossover study of 1 h GO/1 h walking without a phone, 59 recruited. Condition×time interaction for negative mood not significant p=.297; no improvement in empathy.

Limitations: A positive post hoc result for GO alone does not prove superiority over walking. Small student sample, attrition/analyses df 35; immediate mood, not depression.

Cohort of 1,182 people, including 560 players: 955 additional steps a day in the first week (confidence interval 697 to 1,213), then a return to baseline around the sixth week.

Limitations: Observational difference-in-differences analysis. Participants are young adults recruited through MTurk and report steps counted by their iPhones.

KPNC records of 222 players mentioning a benefit or event; 75 events including 8 serious injuries; 147 reported benefits.

Limitations: Selection based on mentions in records; player denominator unknown; 75/222 is not population incidence.

Interviews with 34 players: childhood memories, design and popularity linked to friendships and family bonds.

Limitations: Qualitative; mapping of meanings; brand-specific effect not isolated.

Randomized trial with 400 participants: 240 use apps, including 59 using Pokémon GO, and 160 form the control group. Follow-up lasts ten weeks; benefits are mainly analyzed according to the volume achieved.

Limitations: The effects published here are grouped by adherence. They do not isolate a Pokémon GO effect. The cohort probably overlaps with Gómez 2025.

N 16 children with ASD, one school in Bandung, five days supported by caregivers after education. Caregiver-reported questionnaire on surfaces brushed, paired improvement p=.004. No control; no clinical plaque measurement.

Limitations: 15 boys/1 girl; exclusion of ADHD/anxiety/depression and requirement to understand instructions; score measures surface coverage, not technical quality. Inconsistent scores between abstract/tables; do not report magnitude without clarification. App effect cannot be separated from supervision/education.

32000 Microsoft Band users; highly engaged subgroup +1473 steps/day over 30 days.

Limitations: Players inferred from Bing searches; engaged subgroup; short-term effect; the 144 billion extrapolation should not be presented as a measurement.

Intervention n 94 adolescents, 10 weeks, continuous GO 30/intermittent 31/control 33; physical activity increases in initially inactive continuous players; body composition changes.

Limitations: Abstract does not specify randomization; multiple analyses; do not conclude obesity prevention.

Study of 124 children aged 7 to 11, divided into two groups of 62 according to surname. Their food choices are studied after 16 scenes from 11 series, including Pokémon. An overall influence on the choice of foods with low nutritional value is reported in children under nine.

Limitations: Pokémon is one component of the montage; no brand-specific effect is isolated. Choices are hypothetical and do not measure amounts consumed. The abstract and methods were read; the final tables were not fully audited.

20 health-interested adult players, Washington 2018–19, workshops and questionnaires; tensions between attachment/obsession, cooperation/anxiety, goals/measurement and individual context.

Limitations: Qualitative study and design proposals; neither effectiveness nor population frequency. Selected methods/results read.

621 players: harmonious passion associated with outdoors/socializing/leisure/nostalgia; obsessive passion with escape/boredom/competition and impulsivity.

Limitations: Questionnaire associations; neither causality nor a clinical diagnosis.

Study of 32 schoolchildren in Depok, selected purposively. A single group is assessed before and after five days: the PHP-M score falls from 41.19 to 15.19. The Wilcoxon test is reported with p = 0.000.

Limitations: Original abstract read, PDF access failed. Five-day study without a control group or randomization. If the value is rounded to three decimal places, write p < 0.001: it is not a zero probability. No caries prevention is demonstrated.

30 observers rate arousal/valence for 30 Pikachu images and 30 photographs of a woman; interobserver dispersion shows no statistical difference p=.34/.15.

Limitations: Perceived emotion, not felt emotion; absence of difference does not prove equivalence; no clinical or neural result.

Survey n=1961 card game players in English-speaking Western countries: spending on physical packs correlated with problem gambling r=.15; loot boxes .31; virtual packs .22. No negative mental health association.

Limitations: Correlation, not specific to Pokémon, full methods not read.

Cohort of Japanese workers; 246 persistent players; distress difference d=-0.20 CI[-0.33, -0.07].

Limitations: Self-report and selection; not a trial or treatment of a disorder.

243 Polish players; 80% say they walk more; 27% sacrifice sleep; 20% consider themselves addicted.

Limitations: Cross-sectional, self-selection; self-description is not a diagnosis; do not generalize prevalences.

4825 Sleep+Asken users with at least 7 days; cross-sectional study of recorded diet and recorded sleep. Protein/fiber associated with certain favorable variables.

Limitations: Evaluates neither dietary change caused by Pokémon nor nutritional treatment; adjustment for age/sex/BMI, residual confounding. Abstract contains inconsistent signs/intervals: avoid copying numerical effects without the full text.

In 25 photosensitive patients, comparison using an ABBA sequence of the original version and a color-filtered version, on two televisions. A reduction in the photoparoxysmal response is reported (p < 0.001).

Limitations: Electroencephalographic endpoint in at-risk patients, distinct from clinical incidence in the general population. Risk depends on the stimulus.

Study of the trading card market in Germany, covering 300 cards on eBay.

Limitations: Economic rather than health outcome. This study is excluded from the evidence on addiction or gambling.

Psychiatric care: opportunistic survey N 93, response rate 13%; two people report GO benefits for activity and mental health.

Limitations: Self-selection and self-report, not an intervention or causality; no respondent played a game specifically for health.

46 players and 184 non-players aged >=40; relative winter maintenance of steps; significant overall interaction in 3/8 months.

Limitations: Observational matching; small groups; findings up to 7 months do not mean a stable effect in everyone.

2063 Japanese volunteers using Sleep+Asken >=90 days; 82.1% women; app-measured duration 5.5→6.3 h; 45.3% with a favorable individual slope.

Limitations: No comparator; selection of persistent users and use of two apps; app measurements; noncausal BMI relationship.

Three-month ethnography in 2018–2019: observation of a group of 20 participants and four in-depth interviews. The work describes intergenerational play, walking and social interaction, as well as difficulties with movements and purchases. One participant reports a fall after the study.

Limitations: Ethnographic observations and reports, without clinical measurement of strength or memory. This is not a trial in Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.

Qualitative survey of 60 players with reduced mobility and workshops with 6 people: enjoyment, community, escape; barriers involving distances/speed, time limits, location, repeated movements and avatar representation.

Limitations: Self-selected Western sample; qualitative findings, not population rates or causal health effects; 2023 situation.

2026 audit of 50 popular card packs in Hong Kong: 80% display no probabilities and none provides full details for every card. Pokémon is among the products studied.

Limitations: Product analysis across several series, without measuring addiction incidence or a causal effect. Overall proportions are not specific to Pokémon. Regulatory statements have not been independently updated.

109 British children aged 4–11 identify 10 wildlife cards and 10 Pokémon cards. Around age 8, 78% Pokémon versus 53% real species. Shows domain-specific expertise; tests no educational transfer.

Limitations: Older, limited recognition study, not health or an educational intervention.

Official indexed page describes a song about emotions.

Limitations: Description only: existence of a cultural resource, no emotional evaluation; video and subtitles not read.

A player describes resuming walking, using various mobility aids and Campfire groups; comments also report transport barriers to meetups.

Limitations: Self-selection and self-report; truncated read text supplemented by search body; no clinical effectiveness can be estimated.

ADHD account: timer and visual cues guide brushing; comments mention possible fading of novelty.

Limitations: Anecdote, unverified diagnosis, no evidence of ADHD treatment or caries prevention.

Participants describe anxiety about scores and game tasks; others describe benefits of a ritual. Several report recording fake sleep to preserve rewards.

Limitations: Neither prevalence nor causality; medical suggestions in comments neither validated nor reproduced.

English subtitles downloaded and read for the introduction, interviews with Venonat, Liv and Omega, and the start of Robin’s interview. Accounts concern belonging, skills and friendships, but also exploitation, exhaustion and discrimination.

Limitations: Selected interviews, without representativeness. Biomedical assertions in the introduction are not validated here. No diagnosis is inferred.

A creator who explicitly does not play reports conversations with players outside a store: motivation to go out, conversations and shared identity. Uses the word therapy as an opinion.

Limitations: Automatic English subtitles, indirect accounts and nonclinical remarks.

English transcript of 12 minutes 25 seconds read. The author describes voluntary mortality and nickname rules, attachment to Gyarados, guilt about losing it, and the shared narrative around time invested.

Limitations: Autobiographical essay about a virtual loss; it does not demonstrate a therapeutic effect on human grief or a neural mechanism.

This two-page guide describes the event’s sensory environment, recommended personal items and access to a quiet room with a badge. The table names ExCeL London.

Limitations: A document specific to this event; it does not guarantee the same accommodations everywhere and does not evaluate their effects.

The old Niantic page no longer works.

Limitations: 404 page; a new official statement was found separately.

Press release of 1 August 2024 for Nutrition Day: analysis of Sleep/asken data from 4825 people with at least seven days of data, with intake divided into quartiles and regression analyses.

Limitations: Observational associations, neither a prescription nor a causal effect; the article was presented as a preprint at the time.

SU 2 C describes a Niantic collaboration and a week-long activation in Pokémon GO.

Limitations: Existence confirmed by SU 2 C; the passage read quantifies neither revenue nor effects on screening or care. Do not present it as the only cancer partnership worldwide.

Three themed sunscreen lotion bottles, a second collaboration after 2021.

Limitations: Licensing and promotion of a sunscreen product; no measurement showing that the character increases use or reduces sunburn.

Reading of the EXPSupportJP post was not obtained.

Limitations: Jina rejects the X domain (403 AbuseAlleviationError). Does not confirm this specific warning.

Letter discussing Pokémon GO as a possible catalyst for addressing social withdrawal.

Limitations: Metadata only; no evidence of treatment can be drawn from this reading.

Seasonal creative materials, aprons, Pikachu visits and workshops; accounts from families who became regular visitors.

Limitations: Support for conviviality and community access; no measured nutritional effect. The page mentions five years of support: do not impose a 2025 date inferred from the old inventory.

Collective Pokémon-catching target supporting pediatric cancer research; counter compatible with several games, including GO.

Limitations: Organizer source; an official TPC partnership is not established by the page. The target and mechanism do not prove the total actually raised.

Official handwashing education video, with medical supervision credited in its description.

Limitations: Metadata and description read; video and transcript not analyzed. No measurement of infection prevention.

Cheng’s 2022 study analyzes the rollout of Pokémon GO in 166 regions of 12 countries using a difference-in-differences method. It reports a decrease in depression-related Internet searches.

Limitations: Internet searches are an aggregate indicator. They are neither individual diagnoses nor a demonstration of depression treatment.

Clínic Barcelona uses its mascot Xeri dressed in Pokémon GO style, catching “gripis,” in its staff influenza vaccination campaign; it also links to handwashing.

Limitations: Declared inspiration; a Pokémon partnership is not stated; no vaccination-rate outcome.

An e-sports club in Shibaura-Kōnan uses Pokémon GO and other games for social interaction; meetings on the third Saturday, including at the center.

Limitations: Announcement of an actual activity; neither a TPC partnership, a specific walking program nor a demonstrated cognitive prevention outcome.

Online survey in May 2020 of 2,004 participants playing Pokémon GO or Harry Potter: self-reported activity decreases while playing time increases. Among those answering the relevant question, 77.2% report perceived benefits for their mental well-being.

Limitations: Voluntary recruitment on Reddit, retrospective reports, two games and variable denominators. The survey does not demonstrate a causal effect of gaming on health.

Official site lists Apple Watch, Samsung, Pixel Watch, Fitbit and Garmin with exclusions; sleep synchronization via health apps.

Limitations: Time-specific compatibility; Sleep is explicitly for entertainment and not detection/diagnosis/treatment. No claim of universal heart-rate transfer.

Campaign dated 24 July 2016 using GO to discuss sun protection, hydration and road safety.

Limitations: Historical document, no outcome. Other advice on radiofrequency exposure is neither reproduced nor validated as current recommendations.

Title and bibliography of Kirkpatrick’s article confirmed.

Limitations: Jina extraction limited to contributions and references; web.run fallback hit a CAPTCHA. The body of the observation must be retrieved before citing precise results.

Announced philanthropic program of $25 million, organized into global, regional and local partnerships.

Limitations: An announced overall commitment; neither an exclusively medical amount nor a report proving that it has all already been paid.

Among 449 respondents, 88% report meeting someone, 78% visiting a new place and 35% a new business. Level of play is associated with a sense of community belonging.

Limitations: Cross-sectional survey of volunteers, without causal evidence. Published online in 2023 and in a volume dated 2025.

Survey of 455 players: problematic Pokémon GO use associated with pain and visual symptoms, controlling for smartphone/media use.

Limitations: Cross-sectional and self-reported; association does not prove injuries caused by Pokémon GO.

Five stated areas: disasters, community kitchens, ICT, scholarships, environment.

Limitations: An official foundation exists; its areas of activity do not constitute a clinical or oncology program.

A reflective museum visit is used to propose a framework linking fan expertise and biological reasoning. The author does not measure visitors’ learning; distinctions between fiction/science and individual/population evolution, and inclusion of non-fans, are explicit.

Limitations: Conceptual perspective, not a trial; article related to biology, with health extrapolation requiring testing.

The APA abstract of the 2021 article describes a comparison between outdoor Pokémon GO and walking. It reports improvements in verbal memory, impulsivity and negative affect in the gaming condition.

Limitations: The full text was not read. The abstract does not establish the sample size or randomization. No lasting benefit is demonstrated.

Nintendo warns of magnets and emissions that may interfere with pacemakers/defibrillators; it says not to use the device with these implants, while driving/cycling, or while charging during sleep.

Limitations: Manufacturer instructions specific to GO Plus +; do not generalize to all Pokémon devices or phones.

Official PokéPark Kanto guide of 7 February 2026, updated 17 March: app used for entry slots and tickets after entering Yomiuriland.

Limitations: Visit management function; not a health intervention.

The department explains its interest since 2016 in GO’s potential for outdoor activity, interaction and dementia prevention.

Limitations: Institutional position framed as a possibility; not evidence of dementia prevention or a description of a trial on this page.

JR East describes a family train with a playroom and an explicit reference to the region affected by the 2011 tsunami.

Limitations: Rail service and social reconstruction, without therapeutic outcomes; current schedule varies.

Three themed kits: Pikachu vegetable curry, Snorlax loco moco, Eevee cake.

Limitations: Licensed products and family cooking; not an evaluated nutritional intervention. Schedules vary by kit and sales channel.

Catalog entry for a book of 36 recipes with a box divided according to food categories; reference to the Japanese food guide.

Limitations: Bibliographic entry read, full book not read. Alignment with a ministry guide does not prove a ministry partnership or dietary effect.

Lucario becomes a supporter of radio calisthenics: competitions, classes and attendance cards; around ten million cards planned for 2022.

Limitations: Volume announced for 2022, not an established annual figure. Entries 36 and 38 describe components of the same set.

Scoping review of 186 sources, August 2016–December 2025; 29 physical activity studies, 25 social, 17 safety; heterogeneous benefits, uncertain duration.

Limitations: Full abstract read; full text behind CAPTCHA; mapping review, not new primary evidence.

56,000 cumulative steps provide access to a set of three Pokémon keychains, subject to conditions; a separate prize-draw mechanism for daily steps.

Limitations: Distinct subcampaign linked to the NSC ecosystem; conditional distribution, not a clinical outcome or automatically a separately countable program.

The coauthor describes a retrospective survey of adults: stronger childhood parasocial relationships associated with nostalgia and less frequent play.

Limitations: Author summary; self-reported playing frequency, neither causality nor a health measurement; does not refute every form of attachment.

On 16 May 2018, the National Park Foundation announces a collaboration with Niantic to explore parks with Ingress and Pokémon GO. Registration fees go to the foundation.

Limitations: The $60,000 and clean-up operations in 100 parks concern an earlier Ingress collaboration. They are not a Pokémon GO-specific result. No health outcome is reported.

Collectible Pokémon kits offered to participants who met loyalty conditions or completed the previous season’s tiers.

Limitations: Pokémon conditions notably concern previous achievements; do not infer a causal effect of merchandise on steps during this season.

The title and references of Tateno’s letter are accessible on PMC.

Limitations: Letter body absent from the extraction; PDF blocked by CAPTCHA. Do not describe it as read in full.

Letter discussing Pokémon GO’s therapeutic potential for people experiencing social withdrawal.

Limitations: No abstract available and PMC access protected by CAPTCHA. This is a hypothesis, not a trial; do not cite it as evidence of effectiveness.

The Variety page could not be consulted through Jina.

Limitations: Access through Jina returns a 403 error. An original United Nations communication was identified separately.

Announcement of 16 June 2016: GO Plus connects via Bluetooth, with LED/vibration notifications and a button to act without looking at the phone.

Limitations: The late-July release is a forecast in this announcement, not a verified actual date. No demonstrated reduction in accidents.

The Japanese Dental Association confirms its contribution to the advice displayed after brushing in Pokémon Smile. It maintains the parent’s role in finishing brushing.

Limitations: Documents the collaboration and content, not a measured reduction in caries.

The targeted Business Wire press release could not be consulted.

Limitations: Access returns a 403 error. The contents of the collection and quantities are not confirmed by this reading.

Furusho et al., 1998: 662 children surveyed; 603 had watched the broadcast, 30 reported symptoms, including two seizures.

Limitations: Volunteer sample in pediatric clinics; not whole-population incidence. PMID 11235034 in the inventory is incorrect.

2016 BMJ preview by Murch raises confidentiality and clinical governance concerns about Pokémon placements.

Limitations: Full text behind subscription; only the beginning read. A second article on eye injury included in the historical section was not read in this batch.

434 players, including 138 reporting a diagnosis, retrospectively assess their satisfaction and sociability before and after Pokémon GO.

Limitations: Data are based on self-report and retrospective recall. This is neither a prospective causal measurement nor a therapeutic trial.

Nintendo page: color screen, infrared transfer of Watts to Gold/Silver, musical alarm and seven-day step history.

Limitations: The page’s technical date of 2017 is not the product launch date; no validation of accuracy or clinical benefit.

Nintendo confirms the Pocket Pikachu release on 27 March 1998 and its use for walking with Pikachu.

Limitations: Product presentation, not a health outcome.

PMID 11811868 is the 2001 letter “Pokemon contagion” by Zifkin.

Limitations: No abstract; does not on its own verify the 1997 event and the 1998 guidelines.

Institutional account: a 19-year-old patient after surgery and healthcare staff describe encouragement to walk/distraction and the relationship with staff.

Limitations: Use in care, not a controlled trial; cited general mobility research does not prove that Pokémon GO reduces length of stay.

Bulbapedia describes Poké Ball Plus, a controller and an accessory to take on walks.

Limitations: Community source; the old Nintendo product domain redirects to a different help page. No clinical evidence.

README for screen-reader scripts: generation 1–3 games, text/map/position reading, pathfinding and camera. Inclusion through game adaptation.

Limitations: README only, code not executed, no therapeutic evaluation.

The historical URL PMID 11235034 corresponds to Radford 2001, not Furusho 1998.

Limitations: Do not attach this URL to entry 003; the exact reference was found separately as PMID 9893288.

City of Philadelphia: Niantic/Knight partnership for a Pokémon GO route during the pedestrianized streets event on 28 October, with a paper passport for people without a phone.

Limitations: Participation and exploration objective, not a health evaluation.

2016 analysis of possible mosquito exposure according to times, habitats and gatherings of players.

Limitations: Risk hypothesis; authors state that overall risk in the continental United States is low and probably little changed by GO; no measured disease incidence among players.

GO Plus + enables catching/spinning PokéStops, sleep recording and Pikachu’s voice; 2023 sales dates displayed.

Limitations: Product functions, not medical validation; warning against use while driving. Health manual read separately.

Bulbapedia describes GO Plus: vibration notifications, LEDs and button, with the phone in the background.

Limitations: Community source; original Nintendo announcement read separately.

Child life teams and healthcare staff describe uses for movement and interaction in the hospital.

Limitations: Institutional reporting and accounts; not a trial or evidence of anticancer effectiveness. Explicit precaution regarding photographs of other patients.

PubMed confirms the BMJ commentary on GO and McFlurries.

Limitations: No abstract; original BMJ 403. Do not attribute a calorie measurement or a measured cancellation of benefits to the title.

The official site describes Pokémon ambassadors associated with local authorities to promote their areas.

Limitations: Program presentation, without health measurement; the specific agricultural component requires its own sources.

The Pokémon Company describes playgrounds designed with local authorities, equipment adapted to the sites and safety work with Kotobuki.

Limitations: The page presents eight parks and two openings planned for July 2025. This count does not necessarily describe the situation in September 2026. Physical activity is not measured.

Bulbapedia describes the Pocket Pikachu pedometer, launched in Japan on 27 March 1998, with walking rewards.

Limitations: Community source; Nintendo original found separately. No established health effectiveness.

Bulbapedia describes Pocket Pikachu Color and infrared transfers to Gold/Silver.

Limitations: Community source, superseded for functions by the Nintendo page.

Serebii describes Playhouse for ages 3–5, with activities accessible with little or no reading.

Limitations: One app within a composite category; neither the contents of all utilities nor a developmental benefit are demonstrated.

Serebii lists historical apps, including the discontinuation of Pokémon Duel on 31 October 2019.

Limitations: Secondary catalog; not all discontinuations checked. Impossible date “November 31” appears in another entry: do not copy the catalog wholesale.

TCGLiveAccess describes keyboard control and screen-reader output for blind players; version 1.1.1 also mentions the game’s own accessibility menu.

Limitations: Developer statement, not a test performed; does not prove health effectiveness.

Bulbapedia describes Pokémon Virtual Fest on Cluster from 12 to 31 August 2020.

Limitations: Community source only; no measured psychosocial benefit and no primary announcement found in this batch.

Noto activities including visits, supplies and booklets for children’s emotional support; community kitchens as welcoming spaces for social interaction.

Limitations: Organizer activity report; not a clinical evaluation; booklet contents not read.

12 pages of well-being advice and Niantic stories; GO friendships/moving home, Ingress kidney donation, Peridot pet bereavement.

Limitations: Explicit partnership; selected accounts, multiple games, neither causality nor an exhaustive Pokémon review.

Pokémon Kids Sports Project: cooperation with the JFA for football and tennis activities; Cinderace and Sprigatito, preschool children followed by schoolchildren.

Limitations: Existing programs and planned extensions must be distinguished; no measurement of sustained activity.

Pediatric videos explaining the procedures and precautions for MRI and ultrasound with Pokémon.

Limitations: The page confirms both resources, not their measured effects on anxiety, sedation or image quality. The video itself was not watched.

Prefectural report: cooperation with Niantic from 2019, deployment of game locations, walking map distributed in September 2020, augmented reality photography competition.

Limitations: Introductory passages and history read, not all 58 pages; no health outcome.

Four in-game recipes adapted by nutritionists, then additional recipes linked to the festival; communication linked to nutrition–sleep research.

Limitations: Announced recipes, not a trial demonstrating that they improve sleep. Do not transfer nutritional associations to their effectiveness.

Official FAQ: in-game warnings, do not drive while playing, parental supervision and reporting inappropriate Wayspots.

Limitations: The page does not prove an absolute block while driving or a precise speed threshold.

TPCi sponsors Party with a Purpose, which announces around $570,000 raised for Children’s Hospital Play Grants.

Limitations: Collective sum, not the amount donated by TPCi. The annual report rounds it to $500,000. General pediatric program, not specifically oncology.

144 locations participate in Summer of Play with Pokémon; GO activities at 27 locations until 6 September. A 1 km wheelchair-accessible route at Winkworth.

Limitations: Brand announcement and reporting; not a health evaluation. The stated accessibility concerns this specific route, not all sites.

ANA and Pokémon launch safety videos in August 2024 on two aircraft, then expand to most of the fleet in December.

Limitations: Accounts of attention and view counts, not a measurement of retention or risk reduction.

The Pokémon Friends site presents more than 1,200 puzzles, alongside plush-collecting and decorating activities.

Limitations: This is a puzzle game. No cognitive training effect or health benefit is validated by this source.

Original identified: tourism and augmented reality partnership, Travel.Enjoy.Respect campaign.

Limitations: Indexed extract only; direct Jina reading hit a CAPTCHA and web access unavailable. Do not present as full text read.

Completed trial, with 255 reported enrollees. One sentence mentions Pikmin Bloom and Pokémon Sleep, but the arms and interventions name Pikmin Bloom. PSQI and ISI are among the secondary outcomes; no results table is posted. The registry links publication PMID 41655647.

Limitations: Internally ambiguous description. Registry history was not accessible. No sleep outcome isolating Pokémon Sleep was found.

The GO team restores a base distance of 80 meters versus the previous 40 following community feedback and four roundtables.

Limitations: 2021 announcement and qualitative feedback; does not demonstrate a health effect or the exclusive role of disabled players.

Pikachu badge for the 60th anniversary in 2024, distributed to more than one million schoolchildren; includes accident insurance.

Limitations: The 71.86 million refers to the badge program since 1965, not Pokémon; no measured reduction in accidents attributable to the character.

Anessa announces three Pokémon sunscreen packaging designs from 21 April 2025 with family adventure films.

Limitations: Product collaboration. General Anessa school/XP UV activities described at the end of the document cannot be attributed specifically to Pokémon; no adherence measurement.

Game Watch reports Shizuoka–Niantic cooperation for points of interest, tourism, evacuation and walking.

Limitations: Media source; original prefectural report found and read separately.

First-year primary pupils in Fukuoka: parents add a sticker after brushing; 30 stickers provide access to a free dental checkup, followed by a special sticker. Stated period from mid-July 2026 to 31 January 2027.

Limitations: Established initiative; no participation, plaque or caries data on this page. Treatments excluded from the free checkup.

Announcement of official routes on 21 July 2023; Suita offers Kento Healthy Walk from Kento Library in a multigenerational health park.

Limitations: Existence of routes and presentation of the place; effect on activity not measured.

Primary press release: survey of 41,832 Japanese users aged >=16, 19 January–1 February 2026; analysis of 14,299 who practiced relaxation >=3 days, latency 19.2 min on exercise nights versus 19.6 min without; EEG pilot in 20 adults aged 20–60, 28 January–5 February, exercise nights versus usual habits including smartphone use; announced sleep efficiency +3.2%, REM 22.7→25.7%, significant.

Limitations: Company press release with no peer-reviewed article identified, protocol/allocation/order of nights not detailed in the text; routine comparator potentially includes smartphone use; relaxation intervention, not the brand/app alone; survey self-report/self-selection; incomplete EEG/statistical methods; 3.2% reproduced as stated (percentage points versus relative change not verified).

Press release of 26 November 2025: Sauna Ikitai/Sleep project, 7808 volunteer participants, then analysis of a subgroup of 7153 sauna users, comparing sauna/non-sauna days.

Limitations: Nonrandomized commercial observation; app-derived sleep variables. Do not present as a trial establishing a medical recommendation.

Standard Vitality members can earn GO items by meeting a weekly activity goal; program points can change the annual premium.

Limitations: Eligibility and commercial conditions; no independent effectiveness evidence provided.

Official description of the birthday episode of 30 April 2021: Pikachu curry and Poké Ball cake, recipes by Arisa Shirai and nutritional supervision by Mariko Naito.

Limitations: Description and ingredients read, video not watched; no measured effect on diet.

Official description of the hospital episode: Pikachu explores the professions at Kanagawa Children’s Medical Center, credited as a collaborator.

Limitations: Metadata and description read; video not watched, no anxiety evaluation.

Publisher page bearing the Pokémon cookbook’s title.

Limitations: Empty series page: zero books listed in the extraction; recipes, date and contents not verified.

Official catalog distinguishes available apps from a section of apps whose distribution has ended.

Limitations: Directory page does not demonstrate “100% screen-based” or the absence of a behavioral component in all products; app-by-app checking is needed.

Current Itoen page contains a GO Partner Research campaign that ended in April 2025.

Limitations: A different campaign from the vegetable juice/barley tea campaigns in the entry; does not validate the specific historical item.

Foundation: free school kit combining introduction to programming and PC/tablet training, with teacher materials.

Limitations: Educational purpose; motivation statements are not cognitive or health evaluations.

The Japanese ministry appoints nightcap Pikachu and Snorlax as sleep ambassadors, with Pokémon Sleep to raise awareness, especially among young people.

Limitations: Campaign, not clinical effectiveness of the game.

Yokohama event from 17 July–23 August 2026: stamp trail and Toyota TOTONE nap experience; possible EEG measurement, restricted to junior high school students and older.

Limitations: Event demonstration, not a clinical trial. Provider S’UIMIN is not identified in the passages read.

Official Kids TV site offers dance, gymnastics and sports playlists, as well as a hospital episode.

Limitations: Catalog page read; videos not watched, no exercise dose or effectiveness evaluated.

Official Kaifuku campaign: event on 16–18 February, stretching videos with Ogatore, GO and Sleep presented around walking/sleep.

Limitations: Promotional recovery theme; no demonstrated effectiveness, year 2024 indicated by credits, no extrapolation to a current event.

Eisai announces the book Snorlax’s Dream in the waiting rooms of facilities treating sleep conditions; other patient materials and videos planned.

Limitations: Commercial author’s press release on PR Times; not an insomnia care trial.

The manufacturer’s FAQ describes series of around 20 Pokémon stickers, renewed every one and a half to two months. Their distribution is stated to be uniform.

Limitations: The source describes a promotional mechanism. It measures neither induced consumption nor dietary quality.

On 3 June 2022, Lotte announces Smile xylitol dispensers for local authorities and the first 100 eligible subscriptions in kindergartens/nurseries; cooperation with Pokémon and the Japan Dental Association.

Limitations: Promotional and educational announcement, no measured reduction in caries attributable to the campaign.

Smile site lists Toyohashi from June 2023 (first-year primary pupils, free dental checkup and sticker), Dazaifu 2021–22, Yamaguchi and Kagawa.

Limitations: Announced deployments, not caries or attendance outcomes; “currently” dates are specific to the page.

Reply 8 suggests a location-based game while commuting to meet partners; names Pokémon GO, then recommends Ingress because GO could not be played in China according to the author in 2016.

Limitations: Historical community advice; not an account of an effect or the current state of access in China.

ITmedia reproduces nine NISC tips of 20 July 2016: data, fake software, weather/heat, battery, contact, dangerous places, strangers, distracted walking.

Limitations: Press report and link to NISC announcement; government original not read.

Nikkei on 10 August 2016 reports an Iwate/Miyagi/Fukushima/Kumamoto conference with Niantic to promote disaster-affected regions.

Limitations: Press source; institutional original not read, economic or health benefit not measured.

Foundation confirms Yokohama agreement: disaster/ICT education, community kitchens and environmental projects.

Limitations: Agreement and intentions, without health outcomes; distinguish from the commercial Pikachu city event.

45 blood donation centers in the Kanto Koshinetsu region become PokéStops with Chansey and special gifts from 23 March 2022; appeal for blood donation.

Limitations: No measurement of additional donations; do not extrapolate a causal outcome.

In 2023, the author describes difficulty reaching the Pokémon Sleep API and differences between networks. The original post was read via the API; replies were identified in search-engine results.

Limitations: Dated technical account, without a health outcome or measurement of overall service availability in 2026.

With You joins the national parks partnership; ceremony on 29 March 2023, litter-picking activities with children and parents, rollout envisaged in 3–4 parks.

Limitations: Rollout intentions, not an attendance report or health outcome.

September 2026 campaign: Snorlax’s Dream paper theater loaned to local authorities, sleep calendar and advice. List of facilities and municipal activities.

Limitations: Announcement/program, not participant or sleep data. Jina incomplete; original content read through web.open.

10 studies; children/adolescents; English; PRISMA/PROSPERO; excludes adults, diet and sleep; mixed psychosocial results.

Limitations: No meta-analysis; heterogeneity and confounding.

186 sources; 107 cross-sectional studies; search of 7 databases and English only; GO activity, social aspects, well-being, motivations and risks.

Limitations: Not a review of the entire franchise; mostly associations.

Conceptual model of initiation and maintenance factors; activity effects often modest and short-lived; environment and risks.

Limitations: Published online in 2019, volume 2020; targeted reading.

Tyler Bland describes Pokémon-inspired Medimon: creatures representing cells, organs and diseases, with healthy/diseased forms; 188 characters in 31 families used in teaching.

Limitations: Accompanying text read; podcast not listened to. Inspiration and use, not effectiveness demonstrated by this announcement.

Step-count accuracy compared in 22 children and eight adults at four speeds. The Pokéwalker shows less error at certain speeds, with greater errors at slow speeds. A behavioral study is announced as ongoing at the time.

Limitations: University communication about a conference result; not a trial demonstrating sustained change in physical activity.

Student thesis: 30 children, uncontrolled pre/post measurements, simulated movements assessed using a checklist, score 8.5→15. Data collection in November 2020.

Limitations: Abstract only; gray literature; does not establish effects on caries or persistence.

Degree thesis, single-group before/after design, 30 grade III pupils, total sampling. Brushing movement checklist: mean score 10.6 (66%) before and 15.7 (98%) after Smile. No control or evidence of caries prevention.

Limitations: Gray literature not equivalent to a peer-reviewed article; abstract only. Methods/results chapters restricted. Duration, variance and detailed test not provided in the abstract. Do not reproduce the author’s causal conclusion.