It could come as no surprise that Pokemon is famous fairly much the entire world over. What's astonishing to me, however, is that the backbone of this business, the video game, isn't what's taking the world by storm: it's the spinoff merchandise, particularly the cartoon, that has been interpreted in many dozen languages and is now tremendously popular with youngsters almost everywhere. The majority of these Pokemon fans know nothing or little about the movie game. In reality, the sport itself a...