A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Pokémon in Japan — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Pokémon has an estimated audience of 19,714,338 people in Japan.
Pokémon has an estimated audience of 19,714,338 people in Japan. 54.4% are female, 45.6% are male, average age 29.3. Top brand affinities: Entertainment, Arts and music, Movies, Reading, Action figure.
Top brand affinities include Entertainment, Arts and music, Movies, with strongest over-indexing on Entertainment (1.66× the country average).
Demographically, the Pokémon audience skews balanced with an average age of 29.3, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Urban Lifestyle, Early Adopter Mentality.
The typical Pokémon fan in Japan is balanced, around 29.3 years old, with strong Urban Lifestyle tendencies and a notable affinity for Entertainment.
The key figures that characterise the Pokémon profile in Japan.
54.4% are female, 45.6% are male, average age 29.3.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Female | 54.4% |
| Male | 45.6% |
| Average age | 29.3 |
| Estimated audience size | 19,714,338 |
| Age bracket | Share | % |
|---|---|---|
| 16-19 | 47% | |
| 20-29 | 23% | |
| 30-39 | 15% | |
| 40-49 | 10% | |
| 50+ | 5% |
of the worldwide Pokémon audience comes from Japan.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| United States | 22.7% |
| Japan | 15.7% |
| China | 15.1% |
The strongest cross-interests of the Pokémon audience — brands, topics and people combined.
| # | · | Interest | Category | Affinity | × |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Action figure | Kids & Family | 3.37× | ||
| 02 | Otaku | Literature | 2.85× | ||
| 03 | FIFA World Cup | Sports | 2.22× | ||
| 04 | Illustration | Arts & Culture | 2.20× | ||
| 05 | Anime and manga fandom | Literature | 2.11× | ||
| 06 | Japanese television drama | Movies & TV | 2.11× | ||
| 07 | J-pop | Music & Radio | 2.06× | ||
| 08 | Manga | Literature | 2.04× | ||
| 09 | Disneyland | Travel & Leisure | 1.97× | ||
| 10 | Movies | Movies & TV | 1.83× | ||
| 11 | Photography | Arts & Culture | 1.82× | ||
| 12 | Reading | Literature | 1.74× | ||
| 13 | Arts and music | Arts & Culture | 1.71× | ||
| 14 | Entertainment | Movies & TV | 1.66× | ||
| 15 | Music | Business & Career | 1.58× | ||
| 16 | Games | Games | 1.57× | ||
| 17 | Pets | Pets & Animals | 1.57× | ||
| 18 | Japanese language | Politics & Society | 1.56× | ||
| 19 | Japan | Travel & Leisure | 1.53× | ||
| 20 | Consumer electronics | Technology & Electronics | 1.51× |
Values above 1.00× are above the country average, values below 1.00× below it.
| Trait | Cluster | Deviation | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Lifestyle | OPEN | 1.51× | |
| Early Adopter Mentality | POWER | 1.50× | |
| Individualism | JOY | 1.48× |
| Trait | Cluster | Deviation | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Need for Security | CONSERVATISM | 0.96× | |
| Quality Awareness | PREMIUM | 0.96× | |
| Creativity | OPEN | 1.02× |
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Audience size is the estimated number of people in Japan who actively search for Pokémon. Affinity is an over-index ratio: 2.0× means the audience is twice as likely to engage with that brand or trait as the country average. Reach is the estimated number of audience members in a region. Regional and brand-affinity tables are sorted from strongest signal to weakest.
This audience profile is generated by Rascasse from anonymized search-behavior signals across Japan. For methodology see methodology. Affinity values are over-index ratios vs. the country average (1.0 = baseline). Audience sizes are estimated, not measured.
Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence — modeled from anonymized, multi-source behavioral signals (search, social, events), updated monthly. Data status: 09/2026.
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