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Com slash DoBois Media.

I slash Doboy's Media. I want to be the very best, like no one ever was.

To catch them is my real test.

To train them is my cause."

So begins the indelible theme song for the American localization of the original Pokemon

anime, written by John Loeffler and John Seagler and performed with a fire of a thousand charmanders by prolific session singer Jason Page

At the time of its recording in 1997,

Pokemon was an unknown quantity outside of Japan,

and the songs publishing rights were callously held by Shell corporations

owned by anime localizer Four Kids and Nintendo itself. And so Pages Compensation for the most

identifiable song for what would become the most lucrative franchise in all of

media history amounted to a single payment of less than a thousand dollars.

While years later litigation ultimately netted him a five-figure settlement,

Page estimates if he was paid royalties for his performance,

he would have received around a hundred million dollars.

And just as American kids became obsessed with a Japanese polka franchise, health-conscious

American adults became intrigued by a Hawaiian

Pocae franchise. A dish of sauced and seasoned raw fish that's believed to be

Polynesian in origin.

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