Pokemon is the Game Freak franchise Satoshi Tajiri started in 1996, and Google Shopping interest for that keyword sits at 57 of 100 for the week of October 3 2026. That reading is up 32.56% from 43 on September 5 and up 26.67% from 45 on October 4 2025, per Trends MCP get_growth on google shopping pulled October 9 2026. The 7-day window is +1.79% from 56, so the 30-day move is the one that still clears the rising bar. The 261-week series peaked at 100 on November 26 2022. Pokemon.com dated the TCG 30th Celebration expansion to September 16 2026.
About Pokemon
Pokemon is the media franchise Satoshi Tajiri created at Game Freak, beginning with Pocket Monsters Red and Green on the Game Boy on 27 February 1996 in Japan, and now run by The Pokemon Company as a Nintendo joint venture.
Wikipedia dates The Pokemon Company to 2000 and The Pokemon Company International to 2009 for regions outside Asia. The original games shipped 151 species. Wikipedia counted 1,025 species as of early 2026. Pokemon.com on September 16 2026 called 30th Celebration a worldwide tabletop launch with over 150 cards, 30 Pikachu rares, and a Classic Collection of reprints. The same product page lists Mewtwo ex, Mew ex, Umbreon ex, Salamence ex, and Greninja ex among the set's lead cards. A June 30 2026 Pokemon Company International media alert listed a Booster Bundle for October 2 and Battle Decks for October 30. Nintendo is the publisher query on this site.
What the time series shows
Google Shopping interest for pokemon is 57 for the week of October 3 2026, up 33 percent from 43 on September 5 according to Trends MCP, on a 261-week series whose all-time high of 100 printed on November 26 2022.
Last eight weekly prints are 41, 45, 42, 43, 42, 63, 56, and 57. The 63 on September 19 is the first Saturday after the September 16 street date. The series then held 56 and 57 rather than collapsing. Ninety-day change from 42 on July 4 is +35.71%. Same-week 2025 was 45 on October 4. Same-week 2024 was 31 on October 5, which is also the chart start. An earlier 2026 crest printed 80 on April 18. July 25 2026 printed a floor of 30. Week-over-week sample standard deviation on the last 52 weeks is 14.44 percent, across 51 non-zero baselines. Google Shopping trends is the source page for this index.
Why the page charts Google Shopping
A collectible people buy when a TCG set launches should be checked on shopping first, and Google Shopping for this keyword is the series that still clears 25 percent over 30 days with a readable September climb after a July floor of 30.
That source printed 57 on October 3, up 1.79% from 56 over 7 days and up 32.56% from 43 over 30 days, with last-52 week-over-week sample standard deviation 14.44%. Same-day Google Trends by Category for Games listed pokemon 30th anniversary at rank 20; get_growth on Google Search for that query printed 44 on October 3, up 300.0% from 11 over 30 days. pokemon tcg valentines box release sat at rank 14 on the same Games board. Seasonal context: Halloween.
get_time_series with source google shopping and the stored keyword is the call behind the chart: 261 weekly points from 2021-10-09 through 2026-10-03, stored as {date, value} with no smoothing. get_growth on the same pair, windows 7D, 30D, and 1Y, is the headline math: 56 to 57 (+1.79%), 43 to 57 (+32.56%), and 45 to 57 (+26.67%). Mixing a Search index with the Shopping 57 would invent a story the APIs do not tell.
A copy-paste pair for Claude or Cursor:
get_time_series source="google shopping" keyword="pokemon"
get_growth source="google shopping" keyword="pokemon" percent_growth=["7D","30D","1Y"]
REST is the same body at https://api.trendsmcp.ai/api with Authorization: Bearer and mode set to get_time_series or get_growth.