The Pokémon franchise is set to celebrate its 25th anniversary with an unlikely collaboration with pop juggernaut Katy Perry.
Pokémon Company International has unveiled a series of musical performances in honour of the milestone. Katy Perry has been nominated as the headliner of the proceedings, which will also feature yet-to-be-revealed “rising artists to award-winning global superstars.”
Details about the forthcoming celebration are scarce, but you can watch a brief teaser video below.
This isn’t Katy Perry’s first foray into the gaming realm. As The Verge so excellently note, back in 2012 the singer released a version of her party earworm ‘Last Friday Night’ in Simlish for The Sims 3.
“Pokémon has been a constant in my life from playing the original video games on my Game Boy, to trading Pokémon TCG cards at lunch, to the adventures of catching Pokémon on the street with Pokémon GO,” Katy Perry shared of the collaboration.
“I’ve even visited the Pokémon Café in Japan while on tour! It is an honour to be chosen to help celebrate a franchise that has given me so much joy in the last 25 years, and to be able to watch it evolve in the ways it’s provided that kind of electric joy for the kids in my life and around the world.”
Back in December, Katy Perry celebrated the Great Conjunction — a celestial event in which Jupiter and Saturn were as close together in the atmosphere for the first time in nearly 800 years — by releasing a spacey themed EP, Cosmic Energy.
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The EP featured beloved interstellar cuts like ‘E.T,’ ‘Not the End of the World,’ ‘This Moment,’ ‘By the Grace of God,’ ‘Bigger Than Me,’ and ‘Wide Awake’.
