{"id":64865,"date":"2018-11-26T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/11\/nintendo_and_pokemon_developer_game_freak_apply_for_miracle_twin_trademark_in_japan"},"modified":"2018-11-26T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T12:30:00","slug":"nintendo-and-pokemon-developer-game-freak-apply-for-miracle-twin-trademark-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/26\/nintendo-and-pokemon-developer-game-freak-apply-for-miracle-twin-trademark-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo And Pok\u00e9mon Developer Game Freak Apply For &#8216;Miracle Twin&#8217; Trademark In Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/91a9d0742b775\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/91a9d0742b775\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Pokemonash\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/91a9d0742b775\/pokemonash.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/91a9d0742b775\/pokemonash.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Pokemonash\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Nintendo, alongside Pok\u00e9mon development companies Creatures and Game Freak, has applied for a brand new trademark in Japan. The trademark is for &#8216;\u30df\u30e9\u30af\u30eb\u30c4\u30a4\u30f3&#8217;, literally translating as &#8216;Miracle Twin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.japanesenintendo.com\/post\/180452703334\">JapaneseNintendo<\/a>, the trademark is hoping to cover purposes including &#8220;controllers, joysticks, chargers, and parts and accessories for household video game machines, cards, toys and more&#8221;. Interestingly, that list doesn&#8217;t appear to relate specifically to video games or software, instead focusing more on hardware and physical toys.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, any guesses at new products, services, or games that this trademark might relate to would be just that &#8211; guesses. It&#8217;s impossible to know for sure what &#8216;Miracle Twin&#8217; could be, but we&#8217;re sure that won&#8217;t stop you from speculating in the comments below. Here&#8217;s a look at the trademark application itself:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Trademark\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f561db607a26a\/trademark.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f561db607a26a\/trademark.original.jpg\" alt=\"Trademark\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>Any wild guesses as to what this could be for? Let us know your thoughts below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo, alongside Pok\u00e9mon development companies Creatures and Game Freak, has applied for a brand new trademark in Japan. The trademark is for &#8216;\u30df\u30e9\u30af\u30eb\u30c4\u30a4\u30f3&#8217;, literally translating as &#8216;Miracle Twin&#8217;. According to JapaneseNintendo, the trademark is hoping to cover purposes including &#8220;controllers, joysticks, chargers, and parts and accessories for household video game machines, cards, toys and more&#8221;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}