Will We Ever Be Able to Engineer Animals Like Pokemon From Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia. For other uses, see Pokémon globe (disambiguation) . An orbital view of the Pokémon world, seen in the anime. Note its resemblance to World. The Pokémon world (Japanese: ポケモンの 世界 Pokémon world ) is the main planet for the Pokémon franchise , set in the Pokémon universe . It bears some striking similarities with the real globe , certainly deriving inspiration from information technology, but many factors set up it apart equally a different place from our own earth.