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Here’s your first look at #PokemonWindsWaves 🍃🌊 Learn more about the main characters and special Pikachu in this announcement trailer!

Divorce rate: 🇮🇳India: 1% 🇻🇳Vietnam: 7% 🇹🇯Tajikistan: 10% 🇮🇷Iran: 14% 🇲🇽Mexico: 17% 🇪🇬Egypt: 17% 🇿🇦South Africa: 17% 🇧🇷Brazil: 21% 🇹🇷Turkey: 25% 🇨🇴Colombia: 30% 🇵🇱Poland: 33% 🇯🇵Japan: 35% 🇩🇪Germany: 38% 🇬🇧United Kingdom: 41% 🇳🇿New Zealand: 41% 🇦🇺Australia: 43% 🇨🇳China: 44% 🇺🇸United States: 45% 🇰🇷South Korea: 46% 🇩🇰Denmark: 46% 🇮🇹Italy: 46% 🇨🇦Canada: 47% 🇳🇱Netherlands: 48% 🇸🇪Sweden: 50% 🇨🇵France: 51% 🇧🇪Belgium: 53% 🇫🇮Finland: 55% 🇨🇺Cuba: 55% 🇺🇦Ukraine: 70% 🇷🇺Russia: 73% 🇱🇺Luxembourg: 79% 🇪🇦Spain: 85% 🇵🇹Portugal: 94% Note: This compares the number of divorces in a given year to the number of marriages in that same year (the ratio of the crude divorce rate to the crude marriage rate). For example, if there are 500 divorces and 1,000 marriages in a given year in a given area, the ratio would be one divorce for every two marriages, e.g. a ratio of 0.50 (50%). Data is from last available year by country. As an example Portugal data is from 2020, Germany is from 2017.

Director of “Pokémon Legends: Z-A” Haruka Tochigi spoke to Dengeki Nintendo about the design philosophy of the game: “I felt that Kalos in the original Pokémon X and Y didn’t accurately reflect how terrifying it is to live in France. Legends: Z-A is meant to rectify that fact.”