I've read all the Harry Potter books, too. I don't think I would have, but the first five were bedtime stories for my daughters.
They're not 'great' literature, but I'm fond of them nonetheless. I'm pretty sure they're going to help keep the readers reading.
Pokeman for me is a metaphor or allegory for manufactured imagination. Maybe it's a generational thing, but I really didn't/don't get this one at all. The kids I was around during the peak of this phenomena were some of the least unimaginative little people I've ever been around. If it wasn't made from plastic and mass produced, they wouldn't play with it.
Watching my youngest do her own 'illustrated' novels based on HP, and the dioramas she makes and plays with are much more impressive. She uses the HP universe as a launching point, but she's not bound by it. Instead she brings in elements from "The Spiderwick Chronicles," "So You Want to Be a Wizard," and "Elfquest," and turns it into something that seems uniquely hers. She's created her own characters that are so delightful, I've lifted their names and incorporated them into my own stories. For example, Ruby Scotland and Antonio Chang, and their adventures beyond the local orbit.
I'm hoping this will be the generation that tosses "reality tv" out, too. Bottom line entertainment sucks. Who knows, maybe we'll see some decent literature come out of this batch sometime in the next two decades.