Lake of Life

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Lake of Life
生活の湖 Lake of Life
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Lake of Life
Region Johto
Debut Celebi: The Voice of the Forest

The Lake of Life (Japanese: 生活の湖 Lake of Life) is an anime-exclusive location found deep inside a forest in Johto. It appeared in Celebi: The Voice of the Forest and was the setting for most of the events of the movie. The treetop village of Arborville is located nearby.

The Lake of Life has crystal-clear waters and is surrounded by dense woods. Celebi is known to frequent the area and is revered as the "Voice of the Forest", with a stone shrine built in its honor in the area. A large number of Pokémon also live in and around the lake.

The Lake of Life was first mentioned by Towa, who watches over the main entrance to the forest as Ash and his friends prepared to look for wild Pokémon. The group returned to Arborville after meeting Sam, a boy who Celebi had taken 40 years into the future. Towa told the group about Celebi and led the group and Sam to track it down. They found Celebi hidden in a tree-hollow, hurt by the wounds caused by a Pokémon poacher. They took it with them and were soon guided by several Pokémon to the Lake of Life, so Celebi could heal in the water.

When they arrived at the lake, Sammy walked in it and laid Celebi in the water. Celebi quickly dove in and became completely healed by the lake's powers. Out of happiness, Ash and Sammy took a swim in the lake with Celebi. Celebi then became filled with so much joy that it took Ash and Sammy on a flight above the lake using its Psychic powers.

The next morning, the Iron-Masked Marauder, an elite officer of Team Rocket, showed up and caught Celebi in one of his Dark Balls, which made it evil. He had Celebi create a wooden monster and made it rampage around the lake, damaging the forest and injuring the wild Pokémon. This wasn't left unnoticed by Suicune, who quickly hurried to the lake and assisted Ash and Sam in freeing Celebi.

Celebi was left severely hurt, and Sam tried to heal it with the lake's powers like he had before, but this time, it didn't work due to the extreme pollution caused by the rampage. According to Towa, the lake was dying. They asked Suicune to clean the lake, as it had the powers to do so. Although it did so, the lake's powers had no effect on Celebi. Just then, a portal above the lake opened, and several other Celebi showed up to heal it.

The Iron-Masked Marauder showed up again, grabbing Celebi, but was stopped by Ash and Pikachu. The residents of Arborville teamed up with the wild Pokémon to deal with the Iron-Masked Marauder, whose own Pokémon abandoned him and fled into the forest. After this, Celebi took Sam back to his own time.

Pokémon seen in and around the Lake of Life

 
Celebi
 
Suicune
 
Sentret
 
Furret
 
Paras
 
Parasect
 
Pidgey
 
Pidgeotto
 
Rattata
 
Raticate
 
Oddish
 
Bellossom
 
Venonat
 
Venomoth
 
Caterpie
 
Butterfree
 
Spearow
 
Mankey
 
Weedle
 
Rhydon
 
Stantler
 
Nidoran♀
 
Nidorina ♀
 
Nidoqueen ♀
 
Nidoran♂
 
Nidorino ♂
 
Nidoking ♂
 
Bellsprout
 
Hoothoot
 
Ledyba
 
Heracross
 
Tangela
 
Teddiursa
 
Ursaring
 
Sandshrew
 
Sandslash
 
Pinsir
 
Jumpluff
 
Spinarak
 
Remoraid
 
Quagsire
 
Magikarp
 
Gyarados
 
Seaking
 
Scizor
 
Sneasel
 
Tyranitar

In other languages

Language Title
  Danish Livets sø
  Finnish Elämän järvi
  German See des Lebens
  Italian Lago della Vita
  Norwegian Livets sjø
  Swedish Livets sjö



Anime-exclusive locations in Johto
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Charicific ValleyCoastline GymColossal Tree Tribe ruinsDiglett VillageDragon Holy LandEclipse CastleEggseterFlorandoGreenfieldHappy Town
Ho-Oh ShrineI.S.S. Raspberry shipwreckInland CityKasado CityLake LucidLake of LifeLake SlowpokeLen TownMarine Pokémon Laboratory
Marion TownMaroon TownMegi CityMount QuenaOgi CityOgi IsleOnix TunnelPalm HillsPalmponaPokémon Jujitsu AcademyPudgy Pidgey Isle
Red Rock IsleRemoraid MountainRikishii TownScarlet CitySecret GardenSilver Rock IsleSilver TownSlowpoke TempleSnowtop Mountain
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