Kanto: Difference between revisions

|caption=Artwork of Kanto from [[Generation VII]]

|professor=[[Professor Oak]]<br>[[Professor Cerise]]{{tt|*|Anime only}}

|starter={{p|Bulbasaur}}, {{p|Charmander}}, {{p|Squirtle}}, {{p|Pikachu}}{{tt|*|Yellow Version, Let's Go, Pikachu! and anime only}}, and {{p|Eevee}}{{tt|*|Let's Go, Eevee! only}}

|villain=[[Team Rocket]]

|season=[[S01|Indigo League]] (1)<br>[[S08|Advanced Battle]] (8)<br>[[S09|Battle Frontier]] (9)<br>[[S23|Journeys]] (23)<br>[[S24|Master Journeys]] (24)<br>[[S25|Ultimate Journeys]] (25)

|series=[[Original series]] <small>(''The Beginning'')</small><br>''[[Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire]]''<br>''[[Pokémon Journeys: The Series]]''

|games={{2v2|Red|Green}}^Ja<br>[[Pokémon Blue Version (Japanese)|Blue^Ja]]<br>{{2v2|Red|Blue}}<br>{{v2|Yellow}}<br>{{2v2|Gold|Silver}}<br>{{v2|Crystal}}<br>{{2v2|FireRed|LeafGreen}}<br>{{2v2|HeartGold|SoulSilver}}<br>[[Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!|Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!]]

Kanto is the setting of the [[Generation I|first generation]] of {{{p|games}}} and can be explored in [[generation|generations]] [[Generation II|II]], [[Generation III|III]], [[Generation IV|IV]], and [[Generation VII|VII]].

[[Professor Oak]] is the resident [[Pokémon Professor]] and gives [[Pokémon Trainer]]s a choice between {{p|Bulbasaur}}, {{p|Charmander}}, or {{p|Squirtle}} as their [[starter Pokémon]]. In [[Pokémon Yellow]], the only choice is a [[Red's Pikachu (game)|Pikachu]] that he recently caught, although he did have an {{p|Eevee}}. In [[Let's Go, Pikachu!]], the player chooses Pikachu. In [[Let's Go, Eevee!]], the player chooses Eevee. In the games, the player begins their journey in [[Pallet Town]] and ends it at [[Indigo Plateau]].

{{main|Pokémon world in relation to the real world}}

[[File:Pokemon-to-real-world.png|thumb|left|150px|The map of Japan showing the Kanto region as the {{wp|Kantō region}}.]]

 

Kantō and {{wp|Kansai region|Kansai}} are the two most populous areas of {{wp|Honshū}}, the largest island of Japan, and much like Kanto and Johto, represent a harmony of contrasting cultures living together. The differences are most noticeable in the games while talking to the inhabitants of both regions. Compared to traditional Kansai, on which Johto is based, Kanto is modern and technological. This may be reflected in the look of the cities and the buildings, such as the Pokémon Lab of Cinnabar Island and the Power Plant. While Kanto is the centerpoint for innovation, with the [[Poké Ball|Poké Ball's]] ultimate upgrade, the [[Master Ball]], having been recently invented by [[Silph Co.]] at the time of [[Generation I]], it is also the only Pokémon region without any myths related to Pokémon.

 

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Many researchers have had great success in creating life in Kanto . [[Mr. Fuji|A researcher]] once cloned {{p|Mew}} through its genes and created the Genetic Pokémon {{p|Mewtwo}}. {{p|Porygon}}, the Virtual Pokémon, was also created by researchers in Kanto.

In contemporary history, {{ga|Red}}/{{ga|Leaf}} is given a Pokémon by [[Professor Oak]] for personal safety. Professor Oak also gives his grandson, {{ga|Blue}}, a Pokémon and asks Blue and Red/Leaf to help him fill the Pokédex, a complete encyclopedia on Pokémon. Thus, the journey of Red/Leaf begins. Red/Leaf travels across the Kanto region and collects all eight Gym Badges. During their journey, Red/Leaf comes across [[Team Rocket]], an evil organization behind wrongdoings about Pokémon. Red/Leaf stops Team Rocket and defeats [[Giovanni]], their boss as well as the Gym Leader of [[Viridian Gym]], who then disbands Team Rocket. In the meantime, Blue, who has also collected all of the Kanto Gym Badges, defeats the [[Elite Four]] at the [[Indigo League]] and becomes the champion of the Kanto region. Finally, Red/Leaf makes it up to him and defeats him to gain the title of the Indigo League Champion.

Three years later, {{ga|Ethan}}/{{ga|Kris}}/{{ga|Lyra}}, a Trainer from Johto, comes to Kanto and collects all eight Kanto Gym Badges. Ethan/Kris/Lyra is the current Indigo League Champion and has also met and defeated Red.

The Kanto region includes 28 different routes, which act as roads to cities and towns or points of interest. The Johto region follows Kanto's route number which ends at {{rt|28|Kanto}} in the Kanto region and begins with Johto's {{rt|29|Johto}}. Unlike other regions, Kanto does not have routes featuring any sort of weather conditions, such as [[Hoenn]]'s {{rt|119|Hoenn}} which rains and thunders constantly and [[Sinnoh]]'s {{rt|217|Sinnoh}} in which hail regularly falls. The Kanto region seems to have the most temperate climate of the [[Region|eight main regions]].

According to [[Professor Oak]], a stone tablet was discovered in Kanto, like the one that is able to summon {{p|Shaymin}} on {{rt|224|Sinnoh}} in [[Sinnoh]]. This is mentioned during the event in which {{player}}s {{pkmn2|caught|catch}} {{p|Shaymin}} in {{game2|Diamond|Pearl|Platinum}}, but the Kanto stone tablet is not seen in any game.

| [[File:Pallet Town HGSS.png|100px]]

| [[File:Viridian City HGSS.png|100px]]

| [[File:Pewter City HGSS.png|100px]]

| [[File:Cerulean City HGSS.png|100px]]

| [[File:Vermilion City HGSS.png|100px]]

| [[File:Lavender Town HGSS.png|100px]]

| [[File:Celadon City HGSS.png|100px]]

| [[File:Fuchsia City HGSS.png|100px]]

| [[File:Saffron City HGSS.png|100px]]

| [[File:Cinnabar Island HGSS.png|100px]]

! colspan="2" style="background:#{{kanto color}}; {{roundytl|5px}}" | Image(s)

! FR/LG

! HG/SS

| [[File:Pokémon Tower FRLG.png|100px]]

| [[File:Lavender Radio Tower HGSS.png|100px]]

| [[File:Power Plant exterior FRLG.png|100px]]

| [[File:Silph Co FRLG.png|100px]]

| [[File:Silph Co HGSS.png|100px]]

! colspan="2" style="align=center" | [[File:Pokemon Stadium.png|110px]]

| [[File:Mt Hideaway.png‎|100px]]

| style="text-align:left" | An unmapped and mostly unknown island located to the west of [[Cinnabar Island]]. The headquarters of the Kanto [[Elite Four]], the antagonists of the {{chap|Yellow}}.

| Mentioned in ''[[HS13|Celebi and Joy!]]''. It is allegedly the hometown of [[Ritchie]].

| Artwork of Kanto from {{color2|000|Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!|Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!}}

| class="roundy" style="border:2px solid #{{kanto color dark}}; background:#{{kanto color light}}; width:95px" | [[File:Kanto Town Map GSC.png]]

| Kanto as seen in the Japanese {{color2|000|Generation I}} games

| Kanto as seen in the international {{color2|000|Generation I}} games

| Kanto as seen in the {{color2|000|Generation II}} games

| Kanto as seen in {{color2|000|Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Versions|Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen}}

| class="roundy" colspan="4" style="border:2px solid #{{Johto color dark}}; background:#{{Johto color light}}; width:95px" | [[File:Johto-Kanto.png]]

| colspan="4" | Kanto connected with Johto as seen in {{color2|000|Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver Versions|Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver}}

| class="roundy" style="border:2px solid #{{kanto color dark}}; background:#{{kanto color light}}; width:95px" | [[File:Kanto.png]]

| class="roundy" style="border:2px solid #{{Johto color dark}}; background:#{{Johto color light}}; width:95px" | [[File:Stadium Pokédex map.png|200px]]

| class="roundy" style="border:2px solid #{{kanto color dark}}; background:#{{kanto color light}}; width:95px" | [[File:Stadium 2 Pokédex map Kanto.png|200px]]

| Kanto as seen in {{color2|000|Pokémon Stadium (English)|Pokémon Stadium}}

| Kanto as seen in {{color2|000|Pokémon Stadium 2}},<br>with a connected {{color2|000|Generation I}} game

| Kanto as seen in {{color2|000|Pokémon Stadium 2}},<br>with a connected {{color2|000|Generation II}} game

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*Until the release of {{game|Platinum}}, after Ash defeated [[Maylene]] and [[Crasher Wake]] (not to mention just before Ash challenges [[Fantina]]), Kanto was the only region in the {{pkmn|anime}} where Ash defeated the [[Gym Leader]]s in a different order from the games.

** It is also the only region thus far to feature [[Battle Frontier (Generation III)|an element]] that was actually in a different region in the games. This may have been done to simultaneously promote {{game|FireRed and LeafGreen|s}} and {{game|Emerald}}.

* Kanto has appeared in the most games and [[generation]]s to date, having appeared in fourteen games (fifteen in Japan) over the course of five generations.

* Kanto is briefly mentioned in ''{{mov|Detective Pikachu}}'' during the narration that [[Dr. Ann Laurent]] did during the creation of {{OBP|Mewtwo|Detective Pikachu}}.