BW/BW2 Location of Isshu (region)

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While many of you have been speculating the last days where the location of Isshu might be. I think I have found it.

Now I know there is said that Isshu is located far away, which leaded people to think of cities like New York, San Fransico etc. Still, it just doesn't feel right. Japan has still some space left for some regions. And who ever said the regions were connected as they are in RL? It still might be possible it is based of a location in Japan, but located far away in the Pokémon World. Well, I made this assumption to get to the following conclusion.

The area of Shikoku is still unused. Also it does have enough islands and has the right shape to be a possible region. (For those who do not know where Shikoku is located, it is between 'Hoenn' and 'Johto').
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Of course I won't base this theory only on the fact that Shikoku is unused. Many people started guessing cities after seeing the Sky Arrow Bridge (the bridge from Black & White). My first question would be, why? GameFreak uses only the shape of a Japanese areas. Real life objects/cities/mountains are mostly erased to start of with a blank region.

Anyway... I thought what if they will bring RL objects into their game. It isn't impossible. And since everybody was looking for some sort of bridge to fit their theory, so did I... Now I happen to know there's this bridge located in Shikoku (connecting Shikoku to Chugoku, so yeah they might use both areas for their game, who knows?). The bridge is called the Great Seto Bridge, now compare this bridge to the Sky Arrow Bridge from Black and White:
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Supposedly Hoenn is supposed to be located south of Kanto and Johto and Sinnoh is supposed to be above Johto and Kanto. For instance to Sinjoh ruins in HGSS represent to halfway point between Johto and Sinnoh and it is located above Johto which reinforces that theory.
 
That is a pretty small amount of landmass though... I stick with my theory that it's northen Australia tilted 90 degrees to the right ;D
 
HyperJerk said:
That is a pretty small amount of landmass though... I stick with my theory that it's northen Australia tilted 90 degrees to the right ;D
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Shikoku + Chugoku is bigger than Johto or Kanto, and about as big as Hoenn.
Chimchar15 said:
Supposedly Hoenn is supposed to be located south of Kanto and Johto and Sinnoh is supposed to be above Johto and Kanto. For instance to Sinjoh ruins in HGSS represent to halfway point between Johto and Sinnoh and it is located above Johto which reinforces that theory.
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What theory did you exactly refer to? Still even if you are true, Isshu being located on Shikoku/Chugoku is not impossible.
 
In the games it says hoenn is south of johto and kanto and sinnoh is north just like the real world. They said that isshu is faraway which means most likely USA
 
'Hoenn' is definitely not south of 'Johto' in RL.

Also why the USA? If it's somewhere else it could also be Europe, Africa, Australia, China etc. It's actually pretty funny how the majority says it'll be the USA since they are from the USA.
 
I don't think that's necessarily why. The USA is just far likelier, given that it's the world's largest target audience for the games.
 
You know, I'm tired of all this ridiculous speculation. Frankly, does it really matter what area in the real world "Isshu" is based on? The fact of the matter is that much of Japanese pop culture is dominated by psuedo-American ideas, to the point where one can almost say that Tokyo is pretty much what New York or Los Angeles would be if pop culture were their only culture (seriously, I didn't realize the first gen games had anything to do with Japan, they seemed so Americanized...and that really soured my initial opinion of the series when it first came out in the US...). Besides, even if the setting's basis has changed, that doesn't mean the fifth gen's going to be any better or worse because of it.

In any case, though, my money is on somewhere in or around China, Hong Kong perhaps. I really don't think that Game Freak would move their settings too far from Asia, not yet at least if the games actually do turn out to be set outside of Japan...
 
Apollo the Incinermyn said:
I really don't think that Game Freak would move their settings too far from Asia, not yet at least if the games actually do turn out to be set outside of Japan...
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Yeah I also do think the same thing. The game will most likely will be in Japan. We will find out soon when the games do come out.
 
^Yeah, odds are it will be. But, if not, then somewhere close. But, like you said, we won't know for sure until they're actually released in Japan.
 
Think about it, The buisness men in the streets, the baseball caps, the skimpy clothing on the girl, the (what seems to be) a food stand, and the big cities. This just breathes USA.
 
i did not know that the pokemon games were based on real places around the world....
thought the maps were just made up.... just like how pokemon are
 
Full Moon said:
Think about it, The buisness men in the streets, the baseball caps, the skimpy clothing on the girl, the (what seems to be) a food stand, and the big cities. This just breathes USA.
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Or any other metropolitan area in the world, give or take maybe a couple traits? The thing is, everyone's just basing their guesses on what were more-or-less just teasers, not full data. It's ridiculous to assume that it's the US when it could just easily be anywhere else, that's all I've been trying to get at.
 
Pokequaza said:
Shikoku + Chugoku is bigger than Johto or Kanto, and about as big as Hoenn.
Chimchar15 said:
Supposedly Hoenn is supposed to be located south of Kanto and Johto and Sinnoh is supposed to be above Johto and Kanto. For instance to Sinjoh ruins in HGSS represent to halfway point between Johto and Sinnoh and it is located above Johto which reinforces that theory.
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What theory did you exactly refer to? Still even if you are true, Isshu being located on Shikoku/Chugoku is not impossible.
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Oh I wasn't trying to say you were wrong because I agree with your theory, I just thought that it might give an idea of where in the Pokemon world Isshu is located.

Full Moon said:
Think about it, The business men in the streets, the baseball caps, the skimpy clothing on the girl, the (what seems to be) a food stand, and the big cities. This just breathes USA.
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Although that is common is America, it isn't the only place in the world to have those things. Japan has big cities like those with stuff like that too. Although it is vaguely possible I wouldn't bet on Isshu being based on somewhere outside of Japan. I personally like the way the regions are and I hope they continue to do it this way until there aren't any places left in Japan.
 
Well when I hear far away place, I think it will be far away. Remember, past games always gives us hints to future, ex. Jasmine in Platinum.

So the hints for the 5th. are in HGSS, I think. HGSS gave us hints that Team Rocket is reforming in a "far away", there's a Team Rocket member in the game that's from a "far away", and they voiced that it's in a far away place. There's probably more I can't think of, but yeah thinking that the 5th gen. isn't based in Japan isn't so
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@ Pokequaza, i think you are right. I posted the findings of my own research on a different topic here (i cant remember which one) and i came to the exact same conclusion, it is made of the two real life regions in Japan. I never found a real life bridge in my research but i knew there had to be one because of how close they are to each other. Im glad im not the only one who found this! :)
 
though i would be happy if it would be based off in Korea and the sky arrow bridge is one of the bridges in the han river in seoul....

disregarding my theory be based off on SK, i think your theory is better than the theory of NYC....not counting the phrase far away than other regions...

so we will be seeing hiroshima in the game and i think the sky arrow bridge will be going towards hiroshima not okayama...and making Hiroshima as Hiun City...look at these pictures and connect these to the released pictures of Hiun City...

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also someone pointed this out...it looks like SS Cactus renovated
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so maybe it would be the one that will be used to somehow travel to Hoenn as Chogoku/ShiKoku is just stones away from Kyushu...or sounds a remake...
 
Ok, while researching yin and yang i came across something really interesting. Maybe the games could take place in China? Because in China there are 2 citys named Luoyang and the other Huayin, the 2nd one sounds extremly similiar to Hiun City. So maybe if we get another huge city it will be similiar to Luoyang? Or maybe depending on what game you get changes the name for the city (Being one of the new version differences) Luoyang in White and Huayin in Black. Plus yin and yang refers to opposites, so if this is the case then maybe as new city with the root of Luoyang in it?? Kinda like Huayin. Its kinda far off but just thought i would point it out.
 
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