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5th Gen Where is Isshu? Confirmed - New York

Where is Isshu?

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Magmaruby and Aquasapphire said:
Even if it's in New york it would be like any other pokemon game for me :)
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You're right... it's isshu no matter what! I never thought of sinnoh as hokkaido, so yeah NYC or Shanghai it's just isshu. Maybe they called it "Isshu" cus they were having an issue deciding what to base it on. NYC or Shanghai, and went with both. What an isshu this is!
 
Kirbychu said:
I feel that it's the complete opposite. Culturally the US fits more, but Shanghai is a better comparison geographically.
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I feel like you sort of misunderstood me. I meant that Shanghai would have been more "culturally suited" because it is similiar to japan... gunna pull a slightly ignorant racist card, because they're an asian culture and idunnoo...yeaaah. It's less of a crazy jump for them to do a China based game.

But I meant the physical evidence on-hand makes me think US. Like the stuff about Victini and Liberty Island and Wargle, that's what I meant.
 
austy14 said:
You're right... it's isshu no matter what! I never thought of sinnoh as hokkaido, so yeah NYC or Shanghai it's just isshu. Maybe they called it "Isshu" cus they were having an issue deciding what to base it on. NYC or Shanghai, and went with both. What an isshu this is!
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I highly doubt it, because we're probably the only ones who are really confused as to what Isshu is —lolpun? Gamefreak probably proposed a few locations, and they were like "Yeah, alright, we'll do it here, and add this this and this to make it original, more playable, and have a variety of geographical features." There probably wasn't this kind of debate about identity crisis.
 
austy14 said:
Also, let's see if Lt. Surge is from isshu, that'll be a good way to tell :)
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Good point there. Also, think of the Isshuain (or what every you call them) climate. Sinnoh is based on Hokkaido. Hokkaido is located in northern Japan. Isshu has a desert in it. I don't think there are any deserts near New York. However, I think there's a desert in China.

After going on Wikipedia, I found a park that is circular (ish): WARNING - Large picture
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Hmnn, that lake does look promising, Chub.

Although in response to New York lacking a desert, I do believe in a sort of ground zero ish idea, but that is a much to sensitive idea to discuss.

Also I don't think northern japan is far away enough.
 

Mnn, good point, but it still snows in New York, only in the winter, but it definitely still snows.
 
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Southern China: I'd hedge bets on "rarely"
Everywhere else: definitely
 
In my opinion it is New York. How do you explain American footballers and subways?
 
Chub 777 said:
True, true. Isshu has snow (seasons). I don't think it snows in China.
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Yes it snows in china, if u were gonna post that, atleast chek it on the internet, and not post things like, does china have summer, does it snow there...etc. Yes it does have all seasons.

@ethangold
Why would subways have anything to do with isshu being NYC and not have soomething to do with shaghai not being it. Subways are everywhere.
They cant base isshu on america because there is a football player there.
I know that a lot of ppl here believe in NYC being isshu theory, and i respect that(though most of, if not all of them are americans) but i see no evidence of NYC being isshu, it doesnt even looks like isshu IMO, the only thing for NYC is victiny event, which may just be a reference to usa in general. On the other hand there are evidence which clearly shows that isshu could be shanghai like size, which fits perfectly, shape and religion, taoism is a national religion in china and it originated from there, so does it makes sense to put taoism somewhere else. If it werent china, they would choose something other then yin-yang, like something connected to indians and their beliefs like some feather legendary or sumtihn, but NOT yin-yang in NYC.
And there r also of speculation for shanghai, like farris wheel on water in that city, right near the lake, like in isshu, also mamanbou being luvdisc evo would hint more to isshu being shanghai since its near to hoenn and they are rotated in the same angle.
 
Try and stay on topic and not bring Arceus/other myths into it.
 
I think though, he was trying to disprove coolnick by saying that since Arceus wasn't in China, Yin-Yang doesn't have to be either.

Anyway, AMERICAN football player, Eagle Pokémon, large industrial cities, American style of dress on characters, black-skinned characters. . .
. . . You seemed to have disregarded all of that solely because Black and White have hints towards Taoism.
 
Ravecat said:
I think though, he was trying to disprove coolnick by saying that since Arceus wasn't in China, Yin-Yang doesn't have to be either.

Anyway, AMERICAN football player, Eagle Pokémon, large industrial cities, American style of dress on characters, black-skinned characters. . .
. . . You seemed to have disregarded all of that solely because Black and White have hints towards Taoism.
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Solely because of taoism, did u read my previous post?
American football player, ok i get that, it may be a reference. Eagle pokemon, what about eagle pokemon, because it is an eagle :S or becaus it is colored blue, red and white :S i dont hink that has anything to do with nyc theory.
American style, by what is that american style? could some1 please tell me because i dont se how that is amercian style, cause i wear that, and all girls here wear shorts like that.
Black persons, cmon that is for sure not a referenco to america, there are black persons everywhere and dont gimme that america is a mixture of culture crap, thats just ignorant.
Look at nyc, it doesnt look like isshu at all! And its size obviously doesnt fit in other regions while shanghai perfectly fits thats the reason i disregarded all that.
And these thing u said i disregarded cause most of them are bull, like black person, wooguru, large industrial city, ppl who claims these things just shows how ignorant of other nations are they.
So stop saying that aloe or wooguru hints to america i find that offensive and it just shows how u know nothing about china or other countries
And arceus isnt based on a chinese myth, it is not based on anything at all it is just a pokemon that created everything :S

Edit: It is just similar to chinese deity that has 1000 arms, because in dex it states that arceus shaped the world with 1000 arms.
That is not based of.
 
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