Additionally, in the Sanpei Interlude, there's a character named Satoshi, who doubles as a nod to Ash's Japanese name. Red's surname is revealed in Chapter 26 as 'Tajiri', the same as Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of the franchise.And during the 2017 Holiday Special, he reveals that he also used to have a Rhydon like in the anime before specializing in Fire-Types.

Because it was so obviously dangerous, the Pokemon League told Blaine that he has to use a standard gym building rather than the volcano. Blaine's gym used to be inside a volcano just like the anime.Raymond's battle with Blaine goes pretty similar to the one he has with Ash at the start of the first movie, except that Blaine only needs one PokГ©mon to take out his entire team.Kiawe meets Velvet and Frax in a similar way he met Ash: fighting off punks with bikes.Koa's comments about humans understanding the intent of their Pokemon is similar to what Ash commented on to Valerie in canon.Iolani warns Kiawe not to get a job at Thrifty Mart.Her game self was prone to making jokes about strappling swimmers. During the Kiawe oneshot, Lana was depicted as being rather fond of getting guys to discard their shirts and flex muscles.The team Falkner uses in his gaiden during his search for the Legendary Birds is the one he uses for the World Leaders Tournament in Black & White 2.More than once someone suggests Ash and his team train atop a mountain for a prolonged period, Ash even suggesting he'd have Pikachu, Charizard, Squirtle, Bulbasaur, and Snorlax with him, reflecting Red's actions after beating the Pokemon League in the original games and even his team.Ash and Misty's bags brand names are their Japanese names, the Satoshi Explorer 1 bag and Kasumi Trailblazer Drawstring bag respectively.Ash for his part suspects it's another instance of MissingNo messing with him. She even looks just like the cosplay, just older and in a waitress uniform. Here, Ashley is now her own person, and is another person on the ever expanding list of potential half-siblings Ash has. Ashley in canon was a cosplay Ash used to infiltrate the Celadon Gym in the original timeline.Astrid's battle with Ramos mirrors Ash's: his Weepinbell defeated her two super-effective Pokemon with the aide of poison but had the tables turned when a non-supereffective Pokemon they'd later use as an Ace during their later battles managed to block the Poison.When Ash is trapped in Hunter J's ship, MissingNo begins taunting Ash by also calling him 'Satoshi' and 'Casey'.Casey's name is also a nod to the fact that, when the anime was to be dubbed into English, 'Casey' was going to be Ash's name.Casey's Clefairy is a stand-in for Ash's Pikachu, a nod to the fact that Clefairy was planned to be the PokГ©mon mascot early in development.Wes's simulation mentioned in his first appearence is the one that the player starts with as a tutorial in XD.

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