God I'm slow.

¿? ...

OOOOOOOO OH OOOOOOOOH

I get the unova thing. I'm not sure what the hell the rest of the image is trying to say

>>30856976
Are you Red's Spanish older brother? Rojo? Is that you?

>>30857042
Every region has an O in its name. Os are round like Pokéballs.

>>30856920
Unova in Japan is called Isshu.

>>30857062
I've got issues with that name.

>>30857051
D: ...

>>30857062
It perfectly fits a issue like burgerland.

>>30856920
>Orre
>Fiore
Okay, neat.

>Oblivia
Ehh

>Almia
>Ransai
Hmmmmmmm

>>30857060
So are eyeballs... ILLUMINATE CONFIRMED!

>>30857060
You're clearly really thought this out

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>>30857090
Rojo, mi amigo! Ha sido tan largo!

>Unova is Unys in french

>>30856920
DEEPEST LORE

IT ALL COMES TOGETHER

>>30856920
How do you pronounce Hoenn, anyway? Like Höonn?

>>30857548
Ho-enn

>>30857548
ho-in

>>30857129
For one thing, spinoffs don't count.
For another, Ranger regions all have "i"s, that's their gimmick.
As for Ransei, it's a Japanese pun.

>>30857548
Ho~ Eh?! N-NANI?!

Ho-oh and Pokémon have the oh sound in 'em too.

I'm sure it means something.

カントー地方
ジョウト地方
ホウエン地方
シンオウ地方
イッシュ地方
カロス地方
アローラ地方
IT ALL COMES TOGETHER

>>30857548
Santa Claus visiting the plasma fortress
>Ho Ho Ho N!

>>30857062
Japanese names are not canon.

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>>30857648
Seriously though, it bugs me when people say Ho-Oh is based on a phoenix. It's based on the Houou (which is also the official romanization of its name in Japanese)

>>30857738
Houou literally means phoenix

>>30857738
Isn't the houhou just the oriental adaptation of a phoenix? I think they're almost exactly the same thing.

>>30857738
I mean, it has sacred reviving ashes and shit
Revived the beast trio in Ecruteak

>>30856920
>OOHOOHOOO
what did he mean by this

>>30857695
Toucanon

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>>30857548
Imagine N, as whore.
Ho N.

>>30856984
I'M UNDEFEATABLE

>>30857782
>>30857812
>>30857818
The Houou has its own mythology unrelated to the phoenix. It's like how different cultures have their own dragons, but not all dragons are the same.

>>30856920
>both johto and sinnoh have an oh sound
DEEPEST LORE

>>30857991
All 7 regions have an 'oh' sound

DEEPEN THAT LORE

>>30858033
>All seven regions use letters to spell their names
D E E P E S T
E
E
P
E
S
T

>>30857991
What's really interesting is how the Sinjoh Ruins (シントの遺跡; Shinto Ruins) are SO close to the 神道 (しんとう/シントウ) Shinto(u) religion in pronunciation, and the similarities that the lore of Arceus has to Shintoism.

>>30858033
Isshu

>>30857666
Santa is the Ice-type pokémon champion of the North Pole. (Because he's the only one who lives there.)

>delibird
>sawsbuck winter which should've been ice type shut up
>beartic
>abomasnow
>vanilluxe
>cryogonal

He also has a Snorlax.

>>30856920
Unova was changed from Isshu, so technically it was a combo breaker

>>30858093
>Isshu
We're talking about their English names, though

>>30858100
God, now I wish there was an Ice/Fairy elf pokemon that could only show up in December. If you level it up on Christmas it evolves into Santa

>>30858081
>all regions have names

H O L Y
O
L
Y

S H I T

>>30858161
Kantō > Kanto (etymology is from 関東; kantou, the actual Kanto region in Japan)
Jouto > Johto (etymology is from 城都・条都; jouto/jouto, meaning castle palace/lattice-shaped palace)
Houen > Hoenn (etymology is from 豊縁; houen, meaning abundant relations)
Shin'ou > Sinnoh (etymology is from 神奥; shin'ou, meaning mysterious/enigmatic)
Isshu > Unova (etymology is from 1種類; isshurui, meaning of one kind)
Kalos > Kalos (etymology is from kάλλος, meaning beauty)
Alola > Alola (etymology is from aloha and ola, meaning hello and life)

All the "English names" barring Unova are just modified versions of the Japanese names. You can't say that Unova having an o gives it a deeper meaning when you're comparing an English invention to a Japanese one.

>>30858466
>all regions have pokémons

LORE
O
R
E

>>30858623
>all regions are regions
D E E P E R
E
E
P
E
R

>>30858161
But that has nothing to do with the intent behind the names. If this Pokeball shit was actually relevant Unova wouldn't be called Isshu in Japanese.

You people really try all kinds of crazy mental gymnastics when your autism is stuck on one thing.

>>30858748
But the zodiac theory on fire starters is true.

>>30857661
>地方 in all of them
what could this mean?

>>30858093
No, whats interesting is how the sinjoh ruins are a combination of sinnoh and johto, and you go there in the johto game to get a sinnoh legend. It fits

>>30856984
WHERE YOU AT? WHERE YOU AT? WHERE YOU AT?

>>30857931
This.

>>30859818
>When describing chinoiserie or authentic Asian ceramics and other artworks, English-speaking art historians and antique collectors sometimes refer to it as hoho bird,[6] a name derived from hō-ō, with a second extraneous h added. Hō-ō is simply the Japanese pronunciation of fenghuang. The seemingly vast difference between hō-ō and fenghuang is due to Chinese vowels with ng usually being converted to ō in Go-on reading.

>In the West, it is commonly called the Chinese phoenix or simply Phoenix, although mythological similarities with the Western phoenix are superficial.

I'm not finished yet.

>>30859818
Don't ever fucking reply to me again

>>30859937
Please explain.

>>30860019
He's fooling with you, that's not me

>>30860089
Oh. Thanks.

>>30860089
Fuck off

>>30856984
MY DICK HURTS