>>53456829I guess I'll take a few minutes out of my beautiful day to describe Anon's point to an asshole who will ignore it anyway. Sinnoh and Hoenn may not be directly named after real places in Japan, but they, along with Johto, are so heavily geographically based on real Japanese places, this ceases to matter, and all four regions can be understood to be within what is essentially the Pokemon world's equivalent of Japan. Therefore, we can examine real-life Japan's culture, politics, society, and geography to glean deeper insights into the Pokemon world's various regions and how they might operate. As a matter of fact, the real-life Japan is important to the Pokemon franchise as a whole, because it provides fans with context for the entire series. For example, when you understand what Yokai are, Pokemon like Klefki stop being so incomprehensibly odd.
