>>57747803I get the names are different in Japanese, but what I mean is it seems there could've been a switch on like an internal level during the naming process on the English side, because like:
>Soul BadgeThe name seems like it could apply to either the Psychic gym (because of the name) or the Poison gym (because the badge looks like a heart), so this seems fine taken on its own at first. But then:
>Marsh BadgeThis name definitely seems like it was meant for the Poison gym but got applied to Sabrina's gym because ???
And I think the reason a switch could've maybe occurred is both because of Koga's badge design feeling like it could match either name, or because the way Gen 1 allows you to do the gyms between Misty and Blaine is pretty variable, ex. I've seen Gen 1 guidebooks placing Saffron and Sabrina's gym before Fuchsia City even though going by the arrangement of gym leaders on the status menu Koga's intended to be the fifth. So it's not too hard to imagine someone on the English side responsible for the English names doing something like this in a document somewhere:
>1st English badge name: Boulder>2nd: Cerulean>...>5th: Soul (meaning Sabrina's gym)>6th: Marsh (meaning Koga's)but then whoever was responsible for implementing this seeing 5th and thinking Koga and 6th and thinking Sabrina, or vice versa.
Not claiming this definitely happened this way and it's probably too late to change it (and probably no one really cares too much either), but I think it's at least possible something got mixed up before the names were implemented into the game.
