Revisting Kanto: I Want To See Celadon City At Night

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Celadon City is the place I have most been looking forward to on my journey across Kanto. If you're reading this and thinking 'what journey across Kanto?', well for the past few months I have been steadily replaying Pokemon Blue, visiting each place at a pace of one a week, hoping to soak up what it is about this setting that makes it so consistently endearing. If you've been reading along all this time, then welcome back. The rest of you, feel free to catch up on the journey so far right here. Last time I left the Rock Tunnel behind, which technically means I came out in Lavender Town, but as I can't complete the Pokemon Tower yet, I have elected to rush through Lavender to return at a later date when I can do it all at once. So, onward to Celadon we go.

I have always loved the big city. My wife and her family see the romanticism of living out in the country with clean air, dirt roads, and nothing around you for miles, but you know what's better than nothing all around you? Things all around you! I love the metal roar of city life, the constant stampede of footsteps, the thick smoke in your lungs, the stars in the night sky drowned out by neon bar signs, the Chinese food at 2 AM. City life has always been the life for me. Cities are where humanity is. It's where we make and create and fall apart. It's where we grow. The countryside is where we rest - our lives, as a people, happen in the city.

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Celadon is easily the biggest location in Kanto, and in my memory it was always huge in scope. We may have literal Pokemon equivalents to New York, Paris, and London, but the nostalgia in me still thinks of Celadon as one of the great Pokemon cities. This journey has not