User:SpecialStageRoute

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Special Stage Route スペシャルステージルート Special Stage Route
That's not me, but a Minun. That's a Pokémon for my Chinese Zodiac sign (see below).
Age	16
Gender	Male
Eye color	Black
Hair color	Black
Hometown	Unknown
Region	Unknown

Welcome to Bulbapedia.

Here's my account in Bulbagarden Forums: The Red GT-R Emblem

I'm a Pokémon fan which is also interested in motorsports and Yakuza. I'm a spiritual successor to the now-defunct Hoenn Racing Team Fukuoka, which was closed years ago.

My account information

Basic info

	This user identifies as male.

	This user is not in a relationship.

	This user is obsessed with Japan.

	This user is a Buddhist.

	This user's birthday is March 30.

	This user was born in the Year of the Rat.

Babel

en-4	This user speaks English at a native level.

zh-3	該用戶能以熟練的中文進行交流。 该用户能以熟练的中文进行交流。

ja-3	この利用者は流暢な日本語を話します。

Computer-related

	This user spends too much time on the computer.

	This user contributes using Microsoft Windows XP.

	This user knows HTML.

	This user uses Wikipedia.

	This user has a YouTube account.

	This user contributes using Google Chrome.

	This user uses Twitter.

	This user contributes using Wi-Fi.

Java	This user can program in Java.

Hobbies

♪ ♪ ♪	This user can sing.

	This user drives race cars.

	This user watches auto racing.

	This user watches soccer.

	This user likes April Fools' Day.

Pokémon-related

	☆ This user's favorite legendary Pokémon is Zekrom. ☆

	This user's favorite baby Pokémon is Pichu.

	☆ This user's favorite move is Rollout. ☆

Favorite Regions

	This user's favorite region is Kanto.

File:HGSS Johto.jpg	This user's favorite region is Johto.

	This user's favorite region is Hoenn.

	This user's favorite region is Sinnoh.

	This user's favorite region is Unova.

Behaviour

	This user is a loner.

	This user is happy!

	This user is always laughing.

	This user is easily angered.

	This user is insane.

	This user prefers the nighttime.

	This user plays in sandboxes.

	This user is not a member of any project and prefers to work on anything floating around.

Other

	This user trusts Chuang Yi.

	This user likes Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire.

	This user likes Pokémon the Series: Black and White.

File:MagicalPokemonJourney1.png	This user's favorite manga is Magical Pokémon Journey.

File:Chamochamopretty logo.gif	This user's favorite manga is Pokémon Chamo-Chamo ☆ Pretty ♪.

	This user's favorite manga is Pokémon RéBURST.

	This user's favorite manga is Wangan Midnight.

	This user's favorite anime is Wangan Midnight.

	This user's favorite anime is Mobile Suit Gundam Advanced Generation.

	This user's favorite video game is Cyber Troopers Virtual-On series.

	This user's favorite video game is Yakuza series.

	This user's favorite video game is The House of the Dead series.

File:DPA Volume 5 cover.png	This user hates Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure! manga.

Memes

	All your base are belong to us!

	THIS IS SPARTA!!!

	This user loves ketchup as much as Pikachu.

	These donuts are great. Jelly-filled are my favorite. Nothing beats a jelly-filled donut.

	Pull my finger!

	HEY GUYS, DID YOU HEAR? BATTLE OF THE LEGENDARY POKÉMON BURST WARRIORS HAPPEN IN THE NEXT CHAPTER!!

	YOU JUST LOST THE GAME.

Chinese Zodiac and Pokémon

Sign	Pokémon*
Rat	Minun
Ox	Bouffalant
Tiger	Purugly
Rabbit	Buneary
Dragon	Salamence
Snake	Snivy
Horse	Zebstrika
Goat	Mareep
Monkey	Pansage
Rooster	Torchic
Dog	Eevee
Pig	Tepig

Hashiriya

Street racers, known natively in Japan as hashiriya (Japanese: 走り屋 Hashiri-ya), often occur on expressways and highways, where they are known as kōsoku battle (Japanese: 高速バトル, literally "high-speed battle") or commonly known as Roulette-zoku as they drive round and round in circular motions and frequently occur on the Shuto Expressway in Tokyo, real-life Kanto region. Japanese racers have also popularized racing along the narrow winding roads of the mountains of the country, known as Touge. (potrayed in SS and Over Rev!, both were published by Shōgakukan)

The most notorious group to be associated with street racing was the Mid Night Club who gave street racing worldwide attention with its 300km/h antics. It was known for its high standards and organization until they were disbanded in 1999 following a fatal accident involving a group of Bōsōzoku. The expressway racing scene is portrayed in the manga Wangan Midnight (formerly serialized in a manga magazine of Shōgakukan for short periods before moving out), as well as in the movie series Shuto Kousoku Trial.

With heavier punishments, patrolling police cars, crackdowns in meeting areas and the installation of speed cameras, expressway racing in Japan is not as common today as it was during the 1980s and the 1990s. Still, it occurs on a not-so-regular basis. Persistent racers often install spring assisted license-plate swivelling mechanisms that hold plates down at speed or picture-proof screens over their plates. In 2001, the amount of hashiriya dropped from 9,624 (in 1995) to 4,365 and police arrests in areas where hashiriya gather are common. Cars are checked for illegal modification and if found, owners are fined and forced to remove the offending modifications.

One of the causes of street racing in Japan is that, despite the numerous and famous race circuits, they can become overcrowded. Furthermore, such circuits may cost as much as ¥20,000 to race, while a highway toll may cost less than ¥1,000.

As in other countries, street racing also occurs on long straights in industrial areas, which are used for drag races, known natively as Zero-Yon (ゼロヨン) for "0-400" (meters; in America, racing to a quarter-mile, 1320 feet, or 402 meters, is the norm), Yon is Japanese for "4". This practice gave its name to a popular video game franchise of the 1990s, Zero4 Champ series.

Pokémon Ruby 2 and Sapphire 2 speculations (possible remake hints)

Anime

• Ursula has a Plusle and a Minun, which are native to Hoenn region.
• In DP174, in the Japanese Version, wild Pokémon theme from the Advanced Generation series was mentioned during the Contest appeals of everyone except Dawn.
• In the first Diamond & Pearl special, Dawn decides to travel to Hoenn to compete in Pokémon Contests there, just like May traveled to Johto for the same reason after the end of the Advanced Generation series.
• In Zoroark: Master of Illusions, the flags promoting the Pokémon Baccer World Cup that are all over the town (and thus, everywhere in the movie) has a Poké Ball on the flag. One section is red and the other is blue, and in the middle, there's a green button.

HGSS

• In the HeartGold and SoulSilver games, in the Cerulean Cave, there are large emerald formations, and, if one goes deeper into the cave, a large emerald maze.
• The Pokémon Centers in HGSS have a green Poké Ball symbol on the floor.
• If you talk to one of the people in the Celadon Mansion, they will say "We are remaking an old game, but this is quite a challenge. Old fans would not want usw to mess with their good memories...". Some people I've say they're actually talking about HGSS. I believe it's a potential Ruby/Sapphire remake.
• All the Pokémon Centers have a green colored Poké Ball on the floor, similar to the Gold and Silver Poké Ball on the Pokémon Center floors in Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum.
• Copycat has a Banette.

BW

• Black and White's lack of connectivity to Generation III serves as a sign in itself.
• In Black and White, there are multiple hints, with several people make references to Hoenn. In Undella Town, several people who only visit during the summer are said to come from Hoenn. The The Riches are also very similar to the Winstrate Family from Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald.
• The Pokémon Basculin which (while also looking like a Rabuta Berry, a Generation III introduced Berry), they come in two varieties, green with red stripes, and green with blue stripes, the colors on Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald.
• While not being found in game * data for the Fluffy Tail, Shoal Shell exists in Black and White.
• In Black and White, a Backpacker in the Desert Resort mentions that he is from the Hoenn region, and mentions the Go-Goggles.
  • In said desert is the Relic Castle, which resembles the Mirage Tower.
• In the Driftveil Gym, the Gym Leader, Clay, is mining for emeralds.
• Dive has been restored to HM status. That is all.
• Also, there are similarties between the Surfing parts of Route 18 in Unova (with the currents and small shallow waters) that resemble area of open ocean in Hoenn.
• The Safari Ball has a catching animation programmed into Black and White despite not being legitimately able to be used, as there is no Safari Zone. Hoenn however, does have a Safari Zone.
• The deserts in the Unova and Hoenn regions both use deep sand tile. They are also located on or near Routes that lead to the fourth Gym. In the Desert Resort, the Go-Goggles are even mentioned by a traveler from Hoenn. Special Pokémon (the Anorith Fossil and the Lilileep Fossil in Hoenn and five Darmanitan in Zen Mode in Unova) can be found in each desert.
• In R/S/E, your rival (one of the rivals anyway, as Wally also counts as a rival) gives you the HM02, Fly. In BW, one of your rivals ALSO gives you the HM02, Fly.

Other Sources

• While not official in anyway. Pokésho seems to be gaining alot more Generation III images.
• New merchandise for Generation III Pokémon is now in stock.
• Junichi Masuda mentioned "wanting to do something good" with the Hoenn Region in his blog on Twitter, implying impending remakes.

Non Pokémon-related hints (real life hints)

• Super GT and D1 Grand Prix have races held in Autopolis, an infamous motorsports venue in Hoenn region. Notable racing drivers such as Ken Nomura, Masao Suenaga and Takuto Iguchi are from Hoenn region.
• One of the Japanese Pokémon Center stores are located in Hoenn region.
• Thoroughout history, especially since the modern era, the Hoenn region has been the largest source of the Yakuza members, including many renowned bosses in the Johto-based Yamaguchi-gumi. Isokichi Yoshida (1867–1936) was from the Rustboro City and considered the first renowned modern yakuza. Recently, Shinobu Tsukasa and Kunio Inoue, the bosses of the two most powerful clans in the Yamaguchi-gumi, are from Hoenn. Petalburg City, the northernmost part of the island, has the largest number of designated syndicates among all of the prefectures in all the Japan-based regions.

Reasons

• While the original DS can play the Generation III games, the DSi and 3DS do not. A Nintendo DS or 3DS remake would make Ruby and Sapphire playable on these newer systems.
• Nintendo also seems to have a pattern of remaking games every ten years. In 2012, it will have been ten years since Ruby and Sapphire's original release date, if I am not mistaken.

Other speculations/Random theories

• The Ransei region, introduced in Pokémon Conquest, may be located around Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh and Almia regions, if based in real-life Japan.
• The story for the Pokémon RéBURST manga would be set a century after Pokémon Black 2 and White 2. According to my Pokémon theory, most Pokémon stories are set in 21st-century, but the Pokémon RéBURST manga would be set in the 22nd-century, as suggested by the usage of Burst Hearts. Burst Hearts are more technologically advanced than Poké Balls.
• Out of all Japanese Pokémon Center stores, if based in real-life Japan, two of them are located in Kanto region, and another two located in Johto region, one in Hoenn region and one in Sinnoh region. The last one (excluded above) out of these Japanese stores are not belonging to any Pokémon region.

New things I'd like to see

Manga

• A seinen Pokémon manga (青年ポケモン漫画) to be serialized in Big Comic Spirits or something. Focusing on motorsports or car battles.

Merchandise

• Pocket Monsters RéBURST Composite Ver.Ka (the only Pokémon RéBURST spinoff merchandise which will make more sense, to be designed by Hajime Katoki and Mitsuhisa Tamura)
• Crossover merchandises based on both Pokémon and Cyber Troopers Virtual On franchises

Non-Pokémon related games

• Cyber Troopers Virtual-On Marz remake for Nintendo 3DS.
• A Yakuza game for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U.

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