Shelter Town

Shelter Town コマコタウン Komako Town
Shelter Town
Region	Sinnoh
Debut	Battling a Cute Drama!

Shelter Town (Japanese: コマコタウン Komako Town) is an anime-exclusive location in the snowy northern part of the Sinnoh region. It is located near Snowpoint City and it was featured in Battling a Cute Drama!.

After leaving Sandalstraw Town, Ash and his friends arrived in Shelter Town through a mountain tunnel and stopped by the local Pokémon Center, where they met Marilyn, a Trainer obsessed with cuteness. Upon seeing Dawn's Buneary, Marilyn challenged Dawn to a battle, and the two faced off in the Pokémon Center's battlefield.

While battling Dawn, Marilyn had her Cherubi acting as if it was in pain so as to add drama to the battle. Brock, who was refereeing the match, became irritated by this and told her to take the battle seriously. Marilyn did and eventually defeated Dawn. After that, Brock asked Marilyn if she would like to have a battle with him. Having noticed that Marilyn would look down on Pokémon failing to meet her criteria for cuteness, Brock wanted to teach her about inner beauty through a battle.

Marilyn agreed to battle Brock and, after witnessing how Brock's Sudowoodo and Croagunk could be valiant regardless of their looks, understood what Brock was telling her and sent out a Shellder to face off against his Happiny. The battle was interrupted by Team Rocket, who wanted to steal Marilyn's cute-looking Pokémon and give them to Giovanni. However, Shellder and Happiny combined their strength to send them blasting off.

Dawn's mother, Johanna, also sent a package to her and the others through Nurse Joy containing winter clothing.

Trivia

• Shelter Town appears to be a reference to the shelter found on Route 216.

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	コマコタウン Komako Town
English	Shelter Town	From shelter
German	Schutzhofen	From Schutz (protection) and Hof (yard)
Spanish	Pueblo Refugio*	From refugio (refuge)
	Pueblo Shelter*	Same as English name
French	Ville Refuge	From refuge
Italian	Rifugiopoli	From rifugio (refuge)
Korean	선전마을 Seonjeon Maeul
Chinese (Mandarin)	防空鎮 Fángkōng Zhèn	From 防空 fángkōng / fòhnghūng (air defense)
Chinese (Cantonese)	防空鎮 Fòhnghūng Jan
Polish	Miasto Shelter	From its English name

Animated series-exclusive locations in Sinnoh Alamos Town • Amber Castle • Arrowroot Town • B-Button League Headquarters • Beach Rose Town • Bewilder Forest • Brussel Town • Camellia Town Celestic Town Historical Research Center • Chocovine Town • Crown City • Dandelion Island • Daybreak Town • Diablo's Ocean • Dustox Flower Field Emeragrove Town • Eterna Historical Museum • Gerbera Town • Gracidea • Greenstation Town • Lake Psyduck • Lily of the Valley Island • Lilypad Town Lucario Kingdom • Majolica Town • Metagross Mountain • Michina Town • Mt. Shady • Neighborly Town • Pokémon Summer Academy • Pokémon Training Center Sage Town • Sandalstraw Town • Shelter Town • Space-Time Towers • Squallville • Summit Ruins • Sunyshore Tower • Ten'i Village • Xatu's Forest Animated series-exclusive location templates Kanto • Orange Islands • Johto • Hoenn • Sinnoh • Unova • Decolore Islands • Kalos • Alola • Galar • Paldea • Other

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