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Nacrene City (Japanese: シッポウシティ Shippou City) is a city in southeastern Unova. It is the location for the second Gym that the player visits in the region, led by Lenora. Nacrene City is called the "city of art".
Nacrene City is described as having a peculiar cityscape, as it reuses its warehouses built about a century ago. According to the manga, the unique cityscape makes it a popular place for avant-garde artists and is usually the place where trends begin. Castelia City's Gym Leader Burgh is a renowned artist whose hometown is Nacrene City. Nacrene City houses the Nacrene Museum which happens to include the Nacrene Gym.
Places of interest
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Nacrene Museum
A museum showing various historical treasures, most prominently a skeleton of a Dragon-type Pokémon (resembling Dragonite), is located in Nacrene City. At the back of the museum there is a library room which also operates as the Nacrene Gym. There is also a meteorite exhibit that will change Deoxys's Forme when examined. By talking to the woman on the right hand desk inside, the player can restore fossils.
Nacrene Gym
- Main article: Nacrene Gym
The Nacrene Gym is the official Gym of Nacrene City. It is based on Template:Type2 Pokémon. The Gym Leader is Lenora. The Nacrene City Gym is a Gym consisting of a library that require Trainers to find the right answers to opponents' questions through the readable books, before engaging them in battle. For defeating Lenora, Trainers receive the Basic Badge and TM67 (Retaliate).
Café Warehouse
The Café Warehouse (Japanese: Café Sōko) is a a diner just west of the museum. They have specials on Wednesday, where the player can receive a free Soda Pop.
Loblolly's studio
Loblolly's studio is to the southeast of Nacrene City. After visiting the Dream World at least once, Loblolly will talk about Décor that "people will dream of". Players may choose one of five pieces of Décor that will be unlocked in the Dream World the next time the Game Sync is used. Each day another piece may be chosen.
Dye's house
Dye's house is located in the southeastern side of Nacrene City. In it, Dye will offer to trade the player Petilil for Cottonee in Black, and Cottonee for Petilil in White. After trading with Dye and stopping Team Plasma at N's Castle, Dye will challenge the player to a battle in which she uses the evolved form of the CottoneeWrong template. See Template:Sup/doc. or PetililWrong template. See Template:Sup/doc. that the player traded to her.
In addition, downstairs in Dye's house, a woman will evaluate the happiness of the first Pokémon in the player's party.
Battle item shop
In the southeastern side of Nacrene City, a man will sell battle items out of his house.
Demographics
Nacrene City has a population of 50. It is among the Unova region's largest cities in terms of population.
Variable scoring
An accordion track will be added to the background theme if the player is near a street performer west of the gym.
Poké Mart
Items
Pokémon
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Post-game
After trading with Dye and stopping Team Plasma at N's Castle, Dye will challenge the player to a battle in which she uses the evolved form of the CottoneeWrong template. See Template:Sup/doc. or PetililWrong template. See Template:Sup/doc. that the player traded to her.
Black only
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Lass Dye
アヤ Aya
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In the anime
Nacrene City in the anime
Nacrene Museum in the anime
Nacrene City is shown to be a very colorful and artistic city in the anime with water fountains, stained glass windows and an unused railway track. The buildings and warehouses are painted in a variety of different colors. It is also shown to have a Pokémon Center and Battle Club. Weird things are also shown to be sold here.
In Minccino-Neat and Tidy!, Jessie, James and TRMeowth ([[{{{2}}} (move)|{{{2}}}]]) arrived there, planning to go to the Nacrene Museum.
In A Night in the Nacrene City Museum!, Ash and his friends visited the Nacrene Museum looking for the Nacrene Gym which is closed. The Museum is quite a historical building and features a range of exhibits such as fossils, skeletons, knight's armor and tombs. Hawes is the vice-curator of the museum. Near the back is a library where the gym's entrance is. There was a Yamask causing havoc in the museum.
In The Battle According to Lenora!, Ash battled Lenora in the gym, but was defeated; Team Rocket stole a meteorite from the museum, replacing it with a dummy.
In Rematch at the Nacrene Gym!, Ash had rematch against Lenora and finally won. Its last appearance was in Scraggy-Hatched to be Wild! where Team Rocket got orders by Flint to visit Professor Seger. They went there and he examined the meteorite which was shown to have materials found nowhere on earth.
Trivia
- Nacrene's Japanese motto is シッポウは 七つの 宝物.
- Nacrene City has a train track running through the south side of the city.
- However, it is nonfunctional, as there is no train visible and the track ends abruptly in the Pinwheel Forest.
- Nacrene City shares its Japanese name, Shippou, with Sevault Canyon in the Sevii Islands.
Name origin
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| Japanese
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シッポウシティ Shippou City
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七宝 shippō, both the seven treasures (gold, silver, pearls, agate, crystal, coral, and lapis lazuli) and a mon that uses interlocking circles in such a way that the intersections resemble flowers (example).
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| English
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Nacrene City
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From nacreous cloud, polar clouds that have iridescent luster. Also from nacre (mother of pearl).
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| French
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Maillard
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Possibly a reference to Maillard reaction, a type of nonenzymatic browning process that produces a diverse range of odors and flavors.
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Septerna City
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From the Latin septem (seven).
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| Italian
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Zefiropoli
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From zefiro, an Italian name for Poniente.
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Ciudad Esmalte
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From esmalte, vitreous enamel.
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| Korean
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칠보시티 Chilbo City
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From 七宝 chilbo, "seven treasures".
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| Chinese (Mandarin)
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七寶市 Qībǎo Shì
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From 七宝 shippō. Literally means "seven treasures", possibly referencing the seven treasures in Buddhist scripture.
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