Kanto Journey - Part Red & Green

Pocket Monsters: Kanto Journey - Part Red & Green is the second part of the main story. This part begins with main characters, Redwald Walker and Greta Parker, leaving Pallet Town after they receive their Pokémon Trainer Licences. Not only they discover the wild world, they also discover themselves for real, first time in their life. Eusine Hunter, a mysterious trainer from far away joins Redwald and Greta to company and help them. Soon after, they find out that they are also going head to head with their rivals, Blake Oak and Madison Dickens, respectively. Although they go for their goal and achieve what is undone, they also realize that nothing is as simple as they have been assuming.

Plot
and leave Pallet Town with the beginning of Kanto League season. Redwald's ultimate goal is to collect eight badges. Greta wants to discover Pokémon, understand their nature and be able to help them with no hesitation. However, it doesn't take too long before the two find themselves in a big trouble. A man from far away, appears at the most desperate moment, and saves everyone. The mysterious man, who reveals nothing about himself, becomes a travelling companion to Redwald and Greta. While they visit every corner of Kanto, Redwald goes for gym battles and collects badges.

Sub-Plot
Two chapters, and  focus on the past of Kanto and the time before the war against Kingdom of Kanto. The events begin with a young boy named Rabbie Fragola falling in love with Jenna White. Because of her, he realizes what it feels like to be alive. Later on, he joins an underground organization named The Revision, which dedicates its members to fight against the kingdom that sucks the blood of people and leaves them in hunger. However, the organization is busted by the police officers and everyone being caught there is carried to the prison. While Fragola finds himself in the prison, White is not one of those that are busted. The two live separatedly. Fragola does what it takes to escape the prison and finally, he begins to travel back to Saffron City.

Purpose
This part serves the plot of the game from a wider aspect. The events and characters have more dimensional aspects and the wild Pokémon have more affect on the course of events other than just randomly appearing - such as the war between Beedrill Pack and Parasect Pack, or that is dethroned upon losing the challenge of Master Poliwhirl. Redwald goes from Pallet Town until Cerulean City and gathers one badge from a gym leader, Brock. He catches several Pokémon, interacts with them and trains them. Greta also catches several Pokémon and is in charge of taking care of them. Eusine usually guides the other two and mentions nothing about himself.

Structure
The part contains 20 chapters.

The first chapter is arranged on 4 June 1996 and the last chapter is on 15 October 1996, making it run more than 4 months. The first chapter is released on 1 August 2017 and the last chapter is released on 4 May 2018, making it last around 9 months.

In the standard of 13,4 × 19,5 page size, with Book Antiqua in 11 mm font size, leaving for a new page after every chapter, this part consists of 427 pages and 93,799 words, including the chapter titles and excluding all pictures. The shortest chapter is with 16 pages and 3503 words. The longest chapter is with 33 pages and 7249 words.

Characters
Due to main characters exploring and discovering new places and people across Kanto, Kanto Journey - Part Red & Green introduces variety of characters more often than Kanto Journey - The Beginning. The main characters are gone more into depth, as well as the minor characters have still more personalities than an ordinary minor character. Most are expected to have more appearances than the first ones.

Main Characters


Redwald Walker has more solid personal development than what he serves in the previous part. He is still eager, yet naive, but he experiences, learns, trains and improves. He obtains/catches only two Pokémon in the previous part and takes a while before he gets used to them. In this part, he completes his team to six Pokémon and he keeps the balance in order. Furthermore, he doesn't battle to catch any Pokémon in this part. Instead, he offers them to join his journey. It may be considered as an evidence to how he is good at communicating with wild Pokémon.

Greta Parker shows relatively more personal development and depth of characteristics than Redwald, however. She struggles in the beginning due to leaving her regular routine and tidy life style that she had back at home and she often fails to do things that she intends to. She finds the courage to go on in her Pokémon and says that she will continue her journey as long as she has her Pokémon by her side. Apart from having Pokémon-world related experiences, she also expresses the behaviour of a teenager girl. She has a crush on another character, yet she is not aware of her feelings and can't label them properly. Furthermore, she follows her instincts and acts cautious, but as she wishes. When she feels desperate the most, she writes down her feelings and keeps it for herself. Nearly end of the part, she finally realizes what she feels and begins to accept it for herself.

Eusine Hunter joins the group as a main character in this part. He represents the mentor in initiation of stories. He knows a lot, he is experienced and relatively powerful, he is the one that is hard to be reached, yet he is compassionate and generous. He appears for the first time helping the group of youngs who are in trouble. Later on, he joins them for a while until he reaches to where he heads. His personal features are expressed relatively clearer. He has a different accent and is more elite for a person who would be on a journey. Also, he keeps his past as a secret and barely gives any information regarding it.

Supporting Characters


Compared to Kanto Journey - The Beginning, Part Red & Green offers more supporting characters, however, they appear less often. For instance, Blake Oak makes appearance in 60% of episodes in The Beginning. When it comes to Part Red & Green, he makes apparance only in three chapters. That being said, Blake uniquely has one chapter that is based on him. The same applies for Madison Dickens, except she doesn't have a chapter that is based on her.

Different supporting characters who make appearances to support the actual plot have detailed written backstories occasionally. It is soft for such characters as Aubrey or Corporal Larke. Such characters as Diana or Aubrey have relatively more detailed backstories. Such characters as Gabor or Eshmun barely or don't have at all.

Pokémon Characters


The main characters who are carried over from Kanto Journey - The Beginning fill their teams to six Pokémon, or at least get closer to it. Redwald, who only has and  in the beginning has full team of six by the end of journey.

, that doesn't listen to him in the beginning, and then trusts in him over the time begins this part with trust and respect for his trainer. Throughout the journey until end of the part, Eevee doesn't have radical changes on his characteristics or behaviour. He improves a move, Double Team, in the beginning and then doesn't learn any more moves. Unlike how he is carried outside of his Poké Ball the whole Kanto Journey - The Beginning, he is kept in his Poké Ball unless it is necessary.



, that is just a recent member of the team in the early Kanto Journey - Red & Green, also doesn't show much more improvement other than battling better. His personality and behaviour remain the same as well. He improves a new move, Quick Attack, nearly end of the part, though.

Most of the other Pokémon that Redwald catches in this part are mostly rejected Pokémon who need shelter, protection or just support. The first Pokémon that Redwald catches in this part is a, who used to lead a pack, but gets kicked out because of a Poliwhirl, who takes his throne and leads the pack. Redwald offers him to come along and train him with the promise of returning him in the end.



is found when she is rejected by her former trainer. She is left alone and desperate. When Redwald finds her, he defends Tangela's skills. Later on, he trains the Pokémon and has a battle with Jennifer. Although Tangela still loses the battle, she receives an offer from Redwald to go along with him and she accepts with the goal of defeating Jennifer in Kanto League.

is just a naive Pokémon that doesn't know the power of his skills and needs some serious training. In the meantime, he acts like a little kid who is hard to be stopped. Redwald determinedly takes responsible of the Pokémon to train him and makes his ultimate dream come true - flying upon evolving into his last evolutionary stage.

is the Pokémon that fills Redwald's team. He is found hurt and fainted. Redwald and the others help him to gain his energy and power back. However, due to his broken nail, it would be almost impossible for him to survive in the sand unless he is healed. Once Redwald realizes the potential in him, he offers him to go along with him. Sandshrew accepts the offer.

As the examples suggest, Redwald's pattern is accepting Pokémon that need help. He usually doesn't battle them, with the exception of Pidgey, and many Pokémon only appear to have a backstory with a reason to have a grand goal in the end of the journey. With the exception of Poliwag, who has a mother - son relationship with, none of the Pokémon have unique behaviour to themselves.



doesn't fill her team to six Pokémon, however she comes close enough with five Pokémon. In the beginning of the journey, she has only two Pokémon on her team: that she receives from Professor Oak and  that she catches before starting her journey.

Although Nidoran is much like Redwald's Eevee by not having a radical change after the journey, Caterpie has unique development in this part compared to other Pokémon - she is the only Pokémon of a main character to evolve. Furthermore, she has the most radical characteristic improvement. As a Caterpie, she is naive and weak, though she has tactics in the battle to cover for herself. Upon evolving into a Metapod, she begins to become a very inactive Pokémon that is incapable of doing pretty much anything, even expressing emotions. Thus, she needs a particular protection to be healthy. In the end, she evolves into a Butterfree that can protect herself and has good skills in the battles, making her useful.

and lack a solid backstory before being caught by Greta. However, they both share similarities. They both are not experienced enough for tough Pokémon battles. They both don't stand out a lot after being caught. In Bulbasaur's case, even not much enough in the chapter she is caught. in the other hand has one of the most detailed and reasonable backstory than any other Pokémon. She has an actual reason to have accomplished by the end of her journey - getting out of her depression area and being able to give another chance to Diana to forgive her for what she did in the past. However, she doesn't show any sign of development just yet until the end of part.

, who just recently joins has only one Pokémon that he carries with him. He is such an ace Pokémon that he helps with almost any situation he bears with. Despite of that, doesn't have many appearances or personality development throughout the part. He doesn't have any independent characteristic features either. Therefore, Haunter is rather a flat character.

has more dimensional characteristics compared to Haunter, however. Due to being caught only in the end of the part, he doesn't get to show any movement or have development. But he has a backstory and a unique personality than his species.



Other Pokémon that belong to supporting characters have flat characteristics. They don't have a big influence to the plot and don't express anything peciular, with the exception of. Because Beedrill has the same improvement as, the Pokémon has unintended personality.

The wild Pokémon that don't belong to any trainer have more dimensional personality. Master Poliwhirl, who banishes is a determined Pokémon with the soul of a leader. He is also so well self trained that the master of a pack can't stand a chance against him. Parasect Pack and Beedrill Pack also have their own personalities. They are in a war and Parasect are desperate because of Beedrill's more powerful support. During their war, both sides bring out their best.

Other Characters


Kanto Journey - Part Red & Green introduces a sub-plot within the story which explains the history of Kanto around the time of Kingdom of Kanto. According to the sources, the kingdom would have all the control in the region while people would had to deal with starvation and poverty. In such time, a movement which is called Revolutionary Movement has started all around the world. The ultimate goal of the movement is to get rid of the kingdoms and bring a system with which the people would control themselves. Eventually, Rabbie Fragola and Jenna White play a major role in this movement of Kanto.

Characters are described with lack of backstories but they build up the plot afterwards. It is less action oriented but more emotional built-up.