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| 2D game screenshot ofwn, shown from an overhead perspective. The town, which is surrounded by cliff walls, contains five houses including a Pokémon Center and a Pokémon Mart, as well as a tower. Lavender Town as it appears in Pokémon Red and Blue | |
| 別名 | Home Of Spirits |
| ジャンル | 日本のRPG |
| 種類 | 町 |
| 初登場 | ポケットモンスター 赤・緑 |
| 最終登場 | ポケットモンスター Let's Go! ピカチュウ・Let's Go! イーブイ |
シオンタウン(英語:Lavender Town) はポケットモンスター 赤・緑に登場する架空の町。シオンタウンは心霊スポットとして表現され、町には大きな日本風の墓場がある。シオンタウンのBGMは気味の悪い雰囲気を追加するものとして有名であり、2010年には日本の100人の子供が曲を聞いた後に自殺したというシオンタウン症候群(Lavender Town Syndrome)なるクリーピーパスタを生み出した。
The Japanese name is likely a katakana spelling of Aster tataricus（紫苑）, a lavender-colored flower, signifying "I won't forget you."[1]
Background
[編集]シオンタウンはポケットモンスター 赤・緑、ポケットモンスター青、ポケットモンスター ピカチュウ、ポケットモンスター金・銀、ポケットモンスタークリスタルやそれらのリメイク作品で訪れることができる町である。ここには死んだポケモンのために建てられた数百の墓石で埋め尽くされた『ポケモンタワー』がある。そのためこの町には幽霊がでるという噂がありプレイヤーはゴーストタイプのポケモンと出会うことができる The Pokémon Tower was replaced by the "Kanto Radio Tower" in Pokémon Silver and Gold. Lavender Town is also home to the "Name Rater", which allows players to change the nickname of their Pokémon, and a care home for abandoned Pokémon.[2]
The Pokémon Tower appears in the first season of the Pokémon anime series, when its main characters search for ghost-type Pokémon for a difficult gym battle. Lavender Town also appears in the Pokémon Adventures and The Electric Tale of Pikachu manga series.[2] In the former, it is explicitly home to the graves of many Pokémon.
Music and the Lavender Town Syndrome
[編集]The chiptune background music of Lavender Town in Pokémon Red, Blue, Green and Yellow versions has garnered much interest due to some listeners finding it unsettling. Listing it as the second-most scary video game track in 2012, Brittany Vincent of Bloody Disgusting stated that Lavender Town's "deceptively calm ... tune ranks highly on most gamers' lists of terrifying childhood memories." Lavender Town's music, composed by Junichi Masuda, combines sharp chiptune sounds with "a cavalcade of jarring chords" to create an eerie atmosphere.[3] Jay Hathaway of Gawker stated that leaving the music on loop may cause a "vague sense of dread".[4]
According to a creepypasta story that was uploaded anonymously on Pastebin.com in 2010, the music of Lavender Town compelled the suicide of about 200 Japanese children in the spring of 1996. Others allegedly suffered nosebleeds, headaches, or became irrationally angry or emotional. According to this urban legend, high-pitch binaural beats harmed the brains of children in a way adults were immune to. This fabricated illness was dubbed "Lavender Town Syndrome" and the original story went viral after being spread on general interest websites such as 4chan. Various people have added details to make the story more convincing over time, such as photoshopping images of ghosts into spectrogram outputs of the Lavender Town music.[4] Mark Hill of Kill Screen stated that the appeal of the Lavender Town Syndrome legend "comes from corrupting such an innocent symbol of childhood," and drew comparisons with "Dennō Senshi Porygon", an episode of the Pokémon anime series that gave hundreds of Japanese children seizures.[5][6]
In Pokémon Gold, Silver and Crystal versions (and in their remakes Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver), the Lavender Town theme music was recomposed to a happier tone as, per the game's storyline, the Pokémon Tower was demolished and replaced with the Kanto Radio Tower.[7] The "Lavender Town" theme was re-recorded for the 2017 Pokémon Go Halloween event.[8]
Fan theory
[編集]The player character can battle their rival, Blue, in the Pokémon Tower. Fans of the series have noted that Blue's Raticate, a Pokémon he uses for every battle up to that point, does not appear in this fight or subsequent confrontations, and that Blue begins his confrontation with the player by exclaiming: "Your Pokémon don't look dead! I can at least make them faint!" This led fans to speculate that Blue's Pokémon had died in a previous battle and that Blue came to the Pokémon Tower to bury and mourn his Raticate.[9]
Reception
[編集]Eurogamer described Lavender Town as a "standout location" in the original Pokémon games, as it is one of the few locations in the franchise that deals with the fact that the "cute and cuddly" Pokémon could actually die.[10]
References
[編集]- ^ a b Yamamoto, Atsushi. “Aster tataricus (Shion) - 紫苑 （シオン）” (Japanese). 2013年1月25日時点のオリジナルよりアーカイブ。2011年9月18日閲覧。
- ^ a b Neves, Ravael (2012年2月29日). “Stage Select: Lavender Town (Pokémon)” (Portuguese). Nintendo Blast. 2017年4月20日時点のオリジナルよりアーカイブ。 Template:Cite webの呼び出しエラー：引数 accessdate は必須です。
- ^ Vincent (2012年7月31日). “The 10 Scariest Video Game Music Tracks”. Bloody Disgusting. 2017年4月20日時点のオリジナルよりアーカイブ。 Template:Cite webの呼び出しエラー：引数 accessdate は必須です。
- ^ a b Hathaway, Jay (2015年3月12日). “Lavender Town: The Bizarre Pokémon Child-Suicide Conspiracy Theory”. Gawker. 2016年10月21日時点のオリジナルよりアーカイブ。 Template:Cite webの呼び出しエラー：引数 accessdate は必須です。
- ^ Hill, Mark (2016-02-25). “The Lingering Appeal of Pokémon's Greatest Ghost Story”. Kill Screen. オリジナルの2016-03-14時点におけるアーカイブ。 2017年4月19日閲覧。.
- ^ Hernandez, Patricia (2015年10月23日). “Pokémon's Creepy Lavender Town Myth, Explained”. Kotaku. 2017年2月25日時点のオリジナルよりアーカイブ。 Template:Cite webの呼び出しエラー：引数 accessdate は必須です。
- ^ https://www.thegamer.com/pokemon-lavender-town-facts/
- ^ Francisco, Eric (2017年10月18日). “Pokémon Go Halloween Event 2017: Are Gen 3 Pokemon Coming?”. Inverse. 2017年11月2日時点のオリジナルよりアーカイブ。 Template:Cite webの呼び出しエラー：引数 accessdate は必須です。
- ^ Roncero-Menendez, Sara (2013年10月12日). “The 10 Most Bizarre Pokémon Fan Theories”. Mashable. 2017年4月20日時点のオリジナルよりアーカイブ。 Template:Cite webの呼び出しエラー：引数 accessdate は必須です。
- ^ Phillips, Tom (2018年10月31日). “Just in time for Halloween, here's Lavender Town in Pokémon Let's Go”. Eurogamer. 2020年4月28日時点のオリジナルよりアーカイブ。 Template:Cite webの呼び出しエラー：引数 accessdate は必須です。
