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Pallet Town is the kickoff to the series of colors, as Pallet (Palette) is a collection of colors. Most of the cities in Kanto are named after colors, such as Pewter City, Viridian City, Saffron City, and so on. Season 23 and 24 of the anime is also the set in Kanto as Ash and his new friend Goh from Vermilion City work as research assistants. Location names in the anime sometimes differ from those in the games.

Season 1 and Season 9 of the anime are set in Kanto. In the anime, the protagonist Ash Ketchum is a resident of Pallet Town, and began his journey by touring Pokémon gyms in Kanto with Misty from Cerulean City and Brock from Pewter City. Brawl comes a new Pokémon Stadium 2 to play on. In the Nintendo 64 version, Saffron City is a cityscape battlefield while the Pokémon Stadium is a basic arena and transforms to water, grass, rock and fire type battlefields in Super Smash Bros. Two areas of the Kanto region, Saffron City and the Pokémon Stadium, are playable in HAL Laboratory's popular Super Smash Bros. In late 2018, Pokémon Yellow was remade as two new games for the Nintendo Switch called Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!. In late 2004, Pokémon Red, Pokémon Green, and Pokémon Blue were remade as new titles for the Game Boy Advance called Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, which incorporated new elements. Since these games occupied an in-universe timeline a few years after their predecessors, some changes were introduced. In Gold, Silver and Crystal, which introduced Johto, the player character character was able to travel to Kanto (by either steamboat, surfing or the magnet train) travelling between Goldenrod City in Johto and Saffron City in Kanto after completing their journeys through Johto.

In the first generation of games, Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow, Kanto was the only region to explore, featuring a variety of environments, such as urban locales and mountainous, wooded and oceanic routes. Unova is in a considerable distance away and it's unknown where both it and Kalos are in relation to Kanto. Supposedly to the north of this continent is the Sinnoh region. Routes located wholly within Kanto are numbered 1 to 25 routes 26, 27, and 28 connect Kanto with Johto. Hoenn, introduced in Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald, is supposedly further to the southwest. Kanto lies to the east of Johto they presumably make up a small continent to the south of Kanto are the Sevii and Orange Islands. The resemblance between the bay formations seen on the in-game map and the actual Sagami Bay, Suruga Bay, and Tokyo Bay formations is particularly striking. Kanto is the only one that shares its name with a real-world location. It is modeled and named after the Kantō region of Japan, which includes, amongst other cities, the capital Tōkyō, where Game Freak is headquartered. It was then followed by Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos, Alola, and Galar. Kanto is the first region in the Pokémon universe and in the popular series, games and anime. Map of Kanto in Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, in HeartGold and SoulSilver and in FireRed and LeafGreen.
