Is his name Blue or Green? (And other Gen 1 Trainer name confusion) 

Ask his grandpa! He should know

Anime: Gary (dub) Us (manga): Blue Japan (manga): Green Games: **inserts name for rival**

Here we go! After a ton of people corrected me (and still correct me) on calling the Rival Blue, I thought I'd dig into the character name history a little bit and explain why he can be called both Blue and Green! I feel like this video might have made things more confusing, so hopefully it all makes sense in the end. ;_;

Screw this arguement I'm just gonna call 'em both teal from now on.

It gets a bit more complicated when look at the Japanese colour name "Aoi" (青い) until WWII "Aoi" was the colour name for both Blue and Green shades (from sky blue to sea green) but during the occupation it become more common to make the distinction and "Midori" (緑) came to be use more often for Green colours, but "Aoi" is still used for green in some case such as "Aoumigame" (green turtle) and "Aoendou" (green peas)

In the pokemon adventures manga, the girl's eyes are blue, and the rival's eyes are green, so I prefer to go with that.

Whoa I am stunned by the quality on the visuals in this video. It is without doubt the best looking one of all the poketubers out there. Good job!

The manga translation I read uses the original Japanese names, so that's how I refer to the characters. When in question, I always like to backtrack to the original version. I want to experience the things like the author had intended them to be.

When in doubt call him "Not Red"

I personally just like calling the male "Green" because that would make his full name "Green Oak". ....... Okay, I live for Poke'puns. So fine me.

What about GLUE problem solved

It's so confusing when you're trying to read fanfiction about these characters :3

Why Oldrival shipping is popular is because it works either way! (Oldrival shipping is Blue x Green)

But the rivals name has always been Jackass.

At least for the Manga versions I call the guy Green and the girl Blue cause otherwise that implies Mewtwo lost control of his brain for a bit in the FRLG chapter and implied that someone called Blue was called Green.

I call the male character Green and the female character Blue for many reasons. One, because green seems more like a masculine name, and blue more feminine. And two, I like to think that their starter types correspond with their names. Red is charmander, blue is squirtle, green is bulbasaur.

Gary: YEAH THAT'S RIGHT ASHY-BOY! I GOT TWO NAMES AND 10 BADGES, HA! Smell Ya Later...

I always referred to the rival as Blue and the female trainer as Green and still do. It honestly makes so much more sense this way cause he wears a bluish shirt and the female trainer wears a greenish shirt in FireRed Version and in LeafGreen Version. Plus, if you pick Charmander as your starter Pokémon then he will pick Squirtle as his starter.

theres blue - America theres green -Japan leaf green (female protagonist) - leaf green

I call them Red, Green (the rival) and Blue (the girl) because I once called the rival Blue and someone told me that his name is Green so I believed him and got used to it ^^'

I prefer the rival to be named Blue

No wonder Professor Oak was confused.

To me, the boy is Green and the girl is Blue. For mangá reasons.

I always call the Trainer Red, Rival Green, and female Blue. It feels right for me.

I always called the rival Green (and still do). Because the first 'actual' name for him I found was that in the comics. Later in the comics, I noticed it changed to Blue which confused me at first cause I thought it was calling the girl Blue. Then, looking up fanart and fanfics, his name kept flip flopping between the two.

I call them differently depending on what cannon I'm referring to. Male rival: Blue-games, Gary/Shigeru-anime, and Green-Adventures/Special manga. Female: Leaf-games and Blue-Adventures/Special. I do this because each one is different like between Haruka/May and Sapphire.

It’s kind of hilarious to watch this in 2020, after Let’s Go and Masters actually gave Green and Leaf official names. And Secondly, the Female Player in FireRed was actually given a name in the manual as well, where she was also called Leaf.

Personally I prefer to use the American names so: Player character-Red Rival-Blue Female-Green

It's Blue/Gary for me.

What if you played blue, named your character blue, and your rival Red? Doesn't make a difference but still all three could be his name

Personally, when I play through FRLG, I tend to pick the girl and name her Green, as I feel the name suits her better. No idea why I think that way, but that's the human brain for you. Also, although I know it's wrong, I tend to name my rival Gary. It may be wrong, but I got used to calling him that when I didn't know better. Nowadays, I like to think of Gary as his real name, and Blue as a nickname. It may be derived from a mistake, but it's what I'm used to.

I just call, the male character Red, the rival blue, and the female character green. Never really understood why people call her leaf tbh.

When referring to the manga, I call the girl Blue and the gary Green. Otherwise I will use the game's localized name for the gary Blue as it is what most people will know him as. As long as we all know who we are talking about, it should be fine. I won't judge anyone for using Leaf, as it is a name people find recognizable and most will know who you mean. Side note, if the girl is supposed to be Red's counterpart, why not the name Scarlett? Huh, it is just another shade of red.

FUN FACT: Leaf backwards is fael, which is just 1 letter away from fail

I personally consider Leaf/Gen 3 girl to be a different person from Green/Blue. That's kind of ironic how the international manga gave none of the three protagonists the right color per their starter Pokemon lol.

for some reason the manga i read when i was younger always referred to him as green so i’ve just always used that when referring to him but once i found out that he’s more commonly referred to as blue by fans i got extremely confused

I'm sick of people calling her *Leaf*. It's like calling Blue *Terry/Water* or Red *Fire*.

As I'm only grown up with anime, and come into the games lately, I've had time on the internet. For me It's Red and Green. Mostly because Green usually wear green, lol. If outside of Japan had changes what's green on him to blue I could've go with calling him Blue

AND HIS NAME IS JOHN CENA!

Man love your videos and the depth you go into the topics is amazing!!! BTW when is the next character study coming???

5:05 so Serena is called Y(or X) in the mangas?:D

I'll always call him Blue, and my reason behind it is simple: Blue Oak is an actual type of tree. That's just my way of looking at it. ^^

Why is her sex male in the data?

Your editing skills are getting ridiculously good, man.

My rivals name is usually something like jackass

This is an AMAZINGLY made video!

I liked that his name was green in pokemon the origin bc it shows his personality more when he chooses his starter. red chose charmander bc it matched his name and oak asks green if he was going to choose bulbasaur to match his name but then he says "I ain't choosing my starter by using some bitch method" (my translation may be a little off) and then he chooses squirtle so that he has an advantage on red. That's totally something a jackass like green would do and that's one of the reasons it's so satisfying to beat him bc he has an advantage but we train harder and we take him down. on the other hand in the dub his name was blue and it kinda underhands this scenario. oak asks if he was going to choose squirtle to match his name and he basically says the same thing and then he chooses squirtle anyways. obviously it's for the same reason to have an advantage over red but it also leaves the viewer to wonder if in the back of his head he was like "dammit gramps you're embarassing me" and made up the red part to hide the fact that he had the same idea as red and is basically a bitch for choosing a pokemon bc it matched your name.

You ever notice how most of these comments seem to be made by people or either didn't watch or didn't understand the video?

PokeSpe for the win! XD

I personally prefer to call him Blue, Mainly because I associate him with Squirtle the most out of all the starters. but i call him Green in the manga and Gary in the anime

I call the rival green because it suited him more. Blue sounds more feminine to me while Green sound more masculine. Also, I want to keep it to their original version(thus Japanese).

I originally read the Pokemon Special manga unofficially translated straight from the japanese, so the name "Blue" for the girl and "Green" for the rival stuck for me,, I also feel like they kind of fit better, in a way, with "Blue" having squirtle being associated with her and blue eyes, and "Green" having his green pendant and green eyes. But, hey, what can you do,, it makes reading the official translation for Pokemon Adventures super weird though, haha!

In my mind he's Green, it just makes sense if you have read the manga and watched media with subtitles. He even has a green motif sometimes (wearing a green jacket in Pokémon Origins). Blue and Leaf are for me the same girl (in the manga she's always Blue with just an updated outfit), whenever I play Gen I games/remakes I name the rival Green 😜 Pokémon is a Japanese franchise so I tend to stick to the original concept, call me a purist if you like lol 😂

Great video and very informative.

And his name is JOHN GREENA!!!!!!!!

I really would like to see a pokemon character study on Blue. Or Green. Whatever.

no. rival = green female trainer (gen 1 and 3, she just got new clothing) = blue idc about localization nonsense

Actually I knew almost everything about this confusion/solution xD Except for "Leaf"... I didnt know she was called that o_o So thanks for explaining everything so detailed about Green and Blue and the mixing up with their names :)

I call him Green cause that's what they called him in Origins

also green from the adventures manga got a new outfit in the firered and leafgreen chapter that is the same as the costume from leaf. it's why i always call her green

The translation of the manga I read called him Green. He's always been Green to me because of this.

I prefer to call him blue since it fits more for his rivalry with red.

By that logic Red's name is Fire. And I guess Blue the male rival makes more sense to me because that's how it was in the Pokémon Adventures manga everywhere but Japan. He also wears a Blue shirt.

His name is Green? His name is Blue? No. His name is... JOHN CENA!!!! (Da Daduh Da! Den Danah Dah!)

I know Green is considered "more" correct" by some people but I prefer Blue cuz u know red vs blue just feels right for me

In the FireRed and LeafGreen arc of Pokémon Adventures Leaf is just Green in new clothes. Have fun with your update video!

Personally, I always call them this; Male Player, Red, Rival, Blue, and Female, Green. That just feels right for me. I see it as the games refer to the main character (Red and Green, Sun and Moon) for instance, so while the characters aren't always named after the games (Ruby/Sapphire; May and Brendan) I still choose to believe that the game pair represents the two player characters.

His name is Oak.... Gary Oak...

I love your channel and I was on the news to day

I call the the rival blue because my rival went with squirtel. When FR/LG came out I named the girl green since Blue was already the name of my rival.

Can you please make a video on the truth about Arcanine? Originally Arcanine was meant to be a legendary and I was wondering if you could please shed some light on the matter. Thank you!

i call him blue because in the manga the person who gets the third pokemon is green.

Here in Argentina the rival is Green and the Girl is Blue (Manga)

I read the manga. His name is blue. It's blue.

It's like calling Ash, "Ash" or "Satoshi". In Japan, Ash is called Satoshi and everywhere else is called Ash. So if you call Ash "Ash" then you call Blue/Green "Blue." Also calling people by there Japanese names is like calling a Pokemon by there Japanese name also.

It's actually blue because of the new trailer for sun and moon, you can battle red and blue in the new game

I do have the girl character option because my versions are Fire Red and Leaf Green.

JUST CALL HIM GARY!!

Personally, I'm a fan of the Rival = Green and Female = Blue Argument. That said, I consider the Gen 3 Female Player Character a entirely separate character from the original's "Blue" . And Her name is Leaf to me.

his name is Blue, end of story

This is why it's better when you can just create and customize your own character, lol

Japan games came first so he's green and she's blue. That's how I see it.

i think it depends which starter he choose

Something I have never understood is why Red has a Venasaur. Green has Charizard, but why? It does not make any sense xD

OK, now I'm calling the Gen 1 rival Terry.

I thought in gen 1 the girl was called yellow.... Turns out she's actually a totally different character.

I've ended up calling him Blue in the games and Green in the manga, since my translation uses the original Japanese names. I also got confused at first too. :p

Since i'm american and not japanese, I'll call the boy blue and the girl green! Sorry! The names fit better anyways tbh.

I thought his name was "DICKS" because that's what most people seem to call him. I usually just call him "Gary", or "Blue/Green/Dicks/Gary/Whatever". And yes I do use all of those names at once just to satisfy everyone, but I might change "Dicks" to another name people gave him, like "Asshat", "Dickface", "Assfart", "Jerkass", "Jackass" etc.

too bad im sticking with what i know the boy is red the other is green the girl is blue and your rival in the anime is ASSHAT. good good.

I am only more confused now... but I will always know her as Leaf. Screw Gary tho.

I used to just call the Gen 1 rival Gary because of the anime =w=

Green just makes more sense to me, especially when reading the manga (though changing it in my head is something I had to get used to). First of all, Green is Red's rival, who has a Charizard to rival Red's Veonosaur, so that all lines up nicely. Second, eye colors, Green has green eyes, and Blue has Blue eyes. Third, Red and Green came first, with blue to follow later, just as the games did in the real world. As you said, it truly doesn't matter when talking them as long as you are clear that it's the rival or the girl that you are talking about. Also worth mentioning that Blue has a Blastoise, and later on, Yellor (again, a real world parallel) is identified by her yellow hat (and pika I suppose)

Rival(Game&Manga): Green (Jp) Blue (US) Rival(Anime): Shigeru (Jp) Gary (US) Female protagonist(Game&Manga): Blue (Jp) Green (US)

In the anime, his name is Gary. In Japan, his name is Green. In English, his name is Blue. So everyone's right.

His name despite living in America all my life is always green to me due to it being the original name and his whole thing is based around green in HGSS his room was green and in gen 7 he wears Green but that's just me

I just call him Gary. lol spares me the headache of being indecisive.

When I first played the games I didn't bother to learn the characters names so they don't have much to do with what I call the characters, but I did read the manga. When I read it, I read it offline translated by some fans and not the official translations, so the Japanese character names still stayed, so I call the male rival 'Green' and the unused character 'Blue'. I also call the gen three female character 'Blue' because in the manga she evolves as a character to wear those different clothes, but she's still the same person

I'm okay with either name in the games be it Blue or Green, but in the manga it's obvious the rival is Green while the female character is Blue. Reason: their official eye color. Even in the US release of the FRLG chapter of the manga, they kept Green's eyes green instead of changing it to blue.

Tom Scott on RU-vid did a video on "grue" which is a combined green/blue because most languages don't have a different word for the 'two' colours