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Kotone
コトネ Kotone
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Art from HeartGold and SoulSilver
Gender Female
Hometown New Bark Town
Region Johto
Relatives Mom (as player)
Grandparents (as NPC)
Trainer class Pokémon Trainer, Player character
Generation IV
Games HeartGold, SoulSilver
Anime counterpart Kotone
Counterpart debut EP001
File:Goldandsoul.png
Kotone speaking with Gold

Kotone (Japanese: コトネ Kotone) is the female player character in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver. In these remakes of Pokémon Gold and Silver Versions, she is the counterpart to Gold, taking over the role from Kris in the original games. Her hometown is New Bark Town; she lives there with her mother. While playing as Gold, her grandparents run the Day Care on Route 34.

Kotone is also a character from the anime. She is modeled after the game character.

While playing as Gold, Kotone meets the player in New Bark Town at the start of the game. In this particular scene, she is seen with a Marill. She will always have Marill even if another starter Pokémon is selected. In addition, she doesn't appear to take the remaining starter Pokémon. Her role in the storyline of HeartGold and SoulSilver is similar to that of Lucas/Dawn in Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum if they are not chosen as the player character, while Gold takes this place if she is selected as the player.

Pokémon

Kotone uses this party to show the player how to catch Pokémon when Gold is selected as the player character in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver.



Optional names for Kotone

File:KotoneHGSS.png
Kotone sprite from
HeartGold and SoulSilver
Language HeartGold/SoulSilver
Japanese
  • ハート Heart
  • ソウル Soul
  • キヨミ Kiyomi
  • サトコ Satoko
  • チホ Chiho
  • イオリ Iori
  • マキコ Makiko
  • ミキコ Mikiko
  • ウララ Urara
  • ジュンコ Junko
  • フウカ Fūka
  • リエ Rie
  • セツコ Setsuko
  • ニッキ Nikki
  • マミナ Mamina
  • ノリコ Noriko
  • ユミカ Yumika
  • モモコ Momoko
  • ミスズ Misuzu

Trivia

  • Much like Silver received the fan name "Kamon" from the list of Gold's names in Pokémon Silver for discerning purposes, Kotone was known by much of the fandom as "Soul", following the precedent of Red's female counterpart introduced in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen. Interestingly, Gold was the only one who appeared in-game in demos with the name Soul: Kotone's name was in fact "Heart" (though likewise, Leaf was a default name for Red in LeafGreen, and Fire and Red default names for Leaf in FireRed).
    • As predicted, much like Leaf, "Soul" is one of the optional names for Kotone in Pokémon SoulSilver Version.
  • Previously to the announcement of Kotone's name on September 6th, 2009's episode of Pokémon Sunday, she was seen by many fans as an updated form of Kris, rather than a new character.
  • Kotone's name when translated means "sound of the harp."
  • Kotone shares many of her Japanese default names with Leaf and Dawn. She also shares all of Kris's default Japanese names.



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