Anville Town
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Location Location of Anville Town in Unova. |
Anville Town (Japanese: カナワタウン Kanawa Town) is situated in the northwestern part of the Unova region. It is accessed by riding the Battle Subway's Anville line (shown brown on the subway map) from Gear Station in Nimbasa City; no battles are required to be able to go to this town. On the weekends, some Trainers come to this town to exchange items.
Slogan
Rolling Out the Steel Rails (Japanese: カナワとは交差する鉄の輪 Kanawa refers to intersecting iron rings.)
Lost Pansage
In Black 2 and White 2, the School Kid standing near the entrance has lost her Pansage. Her Pansage is being kept by a Depot Agent in front of the Musical Theater in Nimbasa City. If the player talks to the Depot Agent after finding out about the lost Pansage, he will return it. When the player returns to Anville Town and talks to the girl, who now has her Pokémon back, she will give the player a BrightPowder and say that a green-haired guy (implied to be N) told her that her Pansage's dream is to become a railroad conductor.
Places of interest
Lost-and-found
A Depot Agent handing out lost-and-found items lives in the southeastern house. When the player first talks to him, he will give the player a Rare Candy. After that, he will acquire a new item if the player wins seven consecutive battles on the Battle Subway. So long as he has an item, further streaks of seven will increase the number of that item that he will give the player when they talk to him, up to a maximum of ten.
Item | Location | Games | |
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Rare Candy | After winning at least seven battles in the Battle Subway | B W B2 W2 | |
Full Restore | After winning at least seven battles in the Battle Subway | B W B2 W2 | |
Max Revive | After winning at least seven battles in the Battle Subway | B W B2 W2 | |
Elixir | After winning at least seven battles in the Battle Subway | B W B2 W2 | |
Protein | After winning at least seven battles in the Battle Subway | B W B2 W2 | |
Iron | After winning at least seven battles in the Battle Subway | B W B2 W2 | |
Calcium | After winning at least seven battles in the Battle Subway | B W B2 W2 | |
Zinc | After winning at least seven battles in the Battle Subway | B W B2 W2 | |
Carbos | After winning at least seven battles in the Battle Subway | B W B2 W2 | |
HP Up | After winning at least seven battles in the Battle Subway | B W B2 W2 | |
Turntable
Anville Town is known for its connection with locomotives, and every day a different train engine can be found on the turntable in front of the town's roundhouse, most of them a part of the Battle Subway system of trains. A Worker on the bridge will explain their origins, inner-workings, and/or capabilities.
Traders
Every Saturday and Sunday, except on days when the Worker talks about the Hyperspeed Train, traders are present in town, who ask to trade their items for items in the player's Bag.
Item | Location | Games | |
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Revive | In exchange for two Escape Ropes (on weekends) | B W B2 W2 | |
PP Up | In exchange for one Star Piece (on weekends) | B W B2 W2 | |
Full Restore | In exchange for twenty Poké Balls (on weekends) | B W B2 W2 | |
Demographics
Pokémon Black and White
Anville Town has a population of 11, excluding the Trainers who come to town during the weekends. It is the second smallest town in the Unova region.
Pokémon Black 2 and White 2
Anville Town has a population of 13, excluding the Trainers who come to town during the weekends. It is the third smallest town in the Unova region.
Variable scoring
A flute track will be added to the background theme if the player is near a flautist playing on the bridge overlooking the turntable. When trying to talk to the flautist, instead of dialog, a message saying, "A beautiful tune is spreading throughout the town..." will be displayed. She is there every day of the week.
Items
Item | Location | Games | |
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Ultra Ball | In grass at the north of the town (hidden) | B W | |
Rare Candy | From a man in the house at the southeast of the town | B W B2 W2 | |
BrightPowder | From the girl on the platform for finding her Pansage | B2 W2 | |
In the anime
Jessie and James arrived at Anville Town in Meowth's Scrafty Tactics!, having followed the Subway tracks, and stated it would be an important part of their plan. Team Rocket's mobile research lab arrived there in Purrloin: Sweet or Sneaky?. It then appeared in the end of Battle for the Underground! as Ash, Iris, and Cilan were looking at the sun going down there, having foiled Team Rocket's plan.
In the manga
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
During the Battle Subway trial, White reached Anville Town. One of the Subway Bosses, Ingo, prevented White from leaving the train until she battled him. The battle ended in a draw, and Ingo was satisfied with White's progress. White heard a pleasant tune, then saw Bianca on the bridge over the station, who was playing the flute. White found out why Bianca ended up at the faraway town, and helped cheer her up.
Trivia
- Anville Town is the first city or town in the Pokémon world to not be physically connected to another location by a route or cave, yet is not an island.
- It is also impossible to use Fly to access this town, being the first to do so. It can be only accessed by the Battle Subway Brown Line.
- It is also the first of two settlements not to be represented by a city or town icon on the map, instead being represented by a generic location icon. The other is the Village Bridge, which does not have any icon.
- Both of these are also the only two settlements in a main series game, other than a player's hometown, not to feature a Pokémon Center.
Name origin
Language | Name | Origin |
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Japanese | カナワタウン Kanawa Town | 金輪紋 kanawamon, a pattern based on interlocking rings. 金輪 (kanawa) also means "metal rings". Can also be from 鉄輪 kanawa ("iron rings" or "iron wheels"). |
English | Anville Town | From anvil clouds, anvil and ville. |
French | Rotombourg | From rotonde (roundhouse) and the French bourg (town). |
German | Ferrula | Possibly from the Latin ferrum (iron). |
Italian | Roteolia | Possibly from roteare (roll) and Eolo (Aeolus, Greek ruler of the wind). |
Spanish | Pueblo Biscuit | From biscuit, bisque. |
Korean | 가륜마을 Garyun Maeul | Possibly from 가 (駕) ga, to drive or carriage, and 륜 (輪) ryun, wheel. |
Chinese (Mandarin) | 金輪鎮 Jīnlún Zhèn | From 金輪 kanawa. Means "metal wheels", but the two words 金 and 輪 also refers to "gold" and "rings" respectively. |
Brazilian Portuguese | Cidade de Anville | From its English name. |
Vietnamese | Thị trấn Kanawa | Transliteration of Japanese name |
This article is part of Project Cities and Towns, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on every city and town in the Pokémon world. |