Gringey City

Gringey City グンジョンシティ Gunjon City
Gringey City
Region	Kanto
Debut	Sparks Fly For Magnemite

Gringey City (Japanese: グンジョンシティ Gunjon City) is a location that exists only in the Pokémon anime. It is located in between Celadon City and Fuchsia City.

According to a map that Misty owned, Gringey City was originally bustling with activity, but the city eventually over-expanded the factories and power plants, resulting in the town becoming virtually abandoned as well as the sea nearby becoming polluted.

Gringey City was featured in the episode Sparks Fly For Magnemite. Ash's Pikachu was sick, later determined to be caused by a problem with buildup of electricity in the creature's cheeks, and the nearest Pokémon Center was located there. An uncharacteristically ill-tempered Nurse Joy greets Ash. She initially snaps at him for not taking better care of his Pikachu, but eventually agrees to let it recover there. There are other Pokémon also receiving treatment there, including a Growlithe and a Spearow. Suddenly, the power in the town goes out. This was due to a large amount of Grimer clogging the tunnels that deliver water to power the hydroelectric generators. Pikachu, however, refuses to stay at the Pokémon Center, and insists on following Ash. It is later revealed that Pikachu is afraid that Ash will abandon it.

Ash, Brock, and Misty go to investigate the power plant and restore normal operations. It is implied by Joy that, "if those kids don't get the power back on soon, I don't know what's going to happen to these Pokémon."

In the meantime, Team Rocket has made an appearance, and decides to take advantage of Pikachu's sickness and the power outage to capture it. For some reason, they need to swim through the polluted water to get inside the power plant. Bringing external oxygen pump diving suits, Jessie and James begin to make their descent. Meowth is left to operate the pump; however, he gets distracted, and Jessie's and James's oxygen supplies are summarily cut off. After making it back to dry land, they abandon their scheme.

As soon as they enter the building, Pikachu attracts the attentions of a Magnemite, and the cause of its sickness is clarified. This Magnemite follows Ash's Pikachu, visibly blushing in its presence and acting as though it is in love with Pikachu. This episode contains one of Ash's accidental word-swaps, saying that Magnemite must be a "streaker." Brock hurriedly corrects him.

It was here where Pikachu notably came down with a 'cold' caused by a build-up of electricity. This attracted a Magnemite thanks to the sparks coming out of Pikachu's cheeks, which in turn made Pikachu magnetized.

The group eventually encounters a group of Grimer, and a particularly odorous Muk. Ash accidentally offends the leader by covering his nose from the stench. The entire group of Pokémon is angered, and they chase after the three. Running from the Muk, they eventually reach the control room, where several other Magnemite and a Magneton aid them.

Pikachu, along with the Magnemite and several Magneton were able to ward off the Grimer. They also weakened a Muk, which Ash ended up capturing.

The power is restored and the waterways are cleared. The residents left in the city say that they will work hard to clean it up and make it beautiful again.

It is likely that Gringey City is based on Kanto's Power Plant in the games, since Grimer and Muk were added to the Power Plant in Pokémon Yellow.

Pokémon seen in Gringey City

File:Grimer anime.png Grimer	File:Muk Grimer EP030.png Muk	Magnemite	Magneton
Pidgey	Rattata	Raticate	Spearow
Fearow	Sandshrew	Nidoran♀	Oddish
Growlithe	Bellsprout

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