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Lavender Town Mysteries: Missing Frequencies and Lavender Town Syndrome (LTS)

The phenomenon of the Lavender Town Tone is a legend that involves a bizarre spate of medical cases and deaths from around the country that have been connected to the Pocket Monsters (Pokémon) game series, in particular the first two games of the series, Red and Green. Though the event is largely unheard of due to disclosure laws for companies based in the Kyoto Prefecture, there is a large amount of information that has been brought into the open by a number of dedicated individuals, including 関 内直 (Seki Uchitada) 伊勢 満朝 (Ise Mitsutomo) and 佐藤 治情 (Satou Harue), to whom this page is dedicated.

Thanks also go out to 安藤 景忠 (Andou Kagetada) for providing images and animated .gifs of the visual phenomena. This analysis will discuss the other phenomena that is often confused with the "Lavender Town Tone", known as "White Hand Sprite", "Ghost Animation" and "Buried Alive Model", as well as the semi-related developer-tag that was inserted into the game, and how to safely perform these "Easter eggs" in post-first wave cartridges.

History of the Game

The first cases of the "Lavender Town Tone" and associated events were reported a few months after the release of Pocket Monsters Red and Green for the handheld Game Boy video game console. These video games were wildly popular with children between the ages of seven and twelve (their core demographic), which was no doubt one of the reasons why the "Lavender Town Tone" had the level of severity that it did.

In the game, the player takes on the role of a "Trainer", whose task is to capture, tame and train wild creatures called "Pocket Monsters" for battle. These games, and the two newest additions to the series-Pocket Monsters Gold and Silver, an anime, manga, figures, a collectible card-game and home console games-have resulted in Pocket Monsters becoming a multi-billion dollar franchise.

In one part of the game, the Trainer comes to a small, out-of-the-way place called "Lavender Town" (シオンタウン). This town is one of the smallest hamlets in the game (aside from the Trainer's own home town), and possesses very few of the services available to the Trainer in every other city in the game; indeed, the location would be unremarkable were it not for the "Pokémon Tower" (ポケモンタワー) located there-a colossal building that holds the graves of hundreds of deceased Pokémon.

It is theorized that, because of this location in the game, at least two hundred children lost their lives, and many more developed sudden illnesses and afflictions - and this does not consider the vast waves of unreported illnesses or deaths whose cause went unnoticed.

History of the Pathology

It was not until Spring/Summer of 1996 that the cases that would eventually become linked to the Lavender Town Tone began to surface. The earliest record of the acknowledgement of the effects of the Lavender Town Tone that the author could find came from an internal report made in June 1996 by the company Game Freak Inc. (株式会社ゲームフリーク), which was then leaked by one of its former employees, Ms. Satou Harue. In it, an employee gives a list of names, dates and symptoms-records of children between the ages of 7 and 12 who had suffered various medical problems as a result of playing Pocket Monsters Red and Green versions.

Some records are listed below, with the full listing in Appendix A [here]. (It should be noted that entries in the Appendix also include symptoms borne not from the "Lavender Town Tone" [an audio phenomenon] but from the so-called "White Hand Sprite", "Ghost Animation" and "buried alive model", all of which were visual phenomena that provoked similar but distinct symptoms.

京极 勝女: April 12, 1996 (11).

Obstructive sleep apnea, severe migraines, otorrhagia, tinnitus.