At last, things seemed to be turning around in the feudal Kanto Region.
Since the end of the First World War ten years ago, the region’s new champion, Wataru, had successfully restored its damaged economy and paved the way for a prosperous new era. Yet not everyone was happy with their postwar government. Mobs, street gangs, and other small criminal organizations soon sprang up.
Each swore to restore the region to its former glory as an independent land. But none was as powerful or as large as Team Rocket, an organization that regularly scoured the region’s cities and streets for sharp-minded, quick-footed Trainers who could prove their worth. Then it sent them out to carry out organized theft, raids, and corruption. Our story begins...
