Talk:The Japanese Pokémon Red and the Lavender Town Syndrome/Interview/@comment-26480939-20160803235129

This is actually interesting and pretty good, giving us a plausible (albeit disprovable) source for some things in the games. Look at the names: ROCKET Reds, led by a boy named SAKAKI. Seeing a pattern here? Tajiri-san based Team Rocket (Roketto-dan) on the Rocket Reds gang, and named the leader of TR 'Sakaki' (Eng: Giovanni). Also, note the name he gave the tadpole: Nyorozo. That's the Japanese name for Poliwhirl, a tadpole Pokémon.

tl;dr: Connect the dots. There's connections between this fictional anecdote of Tajiri's childhood and the games.

No wonder why Tajiri--san didn't like the color red. :P