Is his name Blue or Green? (And other Gen 1 Trainer name confusion)

[@MrBuddy]

Here we go! After a ton of people corrected me (and still correct me) on calling the Rival Blue, I thought I'd dig into the character name history a little bit and explain why he can be called both Blue and Green! I feel like this video might have made things more confusing, so hopefully it all makes sense in the end. ;_;

[@MrKrispins]

+Mr Buddy iv always based the names on the original manga ala the female being green

[@MegaMegaMiner100]

+Mr Buddy The gen 1 rival is also known as Gary, so is it ok to call him that

[@Shon51]

buddy green is a girl and blue is a boy don't get confused

[@oucyan]

+Mr Buddy another reason why both blue and green are correct. the Japanese word for green, Midori, originally meant both the colors blue AND green. it wasn't until post world war II that the word Ao was used for the color blue exclusively, leaving midori to be used for green exclusively. in fact, some Japanese seniors still use the word midori when describing the color blue, much to the annoyance of the younger generation. the fact that his his name is interchangeable as blue and green is hilarious, because it reflects the actual japanese word for green, midori being interchangeable as either green or blue in meaning.

[@InazumaDash]

+Shaun Snivy No. Watch the video. It was originally the opposite and still is in Japan.

[@hidekishimada4449]

Ask his grandpa! He should know

[@darktechno8321]

Nice joke

[@smoke6816]

Dark Techno 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@shouwastaken9597]

he doesn't even know his grandson's name in the start HAHAHAHA

[@abledadood2842]

I remember now!! His name is Asshole!!!

[@blueoak2587]

This is my grandson...Erm what is his name again?

[@auraanimates5387]

Anime: Gary (dub) Us (manga): Blue Japan (manga): Green Games: **inserts name for rival**

[@yawwahsiow6589]

Games: ButtFace

[@Tushar-if8bl]

Error I forgot his name (even he is my grandson)

[@gsunny6477]

Screw this arguement I'm just gonna call 'em both teal from now on.

[@sunshiis]

Awesome_Sauce turquoise?

[@geraldgrenier8132]

It gets a bit more complicated when look at the Japanese colour name "Aoi" (青い) until WWII "Aoi" was the colour name for both Blue and Green shades (from sky blue to sea green) but during the occupation it become more common to make the distinction and "Midori" (緑) came to be use more often for Green colours, but "Aoi" is still used for green in some case such as "Aoumigame" (green turtle) and "Aoendou" (green peas)

[@ChibiMoyashis]

I personally just like calling the male "Green" because that would make his full name "Green Oak". ....... Okay, I live for Poke'puns. So fine me.

[@redzeroo6068]

Im going with that.

[@TimeturnerJ]

The manga translation I read uses the original Japanese names, so that's how I refer to the characters. When in question, I always like to backtrack to the original version. I want to experience the things like the author had intended them to be.

[@trueredpanda1538]

so it says グリーン for rival then?

[@angelheart1701]

In the pokemon adventures manga, the girl's eyes are blue, and the rival's eyes are green, so I prefer to go with that.

[@Toetouchers]

angelheart1701 I call the girl "Leaf"

[@MadMod666]

did they say that in the manga cuz last i checked the manga was black and white

[@angelheart1701]

@@MadMod666 You can tell on the cover pages. Red's eyes are red, Green's are green, and Blue's eyes are blue. Yellow has yellow eyes, and the GSC trio has gold, silver, and crystal colored eyes respectively.

[@ingridkaba587]

Canonically in the pokemon adventures manga blue is red,green is blue,and red is green.

[@angelheart1701]

@@ingridkaba587 Now you're just making stuff up.

[@JDG2764]

When in doubt call him "Not Red"

[@marimaricar_8741]

What about GLUE problem solved

[@darktechno8321]

Naming them both Glue ? xD

[@kwagz3314]

Glue and Been

[@hypercumstone44]

@@kwagz3314 XD

[@cremapastelera00]

@@kwagz3314 i know you commented this 3 years ago but this reminded me how one time someone said they named rival silver from gsc ''beans'' and it was the funniest thing i had ever read

[@nirtheart]

Whoa I am stunned by the quality on the visuals in this video. It is without doubt the best looking one of all the poketubers out there. Good job!

[@thedestroyer2alltrolls411]

I always referred to the rival as Blue and the female trainer as Green and still do. It honestly makes so much more sense this way cause he wears a bluish shirt and the female trainer wears a greenish shirt in FireRed Version and in LeafGreen Version. Plus, if you pick Charmander as your starter Pokémon then he will pick Squirtle as his starter.

[@LevelZeroSage1]

Gary: YEAH THAT'S RIGHT ASHY-BOY! I GOT TWO NAMES AND 10 BADGES, HA! Smell Ya Later...

[@Ardith50]

I call them differently depending on what cannon I'm referring to. Male rival: Blue-games, Gary/Shigeru-anime, and Green-Adventures/Special manga. Female: Leaf-games and Blue-Adventures/Special. I do this because each one is different like between Haruka/May and Sapphire.

[@PikminandOatchi]

But the rivals name has always been Jackass.

[@chief_1855]

His name is JACKASS because noone bothers of putting lower case

[@hcstubbs3290]

It's so confusing when you're trying to read fanfiction about these characters :3

[@scribble71891]

+Hannah Stubbs I feel your pain.

[@spagootqueen6752]

Yep.

[@c1ouding___765]

Yea

[@redlightgluelight3527]

At least red is easy to remember

[@subliminallover5714]

When you search for redXgreen but yaoi pops up

[@Masterblader158]

At least for the Manga versions I call the guy Green and the girl Blue cause otherwise that implies Mewtwo lost control of his brain for a bit in the FRLG chapter and implied that someone called Blue was called Green.

[@derpyamu6453]

Why Oldrival shipping is popular is because it works either way! (Oldrival shipping is Blue x Green)

[@SunnyTheOpossum]

I call the male character Green and the female character Blue for many reasons. One, because green seems more like a masculine name, and blue more feminine. And two, I like to think that their starter types correspond with their names. Red is charmander, blue is squirtle, green is bulbasaur.

[@alphamarigi]

But they don't have canon starters and in the manga and promo art red uses Bulbasaur

[@NaiefThegoony]

Bing Bang you know the trainers don't have official starters right?

[@GalCon99]

In the manga red's starter was bulbasaur (or to be entirely correct it was a poliwag and he got a bulbasaur later), green's starter was charmander and blue's starter was squirtel.

[@joshisuke7839]

But isn´t blue the male character then ?

[@GalCon99]

@@joshisuke7839 your question is litterally the topic of this video...

[@SanchezMonin]

FUN FACT: Leaf backwards is fael, which is just 1 letter away from fail

[@sylphdeposey7149]

I always called the rival Green (and still do). Because the first 'actual' name for him I found was that in the comics. Later in the comics, I noticed it changed to Blue which confused me at first cause I thought it was calling the girl Blue. Then, looking up fanart and fanfics, his name kept flip flopping between the two.

[@d-manthecaptain1382]

You ever notice how most of these comments seem to be made by people or either didn't watch or didn't understand the video?

[@love2fight205]

No wonder Professor Oak was confused.

[@t-rexlord9000]

I just call, the male character Red, the rival blue, and the female character green. Never really understood why people call her leaf tbh.

[@princessmewtwo]

I prefer the rival to be named Blue

[@kuba2466]

me 2

[@sunshiis]

Same

[@tbknick6703]

Nikki Loakes same

[@trey2568]

Same

[@nooneshouldknowme206]

for me blue is that hat girl'name well... Green doesn't fit her lol

[@Beetle_Ink]

theres blue - America theres green -Japan leaf green (female protagonist) - leaf green

[@mjmelo9203]

To me, the boy is Green and the girl is Blue. For mangá reasons.

[@souseiseki90]

Viúvo da SEGA its not just in Manga. Their name become officially Red and Green in any of their appearance outside FRLF and RGB.

[@adamcochrane3867]

i personally think its the other way around like the male is blue and the girl is green. u know, game standards.

[@mjmelo9203]

@@adamcochrane3867 Well, the original japanese game standards had Red and "Green" as player and rival.

[@jaceclegg530]

It’s kind of hilarious to watch this in 2020, after Let’s Go and Masters actually gave Green and Leaf official names. And Secondly, the Female Player in FireRed was actually given a name in the manual as well, where she was also called Leaf.

[@harmc2301]

What if you played blue, named your character blue, and your rival Red? Doesn't make a difference but still all three could be his name

[@littlekawaiidragon]

for some reason the manga i read when i was younger always referred to him as green so i’ve just always used that when referring to him but once i found out that he’s more commonly referred to as blue by fans i got extremely confused

[@7thlegendaryknight]

When referring to the manga, I call the girl Blue and the gary Green. Otherwise I will use the game's localized name for the gary Blue as it is what most people will know him as. As long as we all know who we are talking about, it should be fine. I won't judge anyone for using Leaf, as it is a name people find recognizable and most will know who you mean. Side note, if the girl is supposed to be Red's counterpart, why not the name Scarlett? Huh, it is just another shade of red.

[@BlazeTheMovieFan]

Great video and very informative.

[@azunyan2847]

I call them Red, Green (the rival) and Blue (the girl) because I once called the rival Blue and someone told me that his name is Green so I believed him and got used to it ^^'

[@MohatuAim]

+AzuNian I always called the main char Red, At first I called the rival blue but then my friends started calling him green so I called him green so I don't confuse them and now I'm use to calling green the rival and blue the girl.

[@theochua2810]

I call main character Red, the girl Green and the boy rival Blue cuz of the mangas.

[@bxyhxyh]

+AzuNian Why did you think that your friend was "correct"?

[@yukiiroluna]

AzuNyan To me, I call the Rival Green because it seems more manly

[@emperor_penguin7667]

More manly? “snorts” nah, Blue makes more sense in my opinion

[@lyg483]

Here in Argentina the rival is Green and the Girl is Blue (Manga)

[@zeke1352]

I always call the Trainer Red, Rival Green, and female Blue. It feels right for me.

[@leybilia2501]

same here^^

[@allthebanter9316]

i use trainer red, rival blue and female green

[@caffemocha5616]

It's the oppsite for me player red rival blue and female green (in pokemon fire red it's leaf) I read the manga and it feels right to me I never thought his name was green I always knew it as blue when I was younger...

[@bird8879]

+allthe banter me too cause of the US manga names

[@bird8879]

+42Caio (Caio Esteves) can't you just accept that some people want to call him what they want

[@TheCeeverse]

I'll always call him Blue, and my reason behind it is simple: Blue Oak is an actual type of tree. That's just my way of looking at it. ^^

[@thedestroyer2alltrolls411]

@Alice Jem Weeb!

[@thedestroyer2alltrolls411]

@Alice Jem Fuckinh weeaboo!

[@esom7]

Personally I prefer to use the American names so: Player character-Red Rival-Blue Female-Green

[@ahyafikri4746]

I prefer -red -green -leaf :3

[@thedestroyer2alltrolls411]

Me too. That’s how I always see it.

[@kelvinvoorneveld7265]

also green from the adventures manga got a new outfit in the firered and leafgreen chapter that is the same as the costume from leaf. it's why i always call her green

[@thesilentstorms-]

I personally consider Leaf/Gen 3 girl to be a different person from Green/Blue. That's kind of ironic how the international manga gave none of the three protagonists the right color per their starter Pokemon lol.

[@willowwhisper6575]

Neither does the Japanese manga, Green has a Charmander and going by that logic he should have had Bulbasaur

[@nicholasfitzgerald5482]

By that logic Red's name is Fire. And I guess Blue the male rival makes more sense to me because that's how it was in the Pokémon Adventures manga everywhere but Japan. He also wears a Blue shirt.

[@thedestroyer2alltrolls411]

@Alice Jem Weeb.

[@nep5264]

5:05 so Serena is called Y(or X) in the mangas?:D

[@thesohai9061]

Her name in the manga is Yvonne Gābena, which they usually calls her... you've guessed it, Y...

[@nep5264]

:D

[@syxiriprocrastinator297]

The Sohai 苏害 how about Calem? Just curious

[@sorrybutigottasaythat3070]

Calem is X

[@nep5264]

who is Calem?

[@xdunderscore]

I know Green is considered "more" correct" by some people but I prefer Blue cuz u know red vs blue just feels right for me

[@thedestroyer2alltrolls411]

@Alice Jem Weeaboo.

[@ruthmcnally310]

Personally, when I play through FRLG, I tend to pick the girl and name her Green, as I feel the name suits her better. No idea why I think that way, but that's the human brain for you. Also, although I know it's wrong, I tend to name my rival Gary. It may be wrong, but I got used to calling him that when I didn't know better. Nowadays, I like to think of Gary as his real name, and Blue as a nickname. It may be derived from a mistake, but it's what I'm used to.

[@Tangtasticc]

This is an AMAZINGLY made video!

[@ProfessorWess]

It's Blue/Gary for me.

[@bridint]

Gary is a different charachter

[@stra2g]

yesterday confirmed green is the girl

[@sierravynnn]

Wth

[@mr.needlemouse32x]

I prefer to call him blue since it fits more for his rivalry with red.

[@BlingtendoUniverze]

AND HIS NAME IS JOHN CENA!

[@aromaladyellie]

I thought his name was "DICKS" because that's what most people seem to call him. I usually just call him "Gary", or "Blue/Green/Dicks/Gary/Whatever". And yes I do use all of those names at once just to satisfy everyone, but I might change "Dicks" to another name people gave him, like "Asshat", "Dickface", "Assfart", "Jerkass", "Jackass" etc.

[@eclipse7627]

+Ellie F Don't worry, the rival isn't a d*ck in the manga. XD (he's the exact opposite actually)

[@chezmix64]

Why is her sex male in the data?

[@MrBuddy]

+Chezmix Oh man, I didn't even notice that! The person who let me use the image must have been messing around with their Gender I guess :D

[@chezmix64]

+Mr Buddy I'm sorry did you mean: Tumblr

[@walkerwinterburn]

+Chezmix Oh my Godthat is the funniest thing ever

[@DBZGotenStan]

+Mr Buddy Actually the sex was always set on male, which is probably because, just like brendan, may, prof. oak and red, she's just filler data who don't actually show up as trainers. Hence it's on male by default. Also the sex option determines the genders of the Trainer's pokemon, not necessarily the trainer itself. Unused Trainers also always have a level 5 Ekans by default, which I don't quite understand (Ekans is #023 by index number), but I find it pretty interesting.

[@sceptilethehedgehog5862]

+Chezmix HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@tsillie9555]

It's like calling Ash, "Ash" or "Satoshi". In Japan, Ash is called Satoshi and everywhere else is called Ash. So if you call Ash "Ash" then you call Blue/Green "Blue." Also calling people by there Japanese names is like calling a Pokemon by there Japanese name also.

[@eclipse7627]

PokeSpe for the win! XD

[@aaww1010]

I love your channel and I was on the news to day

[@DavidD31312]

My rivals name is usually something like jackass

[@LevelZeroSage1]

+David Dodge My rival name is Rimlick, xD

[@nintendo64_lover6]

Mine was BigDouche

[@zoukon1019]

In the anime, his name is Gary. In Japan, his name is Green. In English, his name is Blue. So everyone's right.

[@williamholtzclaw3029]

no. rival = green female trainer (gen 1 and 3, she just got new clothing) = blue idc about localization nonsense

[@adre2194]

Rival=whatever you name him Girl=whatever you name her

[@williamholtzclaw3029]

every character has a canonical name

[@alphamarigi]

So you expect everyone in english to call Oshiwott Mijumaru?

[@KH2Roxas92]

I really would like to see a pokemon character study on Blue. Or Green. Whatever.

[@willowwhisper6575]

In my mind he's Green, it just makes sense if you have read the manga and watched media with subtitles. He even has a green motif sometimes (wearing a green jacket in Pokémon Origins). Blue and Leaf are for me the same girl (in the manga she's always Blue with just an updated outfit), whenever I play Gen I games/remakes I name the rival Green 😜 Pokémon is a Japanese franchise so I tend to stick to the original concept, call me a purist if you like lol 😂

[@sinceritynature202]

I originally read the Pokemon Special manga unofficially translated straight from the japanese, so the name "Blue" for the girl and "Green" for the rival stuck for me,, I also feel like they kind of fit better, in a way, with "Blue" having squirtle being associated with her and blue eyes, and "Green" having his green pendant and green eyes. But, hey, what can you do,, it makes reading the official translation for Pokemon Adventures super weird though, haha!

[@RamenCupBMG]

I liked that his name was green in pokemon the origin bc it shows his personality more when he chooses his starter. red chose charmander bc it matched his name and oak asks green if he was going to choose bulbasaur to match his name but then he says "I ain't choosing my starter by using some bitch method" (my translation may be a little off) and then he chooses squirtle so that he has an advantage on red. That's totally something a jackass like green would do and that's one of the reasons it's so satisfying to beat him bc he has an advantage but we train harder and we take him down. on the other hand in the dub his name was blue and it kinda underhands this scenario. oak asks if he was going to choose squirtle to match his name and he basically says the same thing and then he chooses squirtle anyways. obviously it's for the same reason to have an advantage over red but it also leaves the viewer to wonder if in the back of his head he was like "dammit gramps you're embarassing me" and made up the red part to hide the fact that he had the same idea as red and is basically a bitch for choosing a pokemon bc it matched your name.

[@thedestroyer2alltrolls411]

That’s just the Japanese version. In the international version of Origins his name is Blue. I prefer for him to be called Blue.

[@lucastv719]

I'm okay with either name in the games be it Blue or Green, but in the manga it's obvious the rival is Green while the female character is Blue. Reason: their official eye color. Even in the US release of the FRLG chapter of the manga, they kept Green's eyes green instead of changing it to blue.

[@missplayer30]

I'm sick of people calling her *Leaf*. It's like calling Blue *Terry/Water* or Red *Fire*.

[@NigelAnthonyBrink]

We should start calling him Teal so the confusion will drop down to a point that no one understand who your talking about

[@goose1874]

I call the rival green because it suited him more. Blue sounds more feminine to me while Green sound more masculine. Also, I want to keep it to their original version(thus Japanese).

[@thedestroyer2alltrolls411]

Weeaboo. I prefer to call him Blue. What makes ‘Blue’ sound so “feminine”?

[@Shinberoy]

Actually I knew almost everything about this confusion/solution xD Except for "Leaf"... I didnt know she was called that o_o So thanks for explaining everything so detailed about Green and Blue and the mixing up with their names :)

[@noahtoad4095]

His name is Green? His name is Blue? No. His name is... JOHN CENA!!!! (Da Daduh Da! Den Danah Dah!)

[@Toradono]

As I'm only grown up with anime, and come into the games lately, I've had time on the internet. For me It's Red and Green. Mostly because Green usually wear green, lol. If outside of Japan had changes what's green on him to blue I could've go with calling him Blue

[@SenorEscaso]

Your editing skills are getting ridiculously good, man.

[@michaeldavis9190]

The translation of the manga I read called him Green. He's always been Green to me because of this.

[@Lupinemancer87]

Personally, I always call them this; Male Player, Red, Rival, Blue, and Female, Green. That just feels right for me. I see it as the games refer to the main character (Red and Green, Sun and Moon) for instance, so while the characters aren't always named after the games (Ruby/Sapphire; May and Brendan) I still choose to believe that the game pair represents the two player characters.

[@MartinJohnParpan]

Yahh❤

[@chromearome798]

And his name is JOHN GREENA!!!!!!!!

[@chromearome798]

DUDUDUDUUUUDUDUDUDUDUUUU!!!!!!!!!

[@dargriphax3790]

Dude 😂

[@hypercumstone44]

XD

[@couchbug]

When I first played the games I didn't bother to learn the characters names so they don't have much to do with what I call the characters, but I did read the manga. When I read it, I read it offline translated by some fans and not the official translations, so the Japanese character names still stayed, so I call the male rival 'Green' and the unused character 'Blue'. I also call the gen three female character 'Blue' because in the manga she evolves as a character to wear those different clothes, but she's still the same person

[@pixeltaku]

In the FireRed and LeafGreen arc of Pokémon Adventures Leaf is just Green in new clothes. Have fun with your update video!

[@alphamarigi]

MANGO ISN'T CANON!

[@pixeltaku]

It's just an idea that may help him later on if he decides to do a follow-up video to this on

[@thedestroyer2alltrolls411]

@@alphamarigi MANGA*

[@alphamarigi]

@@thedestroyer2alltrolls411 I know what I said

[@firewarrior8298]

I personally prefer to call him Blue, Mainly because I associate him with Squirtle the most out of all the starters. but i call him Green in the manga and Gary in the anime

[@LuCaaZ7]

His name is Oak.... Gary Oak...

[@troy_the_boy]

In the Anime

[@BaithNa]

+LuCaaZ7 Green Oak

[@oucyan]

+Link Smash Amino one of the default names for blue version is Gary in the US, so he is also a Gary.

[@mystorule1299]

The anime now sucks just sayin

[@Mrflyingpepsi1]

+Linkvsmysto no one cares dude

[@shaysanchez8778]

Can you please make a video on the truth about Arcanine? Originally Arcanine was meant to be a legendary and I was wondering if you could please shed some light on the matter. Thank you!

[@PopeChickenNugget]

I call the the rival blue because my rival went with squirtel. When FR/LG came out I named the girl green since Blue was already the name of my rival.

[@datdamnmegabusta5604]

+Jezza Finally, someone who gets it! 😢 That is perfection!

[@daAnT1990]

7:00 btw... "Aoi" (Japanese for blue) is a also a female name... Aahhh... but so is "midori" (green) :D Nevermind...

[@ericriley1985]

"Aoi" is actually a unisex name. "Midori" is definitely a girl's name though.

[@tabeebyeamin]

What about Aomine and Midorima from KnB :D

[@blastchaos4286]

I think thats something similar to how the names Alexander and Alexis work

[@souseiseki90]

Eric Riley what about Midori Takamine from Ensemble Star. He is male

[@pip5188]

I call him Green cause that's what they called him in Origins

[@LithiaSinclair]

Jamie T Depends on the language you watch it in. Japanese he's Green. English he's Blue

[@hypercumstone44]

@@jamiet9022 bruh

[@Fantallana]

This is why it's better when you can just create and customize your own character, lol

[@Otaku_de_closet]

Something I have never understood is why Red has a Venasaur. Green has Charizard, but why? It does not make any sense xD

[@tmsnssto6375]

+Apple Yui In the manga he gets it from oak after rescuing it or something, so he gets bulbasaur. Later on, he trades with Green(gary) for a while and gets charizard, and Green also lends him charizard at other points of the manga. I guess they did this to encourage people to pick whatever starter they wanted regardless of the version they were playing.

[@Otaku_de_closet]

That could be the answer. Even though, the manga does not have that kind of connection with the videogames. In fact, the manga is totally different from the games, except for the characters xD

[@olivaperez5339]

+Apple Yui Coz the rival always gets the type advantage starter :) yknow since he's an ass XD

[@tmsnssto6375]

Just take it all with a grain of salt and go read the damn mangas, and play the games, and watch the animes if you are so damn curious LOL

[@olivaperez5339]

+lunerblade13 yes but since the manga tries it's best to follow the games....yeah the rival ALWAYS gets the type advantage starter. Even with Gold and Silver's case, Silver stole the totodile while Gold got cyndaquil (i forgot who got a pokemon first between them tho since I havent read pokespe for years XD

[@Miju001]

OK, now I'm calling the Gen 1 rival Terry.

[@StockeTepes]

I read the manga. His name is blue. It's blue.

[@landfish7a]

+Club Penguin Flare vids Did you even watch the video?

[@user-ts7tp1dh6f]

+Club Penguin Flare vids By that logic i could call him gary.

[@mystorule1299]

+Video Critic lel

[@eccentricPlays]

Buuuut it's Green in the original Japanese manga, watch the vid man

[@mike_slav0477]

+Club Penguin Flare vids Well, I read the Pokemon Adventures manga and his name is Green!

[@SubSpaceKing]

What do you think is in store for Pokemon's 20th birthday which is fast approaching?

[@ryandouglas3552]

It's actually blue because of the new trailer for sun and moon, you can battle red and blue in the new game

[@sorrybutigottasaythat3070]

What did you expect? they translated it to english, but in the Japanese version I'm sure he is called green

[@bankyokojoe8537]

Dr. Historical you are kinda stupid for thinking that

[@only1gameguru]

Tom Scott on KZbin did a video on "grue" which is a combined green/blue because most languages don't have a different word for the 'two' colours

[@kireikay]

Japan games came first so he's green and she's blue. That's how I see it.

[@delphinebriand1554]

thank you !!!!!

[@NaiefThegoony]

Kirei Kay that's like saying every language is gibberish except the very first one cause it came out first or every single video GAme is a bootleg except the first one your logic is stupid

[@emperor_penguin7667]

Kirei Kay I quite disagree, he was named that first BUT, in everyplace but Japan, his name is Blue. Bulbapedia says so

[@darksouls-qv8jb]

@@emperor_penguin7667 Acutely if you look underneath thire names they have kenji for green and blue respectively on Bulbapidea.

[@kryzethx]

Unless you're speaking in Japanese, to Japanese players, the rival's name is Blue. Every time he's made an appearance outside of Japan, he's Blue.

[@neptuneplaneptune3367]

I was never confused. I have almost think the Protagonist was Red, the Rival is Blue or Green and the Girl was Leaf.

[@GavinDragon]

too bad im sticking with what i know the boy is red the other is green the girl is blue and your rival in the anime is ASSHAT. good good.

[@Pizza7478]

Personally, I'm a fan of the Rival = Green and Female = Blue Argument. That said, I consider the Gen 3 Female Player Character a entirely separate character from the original's "Blue" . And Her name is Leaf to me.

[@jolitero]

I thought in gen 1 the girl was called yellow.... Turns out she's actually a totally different character.

[@majormana1]

Yellow is just a character in the magna she has apeared no where else and just something they included she isn't same as character discussed here.

[@sunshiis]

"Magna" 😂😂😂 sometimes, misspellings are amazing

[@arkhamj8181]

Green just makes more sense to me, especially when reading the manga (though changing it in my head is something I had to get used to). First of all, Green is Red's rival, who has a Charizard to rival Red's Veonosaur, so that all lines up nicely. Second, eye colors, Green has green eyes, and Blue has Blue eyes. Third, Red and Green came first, with blue to follow later, just as the games did in the real world. As you said, it truly doesn't matter when talking them as long as you are clear that it's the rival or the girl that you are talking about. Also worth mentioning that Blue has a Blastoise, and later on, Yellor (again, a real world parallel) is identified by her yellow hat (and pika I suppose)

[@whatdouknow_6008]

JUST CALL HIM GARY!!

[@MrTendo0]

No

[@gkarios]

THIS IS MADNESS IM KILLING MYSELF

[@rainthesingingwolf]

His name despite living in America all my life is always green to me due to it being the original name and his whole thing is based around green in HGSS his room was green and in gen 7 he wears Green but that's just me

[@nicholascoulter3760]

i call him blue because in the manga the person who gets the third pokemon is green.

[@yukiiroluna]

Nicholas Coulter But in XY he's called Green

[@_stardustcolors]

I used to just call the Gen 1 rival Gary because of the anime =w=

[@AnchorOfTime]

his name is Blue, end of story

[@Fennaixelphox]

But then what's Silver's name?

[@Fennaixelphox]

***** Unless his name is Passerby Boy, which is awkward.

[@POISON_IVWY]

Silver's name is: ???

[@trafalgarsasori9092]

hi I really like your videos

[@pirateguykarl]

Since i'm american and not japanese, I'll call the boy blue and the girl green! Sorry! The names fit better anyways tbh.

[@scotttempest8857]

i think it depends which starter he choose

[@briannasappho1545]

I've ended up calling him Blue in the games and Green in the manga, since my translation uses the original Japanese names. I also got confused at first too. :p