No.115Gen 1 (Kanto)
Kangaskhan in Japanese
ガルーラ
Garūra
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ガga
ルru
ーlong vowel
ラra
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📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
There are records of a lost human child being raised by a childless Kangaskhan.子どものいないガルーラが、迷子の人間の子どもを育てたという記録がある。
The Japanese text is a translation of the English entry, written with kanji, hiragana and katakana. Try to spot the katakana words!
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