[Pokegeeks] A little something I noticed with Blue's theme (R/B/Y)

It seems Junichi Masuda used a little more theming than I once thought.
Let's take a look at rival Blue's theme from R/B/Y.

Alright, iconic. For our purposes, we'll look at just the first four notes.

Now, let's move on over to "Final Battle! (Rival)", the champion battle theme for Gen 1.
Here's the first few notes of the melody:

Once again, we'll look at just the first four notes.

Next, I'll transpose them up to the same key as Blue's theme.

Do you notice? It's just the same as Blue's theme, just reversed! It seems these two iconic themes were just two sides of the same jerk-faced coin all along!
For clarity's sake, I'll even add the reversed rhythm:

I hope we all learned something today. Smell ya later!