Misty (anime)
| Misty カスミ Kasumi | |
 Misty in the Advanced Generation series, with her Togepi | |
| Age | 10 (as of EP003, not stated in dub) |
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| Gender | Female |
| Eye color | Green |
| Hair color | Orange |
| Hometown | Cerulean City |
| Region | Kanto |
| Relatives | Daisy, Violet, and Lily |
| Trainer class | Trainer, Gym Leader |
| Game counterpart | Misty |
| Leader of | Cerulean Gym |
| Badge | Cascade Badge |
| Specializes in | Template:Type2s |
| Anime debut | Pokémon - I Choose You! |
| English voice actor | Rachael Lillis (4Kids) Michele Knotz (TPCi) |
| Japanese voice actor | Mayumi Iizuka |
Misty (Japanese: カスミ Kasumi) is a friend and former traveling partner of Ash Ketchum.
Character
A stubborn tomboy, Misty is the youngest of four sisters who live in the Cerulean Gym. Fed up with her more glamorous older sisters, Misty left the gym with the goal of becoming the world's greatest Water Pokémon Trainer. She met Ash when she "caught" him with her fishing line in a river between Pallet Town and Viridian City. She traveled around with Ash, Brock, and Tracey through the Kanto region, Orange Islands, and Johto region.
Her purpose was ostensibly to get Ash to replace her bicycle, which he had accidentally destroyed when they first met. However, Misty often seemed to have forgotten about the bicycle, indicating that her real reason for following along was that she simply wanted to remain with her friends.
During her travels with Ash, she, aside from training to become the best Water Pokémon Trainer, also acted as his coach in many Pokémon battles. She is somewhat considered as a rival to Ash due to their competitive nature. It was also her job to drag away Brock from women by his ear.
Misty can be sweet and optimistic at times, but she is best known for how easily she can be angered or frustrated, and how loud and violent she can become in response. She is very extreme in most of her moods, and can switch between them quickly. There are many episodes where she is seen getting along with the younger siblings of the family, namely Mikey, Sakura, and Max. This stems from the fact that she understands what it's like to be the youngest because she has three older sisters.
Her goals are not as clear as those of the other main characters, since though her main interest is training Template:Type2 Pokémon, there's many things she loves to do and she is very confident in her abilities in all aspects of life. Fishing is one of her hobbies, however, and she has a special lure which she designed to look like herself and gave to Ash as a gift. The one Pokémon type that Misty cannot stand are Template:Type2s; she tends to freak out in most cases whenever she encounters a Bug-type, which was first demonstrated when she refused to befriend Ash's Caterpie. However, bugs are only one of three things Misty strongly dislikes, the other two being carrots and peppers. The only Bug Pokémon Misty is not afraid of is Heracross
Misty participated in the Whirl Cup alongside Ash from Octillery the Outcast to The Perfect Match. She defeated Ash in battle in the second round. Misty made it all the way to the best eight of the Whirl Cup, but narrowly lost to Trinity in the end.
After Ash competed in the Johto League Silver Conference, however, her bicycle was repaired and returned to her by the Viridian City Nurse Joy. Misty was shown to be sad that she no longer had the convenient excuse to travel with Ash, especially when she saw that Ash hadn't learned that and had assumed she followed him because of her bike. In addition, her sisters Daisy, Lily, and Violet, called Misty at this time to tell her they were going on a world tour, and needed her to return to Cerulean and watch the Gym in their absence. However, Misty saw how Ash truly cared for her when he saved her from a trio of Pokémon gangsters. Misty wanted to stay with Ash, but felt it was her responsibility to take over the Gym, which would be shut down if left unattended.
Upon the return of her sisters, Misty remained the sole Cerulean Gym Leader. Since their return, only Daisy appears to spend any significant amount of time at the Gym.
While working in the gym, Misty sometimes receives help from Tracey when he is either visiting or running an errand for Professor Oak.
Misty reappeared from The Princess and the Togepi to A Togegi Mirage! where she meets up with Ash and Brock again, along with meeting May and Max for the first time. During the episode A Togepi Mirage, her Togepi evolves into a Togetic and helps defend the Togepi Paradise. Towards the end of the episode, Togetic decides to stay with the other Togepi to protect them, sharing one last tearful moment with Misty. She makes three more appearance in the Advanced Generation series from The Scheme Team to A Real Cleffa-Hanger.
Appearance
Misty's usual hairstyle is a side ponytail which sticks out on the left side of her head. There are times she has let her hair down, sometimes when she goes to sleep. She has also been shown wearing hair extensions when she wore her mermaid costumes in the The Misty Mermaid and Cerulean Blues. Misty is also notably taller than Ash but shorter than Brock. She has worn three main outfits in the series and all of them sport the colors yellow, blue, and red.
Pokémon
Either through the tradition of her family's gym or merely her love of them, Misty prefers to train Water Pokémon. She usually bases her choice of Pokémon to train by looks, preferring Pokémon that she thinks of as "cute" over ones that she thinks are "ugly," but is willing to overcome such differences. Her love of water Pokémon stems from the fact that they are extremely flexible in battle, meaning that they can easily adapt to the opponent, as she stated in Some Like It Hot. Since becoming gym leader, she has overcome her fear of Gyarados and continues to learn more about caring and battling with water Pokémon as challengers come to the Cerulean Gym.
This is a listing of Misty's Pokémon as of the most recent Japanese episode. As she is currently residing in the Cerulean Gym, all of her Pokémon are there and none are listed as "on hand."
At Cerulean Gym
She presumably also has access to any other Pokémon at the gym, such as Luverin, Seaking, Shellder, and Seel, due to being the Gym Leader.
Released
| File:Misty's Togetic.png Togepi → Togetic |
Temporary
 Seaking |
- Seaking: Caught during Seaking Catching Day in Hook, Line, and Stinker. It was released under contest rules.
Briefly used
 Pikachu |
 Bulbasaur |
 Vulpix |
- Pikachu and Bulbasaur: Borrowed from Ash to participate in the Princess Pokémon Tournament.
- Vulpix: Borrowed from Brock to participate in the Princess Pokémon Tournament.
Achievements
- Champion of the Queen of the Princess Day Festival contest in Princess vs. Princess.
- Champion of the Alto Mare Canal Race in Pokémon Heroes.
- Champion of the Seaking Catching Day competition in Hook, Line, and Stinker.
- Ranked top 8 in the Whirl Cup.
- Runner up and default winner in the privately organized Mini-Tournament for Togepi.
- Possible winner/runner up of the Swimsuit Beauty pagent in Beauty and The Beach.
Voice actors
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Future appearances
Former director and storyboard artist of the Pokémon anime, Masamitsu Hidaka, stated in an interview that Misty will not return as a main character in future seasons, but she will continue to make cameo appearances from time to time like she has in the past. He also mentioned Contests in connection with Misty, although the translator neglected to mention what was meant by this.
Misty's seiyū, Mayumi Iizuka, has hinted in her blog that Misty will make an appearance in the Diamond & Pearl series [1][2]. No such appearance has been made or confirmed yet, however.
Trivia
- Misty is the only one of the main characters to have a Pokémon along with its evolved form on her team at the same time.
- Misty is the only one of Ash's friends to have a Psychic-type Pokémon.
- Misty is one of only two main characters that has no parent revealed, the other being Tracey.
- Only two of Misty's Pokémon are not Template:Type2: Togetic and Azurill, though Azurill can evolve into one later.
- Also both of these Pokémon are Template:Type2.
- Misty is the first of Ash's friends to challenge a gym (albeit an unofficial gym), since she challenged and won against the unofficial Johto Water Gym Leader in Just Add Water.
- She is the only main character to have genderless Pokémon in her team. In fact, she has two, Staryu and Starmie.
- She is the only female companion of Ash who did not start off as a rookie. She is also considered as a rival by Ash and acts as his coach during Pokémon battles. Unlike Dawn and May, who are Pokémon Coordinators, Misty focuses on being a Water Pokémon Trainer.
- She is the first main character to be seen owning a Generation II Pokémon, that Pokémon being Togepi.
- Misty is the only one of her sisters not named after a flower, the names of her sisters being Daisy, Violet, and Lily. However, she does have the name for baby's breath in Japanese.
- She is the only one of Ash's female traveling friends to not own a starter Pokémon. She battled Ash for a Totodile in The Totodile Duel, but lost.
- During the fifth movie, it is revealed that she likes pistachio flavored ice cream.
Names
| Language | Name | Reference to |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | カスミ Kasumi | From カスミソウ kasumisō, the Japanese name for Gypsophila. A reference to 霞み kasumi ("mist"). |
| English, German, Italian, Spanish | Misty | Translation of 霞み kasumi in relation to the word mist. |
| French | Ondine | Refers to Ondine, a water nymph in Germanic mythology. |
| Korean | 이슬 (Iseul) | 이슬 means dew. |
| Chinese | 小霞 (Xiǎo Xiá) | "Little mist." 霞 is taken from 霞み kasumi. |
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