May (anime)

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May ('ハルカ Haruka) is a young Pokémon Coordinator currently traveling through various regions and competing in Pokémon contests. She started her journey traveling through the Hoenn region accompanying Ash and Brock along with her brother Max. She appears in a few episodes of Pokemon Diamond and Pearl: Battle Dimension, where she travelled to Sinnoh to enter the Wallace Cup.She has also a emerald outfit you see below. When Ash and Brock leave for sinnoh she goes to Johto alone without Max.

Contents 1 May's Biography 2 Pokémon 3 Episodes 4 Voice Actresses

[edit] May's Biography

May is a Pokémon coordinator from Petalburg City and is the daughter of the Petalburg City Gym Leader, Norman, and sister of Max. She meets Ash Ketchum in Hoenn and starts traveling with him after obtaining her first Pokémon, Torchic.

She originally disliked Pokémon, but soon takes interest in Pokémon Contests. She soon develops rivalries with other contest participants, Drew, Harley, and Jessie of Team Rocket, and goes on to win many contests. She is in 4 pokemon movies. She picked Torchic as her first pokemon and Squirtle as her first Kanto pokemon. May is generally a very sweet, funny, fun-loving, caring, kind-hearted and brave person. But sometimes A real go-getter type of confident person.  But when it comes to certain things she can be a glass half-full type of a straight Woman that she is, even though she is a very nice person

But she can have a tougher side sometimes, such as when she argues with her brother Max sometimes.  despite that they argue once in a while she has defineitly shown that she really deeply cares for her brother. and at times she helps people especially ones with romance problems.and sometimes May has a tendancy to rely on luck once in a while when it comes to certain things.

She really loves cute pokemon and flashy techniques,and of course showbiz with her pokemon and she really loves making her own Pokeblock with recipes that she thinks up, including ones she calls "May's Purple Surprise" and "May's Pink Surprise" while everyone else rejected it after taste the only ones who liked her Purple Surprise are her Munchlax and Jessie.

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When May saw the contest battle for the first time, she decided to become a coordinator. She then have to overcome her fear of bugs by raising her Wurmple into a Beautifly.

 While Ash and Brock chose to travel to Sinnoh, May decides to follow her rivals to Johto. However, she meets up with Ash, Brock, and Dawn in Sinnoh, wearing a green bandanna like the character Pokémon Emerald, then sometime later to participate in the Wallace Cup. After narrowly losing to Dawn in the Wallace Cup Finals, she leaves the group to continue her journey in Johto. In many episodes it is shown that she might have feelings for Drew, despite their long- going rivalry.May actually once jumping of a cliff to save him from drowning.

May have an unique taste for food. She loves to taste many different type of food. If food is taken away or stolen, she may exploded in rage. As a Coordinator,May was able to learn more about Pokemon her knowledge got a little more greater during her journey in both Hoenn and Kanto, For her contests that she competes in she was to come up with different kinds of attacks. but at times she was able to use both

She was also able use these combinations in battle.For example this would be using her Combusken's Fire Spin and her Squirtle's Bubble to create a combinaton of Fire and Water. which was dubbed by Lillian Meridian as Fire and Water whirlwind. which she able knckout Drew's flygon and his absol. this also got one of her rivals mad.thinking that she thought that he is not worthy of the move so  it was a good thing that she didn't use the move on him. during her journey she won numerous ribbions in both Hoenn and Kanto and she still using those skills and talents in johto currently. But May did reappear during the Sinnoh saga in Four episodes Meeting Ash,Pikachu,Brock Dawn and Zoey for the wallace cup.   May  also has a personal  ending theme song called [ I Won't Lose also called Haruka's theme in japan in two episodes of the Pokemon anime's Kanto battle frontier saga the theme was used as backgorund music in Curbing the Crimson Tide! and again in the next episode What I Did For Love! it was also used during the sinnoh wallace cup saga.

Atop that, it is hinted that May might have a slight crush on Drew, but nothing is official. In "Spontaneous Combuskan" when Brianna asks May how she feels about Drew, May said "Me liking Drew. I never thought of it that way." But She still hates drew.

[edit] Pokémon

→ →
Torchic → Combusken → Blaziken	Skitty
→ →
Wurmple → Silcoon → Beautifly	Munchlax
→	→
Eevee → Glaceon	Squirtle → Wartortle
→ →
Bulbasaur → Ivysaur → Venusaur

[edit] Episodes

Generally, May appeared in the episode frequently when travelling with Ash in the Hoenn region. However, she appeared a few times in Sinnoh. These are the episodes that May appeared in Sinnoh.

A Full Course Tag Battle!

[edit] Voice Actresses

• Veronica Taylor (4Kids)
• Michelle Knotz (PUSA/TAJ)
• Midori Kawana (Japanese)