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May (ハルカ Haruka)

General
Name:	May
Japanese Name:	ハルカ Haruka
Age:	10 (when she started her journey)
Hometown:	Petalburg City
Region:	Hoenn
Family:	Max Norman Caroline
Class:	Coordinator
Friends:	Ash Brock Misty Dawn Zoey Drew Solidad
First Appearance:	AG001: Get the Show on the Road!
Voice actor:	Veronica Taylor (4Kids) (English) Michele Knotz (TPCI) (English) KAORI (Japanese)

"My bike's been barbecued!"

— May after Ash's Pikachu charred her bike.

May ('ハルカ Haruka) is a young energetic Pokémon Coordinator currently travelling through various regions and competing in Pokémon Contests. She started her journey travelling through the Hoenn region accompanying Ash and Brock, along with her little brother Max. When Ash and Brock leave for Sinnoh, she goes to Johto alone without Max. She appears in a few episodes of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl: Battle Dimension, where she travelled to Sinnoh to enter the Wallace Cup.

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 travelling with him after obtaining her first Pokémon, Torchic.

She has rivalries from some contest participants, Drew, Harley, and Jessie of Team Rocket, and goes on to win many contests. She is in four Pokémon movies. She picked Torchic as her first Pokémon and Squirtle as her first Kanto Pokémon. May is generally a very sweet, fun-loving, caring, kind-hearted, and a brave person. But sometimes a real go-getter type of confident person. 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. Despite that they argue once in a while, she has definitely shown that she really deeply cares for her brother. She helps people a lot, especially ones with romance problems. May has a tendency to rely on luck once in a while when it comes to certain things.

She really loves cute Pokémon and flashy techniques, and competing in contests. She really loves making her own Pokéblock with recipes that she thinks up, including ones she calls "May's Purple Surprise" and "May's Pink Surprise" while everyone else rejected them after tasting them, the only ones who liked her Purple Surprise are her Munchlax and Jessie.

When May saw a contest battle for the first time, she decided to become a coordinator. She then had to overcome her fear of bug type Pokémon 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 participates in the Wallace Cup. Dawn once referred to her as "Princess" which makes the fact that she has an unknown identification believable.

After narrowly losing to Dawn in the Wallace Cup Finals, she leaves the group to continue her journey in Johto. This was May's last appearance, and the future of her appearing again remains uncertain.

May has a unique taste for food. She loves to taste many different types of food. As a Coordinator, May was able to learn more about Pokémon, and her knowledge became greater during her journey in both Hoenn and Kanto for her contests that she competes in, that she can come up with different types of attacks.

She was also able use these combinations in battle. For example she would use her Combusken's Fire Spin and her Squirtle's Bubble to create a combination of Fire and Water. Which was dubbed by Lillian's Medichan as a Fire and Water Whirlwind. She was able to knock-out Drew's Flygon and his Absol. During her journey she won numerous ribbons in both Hoenn and Kanto and she is 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 Pokémon anime's Kanto battle frontier saga the theme was used as background 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.

Pokémon

On hand

Pokémon	Information
		Blaziken was given to May by Professor Birch in Littleroot Town when it was still a Torchic. She chose it as her starter Pokémon because she thought Treecko was creepy and scary (though she later called them cute in Trees a Crowd), while the starter Mudkip had attacked her earlier with a Water Gun to the face. As a Torchic, it evolved in the episode A Shroomish Skirmish, when trying to fend off some Shroomish and Breloom. It later evolved in the midst of a Pokémon battle with Team Rocket.
Torchic → Combusken → Blaziken ♂

Pokémon	Information
		Skitty was caught in the Episode "I Feel Skitty" when Torchic ran away from a training session with May and found a sick Skitty. She knows powerful moves like Blizzard, DoubleSlap and Assist.
Skitty ♀

Pokémon	Information
		May watched a Pokémon Contest and she saw a Beautifly and she wanted one. When May caught a Wurmple, Jessie from Team Rocket had one and were switched but were returned to their rightful trainers. Beautifly knows Gust, Aerial Ace, Morning Sun, Silver Wind, and Psychic.
Wurmple→ Silcoon→ Beautifly ♀

Pokémon	Information
		Munchlax was caught in the episode "Berry, Berry Interesting". It could use powerful moves like Solarbeam, Focus Punch and Metronome. It is the only Pokémon which likes May's new recipe Pokéblocks.
Munchlax ♂

Pokémon	Information
		May recieved Glaceon as an Egg and watched every contest that May entered. It was the third Normal-type Pokémon that May obtained. It knows Shadow Ball, Ice Shard, Secret Power and Mirror Coat.
Egg→ Eevee→ Glaceon ♀

Pokémon	Information
		After May left Skitty and Beautifly in Hoenn, she met Ash in Pallet Town and one of Oak's Squirtles seemed to take a liking to her. Professor Oak allowed May to have the Squirtle and travelled in her Poké Ball. He learns powerful moves like Ice Beam, Aqua Tail and Rapid Spin.
Squirtle→ Wartortle ♂

Pokémon	Information
		May was kidnapped by a Skarmory and ended getting lost in a place called the Forbidden Forest, which is a preserve for Grass-type Pokémon. Then May met a clumsy Bulbasaur trying to pick flowers. It eventually evolved in a Ivysaur and much later it evolved into a Venusaur. She knows moves like Petal Dance, Razor Leaf and Vine Whip.
Bulbasaur→ Ivysaur→ Venusaur ♀

Freed

Pokémon	Information
		After May saved the Manaphy egg in Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea, it hatched and imprinted on May and thought she was its mother. It had such a close bond with May, it began learning words and even learn May's name. But it knew it had to leave and protect Samiya, the Sea Temple, even though it did not want to leave her side. Leaving her behind, it left with a few words including "love" and "you".
Manaphy

Ribbons

Ribbon	Additional Information
Fallarbor Town Ribbon	She won against Grace and her Medicham with her Beautifly.
Verdanturf Town Ribbon	She won against the Phantom's(Timmy)'s Dusclops with her newly acquired Skitty.
Lilycove City Ribbon	She fought against Lily's Grumpig with her newly evolved Combusken which had a few power control issues.
Izabe Island Ribbon	She won against her new rival Harley and his Cacturne with her Bulbasaur.
Pacifidlog Town Ribbon	She won against a jealous girl called Erica and her Jynx with her Skitty.
Saffron City Ribbon	Won again against her rival Harley with her new baby Squirtle and Combusken.
Silver Town Ribbon	She won against wonna be rockstar Jeremey and his Venusaur with her Squirtle and Combusken.
Crysanthemum Island Ribbon	Battled against a girl in love with Drew by the name of Brianna and her Vibrava with her Munchlax and Combusken.
Gardenia Town Ribbon	She won against Brock and his Marshtomp with her Squirtle and Eevee.
Mulberry Town Ribbon	She was able to win her fifth ribbon in Kanto against Jessie with her Squirtle and Combusken.
Teracotta Town Ribbon	Getting half by tying with Ash's Sceptile, where she used Blaziken (unofficial).
Johto Ribbon 1	It was revealed in DP 76 that May has won three Ribbons in Johto.
Johto Ribbon 2	It was revealed in DP 76 that May has won three Ribbons in Johto.
Johto Ribbon 3	It was revealed in DP 76 that May has won three Ribbons in Johto.

Grand Festival ranking

May placed in the following Grand Festival competitions:

Hoenn Grand Festival (Top 8)
Kanto Grand Festival (Top 4)

Episodes

Generally, May appeared in the episode frequently when travelling with Ash in the Hoenn region. However, she briefly appeared in Sinnoh and accompanies Ash, Dawn, and Brock to the Wallace Cup.

These are the episodes that May appeared in Sinnoh. May also battled with Dawn but narrowly lost.

Our Cup Runneth Over
A Full Course Tag Battle
Staging a Heroes' Welcome
Prunning a Passel of Pals
Strategy with a Smile

Voice Actresses

English: Veronica Taylor (Season 6-8), Michele Knotz (Season 9, 11)
Japanese: Kaori Suzuki
Dutch: Nicoline van Doorn
Greek: Yro Loupi (Season 6-8), Stella Bonatsou (Season 9)
Spanish: Cristina Yuste
Polish: Julita Kozuszek-Borsuk
French: Maia Baran
German: Nicola Grupe, Stephanie Kellner (Movie 6 and 7)
Italian: Serena Clerici
Filipino: Charmaine Cordoviz
Czech: Klara Sumanova
Portuguese: Carla (Season 6-8), Isabel Ribas (Season 9), Marta Mota (Season 11)
Mandarin: Fu Manjun
Danish: Annevig Schlede-Ebbe
Brazilian Portuguese: Tatiane Keplmair
Iberian Spanish: Ana Lobo, Liliana Barba, Mariana Ortiz, Agustina Priscila
Thai: Arunee Nuntiwass
Hebrew: Dawn Lanny-Gabay

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Trivia

May is the only female character to meet all of Ash's previous travelling companions (with the exception of Cilan and Iris).
Like Misty, May is last seen leaving the group and returning to her respective journey, with no mention or future appearance in the series.
May was the only character to give a personal narration of her introduction in the series.
In the episode Brave the Wave, while May was taking off her clothes, she appeared to never take her gloves off.
In seasons 6-8, May and Ash shared the same voice actress: Veronica Taylor.
May is a third generation character, and she owned two and befriended one Legendary Pokémon from the fourth generation: Munchlax, Glaceon (can only evolve from Eevee in Sinnoh), and she had befriended a Manaphy a Mythical Pokémon.
May has a fear of Bug types like Misty, only she got over her fear.
In her first contest, she slipped and fell.
She is the only female character to have three starters (Torchic, Squirtle and Bulbasaur).
The first Pokémon she used in fact was not Torchic but a Mudkip but she did not know how to command it to attack Poochyena and ended up getting hit in the face with a Water Gun attack.
May and Ash both have Bulbasaurs.
In Stairway to Devon, it was revealed by May that she loves shopping for swimsuits. She said she likes going to island resorts and needs lots of them. And because she's energetic, she loves wearing them on island resorts and showing them in front of her friends.

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May (anime)

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