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| NOTE: This article is about the incarnation of May from the Pokémon the Series anime. The mainstream version can be found here: May (Pokémon). |
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| “ | My bike's barbecued! | „ |
| ~ May after Ash's Pikachu accidentally charred her bicycle. |
May (Japanese: ハルカ Haruka) is a supporting character in the Pokémon anime series.
She is a Pokémon Coordinator and Ash's second female traveling companion, his female traveling companion in the Hoenn region.
May's goal is to compete in Pokémon Contests and win ribbons, win the Grand Festivals of the different regions, and become a top Coordinator. She traveled through Hoenn and Kanto with Ash, Brock, and her little brother Max. She is the girly daughter of Norman and Caroline, and her starter Pokémon was a Torchic given to her by Professor Birch. She is based off the same-named playable character from the Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald games.
She is voiced by KAORI in the Japanese original version of the anime, and was originally voiced by Veronica Taylor in the 4Kids English dub before being replaced by Michele Knotz in the TPCi (then known as Pokémon USA) English version of the anime.
Appearance[]
May is a tall light skinned young girl with long mousy hair and cobalt-blue eyes
Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire[]
May wears a red t-shirt with a dark blue circle around her neck, dark blue bike shorts, white miniskirt, red and yellow sneakers, a red bandanna with a white Poké Ball print, a yellow waist-pack, and dark-blue and white gloves. This is based on her game outfit in Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire.
Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl[]
May is shown wearing a green bandanna, a sleeveless and short orange tunic with a black collar, black bike shorts, black socks, and red and white sneakers. She also carries a green waist-pack. This is based on her game outfit in Pokémon Emerald.
Swimwear[]
May is shown to wear different swimwear throughout her appearance in the anime:
- In "The Lotad Lowdown" and "Sharpedo Attack!", May's swimwear is a yellow hearts two-piece swimsuit with shorts.
- In "Sharpedo Attack!", May also wore a pink polka-dotted one-piece swimsuit.
- In the movies, May wore a pink bikini.
Personality[]
Despite her beauty, May is a sweet and very kind-hearted beautiful girl, who would love to eat desserts and would help people in need. Like Misty, May can get very furious and hot-tempered at times when disagreeing with Ash Ketchum or Max (May's younger brother), but May is able to overcome her fear of Bug-type Pokémon. However, she can get very sad, especially when she loses a Contest, but does her best to prevail. She is also shown to have a side for romance, though on rare occasions. She became furious at her Munchlax because it was eating food that belonged to someone else and ran off when she didn't keep an eye on it, she had Max give Munchlax "pink surprise" in order to stop Munchlax's appetite and prevent it from eating.
At the start of her journey, May didn't like Pokémon as she only wanted to start her journey just so she can travel and visit places. However, her encounter with Ash and Brock changed that and her love for Pokémon began to grow steadily.
Overview[]
On her tenth birthday after receiving her first starter Pokémon Torchic, May's bicycle got burned from Pikachu using Thunderbolt on it as Team Rocket was trying to capture Pikachu. Once Ash discovers Pikachu with May and Professor Birch, the two young kids talk and the Professor persuades them both to travel together. May agrees to join Ash on his journey along with May's seven year-old brother Max, who helps the gang with his knowledge of Pokémon. Originally, May hated Pokémon but over time she grew to love them so much she decided to become a Pokémon Contest Coordinator. She has a problem by her Munchlax's troubles of eating food from someone else.
Pokémon[]
On rotation:
- Torchic → Combusken → Blaziken ♂
- Wurmple → Silcoon → Beautifly ♀
- Skitty ♀
- Bulbasaur → Ivysaur → Venusaur ♀
- Munchlax
- Squirtle → Wartortle ♀
- Egg → Eevee → Glaceon
Befriended:
Borrowed:
Traveled with:
Trivia[]
- May's main attire in Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl is based on her game counterpart's attire in Pokémon Emerald.
- May is the second companion who used to have a bicycle until it was destroyed by Pikachu (which was an accident).
- In the Hoenn Grand Festival, Harley finds out that May had implicit feelings for Drew, as Harley calls him "her annoying boyfriend"
- Sometimes May also had implicit feelings for Ash, particularly when he was battling or in danger. Most notably, in Movie 9, she kept thinking only about Ash and worrying about him so much when she was trapped in the pod with Pikachu and Manaphy, while Ash was trying to save the Sea Crown. She is one of the only female traveling companions besides Serena to implicitly think of or express feelings or that kind of interest for Ash.
- In the episode where Ash faught her dad Norman in the Petalburg Gym, May was very happy about Ash winning and focused a lot on his Pokémon, which could also be a hint.
- May is the first main character other than Ash to own a starter Pokémon.
- May is the only female traveling companion to own at least 3 starter Pokémon.
- May is the only main character other than Ash to wear gloves as part of her character design.
- She is also the only main character other than Ash to leave a Pokémon at Professor Oak's Laboratory.
- May has competed in at least one Pokémon Contest in each region where they are known to be held in the anime, with the exception of the Unova region.
- May is the first of Ash's traveling companions to be based on a player character from the games.
- May is the only main character to, upon her introduction, introduce herself to the audience rather than be introduced by the narrator or first appear without an introduction at all.
- Both of May's unevolved Pokémon are Normal type.
- May was the first character to own a Generation IV Pokémon, with Munchlax.
- Not counting temporary Pokémon, May is the first main character to catch a Pokémon that Ash has also caught.
- May has unfortunately not made any reappearances since Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl, besides flashbacks and non-speaking cameos. The main reason is because her Japanese voice actress, KAORI, came down with a variation of the debilitating disease focal dystonia called spasmotic dysphonia, as early as 2007 (a year before her reappearances in DP), and hitting its peak by May 2012. This forced her to retire and force the character herself to semi-retire from the anime, no matter how important she is. To date, a replacement has never been cast, since in Japan, rules of voice acting are very strict, as voice reactors cannot be replaced unless it's anything to do with death or scandals. The creators were hoping KAORI would be back, and KAORI was also hoping to be back after her disease cures, but she didn't want to give permission, as respect for original work is a priority in Japan.
- Because of this, she is the only one of Ash's female companions who was not shown to have reunited with him during Pokémon Journeys: The Series on-screen. However, nobody knows if they met again off-screen. It could likely be illogical for Ash not to reunite with her in the universe as he reunited with the rest of his traveling companions and some of his good old friends.
External links[]
- May on the Pure Good Wiki
- May on the Pokémon Wiki
- May at Bulbapedia
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