Pocket Monsters Characters

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Name: Akai "Red" Isamu
Pockemon in Hand: Pippi, Pikachu

Akai Isamu, whose nickname is Red, is a young trainer from Masara Town. This young trainer is given a Pockemon Zukan by Orchid-Hakase and is sent on a quest to complete it for him by traveling around and collecting as much data on pockemon as possible. Red chooses Pippi as his starter pockemon because he believes it to be a strong fighter, but it doesn't take him long to find out that the pockemon is really just an oafish prankster.

Red first appears in Volume One, Chapter One.

	Name: Midorikawa "Green" Kai Pockemon in Hand: Hitokage, others
	Midorikawa Kai, whose nickname is Green, is a young trainer from Masara Town and is Red's rival. Green is a much more serious trainer than Red, wasting no time in filling out his Pockemon Zukan. Green chose Hitokage as his starter, a pockemon who doesn't mind helping Green attain his sometimes questionable goals. Green first appears in Volume One, Chapter One.

Name: Orchid-Hakase
Pockemon in Hand: N/A

Orchid-Hakase is the person who gives trainers their starter pockemon in Masara Town. He gives both Red and Green the task of completing his Pockemon Zukan, since he is too old to do it himself, and checks in every now and then to evaluate their progress. The professor absolutely hates Red's Pippi and wonders why the young trainer would choose to train such a stupid pockemon.

Orchid-Hakase first appears in Volume One, Chapter One.

	Name: Blue Pockemon in Hand: Ghosto
	Blue is a young boy whose parents are very worried about him. They fear that the ghost pockemon he hangs around with are causing him to become cold and distant, but he doesn't seem to have any problem with them. Blue develops a hatred for Red after his pockemon destroys his Blue Collection, an assortment of items with a "blue" theme. Blue first appears in Volume One, Chapter Seven.

Name: Takeshi Pockemon in Hand: Iwaku
Takeshi is the leader of the Nibi City Gym. Takeshi has a room filled with pockemon he's captured over the years, and one of these pockemon happens to be Pikachu, Pippi's cousin! The desire to save his cousin gives Pippi the determination needed to defeat Takeshi's powerful and ferocious Iwaku. Takeshi first appeared in Volume One, Chapter Three.

	Name: Kasumi Pockemon in Hand: Kamex
	Kasumi is the leader of the Hanada City Gym. She has possession of the Moon Stone, a mystical item coveted by Red and his Pippi. Red battles Kasumi and her Kamex for the Moon Stone and wins, but he is dismayed when the Moon Stone is stolen from him by the mysterious pockemon, Myuu! Kasumi first appears in Volume One, Chapter Four.

Name: Machisu Pockemon in Hand: Biriridama, Kingler, others
Machisu is the leader of the Kuchiba City Gym. The American marine officer resides in his battleship, where he has taken over 500 pockemon from various trainers in the area. Red defeats Machisu, and in the process he destroys his battleship! Machisu first appears in Volume One, Chapter Six.

Name: Masaki

Masaki is a scientist who works in the basement of the water mill outside Hanada City. He was working on making the world's strongest pockemon by combining two pockemon together, but his research yielded no results. As a desperate last resort, Masaki decided to combine his partner and himself with the genes of a cat. Masaki was turned into a leapard-man in the process, while his assistant was turned into a creature resembling the legendary pockemon, Myuu! Masaki is eventually returned to normal when Red and Pippi bring him the Moon Stone.

Masaki first appeared in Volume One, Chapter Five.

Name: Myuu

Myuu was Masaki's lab assistant (and possible lover?) before his experiments transformed her into the legendary pockemon, Myuu! In order to return her body back to normal, Myuu stole the Moon Stone and took it back to Masaki's lab after Red had won it in a battle with Kasumi. Red and Pippi eventually find them and decide to let the couple use the Moon Stone to return their bodies back to normal.

Myuu first appeared in Volume One, Chapter Four.

Name: Blue's Parents

Blue's parents live with their son, Blue, in a creepy mansion close to Kuchiba City. The two worry about their son, who seems to be gloomy and depressed because of all the ghost pockemon he surrounds himself with. After seeing Pippi defeat a Ghos in the mansion, Blue's father asks Red to exterminate the ghosts to help their son. They become happy when the ghost pockemon are eventually taken care of, but it doesn't seem like Blue has gotten any better...

Blue's parents first appeared in Volume One, Chapter Seven.

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