Misty

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 Japanese voice actor

**Misty** (Japanese: **カスミ** *Kasumi*) is an aspiring Water Pokémon Master and a former Template:Ashfr of Ash. She is also the Gym Leader of the Cerulean Gym, handing out the Cascade to Trainers who defeat her. She specializes in Template:Type Template:OBP.

Misty journeyed with Ash through Kanto, the Orange Islands, and Johto, sharpening her skills as a Water-type Trainer along the way. Eventually, she decided to return home to preside over her family's Gym.

## In the anime

### Character

Misty is a girl who can be sweet and optimistic at times, but she is best known for her vocal frustrations and seething anger. Misty also tended to get very angry whenever Template:Ash got their party lost, especially in forests. She is very extreme in most of her moods, and she abruptly switches between her emotions. However, as time went on, Misty mellowed and her hyperactive personality was reduced significantly by the end of the original series.

She is also picky, sensitive, nosy, and grumpy about love. 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.

She is shown to have a somewhat vain side to her, often referring to herself as an "internationally known beauty" (**世界の美少女** *the world's most beautiful girl*) in introductions to others. However, this trait was mostly excluded from the dub until *Sun & Moon*.

The one Pokémon type that Misty cannot stand are Bugs, as shown in *Catching Pokemon!*. The only Bug-type Pokémon Misty is not afraid of are the kinds that she deems "cute" or "pretty", like Ledyba and Butterfree, some belonging to her friends, like Tracey's Scyther, or ones that don't look like bugs, such as Pinec}. However, Bug Pokémon are only one of three things Misty strongly dislikes, the other two being carrots and peppers.

Her catchphrase when sending out a Pokémon is (**いくわよ！マーイステディ！** *Go! My Steady!*). Like her "beauty" title, this was not carried over into the dub until *Sun & Moon*.

### 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.

This is a listing of Misty's Pokémon.

### Pokémon competitions

Misty has competed in the following Template:Cat:

* Tour de Alto Mare - Winner (*The Guardians of Alto Mare: Latias & Latios*)

## Trivia

* Misty was designed by Atsuko Nishida.
* Misty is 10 years old in the anime, though she is 12 years old in The Electric Tale of Pikachu.
* Misty is the first victim of the recurring gag in the anime where Ash's Pikachu shocks a main female character's bicycle or the character herself at the beginning of each series.
* Misty is the first main character to be seen owning a Generation II Pokémon, that Pokémon being Togepi.
* Misty is the only main character with a game counterpart to not have any of her main outfits influenced by those worn by Misty.

* Only Misty's Japanese name (**カスミ** *Kasumi*, meaning baby's breath) references the floral theme behind the name of her older sisters: Daisy, Violet, and Lily. In all other languages, her name references water.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 In the Japanese version of *Catching Pokemon!*, Misty mentions that she is ten years old.
2. ↑ Press release of "Hometown Story"

## Related articles

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