Misty


 * This article is about the Pokémon character who is also known as "Kasumi" in Japan. The name "Kasumi" may also refer to other characters. See Kasumi for other characters that have the same name.

Misty (Japanese: カスミ Kasumi) is a character who premiered in the first episode of the Pokémon anime.

In the first episode, she meets Ash after fishing him out of a lake while he was trying to get away from a flock of Spearow. Ash then takes Misty's bike from her in order to escape the Spearow which is then inadvertently wrecked by Pikachu's Thunder Shock. Misty then tracks down Ash and follows him around on his adventures until he can pay her back, although she eventually forgets about the bike and becomes one of Ash's closest friends in the process. However, at the end of their journey through the Johto Region, Misty's bike has been fully repaired, and she departs to return home to Cerulean City to resume her duties as a Gym Leader.

She is currently the Cerulean City Gym Leader, a position she took over from her older sisters.

Appearance
Misty has short, orange hair tied into a side ponytail with blue hair elastic. She has green eyes and fair skin. She wears a yellow tank top that shows her midriff, red suspenders, blue denim shorts that stop at her thighs and red sneakers with yellow lining and white laces. She also has an impressive collection of bikinis and swimsuits. Her whole midriff is showing, but her belly button is not usually drawn. However, it is visible when she is in her bikinis.

She later maintains her original outfit in her return in Pokémon the Series: Sun &amp; Moon (season). Beneath her outfit is her strapless two-piece swimsuit which was worn by her counterpart in both games, Pokémon Red and Blue. In When Regions Collide!, Misty has a Key Stone hidden at the back of her ponytail.
 * Misty's most common swimwear is a red bikini, seen worn in Challenge of the Samurai, Beauty and the Beach, Dig Those Diglett!, The Evolution Solution, A Shadow of a Drought and A Hot Water Battle. For her most common version, her bottoms have a lime green waistband and her top has a lime green trim on the side facing up. In her other version, the lime green is omitted, the top is a bandeau, and the bottoms have red bows on the side.
 * Misty fantasizes about sunbathing in a pink bandeau bikini in Battle Aboard the St. Anne.
 * Misty wears a yellow bikini with a skirt in The Pi-Kahuna. It has a red star on in the center of her cleavage, the top has pink borders on the opening, and the skirt has a thin pink belt.
 * Misty wears a red backless one-piece bathing suit with white flowers in Pokémon Double Trouble.
 * Misty wears a green and yellow striped bikini in Cerulean Blues.
 * Misty wore a dark blue, bandeau two-piece bikini underneath her normal clothes that resembles the one her video game counterpart wore in the Generation I games in Alola, Kanto!.
 * She also has another bikini, with a yellow bandeau top and red bottoms.
 * In The Misty Mermaid she worn a mermaid costume.

In one episode in Pokémon Chronicles, her primary top is replaced with a yellow sleeveless hoodie shirt but maintains her denim shorts and sneakers from her primary outfit and the color of her denim shorts were purple.

Her new outfit in the Advanced Generation series when she meets up with Ash and Brock in Hoenn, consists of a yellow sleeveless vest with a dark blue button, a dark blue collar, red swimsuit, yellow shorts, and orange shoes.

During her and Brock’s visit in Alola, she wears a light yellow midriff top with a salmon pink trim, an orange diagonal stripes on her midriff and a matching bows in each sides of the straps, a matching shorts with a salmon-pink ribbon-like belt and the linings in each sides along with an orange diagonal stripes and pink sandals. Her hairclip is now a rose pink and yellow flower hairpin which she conceals her Key Stone hidden at the back of her ponytail.

Personality
As Misty is the youngest child in her family, she can sympathize with other youngest children like Mikey, Sakura, and Max.

Misty has a slight inferiority complex, mostly due to her three older sisters Daisy (oldest), Violet (second-from-oldest) and Lily (third-from-oldest), who formed the group, "The Three Sensational Sisters" (their synchronized swimming group), and refer to Misty as the "runt" or the "weaker one". This complex diminishes over time as Misty grows closer to them. Until Misty resumed her duties as the Cerulean City Gym Leader, her sisters were the ones who directly ran the gym, although when Ash came along to get his Cascade Badge, it was Misty who battled him for it, explicitly referring to herself as being one of the Gym Leaders during this instance.

Misty specializes mainly in Water-type Pokémon, which are her favorite type, but she's had other types, and she also deeply admires Lorelei, an Ice-type Pokémon trainer. Misty aims to become a world-class trainer, and her well-trained Pokémon reflects her aspirations of becoming so. Her least favorite type of Pokémon is Bug-type Pokémon, as she has a deep-rooted fear of them, except for the kinds she sees as “cute” or “pretty”. However, Misty’s fear lessens over the course of the series — but not to the point where she's totally gotten over it, as shown in A Real Cleffa Hanger, Alola, Kanto! and Alola, Alola!.

As the series continues, Misty gradually shows herself to be more mature, kind and sensible. Sometimes, Misty would restrain Brock from girls, often pulling him away by the ear and reprimanding him for his behavior. This trait continued with the friends who join Ash on his journeys after she parted ways with him, following their journey through the Johto Region.

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