Bianca (anime)

This article is about the anime counterpart of Bianca. For the character from Pokémon Heroes, see Bianca (movie).

Bianca ベル Bel
Bianca
Gender	Female
Eye color	Green
Hair color	Blonde
Hometown	Nuvema Town
Region	Unova
Relatives	Father
Trainer class	Trainer
Game counterpart	Bianca
Anime debut	Minccino-Neat and Tidy!
English voice actor	Erica Schroeder
Japanese voice actor	Shizuka Itō

Bianca (Japanese: ベル Bel) is a Pokémon Trainer from the Unova region. She is one of Ash's three rivals in Unova.

History

Bianca with her father

Bianca made her debut appearance in Minccino-Neat and Tidy!, where she was sent by Professor Juniper to deliver a badge case to Ash. Unfortunately, Bianca ended up knocking Ash and Cilan into a nearby stream. Despite being older than Ash, she has only just started her journey due to her father not allowing her to become a Trainer when she turned ten.

Bianca is shown to be very excitable, for instance when a Minccino stole the badge case and Ash attempted to use Oshawott to get it back, Bianca commanded him to use Hydro Pump despite the fact that Oshawott wasn't her Pokémon nor did he even know that move. She later made the same mistake when she commanded Pikachu to use Zap Cannon.

She also had a battle against Ash, where she used her Pignite against his Pikachu. Ash was planning to use Oshawott for said battle but Bianca demanded that he use Pikachu because it is a foreign species. She lost the battle after putting up a hard fight.

Prior to Emolga the Irresistible!, Bianca joined the group and accompanied them on their way to Nimbasa City. She was enjoying an evening lunch with Ash and company when Iris's Axew drops a fruit down a hill where it is caught by a wild Emolga. She then runs after Emolga and smothers her in hugs. Determined to catch Emolga, Bianca challenges her to battle Minccino, who ends up losing. Emolga then flies off and Bianca chases after her. After several failed attempts at catching Emolga, Bianca is crushed to find that Emolga accepts Iris as her Trainer instead.

Bianca with her rival, Ash, and his friends

In Emolga and the New Volt Switch!, Bianca wanted to have a battle with Iris's newly caught Emolga. However, Emolga had other interests besides battling and kept using Volt Switch to get other Pokémon to battle Bianca instead including Iris's Excadrill, Cilan's Pansage and Ash's Snivy. She also used her Pignite against Snivy for a short training session. After learning Ash earned three badges already, Bianca leaves the group in hopes to win more badges on her own.

Bianca met up with Ash and friends again in Nimbasa Town in Reunion Battles In Nimbasa!. She was enamored with Luke's Zorua and attempted to catch her not knowing that she already had a Trainer. Bianca also decided to enter the Club Battle tournament along with the group. In the next episode, she battled Stephan in the first round of the tournament where she used her Minccino against his Zebstrika. Zebstrika proved too powerful and defeated Minccino, thus knocking Bianca out of the tournament.

Bianca reappeared in BW049 where she battled Elesa in a Gym battle. However, all of her Pokémon were defeated by Elesa's Zebstrika.

Character

Bianca after catching a Pokémon.

Much like her game counterpart, Bianca is a sweet girl but is also an airhead. She is also somewhat clumsy and unorganized. Every time she meets up with the main characters, she runs excitedly towards them then trips causing her to collide with Ash and knocking him into a body of water. Afterwards, she apologizes to him profusely.

Bianca has a soft spot for cute Pokémon like Minccino, Emolga, and Zorua and will stop at nothing to try and capture them. In fact, she spends a few episodes of the Club Battle arc trying to get a hold of Luke's Zorua who keeps disguising herself to trick her. Bianca also tends to think of odd schemes to lure a Pokémon out like planting a dirty spoon under a cloche so she can trap Minccino. If her attempts at capturing fail, she will often have a temper tantrum about it. She cares dearly for her Pokémon, often crying out in sorrow when they're defeated.

She tends to do things at her own pace which often involves rushing and forcing people along with her. She was impatient to capture Minccino, as well as during battles, to the point that Ash, Iris, and Cilan have trouble keeping up with her. She wastes no time when giving her Pokémon commands, though this raw speed and power causes her many blunders.

Pokémon

This listing is of Bianca's known Pokémon in the anime:

		Tepig → Pignite ♂
		Main article: Bianca's Pignite Pignite is Bianca's starter Pokémon. Bianca attempted to use him to catch a wild Minccino that had stolen the dirty badge case that she had given to Ash.
Debut	Minccino-Neat and Tidy!
Voice actors
Japanese	Akeno Watanabe
English	Marc Thompson

		Minccino ♂
		Main article: Bianca's Minccino Minccino first appeared in Minccino-Neat and Tidy! where he stole Ash's badge case. Bianca ends up capturing him at the end of the episode by accident when he attempted to clean her dirty Poké Ball.
Debut	Minccino-Neat and Tidy!
Voice actors
Japanese	Mai Aizawa
English	Michele Knotz

		Shelmet
		Bianca's Shelmet debuted in BW049, where she used it in her battle against Elesa's Zebstrika, but it was quickly defeated. Bianca was worried after the battle that Shelmet might not be feeling well after losing the way it did. Iris made up a special remedy for it to help it get back its energy. Shelmet's known moves are Acid and Energy Ball.
Debut	BW049
Voice actors
Japanese	Kiyotaka Furushima

Badges

• Two unknown badges (prior to Minccino-Neat and Tidy!)
• An unknown badge (prior to BW049)

Pokémon competitions

• Club Battle (Top 16)

Voice actors

Trivia

• Bianca is Ash's first and only regular female rival so far.

Names

Related articles

• Bianca
• Bianca (Adventures)
• Episodes focusing on Bianca

Bianca's Pokémon
On hand:	Emboar	Minccino	Escavalier
Traded away:	Shelmet
Adventures only:	Oshawott	Lampent	Petilil
Pokémon B+W only:	Samurott

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