Eusine (Japanese: ミナキ Minaki; Eugene in The Legend of Thunder) is a researcher and expert in the Legendary Beasts. For years he has chased Suicune, the embodiment of the North Wind, but to no avail.

In the games

Eusine appears in Pokémon Crystal. He is first seen researching the Burned Tower, together with Morty. Later, he battles the player in Cianwood City after seeing Suicune escaping from the town. After that he returns to his hometown, Celadon City and can be found in Celadon Pokémon Center and waiting for the player to catch all three Legendary beasts.

Eusine is crazy over Legendary beasts, especially Suicune. He has his own theme music.

Pokémon

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In the anime

He is voiced by 川田紳司 Shinji Kawada in Japanese and Ted Lewis in English.

In the anime episode For Ho-oh the Bells Toll, he exhibits a near-religious fervor for Suicune, challenging Ash for daring to say that he'd met the legendary beast. This is somewhat interesting compared to his appearance in The Legend of Thunder! when he mentions Suicune only once, and then only in reference to the other beasts.

In The Legend of Thunder!, he assists Jimmy, Marina, and Vincent in their battle against Attila and Hun. Marina falls for him because he wears a cape.

He is apparently very close friends with Morty, who is also an expert on the Ecruteak legends. Morty acts as Eusine's voice of reason, trying to convince him to calm down and ease up, but to no avail. When Eusine leaves suddenly at the end of the episode, Morty's lack of surprise indicates that this has happened before.

Pokémon

• Alakazam

In the manga

In the Pokémon Special manga

In Pokémon Special he is quite the showoff, performing flashy magic tricks and even giving out autographed pictures of himself. He flies around on a Jumpluff.

Pokémon

• Jumpluff
• Haunter
• Electrode

In the Golden Boys manga

Eusine is first seen coming to Cianwood Gym and trying to retrieve Gold's Pikachu from Gold. It turns out that this Pikachu was actually a messenger sent from future by Eusine and Bill to guide the present Eusine to Legendary Pokémon using a special learning device attached to it. Gold wanted to battle with Eusine for that Pikachu, but Chuck, the leader of Cianwood Gym told them to battle next day. Gold and his Croconaw beat Eusine's Hypno and Gold won the battle, so Pikachu could stay with him. This caused Eusine to search for Legendary Pokémon alone. Later, Black unsealed the Black Tyranitar, Cianwood's legendary Pokémon who used to wreak havoc in the Johto region. Eusine was one of the people who helped Gold fighting the Black Tyranitar.

Pokémon

• Hypno
• Haunter
• Electrode

Released

• Pikachu (ended up in Gold's team)

Trivia

• There is a fanon theory regarding the English versions that says that Minaki is his real name and he chose Eusine to reflect his reverence for Suicune, but there is no evidence for this. More recently, after the dub of The Legend of Thunder, similar theory started with Eugene being his real name.

External links

• Minaki's Profile on Pokeani (Japanese)

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