Lana (anime)
| Lana スイレン Suiren | |
 Art from Sun & Moon series | |
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Eye color | Blue |
| Hair color | Blue |
| Hometown | Hau'oli City |
| Region | Alola |
| Relatives | Harper and Sarah (younger twin sisters) |
| Trainer class | Trainer |
| Game counterpart | Lana |
| Specializes in | Water types |
| Anime debut | Alola to New Adventure! |
| English voice actor | |
| Japanese voice actor | Hitomi Kikuchi |
Lana (Japanese: スイレン Suiren) is a friend and classmate of Ash, who debuted in Alola to New Adventure!.
History
Lana was a student at Samson Oak's Pokémon School on Melemele Island, where she lived with her twin sisters, Harper and Sarah. At one point, she rescued a wild Popplio from being harassed by a gang of Team Skull Grunts and nursed it back to health at a Pokémon Center, where the two became good friends.
Lana debuted in Alola to New Adventure, meeting Ash and Pikachu while fishing with Popplio on a Poké Ride Lapras. She and Ash met again at the Pokémon School, where Ash decided to join her class to study the Pokémon of Alola under their teacher, Professor Kukui.
In The Guardian's Challenge, Lana participated in the surprise welcome party her class threw for Ash to celebrate his enrollment. She challenged Ash to a Pokémon swimming contest as his third "surprise", which Popplio won due to its superior swimming ability. She later bore witness to Ash and Pikachu's battle against Tapu Koko, the guardian deity of Melemele.
In SM005, Lana received help from Ash while training Popplio how to blow human-sized water balloons, revealing her dream to one day use them to explore the ocean depths and discover new undersea Pokémon. She was also chosen to give a class lecture on sea Pokémon, loaning Ash a fishing rod at her house and introducing him to her unruly sisters. During the lecture, several of the class's Pokémon were caught in a net by Team Rocket, who intended to use the class's Poké Rides for their own ends and disregarded the others they had inadvertently caught, infuriating Lana. Together with Ash, she was able to bring the captured Pokémon to safety destroy Team Rocket's hot air balloon by using Popplio's water balloons.
Character
Pokémon
On hand
 Popplio |
Voice actors
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Names
| Language | Name | Origin |
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| Japanese | スイレン Suiren | From 睡蓮 suiren (water lily) and 水 sui (water) |
| English | Lana | From lilia-lana-i-ka-wai (Hawaiian for water lily) and lana (Hawaiian for afloat) |
| French | Néphie | From nénuphar (water lily) |
| German | Tracy | From Tracheophyta (vascular plant), a division of plants that includes the water lily family |
| Italian | Suiren | Same as Japanese name |
| Spanish | Nereida | From nereida (nereid). Nereids are sea nymphs, possibly a reference to Nymphaeaceae (water lily family) |
| Korean | 수련 Suryeon | From 수련 suryeon (water lily) and 수 su (water) |
| Chinese (Mandarin) | 水蓮 / 水莲 Shuǐlián | From 睡蓮 / 睡莲 shuìlián (water lily) and 水 shuǐ (water) |
| Chinese (Cantonese) | 水蓮 Séuilìhn | From 睡蓮 seuihlìhn (water lily) and 水 séui (water) |
| Russian | Лана Lana | Transcription of English name |
| Thai | ซุนเรน suiren' | Transcription of japanese name |
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