Marina (Johto)

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Marina
マリナ Marina
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Marina
Gender Female
Eye color Viridian
Hair color Capri
Hometown New Bark Town
Region Johto
Trainer class Trainer, Coordinator
Game counterpart Kris
Anime debut The Legend of Thunder!
English voice actor Kelly Davis
Japanese voice actor Kazusa Murai

Marina (Japanese: マリナ Marina) is a Trainer and Coordinator from New Bark Town and one of the main characters of The Legend of Thunder!.

History

Marina's starter Pokémon was a Totodile that she received from Professor Elm on the same day Jimmy received his Cyndaquil and Vincent received his Chikorita.

In The Legend of Thunder!

Marina and Jimmy in The Legend of Thunder!

Marina was first seen talking to Vincent on the videophone at a Pokémon Center. When she noticed Jimmy's presence, she quickly said goodbye to Vincent to give him attention. They started talking about their journeys, and Marina said she wanted to turn all her battles into a show to make people happy. When Jimmy said that training and being a star were two completely different things, Marina challenged him to a battle to prove him wrong. During the battle, a lightning bolt struck the battlefield, scaring Little Miss and causing her to run into the woods. Marina then chased her and discovered that Attila and Hun from Team Rocket were trying to capture the legendary Raikou.

Upon seeing Raikou being hurt, Marina joined Jimmy to help him fight off Attila and Hun. She entered the battle with Little Miss and managed to incapacitate Attila's Skarmory and Hun's Steelix, forcing them to retreat. Later, she met Eugene at the Pokémon Center and soon became enamored with him. When Raikou fled from the Center, Eugene offered Marina and Jimmy a ride in his car so that they could follow it. Together with Jimmy and Vincent, she tried to keep Raikou away from Team Rocket, however, they were unsuccessful and both Marina and Raikou ended up in the shuttlecraft. There, she found a way to unlock the door of the cargo hold and free Raikou.

Marina was tied up when Attila and Hun returned to try to capture Raikou once again. She fell from the cliff she was on, but was rescued by Jimmy's Beedrill. When Raikou was trapped in the force field formed by the Miracle Crystal, Marina sent Little Miss to battle Attila and Hun's Pokémon along with Eugene's Alakazam. She later helped Jimmy and Vincent defend their Pokémon while they were trying to break the force field to free Raikou. Once the Thunder Pokémon got out of the field, Marina thanked it for coming back to save her. Having helped protect Raikou from Team Rocket and made a friend in it, Marina continued her journey to become a great Pokémon Trainer.

Marina in a magazine for a Pokétch

In the Advanced Generation series

In the intro of Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea, Marina was seen running by the coast with Lugia and her three Pokémon: Little Miss, Wani-Wani, and Pink.

In the Diamond & Pearl series

In Not on MY Watch Ya Don't!, Marina appeared on the cover of a magazine, modeling the Pokétch. This may imply her goal of becoming a Pokémon Idol has come true. Additionally, she made another cameo appearance in a video on Zoey's PC in A Stand-Up Sit-Down!, where she was seen in a Pokémon Contest delivering a Double Performance. Marian called her a Top Coordinator, meaning she has successfully collected five Ribbons and won the Grand Festival. Marina even appears to have her own merchandise; one of the customers to the Mountain Hut Maid Café in Tanks for the Memories! wore a T-shirt with her face on it.

Character

Marina loves cute Pokémon and nicknames. She also loves men in capes and has a whole notebook full of pictures of Lance. She tends to do synchronized movements with her Pokémon whenever she calls them out.

Her goal, unlike most other Trainers, is to be a Pokémon Idol. The specifics of being a Pokémon Idol are never made clear in the anime, but one aspect of it seems to entail putting on a show while battling. It should be noted that in Japanese pop culture, idols are media personalities admired for their cuteness. Therefore it is assumed that Marina's ambitions are somewhere along these lines, and she plans to use cute and talented Pokémon to help her become famous. Given that one of her cameos in the Diamond & Pearl series was as a magazine model, it is likely that real-life Japanese idols were the basis of her character design.

Marina first appeared before the concept of Pokémon coordinating was introduced, so Pokémon Idol is a different Trainer class. However, in recent appearances Marina was shown to become a Coordinator herself. She also entered the Silver Conference along with Jimmy a full year before Jackson.

Pokémon

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

Wani-Wani
Wani-Wani
Main article: Wani-Wani

Wani-Wani (Japanese: ワニワニ Wani-Wani), a Feraligatr, was Marina's starter Pokémon, obtained as a Totodile from Professor Elm on the same day that Vincent received his Chikorita and Jimmy received his Cyndaquil.

Debut The Legend of Thunder!
Voice actors
Japanese
English Jimmy Zoppi (As a Croconaw)
Little Miss
Little Miss
Main article: Little Miss

Little Miss (Japanese: ムウちゃん Mu-chan) is Marina's female Misdreavus. She seems to be one of her favorite Pokémon. She usually is kept outside of her Poké Ball.

Debut The Legend of Thunder!
Voice actors
Japanese Ryoka Yuzuki
English Kayzie Rogers
Pink
Pink
Marina used her Jigglypuff, Pink (Japanese: ピンクちゃん Pink-chan), to battle Jimmy's Beedrill in The Legend of Thunder!. It was last seen in Marina's cameo in A Stand-Up Sit-Down being used in a Double Performance with Wani-Wani.

While ordinary Jigglypuff are usually depicted as blue-eyed, Marina's Jigglypuff is green-eyed. The only time another green-eyed Jigglypuff appeared was in Rough, Tough Jigglypuff.

Pink's known moves are Sing and Psychic.

Debut The Legend of Thunder!
Voice actors
Japanese Yumi Tōma
English Rachael Lillis

Achievements

Badges obtained

This listing is of the Badges Marina has obtained:

Ribbons obtained

This listing is of the Ribbons Marina has obtained:

Pokémon competitions

Marina has competed in the following Pokémon competitions:

Artwork

Sugimori Marina anime.png Sugimori Marina Little Miss anime.png
Ken Sugimori's design of Marina for the anime. Ken Sugimori artwork from the Game Freak website.


Voice actors

Language Voice actor
Japanese 村井かずさ Kazusa Murai
English Kelly Davis
Italian Tosawi Piovani
Brazilian Portuguese Letícia Quinto
European Spanish María del Mar Jorcano


Trivia

Marina on a T-shirt
  • When Jackson (Vincent) appeared in the Silver Conference, he referred Marina and Jimmy as "Dani" and "Yoshi", leading many to believe that "Dani" was the official English name for Marina. Whether this was the original intention remains unknown. However, in The Legend of Thunder!, she is instead identified as Marina.
  • Even though the specifics of being a Pokémon Idol are never made clear in the anime, a Trainer class introduced in Generation IV is known as Pokémon Idols. One of them, after battle, states "A Pokémon idol follows their fans, while a Trainer follows their Pokémon".
  • All of Marina's known Pokémon have only been revealed to know two moves.

Names

Language Name Origin
Japanese マリナ Marina
English, Spanish, Italian Marina*
Dani*
Marina is from her Japanese name.
Chinese (Mandarin) 瑪莉娜 Mǎlìnà*
娜娜 Nànà*
瑪莉娜 is a transliteration of her Japanese name.
娜 () may be taken from the 'na' in her Japanese name.


Marina's Pokémon
On hand:
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