Drew

Drew シュウ Shū
Drew
Age	10 (est. by Pokeani)
Gender	Male
Eye color	Green
Hair color	Green
Hometown	LaRousse City
Region	Hoenn
Relatives	Unknown
Class	Coordinator
First episode	Now That's Flower Power
English voice actor	Pete Zarustica (4Kids) Bill Rogers (PUSA)
Japanese voice actor	Mitsuki Saiga

Drew (Japanese: シュウ Shū) is a Pokémon Coordinator from LaRousse City and May's greatest rival.

History

Drew made his debut appearance in Now that's Flower Power!. Like Ash's main rival, Gary, Drew is portrayed as being confident, critical, and popular among his supporters, though generally not as overly insulting as Gary initially was.

When Drew had participated in his very first contest, he had lost badly to a strong coordinator named Solidad. He said the loss was so heart-breaking for him it had even made him cry. Though he had suffered a defeat in his first contest, he endeavored to become a better coordinator and has succeeded to a good extent. He used to be very prone to nervousness when he started his career as a coordinator.

He used to taunt May when he first met her because she used to be like him when he first started out. Even though his comments and attitude may have angered May, he still provides a helping hand whenever she needs it. Drew’s skills have been a continuing inspiration for May to better herself as a coordinator.

When Drew participated at the Slateport City Contest in Win, Lose or Drew!, he and his Roselia defeated May and her Beautifly, but went on to lose to Robert and his Milotic. Drew shows up again in Pros and Con Artists for the Fallarbor Town Contest. During the contest, however, he loses to Grace and her Medicham. Following the contest, Drew congratulates the winner, May, by giving her a rose. The gesture (which is repeated in later encounters) is seen by some fans to be a hint towards a romantic relationship between the two but no direct hints have been shown.

Notably, Drew made it to the finals of the Hoenn Grand Festival in Rhapsody in Drew by beating May in the semi-finals. However, he lost in the finals to Robert, who also beat him in the Slateport City contest, and was placed second.

Afterwards he decided to go for the Contests in the Kanto region along with May and their other rival, Harley. In May, We Harley Drew'd Ya!, he was reunited with his old rival and friend Solidad, who had defeated him a long time ago. During the Kanto Grand Festival, he lost to May in the semi-finals who was placed in the Top 4.

In The Unbeatable Lightness of Seeing, he said he would be traveling to Johto to participate in the contests in that region. He has the Contest Passes to compete in Hoenn, Kanto and Johto. He made a cameo appearance in Pruning a Passel of Pals! watching May perform at the Wallace Cup along with Harley and Solidad.

Pokémon

This listing is of Drew's known Pokémon:

→ Roselia → Roserade		Masquerain
Flygon	Absol	Butterfree

Roserade

As a Roselia

Main article: Drew's Roserade

Roserade is Drew's main Pokémon. It first appeared as a Roselia in Now That's Flower Power!. As revealed in A Full Course Tag Battle!, it evolved into Roserade while accompanying Drew to Johto.

Masquerain

Drew's Masquerain

Masquerain made its debut in A Fan with a Plan. May, while training with her Bulbasaur, stumbled across Drew training his Pokémon. He later used it in the Rubello Town Pokémon Contest. With its help, he won that contest's ribbon. It also appeared in the Hoenn Grand Festival appeal stage. Its Bubble and Silver Wind impressed the crowd, and allowing Drew to move on to the final stages of the contest.

Its Japanese voice actress is Tomoe Hanba and its English voice actress is Michele Knotz (PUSA dub).

Flygon

Drew's Flygon

Flygon debuted in Rhapsody in Drew. When May was facing Drew in the Hoenn Grand Festival, he sent out Flygon to battle her Combusken and Skitty. She was surprised to see it, and Drew revealed that he caught it specifically for the Grand Festival. Along with his Roselia, he defeated May. Drew also used Flygon in On Cloud Arcanine to try and capture an Arcanine. Flygon was also used in the Kanto Grand Festival, along with Absol, where it battled May's Combusken and Squirtle. Flygon ended up losing to Squirtle after a tough battle.

Its voice actor in both Japanese and the 4Kids dub is 三木眞一郎 Shin'ichirō Miki, and its English voice actor in the PUSA dub is Bill Rogers.

Absol

Drew and Absol

Absol made its debut in May, We Harley Drew'd Ya!. Drew used it in his Appeal Round. Even though it made it through to the next round, Drew was still disappointed in it. Later May saw Drew yelling at Absol. It was because it was afraid to use its Razor Wind attack because it thought Drew would get hurt. Angered, May confronted him. Drew explained that he didn't feel that Absol was as dedicated to him as his other Pokémon were. After a talk with Ash later that night, Drew decided to use Absol in the contest alongside his Flygon in the double battle round. Later, they were to fight May and her Combusken and Squirtle. After a harsh battle, Absol and Combusken were left to fight alone. However, Combusken had more points than Absol when the time ran out and May moved on to the finals.

Its Japanese voice actress is 林原めぐみ Megumi Hayashibara and its English voice actor is Eric Stuart (provided by 4Kids stock clips).

Butterfree

Butterfree using Psybeam

Even though it was only recently caught, it was shown to be already very powerful. It debuted in The Unbeatable Lightness of Seeing. It was used in a double battle alongside his Roselia against May's Combusken and her Beautifly. Drew managed to defeat May.

Its voice actress in both Japanese and English is Tomoe Hanba.

Ribbons

Hoenn

• Rubello Town Ribbon (Cruisin' for a Losin')

He has also won 4 other ribbons.

Kanto

He has also won at least 5 Kanto ribbons.

Grand Festival Ranking

• Hoenn Grand Festival (Top 2)
• Kanto Grand Festival (Top 8)

Trivia

• Drew might be loosely based of Wally because of the green hair. Wally in Pokémon Special also has two Pokémon Drew has/had; Flygon and Roselia. Also, Drew is the main rival to May as Wally is to May/Brendan in Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald.
• Except for his Masquerain, all of Drew's Pokémon have the same name in English as in Japanese.
• Drew is the first regular character to be from a movie only location.

Names

Voice actors

• Japanese
  • 斎賀みつき Mitsuki Saiga
• English
  • Pete Zarustica (4Kids dub)
  • Bill Rogers (PUSA dub)
• Brazilian
  • Vagner Fagundes (AG033-AG035)
  • Thiago Longo (AG050-present)
• Spanish
  • Irwin Daayán (Latin-American)
  • Juan Antonio Soler (Spain)
  • Álvaro Navarro (Spain; AG174-present)

External links

• Top Coordinator, the fanlisting for Drew
• Shū's Profile on Pokeani (Japanese)
• Shū's Pokémon on Pokeani (Japanese)