Eusine

Eusine ミナキ Minaki
Eusine artwork from Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver
Gender	Male
Eye color	Blue
Hair color	Light brown
Hometown	Celadon City
Region	Kanto
Relatives	Unknown
Class	Mysticalman, former Gym Leader
Generation	II, IV
Games	Crystal, HeartGold, SoulSilver
First episode	For Ho-Oh the Bells Toll
English voice actor	Ed Paul Dan Green (The Legend of Thunder!)
Japanese voice actor	Shinji Kawada

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. He is the only character in the games to have the Trainer class Mysticalman (Japanese: なぞのせいねん Mysterious Man).

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, just north of the Pokémon Seer, after seeing Suicune escaping from the town, hoping that by battling the player he will earn Suicune's respect as a trainer. After Suicune has been captured, he returns to his hometown, Celadon City, and can be found in Celadon Pokémon Center waiting for the player to catch all three legendary beasts.

Eusine also appears in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, in which his storyline from Crystal is expanded. It is revealed in this game that he used to be a Gym Leader.

Pokémon

Pokémon Crystal

2500 Mysticalman Eusine Crystal Cianwood City

Drowzee ♂ Lv.23  Psychic  Held item: None Moves Hypnosis Psychic Dream Eater Psychic Confusion Psychic Disable Normal Haunter ♂ Lv.23  Ghost  Poison  Held item: None Moves Lick Ghost Hypnosis Psychic Mean Look Normal Curse ??? Electrode Lv.25  Electric  Held item: None Moves Screech Normal SonicBoom Normal Thunder Electric Rollout Rock

Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver

3240 Mysticalman Eusine HeartGold and SoulSilver Cianwood City

Drowzee ♂ Lv.25  Psychic  Held item: None Ability: Insomnia Moves Disable Normal Status Hypnosis Psychic Status Dream Eater Psychic Special Confusion Psychic Special Haunter ♂ Lv.25  Ghost  Poison  Held item: None Ability: Levitate Moves Mean Look Normal Status Lick Ghost Physical Hypnosis Psychic Status Curse ??? Status Electrode Lv.27  Electric  Held item: None Ability: Static Moves Thunder Electric Special Screech Normal Status SonicBoom Normal Special Rollout Rock Physical

In the anime

Eusine in the anime

In the anime, Eusine is voiced by 川田紳司 Shinji Kawada in Japanese and Ed Paul (initial appearance) and Dan Green (The Legend of Thunder!) in English.

In the anime episode For Ho-Oh the Bells Toll, he comes off as a proud and arrogant person with a slight superiority complex and exhibits a near-religious fervor for Suicune, challenging Ash for daring to say that he'd met the legendary beast. This may just be a form of jealousy on his part, for Ash had also seen Ho-Oh as well, while he has yet to encounter any himself. In the same episode, when he finally saw Suicune, he tried to capture it partially for ego gratification, ironically making him no better than the people who he's mentioned are unworthy for it. 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 Adventures manga

In Pokémon Adventures he is quite the showoff, especially towards women, performing flashy magic tricks and even giving out autographed pictures of himself. He flies around on a Jumpluff. He seems to be a close friend of Morty's, as the Gym Leader is helping him in the hunt for Suicune.

He is first seen being spoken of by Morty, who states that Eusine had him use his powers to try and find Suicune, to no avail. After Morty is defeated by Suicune he contacts Eusine, who goes off to catch it himself. During his hunt he runs into Crystal, who accidently shocks Arckee with his Electrode, proclaiming them rivals and disappears. He then visits and old couple and tricks them into giving him Moomoo Milk by "curing" their Miltank. However Crystal followed him and found out that Eusine really put a berry in its mouth and manipulated the nice couple, to which Eusine doesn't seem to care. They then encounter Suicune, which turns out to really just be a Ditto sent by Team Rocket to distract them. The two of them were able to let Suicune escape and Eusine defeated the Team Rocket Elite Trio.

Pokémon

Jumpluff

Haunter

Electrode

In the Golden Boys manga

Eusine is first seen coming to Cianwood Gym and trying to retrieve a 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

Eusine's Pikachu ended up in Gold's team after being sent to the past.

Trivia

• In The Legend of Thunder!, Eusine was mistakenly called "Eugene".
  • The retcon of his English name in The Legend of Thunder! caused some fans to believe that "Eusine" is actually a nickname or a surname, in similar fashion to Todd Snap. However, there is no confirmation for this.
• In the Israeli dub of The Legend of Thunder! special, Eusine was correctly named, just as in the original series, because the error was caught by the director of the series dub, Maya Bar Shalom.
• In his HeartGold and SoulSilver artwork, as well as in the anime, Eusine's clothes are colored purple, while his Crystal artwork depicts him with blue clothes.
  • His HeartGold and SoulSilver artwork also adds several diamond shaped patterns to his clothes, which resemble those seen on the body of Suicune.
• All of his Pokemon have had their levels increased by two since Gold/Silver/Crystal.

In other languages

External links

• Minaki's Profile on Pokeani (Japanese)

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