Kazunari

This article is about a character featured in the Pokémon anime who has not yet debuted in the American dub. As such, their information may contain romanized Japanese names, rather than dub names.

Kazunari カズナリ Kazunari
Kazunari
Gender	Male
Eye color	Black
Hair color	Green
Hometown	Unknown
Region	Johto
Relatives	Unnamed father
Class	Breeder
First episode	DP143
English voice actor	N/A
Japanese voice actor	Kenji Nojima

(Japanese: カズナリ Kazunari) is a Trainer from Johto as well as a friend of Kotone's. They both debuted in DP143.

Kazunari traveled to Sinnoh with Kotone and his father where they all took part in the Johto Festa. He wanted to visit Sinnoh so that he could observe and hopefully catch the native Pokémon. He was also interested in learning about Pokémon breeding and asked if Brock would mentor him.

Kazunari can be described as a bit of a klutz and tends to panic very easily. But he is always very excited to meet a new Pokémon. In DP145, after encountering a wild Gible Kazunari became determined to capture it, which he eventually did after a closely-fought competition with Ash who had the same goal.

In DP147, he had a tag battle with Kotone against Ash and Dawn. Despite his Totodile evolving into Croconaw during the match, he and Kotone eventually lost. At the end, Kazunari, his father, and Kotone left on a blimp headed to Johto and said their good-byes. Kazunari had also agreed to become Kotone's traveling buddy, upon her request.

Pokémon

This is a listing of Kazunari's known Pokémon:

Croconaw

Kazunari's Croconaw first appeared as a Totodile in DP143. When Kazunari introduced it to Ash and his friends it was feeling depressed and was off its food, however some of Brock's specially made Pokémon food soon helped it cheer up. Later Totodile was used to used to help track down a wild Gible that was attacking people near a Pokémon Center. After getting into a scuffle with Buizel, Kazunari was eventually able to track it down and Totodile was able to match moves with Gible, wearing it down allowing Kazunari to capture it. In DP147 Totodile was used in the tag battle alongside Kotone's Chikorita against Ash's Monferno and Dawn's Cyndaquil. In the heat of battle, Totodile evolved into a Croconaw. Despite the type-advantage it had over its opponents, Croconaw was unable to stand up to Monferno's Mach Punch and was defeated. Croconaw's known attacks are Water Gun, Aqua Tail, Crunch, Superpower and Hydro Pump.

Gible
	Gible appeared in DP145 when it was causing trouble and knocking out all the other Pokémon. After getting into battles with Ash, Dawn, Kotone and Kazunari's Pokémon Gible was eventually cornered by Kazunari who used his Totodile against it. After a battle between the Pokémon, Gible was eventually worn down and captured by Kazunari. Afterwards, Gible was seen happily eating with the other Pokémon. Gible's known attacks are Dig, Sandstorm, Strength and Rock Smash.

Trivia

• He shares his Japanese voice actor with Jimmy, Gold's anime counterpart. Not only is Gold himself the male counterpart of Kazunari's traveling buddy's Kotone, but Jimmy himself is also in frequent contact with (and some argue a couple with) Marina, Kotone's predecessor Kris's anime counterpart.

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