James's parents

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James's parents
James's parents in the Diamond & Pearl series
Gender	Male (father) Female (mother)
Eye color	Green (father) Brown (mother)
Hair color	Gray (father) Purple (mother)
Hometown	Unknown
Region	Kanto
Relatives	Nanny and Pop-Pop (father's parents, mother's parents-in-law), James (son)
Animated debut	Holy Matrimony!
English voice actor	Marc Thompson (father) Megan Hollingshead (mother)
Japanese voice actor	Kiyoyuki Yanada (father) Mako Hyōdō (mother)

James's parents are two wealthy aristocrats who first appeared in Holy Matrimony!.

History

In the original series

James's parents in their debut

In Holy Matrimony!, they pretended to be dead as a trap to lure James back home and get him to marry Jessebelle, an arrangement he now fiercely opposed.

With James in the mansion, James's parents reveal their reasoning for capturing him: to marry and continue the family line. After grabbing him and taking him to the basement, James's parents appear and tell him that he needs to be taught a lesson for running away from home, as well as tell Jessie and Meowth that they have been aware of them the entire time and only pretended to not notice.

After James and Ash's Pokémon defeat Jessebelle's Vileplume. Jessebelle flees the mansion, while on the run Jessebelle knocks James's parents, Hopkins, and Vileplume into a pond while running away, proclaiming how much she hates Growlie, leaving them convinced that she's too good for their son.

James's parents have been occasionally mentioned since their debut appearance: James, along with Jessie and Meowth, sometimes visits one of his parents' many vacation homes if the trio are in the area.

In Sweet Baby James, it is revealed that James's parents are traveling the world.

In the Diamond & Pearl series

Young James with his parents

They reappeared in James's flashback in The Treasure Is All Mine!, where it is revealed that they arranged James to marry Jessebelle after he seemed to show some interest in her while they were children. Unfortunately the two parents fail to realize (or perhaps, choose to ignore) the fact that James is now completely evasive of her, and thus still fully expect him to marry her.

In the XY series

James's Mother is set to reappear in XY084.

Characters

Family portrait

From their single appearance in addition to James's occasional recounts of his childhood, they are shown to be rather insensitively oblivious to James's personal feelings.

They frequently forced him into things he didn't care about at all while he was growing up, such as endless lessons in upper-class activities and aristocratic mannerisms. They also appointed him a fiancée that he to this day tries to stay as far away as possible from. For the most part, it seems that they only hold interest in having James do what they think is best for him and appear to far favor Jessebelle, whom they view to be their idea of a "perfect daughter-in-law".

Pokémon

Pet

Growlithe

Debut	Holy Matrimony
Voice actors
Japanese	Mitsuru Ogata
English	Tom Wayland

Main article: James's Growlithe

As a child, Growlie was James's only friend on his parents' estate. The two were inseparable, and Growlie often comforted James whenever he had problems; especially with his parents and arranged fiancé, Jessebelle. Before he left in Holy Matrimony!, he told Growlie to stay behind and watch after his parents, which greatly saddened the Puppy Pokémon.

Magikarp (x3)

Debut	Holy Matrimony
Voice actors
Japanese	Unshō Ishizuka
English	Maddie Blaustein

James's father is seen feeding these Magikarp before Jessebelle run and bump him and James's mother throwing them in the river..

Voice actors

Language Voice actor Japanese James's father: 梁田清之 Kiyoyuki Yanada James's mother: 兵藤まこ Mako Hyōdō English James's father: Adam Blaustein (EP048) / Marc Thompson (DP153) James's mother: Megan Hollingshead (EP048) / Eileen Stevens (DP153) Finnish James's father: Pasi Ruohonen (EP048) James's mother: Jenni Sivonen (EP048) Norwegian James's father: Trond Teigen (EP048) / Tommy Karlsen (DP153) James's mother: Katrine Blomstrand (EP048) / Lena Meieran (DP153) Polish James's father: Janusz Rymkiewicz (EP048) / Wojciech Machnicki (DP153) James's mother: Magda Ostolska (EP048) / Katarzyna Łaska (DP153) Brazilian Portuguese James's father: Daoiz Cabezudo (EP048) James's mother: Denise Reis (EP048) Spanish Latin America James's father: Jorge Santos James's mother: Diana Santos Spain James's father: Juan Antonio Arroyo (EP048) / Eduardo del Hoyo (DP153) James's mother: Mari Luz Olier (EP048) / Amparo Valencia (DP153)

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