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Eusine
ミナキ Minaki
[[File:HeartGold SoulSilver Eusine.png|{{{size}}}]]
Eusine artwork from Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver
Age 20 (est. by Pokeani)
Gender Male
Eye color Blue
Hair color Light brown
Hometown Celadon City
Region Kanto
Trainer class Mysticalman
Generation II, IV
Games Crystal, HeartGold, SoulSilver
Anime debut 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.

In the games

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Artwork from Pokémon Crystal

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.

Pre-release screenshots from CoroCoro magazine have revealed that Eusine will also appear in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, in which his storyline from Crystal will be expanded.

Pokémon

Pokémon Crystal

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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

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Alakazam

In the manga

In the Pokémon Special manga

In Pokémon Special he is quite the showoff, 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.

Pokémon

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Jumpluff
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Haunter
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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

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Hypno
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Haunter
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Electrode
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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 HG/SS artwork, as well as in the anime, Eusine's clothes are colored purple, while his Crystal artwork depicts him with blue clothes.

In other languages

Language Name Origin
Japanese ミナキ (Minaki)
English, French, Spanish Eusine Similar to Suicune.
English (LoT-only) Eugene Corruption of "Eusine"
German Eusin Corruption of "Eusine"
Italian Eugenius Apparently a corruption of "Eugene"
Korean 미나키 (Minaki) Hangulization of his Japanese name.
Chinese (Taiwan) 南其 Nánqí
Chinese (PRC) 米那君 Mǐnàjūn The first two characters are phonetic translation of his Japanese name,
while the third one comes from Suicune's Chinese name, 水君.
Chinese (Hong Kong) 米拿基 Mǐnájī Pure phonetic transliteration of his Japanese name.

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