Ippei

Ippei イッペイ Ippeii
Ippei
Gender	Male
Hometown	Ninja Village
Region	Kalos
Relatives	Sanpei and Nihei (brothers)
Trainer class	Trainer
Anime debut	A Rush of Ninja Wisdom!
English voice actor	N/A
Japanese voice actor	Tatsuhisa Suzuki

Ippei (Japanese: イッペイ Ippei) is a recurring character in the Pokémon anime who first appeared in person in XY098.

History

Ippei and his brothers

He was mentioned in A Rush of Ninja Wisdom!, albeit only in a fantasy. He is the older brother of Sanpei and Nihei and hails from Ninja Village. Ippei is the strongest of the village and endowed with a huge sense of justice, as well as an extremely skillful ninja.

He made his first physical appearance in XY098, first appearing when Sanpei returns to his village accompanied by Ash and his friends.

After watching the Pokémon battle between Sanpei and Nihei, he made one analysis of the battle, commenting the mistakes that his younger brother took while. Later, Ippei and Nihei meet Sanpei, Ash and his friends in the temple to the village's heroes. He explains to Ash about the legends of the Pokémon that protected the village from time to time, and explains that his main objective to train his Froakie was that he was the main hero of legend.

When the attack on village begins, he sends Sanpei to protect the village elder, while he and Nihei join forces and face the ninja army after discovering that Hanzō was captured. After regroup, he joins Saizo, Shinobu, Nihei, Sanpei, Ash and the others, while Saizo tells the story of Kagetomo to Ash. After discovering the actual location of the village elder, they decide to go to the place where he is.

Ippei becomes the leader of Ninja Village

During the final battle, he personally faces Kagetomo. During the course of the battle, Hanzō sees that Ippei has what it takes to be the next head of the village. After a hard battle, Ippei wins and they capture the army of ninjas.

Finally, when the celebration takes place, Ippei is chosen the new head of the village. He gets the symbol from the hands of Hanzō, the proof of his new position.

He is seen again saying goodbye to Ash and his friends, and after that with Hanzō and the other ninjas when the elder is informed about the mysterious power of Ash's Greninja. He says that again, in the words of the legend, a Greninja again saved the village.

Pokémon

This listing is of Ippei's known Pokémon in the anime:

		Froakie → Frogadier → Greninja
		Greninja is Ippei's ninja partner. Together they are the strongest of Ninja Village. Greninja's known moves are Double Team, Water Shuriken, Night Slash, and Cut.
Debut	A Rush of Ninja Wisdom!

Voice actors

Trivia

• The names of Ippei, Nihei, and Sanpei are a play on the Japanese words for one, two, and three: "ichi" (一), "ni" (二) and "san" (三).

This article is part of Project COD, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each one-time character of the Pokémon anime.