Jessie

Jessie ムサシ Musashi
[[File:|{{{size}}}]] Art from the TCG
Age	25 (est. by Pokeani)
Gender	Female
Eye color	Blue
Hair color	Purple
Hometown	Unknown
Region	Kanto
Relatives	Miyamoto (mother)
Trainer class	Agent, Coordinator
Generation	I
Games	Yellow
Member of	Team Rocket
Rank	Agent
Partner	James
Anime debut	Pokémon Emergency!
English voice actor	Rachael Lillis (Template:4Kids) Michele Knotz (TPCi)
Japanese voice actor	Megumi Hayashibara Akiko Hiramatsu (temp.)

Jessie (Japanese: ムサシ Musashi) is one half of of the Team Rocket duo that follows around Ash Ketchum and friends in the Pokémon anime, usually trying to steal Ash's Pikachu, but always failing. Her Japanese voice actresses are 林原めぐみ Megumi Hayashibara (EP002-AG084, AG093-present) and Akiko Hiramatsu (AG085-AG092). Her English voice actresses are Rachael Lillis (Template:4Kids dub) and Michele Knotz (TPCi dub). She is voiced by Isabel Cristina de Sá in the Brazilian Portuguese dub, Sandra de Castro and Teresa Madruga in the European Portuguese dub and by Diana Pérez in Latin-American Spanish dub.

In the anime

Character

Jessie's mother, Miyamoto, was a high-ranking Team Rocket agent. When Jessie was around the age of three, Miyamoto left on a mission to the Andes Mountains to record the voice of the elusive Pokémon Mew. However, Miyamoto disappeared, and Jessie was put into a foster home which had very little money. There were times when she had no choice but to eat snow because of a lack of more nourishing food.

When she was old enough, she left home to become a Pokémon nurse in Johto. However, the school she was enrolled in was literally for Pokémon nurses (i.e. Chansey), so she failed to graduate and left, leaving behind a Chansey she had befriended there. It is assumed that she then traveled back to Kanto, where she enrolled in Pokémon Tech, a trainer's school, met James, and subsequently failed and dropped out. After this, Jessie and James joined a bicycle gang in Sunny Town, where Jessie was known for swinging a chain above her head as she rode her bike (nicknamed "Chainer Jess").

Due to conflicts in canon between Kanto and Johto episodes and the special episode Training Daze, what happened between Jessie and James after the bike gang is unknown. What is known, as shown in the special episode, is that they joined Team Rocket separately and were on initially unfriendly terms after being grouped with Meowth. However, they quickly made up and the rest is history.

Sometime before joining Team Rocket, and it is not known when, Jessie obtained a Contest Pass in the Hoenn region. Also during the years before Team Rocket, she had several boyfriends, all of whom left her and/or treated her badly. In Xatu the Future, she revealed that she had once worked at a T.V. station as the Weathergirl.

She has a long-standing bitter rivalry with Cassidy, another member of Team Rocket. Another member, Wendy, held a grudge against Jessie for failing to pay for a drink (making Wendy pay), but got her revenge when she added the charge to Jessie's overall Team Rocket bill.

In the episode Ignorance is Blissey, Jessie was reunited with her friend Chansey from the Pokémon nurse school; Chansey had since evolved into a Blissey.

Starting in Hoenn, Jessie has become a Pokémon Coordinator, entering every contest that she could. She frequently makes it to the battle round, but usually loses there. However, in Borrowing on Bad Faith, she finally succeeded in winning an (unofficial) contest by using Ash's Aipom, which she had saved earlier in the episode. And, in Team Shocker!, she finally wins an official contest with her Dustox in at Solaceon City. She has Contest Passes to compete in the Hoenn, Kanto, and Sinnoh regions.

While Jessie's role in the Pokémon anime has not yet ended, in Toshihiro Ono's manga, The Electric Tale of Pikachu, she ended up married to James and with child.

The belief, hope, or theory that Jessie and James will become a romantic couple in the Pokémon anime is RocketShipping.

Jessie seems to have a special preference for snake-like Pokémon, owning both an Arbok and a Seviper. In The Ninja Poké Showdown, she expressed a preference for Template:Type2 Pokémon in general.

For unknown reasons, she, James and Meowth mostly use hot air balloons instead of faster ways of transportation.

In the Kanto contests, Jessie disguises herself as Jessebella (which is similar to James former fiancee Jessiebelle) wearing a red dress and glasses. Eventually, Ash, Brock, Max and May finds out her true identity at the last contest.

During the Kanto Grand Festival, Jessie dresses up as Jessalina (Japanese: キャンディ・ムサリーナ Candy Musalina). and wears glasses, long white socks, a yellow and orange dress, and has her hair in pigtails. She works there as an announcer and Lilian Meridian's assistant; Lilian herself says she may not really like "Jessalina"'s style, but recognizes her talent. In the Latin American dub, she enters Super Contests under the name Jessiebella (referencing Jessiebelle again). Jessie currently still continues to use the Jessalina disguise while participating in Super Contests.

Pokémon

Travels with

Meowth

On hand

→ Yanma → Yanmega

Seviper

Wobbuffet

Released

→ Ekans → Arbok		Magikarp	Shellder
→ → File:Jessie's Dustox sprite.png Wurmple → Cascoon → Dustox

Traded away

Lickitung (To Benny)

Borrowed

Weezing	Cacnea	Chimecho	Mime Jr.
Carnivine	Cacturne	Banette	File:190f.png Aipom

• Weezing - From James in Princess Versus Princess.
• James's other Pokémon - For various Pokémon Contests.
• Cacturne and Banette - From Harley in New Plot, Old Lot and Going For Choke.
• Aipom - From Ash for an unoffical contest in Borrowing On Bad Faith

Befriended

Temporary

Hitmonlee	Charizard	Blastoise	Charizard
Croagunk	Smoochum	Hippowdon	Magikarp

• Hitmonlee - Stolen from Giant in order to participate in the P1 Grand Prix in The Punchy Pokémon.
• Charizard and Blastoise - Used in One Trick Phony!. They belonged to a Battle Park and the team had them taken away shortly before being blasted off.
• Charizard - TRDelibird ([[{{{2}}} (move)|{{{2}}}]]) delivered a Charizard to Jessie by mistake in Grating Spaces. At the end of the episode, Delibird returned to take it back, as it was intended for Cassidy.
• Croagunk - Battled with in Gymbaliar, though she never actually captured it. It was later abandoned and captured by Brock.
• Smoochum - Trained during DP088.
• Hippowdon and Magikarp - Used in the Pokémon triathlon in DP091.

Status unknown

Starmie

• Jessie was seen riding a Starmie in a flashback in From Cradle To Save.

Achievements

As a member of Team Rocket, she hasn't accomplished much. She often makes it to the Battle Round of contests, only to lose to May, Dawn, or one of their rivals. However, she has still had a couple of successes:

• Unofficial contest in Borrowing on Bad Faith. (Winner)
• Solaceon Town Contest in Team Shocker. (Winner)

In the games

Pokémon Yellow

Both Jessie and James appear in Pokémon Yellow as in-game bosses. They first attack the main character in Mt. Moon, while trying to take one of the rare fossils uncovered there.

Later, in Celadon City's Rocket Game Corner, Jessie and James guard Giovanni's room in the Team Rocket base. During that time, as the player runs into them, they are eager for revenge after the main character busted up their plans at Mt. Moon.

They hold Mr. Fuji hostage at Pokémon Tower. They attack the main character on the seventh floor.

Finally, at Silph Co. in Saffron City, Jessie and James make their final appearance, once again trying to stall the main character from reaching their Boss.

Unlike in the anime, Jessie and James do not follow the main character around and come up with their usual evil plans to capture Pikachu.

First battle

• Level 14 Ekans
• Level 14 Meowth
• Level 14 Koffing

Second battle

• Level 25 Koffing
• Level 25 Meowth
• Level 25 Ekans

Third battle

• Level 27 Weezing
• Level 27 Arbok
• Level 27 Meowth

Fourth battle

• Level 31 Weezing
• Level 31 Arbok
• Level 31 Meowth

Pokémon Puzzle League

Along with many other anime characters, both Jessie and James appeared in Pokémon Puzzle League.

In the TCG

Jessie and James appear on both versions of the card Here Comes Team Rocket!, which originally released in the Team Rocket set; it was re-released with different artwork in EX Team Rocket Returns. In that expansion, there was also a preconstructed Theme Deck based on Jessie.

In the manga

Jessie and James both made an appearance in Electric Tale of Pikachu, which was based off of the anime.

In it, the two eventually ended up as a couple.

Trivia

• Both Jessie and James have used a Charizard at separate times. They used a third one together as well. None of the three remained in their care, however.

Name origin

Jessie's English name is taken from Jesse James, an American outlaw. Her Japanese name, Musashi, is taken from 宮本武蔵 Miyamoto Musashi, a famous Japanese swordsman. In his most famous duel, he defeated his rival, 佐々木小次郎 Sasaki Kojirō, after whom James got his Japanese name.

She is based on a combination of Takeshi Shudō's old girlfriend from when he was in school and the female antagonist of the Time Bokan anime series.

Related articles

• Episodes focusing on Team Rocket
  • Episodes focusing on Jessie

External links

• Vanity, the fanlisting for Jessie
• Musashi's Profile on Pokeani (Japanese)
• Musashi's Pokémon on Pokeani (Japanese)

Team Rocket's Pokémon
Travel with:	Meowth	Rotom Phone
	Jessie			James
On hand:	Wobbuffet	Seviper	Yanmega	Mime Jr.	Carnivine	Yamask
	Woobat	Frillish	Gourgeist	Amoonguss	Inkay	Morpeko
In training:				Cacnea
At home:				Growlie	Chimecho
Released:	Arbok	Dustox	Mimikyu	Weezing	Gyarados	Mareanie
Traded away:	Lickitung			Victreebel
Lived with (all three):	Bewear	Stufful
Worked with (all three):	Delibird	Pelipper
Temporarily owned:	Porygon Zero	Shellder	Magikarp	Hoppip	Second Victreebel
	Mawile
Befriended:	Blissey
Status unknown:	Starmie			Pidgey	Numel
For a list of other Pokémon Team Rocket has commanded, see here and here