He wanted a starter Pok&eacute;mon from Hoenn like Torchic because they were &quot;special&quot;, or a Pikachu like Ash Ketchum, who he seemed to have heard good things about. At the beginning of the episode, he didn&#039;t really understand the point in having Pok&eacute;mon other than for protection. He didn&#039;t want the hassle of raising them and was quite spoiled and selfish, making lots of demands for evolved and rare Pok&eacute;mon like Raichu.    However, while accompanying Professor Oak and the others during the episode trying to recapture the escaped baby Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle, he begins to learn a lot about the feelings of Pok&eacute;mon and grows to understand them. Gilbert eventually chose the Bulbasaur he&#039;d helped save from a group of Primeape after he was impressed by the strength of Ash&#039;s Bulbasaur at driving them back with a SolarBeam. 

Episodes of the Pocket Monsters anime which occasionally aired instead of a rerun from the main anime series as part of the Weekly Pokémon Broadcasting Station in Japan. They aired concurrently with Pocket Monsters Advanced from December 3, 2002 to September 28, 2004 in Japan. Outside of Japan, these episodes were only dubbed in the West as part of Pokémon Chronicles. 
(Source: Bulbapedia) 
Note: The Japanese version comprised 16 episodes while the U.S. version comprised 22 episodes; this page represents the Japanese version. The 6 additional episodes in the U.S. version were taken from previous movies and specials. Episodes 1, 2, and 3 are from Pokémon: The Legend of Thunder!, Episodes 4 and 20 are from Pokémon: Pikachu's Winter Vacation (2001), and Episode 22 is from Pokémon: Pikachu's Winter Vacation

__Birth Name:__ Noriko Nagai (永井範子)
__Height:__ 157 cm

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A Japanese actress, voice actress, singer and narrator. She played Minami Asakura in Touch, Akane Tendo in Ranma ½, Satsuki Kusakabe in My Neighbor Totoro, Near in Death Note, Seta Sōjirō in Rurouni Kenshin, Jean Roque Raltique in Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water and Kikyo in Inuyasha. She is also the dub actress for Jayma Mays in the American TV series Glee, as well as in The Smurfs film series. 

__Non-Anime Roles:__

- Mysterious Voice - Metaphor: ReFantazio (VG)

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An American actor and voice actor who has worked on several animated TV series, and was the voice of SEGA mascot Sonic the Hedgehog, as well as Shadow the Hedgehog and Jet the Hawk, in the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series, where he is credited as Jason Griffith, before the role was passed to Roger Craig Smith. 

(Source: Wikipedia)

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Yuri Chessman da Costa Bomfim, better known as Yuri Chesman, is a Brazilian actor, voice actor and dubbing director, he is also the son of voice actor [Renato Márcio](https://anilist.co/staff/199776/).

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