May (anime)

May ('ハルカ Haruka) is a young Pokémon Coordinator currently traveling through various regions and competing in Pokémon contests. She started her journey traveling through the Hoenn region accompanying Ash and Brock along with her brother Max. She appears in a few episodes of Pokemon Diamond and Pearl: Battle Dimension, where she travelled to Sinnoh to enter the Wallace Cup.

Biography
May is a Pokémon coordinator from Petalburg City and is the daughter of the Petalburg City Gym Leader, Norman, and sister of Max. She meets Ash Ketchum in Hoenn and starts traveling with him after obtaining her first Pokémon, Torchic. She originally disliked Pokémon, but soon takes interest in Pokémon Contests. She soon develops rivalries with other contest participants, Drew, Harley, and Jessie of Team Rocket, and goes on to win many contests. She is in 4 pokemon movies. She picked Torchic as her fist pokemon and Squirtle as her first Kanto pokemon.

While Ash and Brock chose to travel to Sinnoh, May decides to follow her rivals to Johto. However, she meets up with Ash, Brock, and Dawn in Sinnoh, wearing a green bandanna like the character Pokémon Emerald, then sometime later to participate in the Wallace Cup. After narrowly losing to Dawn in the Wallace Cup Finals, she leaves the group to continue her journey in Johto. In many episodes it is shown that she may have feelings for Drew, once jumping of a cliff to save him from drowning.

May have an unique taste for food. She loves to taste many different type of food. If food is taken away or stolen, she may exploded in rage.

Voice Actresses

 * Veronica Taylor (4Kids)
 * Michelle Knotz (PUSA/TAJ)
 * Midori Kawana (Japanese)