Cilan (anime)

Cilan is one of the Gym Leaders of Striaton City Gym. In addition to the Gym Leader duties, he is also a Pokémon Connoisseur and is capable of seeing the compatibility and closeness between Pokémon and their trainers. After his defeat, he decided to join Ash and Iris on their journey throughout the region of Unova. His two siblings, Chili and Cress are also Gym Leaders. His voice actor is Miyano Mamoru from the Kingdom Hearts series in the Japanese Dub. Cilan appears to have many talents and is not only a Gym Leader and a Connoissuer, but also a good detective, a brilliant fisherman and he cooks well. He also likes men.

Voice Actors

 * Japanese: Mamoru Miyano
 * English: Jason Griffith
 * Dutch: Ferry Doedens
 * Mandarin: Yu Zhengsheng
 * Finnish: Petrus Kahkonen
 * Brazilian Portuguese: Alex Minei
 * Spanish: Fernando Cabrera
 * Latin America Spanish: Bruno Coronel

Trivia

 * Cilan seems to be taking Brock's role as the know-it-all, chef, and comic relief character. He also has different eyes than everyone else like Brock does.
 * He is the fourth gym leader that travels with Ash in the anime. The other three are Misty, Brock, and Iris.
 * Brock and Cilan have some similarities, they are both gym leaders of the first gym in their region who eventually travel with Ash hoping to reach new heights in their dreams. They're both cooks. The only major difference is that Cilan doesn't flirt like Brock does with almost every female he meets. However, some girls actually take an interest in Cilan and his brothers, as seen in episodes 5 and 6 of Black and White, when the girls in the restaraunt stare at them dreamily and cheer them on during Ash's gym battle.
 * Cilan often uses the word taste for everything good or bad happens during a battle.
 * Cilan has multiple brothers like Brock, but they are grown up and appear to be fraternal triplets.
 * Cilan is the only male gym leader to specializeds in grass type Pokémon.
 * Cilan has beaten Trip although Ash couldn't.