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 by Ash, 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 and Jason Griffith from Pokémon and Sonic X in the English 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, a trains expert and he cooks well. He is very good in battling. He also helped his brother Chili find his own Battle style.

Voice Actors

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

Trivia

 * 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, Chili and Cress 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 has multiple brothers like Brock, but they are grown up and appear to be fraternal triplets.
 * Cilan is the only male gym leader to specialize in Grass type Pokémon.
 * It is revealed in BW046 that Cilan has a fear of Purrloin, when he states that one of them did something terrible to him to which he refuses to talk about as he doesn't want to remember it. His fear is also shown in the beginning of Pokémon Movie 14.