Serena (anime)

Serena is a Pokémon trainer of the Kalos region and one of Ash's traveling companions. She is also one of his childhood friends and is his romantic love interest.

Biography
Despite the fact that Serena is Ash's newest female companion and has just started her journey, she met him when they were younger back in Pallet Town years ago and have been together as childhood friends a long time before he started his journey. Her main color is pink.

Appearence
Serena marks a return to basing Ash's female companion off of that generation's female player character. However, Serena is also the first to have undergone minor cosmetic changes for the transition to the anime, whereas May and Dawn remained the same. Among the cosmetic changes are:
 * The hair is a much darker shade, and seems slightly shorter.
 * Shirt collar is white instead of black.
 * The sunglasses on the hat and the bracelet on her left wrist are absent.
 * Her eyes are blue despite the fact that her hair is not blonde like her game counterpart, where they should be grey, matching her current hair color.
 * The bow that's on her hat is not on her game counterpart.
 * She wears shoes unlike her game counterpart, which wears sneakers, however they are in the same design.
 * She also does not have her purse that her game counterpart does.

Pokémon
It has been revealed that she chose Fennekin as her starter Pokémon.

Trivia

 * Serena is Ash's first companion to have known him personally before the very start of the series.
 * She is also the second of Ash's companions to have a Fire-type starter. The first one is May.
 * Serena is the third of Ash's female companions to be based on the female player character in her debut generation, the first two being May and Dawn. However, Serena is the fourth female companion to have a charater equivalent in the games at all, as Misty exists in the games and was the first female traveling companion of Ash's.
 * Serena does not sport sunglasses like her game counterpart.
 * Serena is hinted to have a childhood crush on Ash as well, playing as a romantic love interest. This will make Serena the second female traveling companion of Ash's to harbor romantic feelings for him, as Misty (allegedly) held feelings for him as well.
 * Like Dawn, Serena is the second of the female traveling companions that isn't a Gym Leader, related to one, or to be one in the future. Misty is related to her three older sisters who were the former Gym Leaders of the Cerulean City Gym, until JE157: Gotta Catch Ya Later, when she had to become the Gym Leader when her sisters set out on a trip around the world. May is the daughter of Norman, who is the Gym Leader of the Petalburg City Gym. Iris was hinted, soon revealed to become the successor to Drayden of the Opelucid City Gym.
 * Serena is also the third traveling female companion to sport head gear. May and Dawn were the first two.
 * Like Iris and Bonnie, she is also one of the female traveling companions in the series that doesn't have a bike at the beginning of the series. Misty, May and Dawn each owned a bike before Pikachu destroyed them (accidentally). Misty got hers back at the end of the Original series.