Ash's Pikachu: Boy or Girl?

Do you think Ash's Pikachu is male or female?

  • I think Pikachu is Male.

    Votes: 43 86.0%

  • I think Pikachu is Female.

    Votes: 6 12.0%

  • I don't think it has a gender. (Ew >.>)

    Votes: 1 2.0%
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    50
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Pancakeman

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    Is Ash's Pikachu male of female? What do you think? I personally think its a girl because I found an Action Replay code to get Ash's Pikachu in your Diamond or Pearl and it was a girl. This is only my opinion.
     
    Oh.. this neverending queston. I will, however, put an abrupt end to it:

    Dawn's Buneary has a crush on Ash's Pikachu. In dp 39, Buneary and Aipom wore dresses and Dawn said: You girls are so cute!. This means that Buneary = Girl and Pikachu = Male.

    EOD.
     
    Ash's Pikachu IS a Boy, in the first episode when Oak introduces Ash to Pikachu he says and i quote "HIS name is Pikachu".

    Also you can't base your choice on a HACK, thats just stupid.
     
    Yeah, I'm going for the boy vote.

    Mostly because of the Bunery Thing

    =]
     
    Hydross said:
    Oh.. this neverending queston. I will, however, put an abrupt end to it:

    Dawn's Buneary has a crush on Ash's Pikachu. In dp 39, Buneary and Aipom wore dresses and Dawn said: You girls are so cute!. This means that Buneary = Girl and Pikachu = Male.

    EOD.
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    Uh, firstly, Buneary being female was a dub-only thing. This means dragging Buneary into this won't help much. However, the visual evidence is there already. Now we need the Japanese confirmation (yes someone must confirm it in the Japanese version).

    Secondly, I think Pikachu is male, yet there isn't concrete proof to actually prove Pikachu is indeed male. I'm still leaning towards male, until the Japanese version decides to prove me wrong and go the other way.
     
    Not...here...too...

    Its pretty obvious its a male. It worn tuxedos in the past (I'm sure) and Buneary acts like a female, wears dresses, does cheerleading stuff. Lots of sterotypical girls stuff.
     
    It's so simple that Pikachu is a Boy since from D&P of this Love thing between Buneary and Pikachu so I think this question of Pikachu a Boy or Girl is done of this Thread.
     
    Yeah like said above. Pikachu is a boy. Buneary in the anime wore those dresses and cheerleader outfits.

    unless it is a homosexual relationship xD -shot'd-
     
    But before D/P, all Pikachu had the same tail, whether it was male or female.
    In the case of Ash's Pikachu, although there is nothing solid proving it, it is most like ly male. Why? In the anime, most starter Pokemon appear to be the same gender as their trainer by means of a similar personality. Although this can not be completely relied on, it gives a glimer of evidence. The show's writers wouldn't make homosexual relationships in a show that is directed towards small children, which gives proff that in the dubbed version of the show, Pikachu is a boy. As stated above, we need confirmation by the Japanese anime to know for sure. My vote shall be postponed until I have supporting details. I am leaning on male however.
     
    It's kind of obvious it's a boy. I don't have that much proof but like spike6958, Oak said "his name is pikachu."
     
    Ok... It is definitely a boy.

    First off, It doesn't have the heart-shaped tail.

    And before anyone mentions it, Yes, I know that it was only recently released in Gen IV. But that doesn't really mean anything.

    Way back in EP006, Ash, Misty, Brock, and Pikachu visited Mt. Moon, and encountered the clefairy and clefable.

    then later, in AG135 (aka, EP 411), A real Cleffa-hanger, they briefly revisited Mt. Moon, and saw the clefairy and clefable, as well as the newest member of the Clef family, cleffa. Now, encountering a pokemon that wasn't there the previous time they visited would have had Ash, Misty, Brock, and Pikachu acting surprised that they were even there, right? well, that isn't what happened. If anything, they have acted like the Cleffa were always at Mt. Moon and they had seen them before despite it being their first time seeing them at Mt. Moon. Now with May and Max, it's understandable, since this was their first time in the region (much less Mt. Moon), but with Ash, Misty, and Brock, there was no excuse.

    anyways, my point with that paragraph was that if they were able to completely screw over continuity and act as though it has always been in the series, they can most certainly act as though the "Heart shaped tailed female pikachu" has always existed.

    Besides, Though not directly stated in the games, It was implied in DP that The heart tailed variety exists in all regions due to the fact that if you capture a female pikachu In Kanto, or Hoenn and transfer it to Sinnoh's Pal Park it ends up having the same identifying mark as a Sinnoh pikachu.

    2. The buneary factor.

    well, the dub has at least confirmed that Dawn's Buneary is female, but we still have to wait for the Japanese to confirm it, or did they already confirm it?

    Actually they did. See, according to a little birdie on serebiiforums, Dawn's Japanese character bio page on the official site claimed that Buneary is a female. now, I cannot verify if it is true, all I have is this source's word.

    anyways, that is all for now.
     
    Didn't he say,"IT'S name is Pikachu"?Anyways,I feel stupid now,I can't believe I voted female.Why did I vote female?Either the Santa hat I'm wearing is sucking out my IQ points, I didn't remember the details other people mentioned,or both.Can't really decide.
     
    Anyone who uses the tail argument would be foolish. Firstly, gender differences were only in Sinnoh. Where did Pikachu come from? Kanto. All the other Pikachu we've seen before in the anime have no indent on their tails. Does that mean all Pikachu that have been seen are male then? No. Since, the group hasn't seen a Pikachu with an obvious gender difference so far, no, this argument is totally useless. Surely you're not going to see Pikachu suddenly develop an indented tail just because it's in Sinnoh. >_>
     
    STEELIXMANIAC said:
    Anyone who uses the tail argument would be foolish. Firstly, gender differences were only in Sinnoh. Where did Pikachu come from? Kanto. All the other Pikachu we've seen before in the anime have no indent on their tails. Does that mean all Pikachu that have been seen are male then? No. Since, the group hasn't seen a Pikachu with an obvious gender difference so far, no, this argument is totally useless. Surely you're not going to see Pikachu suddenly develop an indented tail just because it's in Sinnoh. >_>
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    So? in "Clefairy and the Moon Stone", there weren't any Ceffa in Mt. Moon, and even if there were Cleffa, the original group definitely didn't see them,
    and that never stopped the original group from acting as though they have always existed in Mt. Moon in "A real Cleffa-hanger" despite it being their first time encountering Cleffa. Now note that I said "original group" since May and Max were entering kanto for the first time (much less Mt. Moon), so they do not count. If they were able to do that in Battle frontier, they can most certainly do it with all pikachu.

    I also brought up Sinnoh Park for a REASON. Tell you what, go get your DS, play pokemon diamond, transfer a female pikachu from Kanto to sinnoh park, and then capture it, and then we'll see if Kanto really doesn't have gender differences for Pikachu.
     
    weedle_mchairybug said:
    So? in "Clefairy and the Moon Stone", there weren't any Ceffa in Mt. Moon, and even if there were Cleffa, the original group definitely didn't see them,
    and that never stopped the original group from acting as though they have always existed in Mt. Moon in "A real Cleffa-hanger" despite it being their first time encountering Cleffa. Now note that I said "original group" since May and Max were entering kanto for the first time (much less Mt. Moon), so they do not count. If they were able to do that in Battle frontier, they can most certainly do it with all pikachu.

    I also brought up Sinnoh Park for a REASON. Tell you what, go get your DS, play pokemon diamond, transfer a female pikachu from Kanto to sinnoh park, and then capture it, and then we'll see if Kanto really doesn't have gender differences for Pikachu.
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    Still, Pikachu isn't going to mysteriously have an indent on its tail, to those who try to argue Pikachu is female.

    Also, the Sinnoh Park reason you brought did not help matters much either. That is a paradox within the game. There is absolutely no way a Pokémon can mysteriously develop gender differentiation traits if said Pokémon did not hail from the region where it is discovered. Unless the anime shows that gender differences exist in other regions as well (Kanto especially), I'm going to stand my ground and maintain my arguments so far. Also, please note that you don't see Pikachu with gender differences in Kanto, but in Sinnoh.
     
    Red (in G/S/C games in Mt. Silver) is Ash, and Ash has Pikachu, and Pikachu was female..? o_O
    It is too obvious that Pikachu is a boy, but I sometimes feel that Pikachu's a girl, since it really rubs it's head onto Ash when they were separated. I do think that only female PKMNs do that, but I don't know, Maybe Pikachu really loves Ash, and so does that.

    Yeah, about that tail-thingy.., it is kinda foolish to confirm things with those as evidence. Imagine if the original plot was Pikachu is actually a girl, and if so, what would happen to the series..? (*Ash sets his foot on Sinnoh* *Pikachu's tail glowed* *It then shaped into a female version of Pikachus in Sinnoh* *Ash and Pikachu were surprised* o_O)..? But still it is just my opinion...

    As they have said, we do need the confirmation from the Japanese to clear this confusion running around our heads.

    Conclusion, I vote for male. Ash's Pikachu is a boy. That's, at least, what I think...
     
    Red =/= Ash. Sorry to rain on your parade like that, but look closely at Red's team. Venusaur, Blastoise, Charizard, Snorlax, Pikachu and Espeon. Which of these actually matches Ash's Pokémon? Charizard, Snorlax and Pikachu. Also, Ash doesn't have an Espeon. Instead, Red (from the manga) has it. It's pretty obvious Red in the games was based on the Pokémon Special version of red.

    As for me, I'll not stick my vote as of yet. I will wait for actual confirmation before tossing my vote anywhere.
     
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