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[[File:Seymour.png|thumb|250px|Seymour]]
'''Seymour''' (Japanese: '''リカオ''' ''Rikao'') is a [[character of the day]] who appeared in ''[[EP006|Clefairy and the Moon Stone]]''. He is a {{tc|scientist}} from [[Pewter City]] who investigates [[Mt. Moon]], specifically the various {{p|Clefairy}} and {{p|Clefable}} living there.

{{Ash}} and {{ashfr}} first met Seymour after they rescued him from a horde of {{p|Zubat}} at Mt. Moon's entrance. Seymour explained that he was visiting Mt. Moon to investigate why its {{pkmn2|wild}} Pokémon were behaving oddly. He directed the group's attention to some bright lights set up throughout the cave complex and soon discovered that {{TRT}} was responsible.

After Team Rocket was sent blasting off, Seymour, Ash, and his friends witnessed several Clefairy [[Evolution|evolving]] into Clefable with fragments of a giant [[Moon Stone]]. Seymour decided to live amongst the Clefairy and Clefable with the hopes of visiting their true home and proving his theory to be true: that Clefairy came from space in a shuttle created from a Moon Stone.

He reappeared in a flashback in ''[[EP021|Bye Bye Butterfree]]''.

Seymour often speaks in rhymes, while in the Japanese version, he tends to recite poetry and be enchanted by the romantic aspects of the Moon. Seymour is usually depicted as a nervous and neurotic person, but nevertheless is incredibly knowledgeable about his passions, such as [[extraterrestrial Pokémon]].

==Voice actors==
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|ja=岩永哲哉 ''Tetsuya Iwanaga''
|en=[[Maddie Blaustein|Adam Blaustein]]
|cs=Radek Hoppe
|fi=Arto Nieminen
|it=Luca Bottale (Mediaset dub)
|no=Erik Skøld
|pt_br=Silvio Giraldi
|es_eu=Rafa Romero
|es_la=Alfredo Gabriel Basurto
|pl=Grzegorz Hołówko{{tt|*|Original dub}}<br>Jarosław Domin{{tt|*|Redub}}}}

==Trivia==
* Seymour was revealed to be an employee of the [[Pewter Museum of Science]] in the original version of ''Clefairy and the Moon Stone'', rather than just a simple scientist.
* Seymour's name is a play on 理科 ''rika'', which means "science".
* Seymour is the first character of the day to appear in the {{pmin|South Korea|Korean}} dub of the {{pkmn|anime}}, due to [[Samurai]]'s [[EP004|episode]] being [[Banned episodes|banned]] in South Korea.
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[[Category:Kanto characters of the day]]
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[[Category:Scientists]]

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