Ippei

Ippei イッペイ Ippeii
Ippei
Gender	Male
Hometown	Ninja Village
Region	Kalos
Relatives	Sanpei and Nihei (brothers)
Trainer class	Trainer
Anime debut	A Rush of Ninja Wisdom!
English voice actor	N/A
Japanese voice actor	Tatsuhisa Suzuki

Ippei (Japanese: イッペイ Ippei) is a recurring character in the Pokémon anime who first appeared in person in XY098.

History

Ippei and his brothers

He was mentioned in A Rush of Ninja Wisdom!, albeit only in a fantasy. He is the older brother of Sanpei and Nihei and hails from Ninja Village. Ippei is the strongest of the village and endowed with a huge sense of justice, as well as an extremely skillful ninja..

He made his first physical appearance in XY098, Ippei first appears when Sanpei returns to his village accompanied by Ash and his friends. After he watching the Pokémon battle between Sanpei and Nihei, he made one analysis of the battle,commenting the mistakes that his younger brother took while. Later, Ippei and Nihei meet Sanpei, Ash and his friends in the temple to the village's heroes.

He explains to Ash about the legends of the Pokémon that protected the village from time to time, your main objective to train his Froakie was that he was the main hero of legend.

When the attack on village begins, He sends Sanpei to protect the village elder, Ippei and Nihei join forces and face the ninja army when they discover that Hanzou was captured.

After regroup, he joins Saizo, Shinobu, Nihei, Sanpei, Ash and the others, while Saizo tells the story of Kagetomo to Ash. After discover the actual location of the village elder, they decide to go to the place where he is.

During the final battle, he personally faces Kagetomo, during the course of the battle the old man of the village sees that Ippei has what it takes to command members of the village. After a hard battle, Ippei wins and they can arrest the army of ninjas.

Ippei becomes the leader of Ninja Village

Finally, when the celebration takes place, Ippei is chosen the new leader of the village. And so he gets the hands of Hanzo the proof of its new position.

He is seen again saying goodbye to Ash and his friends, and after that with Hanzo when he is informed about the mysterious power of Ash's Greninja. He says that again, in the words of the legend, a Frogadier saved the village.

Pokémon

Froakie → Frogadier → Greninja

Debut	A Rush of Ninja Wisdom!

Greninja is Ippei's ninja partner. Together they are the strongest of Ninja Village.

Greninja's known moves are Double Team, Water Shuriken, Night Slash, and Cut.

Voice actors

Language Voice actor Japanese 鈴木達央 Tatsuhisa Suzuki

Trivia

• The names of Ippei, Nihei, and Sanpei are a play on the Japanese words for one, two, and three: "ichi" (一), "ni" (二) and "san" (三).

This article is part of Project COD, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each one-time character of the Pokémon animated series.