Seymour

Seymour

Seymour (Japanese: リカオ Rikao) is a character of the day who appeared in Clefairy and the Moon Stone. He is a scientist who investigated Mt. Moon, observing the various Clefairy and Clefable.

Seymour is from Pewter City and works for the Pewter Museum of Science, as revealed the Japanese version. He often enjoys talking in rhymes, such as "we've studied its fragments for many an hour, and discovered it increases a Pokémon's power." In the Japanese version, instead of reciting poetry, he is enchanted by the romantic aspects of the moon.

Ash and his friends saw Seymour being attacked by a group of Zubat. Pikachu saved Seymour by scaring the Zubat away, which Seymour was thankful for. He explained to Ash and his friends that he was on Mt. Moon in order to investigate the reason why Pokémon here were behaving strangely. After discovering it was Team Rocket's scheme, the trio was sent away, and Ash's group began to follow a Clefairy. Seymour revealed his theory that the Clefairy came from space in a shuttle created from a Moon Stone. After witnessing several Clefairy evolve into Clefable with fragments of a giant Moon Stone, Seymour decided to live on Mt. Moon with the Clefairy and Clefable.

He reappeared in a flashback in Bye Bye Butterfree.

Voice actors

Language Voice actor Japanese 岩永哲哉 Tetsuya Iwanaga English Maddie Blaustein Czech Radek Hoppe Finnish Arto Nieminen Norwegian Erik Skøld Polish Grzegorz Hołówko Brazilian Portuguese Sílvio Giraldi Spanish Latin America Alfredo Gabriel Basurto Spain Rafa Romero

Trivia

• His name is a play on 理科 rika, which means "science".
• Seymour is the first character of the day to appear in the Korean dub of the anime, due to Samurai's episode being banned in South Korea.

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.