Lyra (anime)

Lyra コトネ Kotone
Lyra
Gender	Female
Eye color	Brown
Hair color	Brown
Hometown	New Bark Town
Region	Johto
Trainer class	Trainer
Game counterpart	Lyra
Anime debut	An Egg Scramble!
English voice actor	Eileen Stevens
Japanese voice actor	Megumi Nakajima

Lyra (Japanese: コトネ Kotone) is a recurring character in the Pokémon anime who debuted in An Egg Scramble!.

History

Ash and his friends first met Lyra when her Marill wandered off and they found it wedged in between two buildings. She introduced herself as a Trainer from Johto. She came to Sinnoh with her friend, Khoury and his father in order to observe the Pokémon native to the region. Later she asks Dawn to participate in the Johto Festival. The two girls had a battle but Lyra lost and rewarded Dawn with an egg. At the end of the episode, Lyra and Khoury joined Ash's group because the former wanted to watch the upcoming Lilypad Contest Dawn would be participating in.

It is implied in Gone With the Windworks! that Lyra has an interest in Ash. She admires his bravery and wishes that Khoury would act more like him. Lyra even asks Dawn if she and Ash are a couple though Dawn calmly informs her that she and Ash are just friends. In A Rivalry to Gible On!, she attempted to pair Khoury and Dawn together as a couple, despite Dawn's refusal, before eventually realizing she had feelings for the former.

She last appeared in Bagged Then Tagged!, where she and Khoury had a tag battle against Ash and Dawn in the Lilypad Colosseum. Both Lyra and Khoury eventually lost the battle.

Later they went to the airport to meet with Khoury's father before going back to Johto. Then, Brock suggested her to challenge Whitney and Morty. Also, upon her request, she made Khoury to decide becoming her traveling companion and later, they promised Ash and Dawn that they would see them again.

Pokémon

This listing is of Lyra's known Pokémon:

Marill

Debut	An Egg Scramble!
Voice actors
Japanese	Chinami Nishimura
English	Kayzie Rogers

Main article: Lyra's Marill

Marill is one of Lyra's main Pokémon and appears to be very affectionate towards her. Marill first appeared in An Egg Scramble! and it was because of Marill that Ash and his friends met Lyra, as they helped it when it was trapped between two buildings near where the Johto Festival was taking place. In Gone With the Windworks!, Marill was responsible for the gang getting trapped in the Valley Windworks when it wandered off during a practice battle between Ash and Dawn.

Marill also appeared in A Rivalry to Gible On! where its sensitive hearing helped the gang search for a Gible that was causing trouble near a Pokémon Center.

Chikorita

Lyra's Chikorita

Debut	An Egg Scramble!
Voice actors
Japanese	Kei Shindō
English	Kei Shindō

Chikorita is Lyra's starter Pokémon and was used by Lyra to battle Dawn's Piplup in An Egg Scramble! as part of the Johto Festival. Despite the type-advantage, Chikorita was defeated by Piplup's Peck.

Chikorita's next appearance was in Bagged Then Tagged! where it was used in a tag battle alongside Khoury's Totodile against Ash's Monferno and Dawn's Cyndaquil. Although Chikorita was weak against both Fire-types, it still put up a good fight but was defeated by Cyndaquil's Flame Wheel and Monferno's Flamethrower.

Chikorita's known moves are Tackle, Razor Leaf, Light Screen and SolarBeam.

Girafarig

Lyra's Girafarig

Debut	Gone With the Windworks!

Lyra's Girafarig made a brief appearance in Gone With the Windworks! when it was used by Lyra to try and help the gang escape from the Valley Windworks after becoming trapped. Despite its power, Girafarig was unable to break down the door keeping the gang contained.

Girafarig's only known move is Double Hit.

Badges obtained

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Lyra's badges

• Zephyr Badge
• Hive Badge

Voice actors

Language Voice actor Japanese 中島愛 Megumi Nakajima English Eileen Stevens Czech Nikola Votočková European Spanish Beatriz Berciano

Trivia

• Lyra is the first anime character based on a female player character seen to have badges.
• She owns the female variation of the Pokédex, as well as the pink model of the Pokégear introduced in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver.
• In the Japanese version, Lyra makes a pun of her own name by saying koto ne?, which means "right?", at the end of her sentences.
• Lyra sometimes pronounces Dawn's name as Dane (Japanese: ヒカリン Hikarin).
  • Marilyn, the character of the day from Battling a Cute Drama!, also called Dawn Hikarin in Japanese. However, Marilyn refers to her as Dawny in the English dub.
• When not chosen as the player character in HeartGold and SoulSilver, Lyra's game counterpart also happens to own a Marill.
• Lyra is one of many characters in the anime who have thought Ash and one of his female traveling companions to be a couple, another example being Melody from the second movie.

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	コトネ Kotone	From 琴音 kotone, "sound of koto".
English	Lyra	From lyre.
French	Célesta	From celesta.
Italian	Cetra	From cetra.
Spanish	Lira	From lira, lyre.
Korean	금선 Geumseon	Means "Geum string."
Chinese (Mandarin)	琴音 Qínyīn	From 琴音 kotone. Literally means "sound of qin." 琴 (qín) is also a general term for free reed, string and keyboard instruments.

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