Butch

Butch コサブロウ Kosaburō
[[File:File:Butch.jpg|{{{size}}}]] Butch of Team Rocket
Age	23 to 25 (est. by Pokeani)
Gender	Male
Hometown	Unknown
Region	Unknown
Trainer class	Agent
Member of	Team Rocket
Rank	Agent
Partner	Cassidy
Anime debut	The Breeding Center Secret
English voice actor	Eric Stuart (4Kids) Jimmy Zoppi (PUSA)
Japanese voice actor	Takehito Koyasu

Butch (Japanese: コサブロウ Kosaburō; Botch, コサンジ Kosanji) is one half of of the Team Rocket duo that occasionally runs across Ash Ketchum and friends in the Pokémon anime. His voice actors are 子安武人 Takehito Koyasu in Japanese and Eric Stuart (4Kids dub) and Billy Beach (PUSA/TAJ dub). Butch's dub voice seems to be an impression of Harvey Fierstein.

Butch's partner is Cassidy, and she is one of the few that usually manages to get his name right- much to his frustration, everyone else calls him either "Biff", "Bill", "Bob", "Hutch", "Butcher", "Patch", or "Botch" (コサンジ Kosanji in Japanese). Sometimes when she gets it right, he, by habit, tries to correct her and ends up calling himself the incorrect name. Everyone getting his name wrong has become a running gag in the anime. This, of course, annoys him to no end. He once even said in frustration, "That's it, I am changing my name."

Name origin

Butch is named after Butch Cassidy, an American outlaw. His Japanese name, Kosaburo, is meant to diminish his status when compared to James. 二郎 Jirō is a name meaning "second son," while 三郎 Saburō means "third son." Kojiro (James) takes advantage of Jirō, while Kosaburo takes advantage of Saburō.

Pokémon

On hand

Primeape

Hitmontop

Mightyena

Cloyster

Appearances

• The Breeding Center Secret
• Pkachu Re-Volts
• The Fortune Hunters
• The Mystery is History!
• A Parent Trapped!
• A Promise is a Promise
• Showdown at the Oak Corral
• Oaknapped
• A Date With Delcatty
• Training Daze
• Putting the Air Back in Aerodactyl
• Luvdisc is a Many Splendored Thing
• The Search for the Legend
• The Scheme Team
• The Ole' Berate and Switch
• A Secret Sphere of Influence (flashback only)

See also

• Raticate (Team Rocket)

External links

• Botch Up!, the fanlisting for Butch at The Anime Fanlistings Network
• Kosaburō's Profile on Pokeani (Japanese)
• Yamato and Kosaburō's Pokémon on Pokeani (Japanese)

Pokémon the Series characters
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