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Manaphy (Japanese: マナフィ Manaphy) is a Pokémon which was the star of Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea. It was voiced by 白鳥由里 Yuri Shiratori in Japanese and by Michele Knotz in English.
May catching the transparent Manaphy egg
In the anime
Ash and company met up with a Pokémon Ranger, Jack Walker, who was on the mission to protect the egg of Manaphy.
When Manaphy finally hatched, the first thing it saw was May and thus it thought of her as its mother, showing love and affection to her. Manaphy and May soon developed a very close bond even to the point that May treated it as her own child and Manaphy began learning words like "love" and "you", but their bond was affecting Manaphy's goal to find Samiya, so May tried to stay away from Manaphy but they eventually they came back to one another and shared a tearful hug.
Manaphy still had to return to Samiya. So after a tearful goodbye, it left but, not before it shared one more hug with May and said "Love you Mama, Love you May."
Moves used
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In the TCG
This listing is of cards mentioning or featuring Manaphy.
Trivia
- Manaphy is the only Pokémon shown in the anime to use an attack before hatching from its egg.
- Manaphy is the only anime Pokémon that was hatched from an egg that hatched in a movie rather than a normal episode, and the only one that is completely unrelated to Generation II Pokémon.
- Manaphy shares similarities with Misty's Togepi and Jirachi (movie 6). When Manaphy hatched, it thought of May as its mother, similar to how Togepi did with Misty, and thus developed a mother/child bond. Also, in the case of Jirachi, who developed a close bond and friendship with Max, Manaphy did so with May, Max's older sister.
Related articles
For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Manaphy.
