"Misty and Ash have become a very popular items with todays young ones, they are so cute when they kiss and are in love"

Misty in love kissing Ash (Pokemon)

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Since the release of the Pokémon TV series soundtrack, there have been many rumors going around about Ash and Misty's relationship in the Pokémon anime series.

It becomes more evident as the series goes forward that Misty has taken more of a liking towards Ash.

Below is a rundown of the more obvious points in the show where this relationship shows through.

1.Misty still continues to join Ash on his adventures along with Brock despite the fact he owes her a new bike. She's reminded him so many times, but later on in the series, we hear much less about it...hmmmmm. (hint)

2.Misty blushed when Ash saw her in the outfit with that magician. Plus Ash commented that it was a REAL cute outfit! (from "Exeggutor Squad" ep.)

3.Nurse Joy said in "Electric Shock Showdown", "When two people fight, they really care for each other." Ash and Misty fight over crazy stuff from time to time, so maybe Joy was right....

4.Its obvious Brock has no romantic interest in Misty due to the fact when he first met her, He didn't blush like he normally does when he sees a cute girl. That leaves Ash...(hint hint)

5.What was the REAL reason why Misty didn't want to battle Ash? Oh SURE it was because she didn't want to face her sisters, but she came back anyway only because ASH did. Hmm.... (in "Water flowers of Cerulean" ep)

6.In the "Lavender Tower" episode when Ash "dies" as soon as he "resurrected" the first words out of his mouth are, "Misty!" Misty rubs the tears off her eyes and smiles blushing. What about Brock!?

7.Ash doesn't seem to mind Pikachu always hanging around Misty. Except for that one time when Misty proved Pikachu not to be routy and then Ash defied saying he only obeys him when in fact that wasn't true...at the time.

8.When the 3 amazing sisters commented Ash isn't their choice of a boyfriend for themselves (implying that he was by now Misty's boyfriend), Ash fell over in embarrassment and Misty defied, but she BLUSHED! (MAJOR HINT THERE!!)

9.In the Caterpie episode, when Misty saw Caterpie she grabbed onto Ash and Ash didn't make her let go. He just stood there, "Wow a Caterpie!" (another hint)

10.Misty *really* sought Ash to use her Pokémon against Brock while he was gym leader. Though, Ash wanted to use the Pokémon he had trained. Misty kept asking him if he wanted to use her Pokémon, gosh she has her heart set on this doesn't she?

11.In the episode "The Ultimate Test", after the test was finished (mostly after he beat Team Rocket) he reflect on some things that happened and Misty pointed out that he did learn something. And Ash nodded about that. Misty said some compliments and he thanked her and smiled.

12.In "Pokémon Paparazzi", at what time the hole broke through and Ash fell, Misty yelled, "Ash!" Brock didn't seem to care about Ash because he just yelled Pikachu. They tend to do this in a lot of anime... But Misty just happened to yell Ash. Hmmmm....

13.In the "Stray Pokemon" ep, Ash and Misty were sleeping out on a couch. In the morning, Ash is all sprawled out concerning to fall off. (Suggestive)

14.In the Squirtle Squad episode, when Ash comes back from getting the Super Potion for Pikachu, he worries about the Squirtle messing with Misty's hair color, they said they would. But when he returns, "So Misty you're still a red head?" He cares ^_^.

15.In the episode where St. Anne sink, Ash wanted his Butterfree back. He talked with Misty about it, it was a *cute* scene. And when the boat started sinking and Ash ran after his Butterfree Misty and Brock followed as well. Though, Misty yelled, "Ash!!!!" While Brock just ran, no thoughts on Pikachu either.

16.Towards the finish of "The Ghost at Maiden's Peak", the dialog goes like this...
Misty: Sorry i'm late
Ash:........*blush*....wo......(Ash just stares at Misty's beauty)
Misty: huh? (she then blushes)
Misty: Come on ash, lets dance!
Ash: Sure! (Ash takes Misty's hand)
(MAJOR Hint here!!)

17.Also, earlier in the similar episode, at what time Ghastly started attacking with those skull ghosts, Misty grabbed tightly to Ash and the two were trying to figure out if there was a Pokémon located somewhere.

18.In the "Lavender Tower" episode Ash flies outside to see Brock and Misty while he's a ghost. He remarks, "Wow, Misty really does care about me!" When he saw how she was worried that he was dead. Hmm, I wonder why Ash would care if Misty cared about him... (hint)

19.In Prime ape Goes Bananas, when Misty fell, Ash called out, "Wa, Misty!!!!!"

20.In Pokémon Fashion Flash, when Misty saw the Salon Rockét (yes with the weird e), she connected arms with Ash and they ran off hand in hand. It was adorable!

21.Also in Pokémon manner Flash, when Pysduck told Pikachu what happened to Misty, Pikachu "translated" it for Ash of course. Then Ash goes, "Waa, something bad happened to Misty?" And he leaps over the table and runs. Has to save his girl!

22.Also in the Ninja Poké-showdown; when Misty was going crazy about Pysduck, Ash grabbed her and held her back. Jeez, those two held each other a lot in this episode.

23.Also in that episode, when Ash says he'll go on without Misty, she continues to follow him. Ash asks why and Misty fumble with her words... she wouldn't want to tell him the REAL reason just yet. She as an alternative gives him the old "bike excuse"

24.In the Eevee episode, Ash and Misty did a lot of looking at each other. Not that large of a hint, it was like well we got to look at each other 24/7.

Ash & Misty - It IS a Love Connection.

 

History
Pokemon didn't actually start as a tv show, it actually started as a Game Boy game called "Pocket Monsters" in Japan in 95. The game was so popular that they started a tv series in 1997.

The TV series was a hit in Japan, until the December 16, 1997 which left about 700 some people sick and forcing the cancellation of the series until the following April (1998). It has continued onward with no further incident.

Also in 1998, 4Kids Entertainment, with Summit Media Group as it's distributor, got rights to dub and display the show to the whole world. It made its appearance in September of 1998, and because it was in syndication at first, started out slowly for some of its time slots were odd.

Later on, Pokemon red and blue were released for the Game Boy platform....and at the peak of the Christmas shopping season. Sales of that (up in the millions) made it the highest selling game ever for the platform.

The show's luck changed for the better in 1999, when WB put in it's bid for the rights to run the show for the rest of its run. Soon it started running Saturdays all at the same time nationally. In turn, this blew ratings to the moon and made Pokemon the number 1 most watched show by the 6-12 age in the nation in spring of 1999.

June saw the issue of the first soundtrack for Pokemon. It sold fairly well and peaked at #92 on the Billboard Top 100 the first few weeks of its release.

"Pokemon - The First Movie" hit theaters in November of last year. Despite bad reviews by critics, it was a big hit among die-hard Poke-fans. Raking in over $52 million in its first 5 days and causing the supplies of the promotional TCG cards to be depleted within HOURS of its mid-week showing. Also Burger King got into the craze, and its promotion was a huge success. Every restaurant was having major trouble keeping up with demand for Pokemon.

Pokemon during the Christmas shopping season of 1999 was also a big hit. This was a joy to retailers, but trouble for parents of kids who had various Pokemon items on their Christmas lists, as lots of Pokemon-related items were going as fast as stores bought in new shipments.

We enter the Year 2000, and the Pokemon craze starts to die down some. After the holidays were over, Pokemon wasn't all the rage it used to be, the sales of Pokemon merchandise started to slide. Also on the TV series, the Orange League eps weren't the most popular compared with the Pokemon League eps. One of the big reasons was because of the absence of Brock (for me, he's the one that made Pokemon funny), and the constant re-runs during weekdays. This caused some die-hard fans to turn to other shows (in this case...DIGIMON) during re-runs. Then it got hit with another major blow in May 'sweeps' when the Fox Kids-run "Digimon" stole Pokemon's crown as the most watched show on Saturday mornings. (Remember, a year earlier from this, Pokemon was at the top spot in network kids shows).

We skip ahead to July 2000, and "Pokemon: The Movie 2K - The Power of One" hits the big screen. This one faired better with critics, but it didn't have the kind of box-office amounts that the "First Movie" had.....taking in only $42 million-plus during its ENTIRE run at theatres. Even the accompanying soundtrack faired worse than the "First Movie" CD, not even getting into the top 100 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart, also despite better reviews from critics.

It seemed at this point, people were ready to write Pokemon off......

Pokemon GOLD / SILVER was released during the month of October. Also during this time, Pokemon: The Johto Journeys, an entire new series featuring over 100 new Pokemon, an entirely new world with new towns and such, and (of course), the return of Brock, began it's run following the Nelvana-dubbed "Card Captors" (another WB hit with the young ones, but totally bashed by die-hard anime fans who know it as "Card Captor Sakura") on Saturday mornings, and on the new WB Friday afternoon block called "Fraturday".

It seems now that Pokemon was certainly not ready to throw in the towel just yet. The Gold/Silver versions EASILY sold well over a million copies within its first month of release. November 'sweeps' saw Pokemon take back its spot as the #1 rated kid's series on network TV, thanks to a 'final boost' provided by 4 new episodes pitted against a Digimon "Digithon" that was all re-runs on Fox affiliates.