Anybody know the sex of Pikachu (pocket monster)? Male or female?
**Pikachu ** is a boy.
Because that’s how I always pictured him…
Is ‘intensely irritating’ a gender?
Well, they always use the male pronoun when referring to him. “Look, he’s hurt!” “Pikachu’s sick! What’s wrong with him!”
That would lend evidence to the theory that Pikachu is male.
Flodjunior is just outgrowing a serious case of Pokemon fever [sub]please god make it stop[/sub] and it is from this that I get my information.
“Pikachu” is actually the name of a particular type of Pokemon. These creatures must of course reproduce somehow - after all, they managed to be all over the farging place for a frighteningly long time. So far as we know, there are two types of reproduction: sexual and asexual. If Pikachus reproduce asexually, then they’re all “it”. If they reproduce sexually [sub]i refuse to even imagine pikachu having sex[/sub] then there should be both boy and girl Pikachus.
The most famous Pikachu is the one who follows Ash Ketchum through all the TV shows and movies and books and video games and whatever else Nintendo has decided they can sell if it just has those vile little ball-dwelling monsters involved. This particular Pikachu is, as Lemur886 noted, always referred to as “he”. So either it’s an it who gets called “he” because the human characters don’t like to say “it”, or he’s a he for real.
[sub]now if you’ll excuse me i have to dip my brain in disinfectant[/sub]
But in the 3 newest Pokemon games(Gold,Silver,Crystal) you can take a male and female Pikachu to a breeder and then come back later to discover a Pichu(a super cute version of Pikachu).
Can I just confess that from time to time I’ve wondered that myself.
[Edited by manhattan on 08-11-2001 at 12:46 PM]
As far as I know, Pikachu was refered to as “it” or just “Pikachu.” Most Pokemon are gender-neutral.
For ‘Pokemon’, yes.
One of my friends said that she saw an episode of “Pokemon” that featured a female of the Pikachu species. I have no information on whether or not she is more deadly than the male, but apparently her appearance differs slightly from that of the world-famous male Pikachu.
I’m not sure about the sex, but I’m pretty sure it has some sort of sexual thing going on with Ash. The Japanese are a very sick sick people.
For Chris Tucker, too.
And why do you want to know anyway?
And how do you sex a Pokemon?
Or maybe it’s just you. :rolleyes:
And the Pokemon on the show are gender neutral, though the ones in the newer gameboy games are gendered.
Well, the Pokemon featured on the internet version of The Critic (which is at http://www.shockwave.com ) has a very male voice, he asks Jay Sherman for a date, and the preview to the show mentions that Pokemon is coming out. Perhaps popular representation says Pokemon is male?
Pikachu’s gender is not specified. The same is true for most other Pokémon on the series. Lemur866 or flodnak, it’s possible that you know of an episode (or movie or comic book) wherein Ash’s Pikachu is referred to with a male pronoun, but I’m willing to bet it’s just your imagination. Do you have a cite?
One exception to the rule of not specifying genders is the Nidoran, which appears in both male and female flavors in the show as well as in the game. Their evolved forms are also gender-specific, but at least they have different names. As MIKE_P and KKBattousai correctly pointed out, the newer Pokémon games have genders for all Pokémon, not just Nidoran. But apparently Ash’s Pikachu is one of the older ones, since its gender remains a mystery.
In the episode “Bye Bye Butterfree”, Ash’s Butterfree, which is blue, falls in love with a pink Butterfree wearing a bow. If you watch carefully, though, you’ll notice that even though it’s clear which one they intend to be male and which they intend to be female, their actual genders are never specified by the human characters. Always “it”, never “he” or “she”.
In the Animation Studio world, there is a job called the In-Betweener. What the hell else do you think that person would do? 
You know what they say, you can lead an acetate, but you can’t make it cel.
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( what? what? A Member name like this, I’m gonna stay away? Feh !! )
This raises an interesting question: Pokemon evolve after gaining sufficient experience, or under some other conditions which are, admittedly, unclear to me.
Are the evolved forms cross-fertile with the earlier forms? That is, may a Pikachu mate with a Riachu? What would the offspring be?
Normally, my seven-year-old nephew would be the person to ask, since he has a Pokedex in his head; this speculation, I think, properly belongs elsewhere.
- Rick
Hi, I’m new to these forums, but I thought I might be able to answer this question. Actually, I registered purely for the ability to answer this question, as many people were getting close but not quite getting the right answer. This is my area of expertise, being that I’m quite a fan of anime and cartoons, and I know enough about Pokemon (I really like it, actually) to answer this.
I assume you’re talking about the Pikachu from the show, right? Well, off the bat, we can’t just say “Well, they referred to Pikachu as ‘he’ or ‘him’ in the show,” simply because this show was not originally written in English. It is, of course, anime and was written in Japanese. While the translation of the show is good, it’s not 100% accurate. I have seen Pokemon with no subtitles in Japanese (I speak it quite fluently) and Pikachu is, plain and simple, referred to as Pikachu. Or (in plain 'ol english) Electric-Mouse (chu is not a word, per se, but a perception of the sound a mouse makes, like we think a mouse makes the sound “Squeak!”).
That doesn’t answer the question, I know. Let me finish. I have played the new Gold/Silver/Games to completion, and a secret sidequest is the ability to face the Pokemon Trainer “Red”. Or, as he’s known in the show, Ash. He has all of Ash’s Pokemon, including an insanely powerful Pikachu. That Pikachu’s gender is listed when facing it and it’s revealed as Male. That was easy, wasn’t it?
Now, to bring up the question of gender changes and evolution. Evolution, for Pokemon, is under the condition they gain so much experience. So, say you have a Squirtle (a tiny blue turtle that shoots water). After winning about 20 or so battles, it becomes a Wartortle. Wartortle, after winning another 45 or so, becomes a Blastoise. I raised a Cyndaquil in Pokemon Gold, and I did keep track of its gender. It consistently stayed female. As did my Haunter/Gastly/Gengar, and my Pidgey/Pidgeotto/Pidgeot. All my other Pokemon were either incapable of evolving or lacked a gender.
Finally, on to the idea of Pokeproduction. If you think it’s bad to think of two Pikachu reproducing, it actually crosses interspecies relationships. Pokemon reproduce sexually, as most animals would. Even the plant ones, which really makes no sense, but no one ever said it was supposed to. Anyway. If you have two Pokemon that are alike (and it’s very difficult to tell; if they appear as Wolves on the status screen (a la Meowth and, say, Growlithe)), then they are capable of breeding. The female Pokemon produces an egg, which will be the first stage evolution of whichever Pokemon the game chooses between the two parents. The new Pokemon can not learn moves of both elements, but say the Growlithe has a higher Speed stat than the Meowth, which has a higher strength stat. The new Pokemon (Meowth or Growlithe) will have good Strength and Speed stats.
So why does a Meowth lay eggs? Why can a dog and a cat reproduce? Why do I know so much about Pokemon? Ah, all questions for another day. 
Hope that helped.
Shawn, I pity you. I truly do.
lel, thaks so much for the heads-up on the shockwave version of the Critic. It was one of my favourite shows when it was on. The Shockwave version is a bit lacking as it doesn’t have a lot of the great characters (like Jay’s father) but it’s still hilarious. I laughed my ass off last night.