Forsythia

Forsythia (Japanese: ツボミ Tsubomi) is a minor recurring character in the Pokémon anime. She made her main appearance in Oh Do You Know The Poffin Plan!.

History
Forsythia lives in Floaroma Town, where she cares for her Berry orchard with the help of her two Pokémon, and. She also teaches Poffin-cooking classes. ,, and saw a flyer advertising her Poffin classes and paid a visit to her home.

She explained to them how to cook the Poffin. Dawn and Brock had no trouble at all with making theirs, but Ash could not get his right and ended up burning them. When Dawn fed her Poffin to her, however, they ended up hating it. She couldn't understand why and said she used her mother's recipe. Forsythia then went on to explain that all Pokémon have different tastes just like people do.

Ash asked why Forsythia's Roserade was so shy, and she told the story of how she met and befriended it by giving it her red scarf. The story was interrupted when crashed through her garden in a tank, stealing all of her Berries. When Roserade saw how upset Forsythia was over this, it ran back to her house and wrapped the scarf around its face. It came back out and attacked Team Rocket using. Team Rocket then found out from Lotad that, without the scarf, Roserade didn't have the confidence to fight, so and  removed it.

They were about to run off with Roserade and the Berries, but Forsythia jumped in front of the tank and told Roserade that it didn't need the scarf to believe in itself. With that, Roserade escaped and used a beautiful attack against Team Rocket. After they were gone, Roserade's combined with Lotad's  made Forsythia's garden begin to regrow. Later, Dawn was finally able to make Poffins that, , and liked, and thanked Forsythia for all of her help.

Forsythia also made a brief cameo in Unlocking the Red Chain of Events! along with her Pokémon.

Trivia

 * The day Forsythia met her Budew is similar to the time met his, when he gave Meowth boots.
 * Forsythia's Japanese name is almost identical to Budew's Japanese name.
 * Forsythia owns a Sprayduck like the one in the games.

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