What makes me misty

Before she left, Misty told Togetic that she loved her very much and she even knew in her heart that their bond for each other will always be there no matter what. Misty has known Politoad since it was a Poliwag as they instantly bonded after meeting each other. It evolved into Poliwhirl to help Misty win in her battle with Ash which shows the loyalty and care they have for each other. Misty encourages Politoad to do its best no matter what.

After it evolved into its final stage, Misty would have Politoad be part of the cheering crew whenever Ash was battling, which was mainly shown in the Johto League.

Misty first meet Corsola when she and her friends were visiting one the whirl islands in Johto as she wanted to catch one for awhile at the time. At times, Misty would call on Corsola to battle from time to time.

Also, Misty brings Corsola with her sometimes when she leaves to go somewhere. When she returns to Cerulean City and found about a recently evolved Gyarados, Misty tried her best to tame it but couldn't because it was not only out of control but also her fear of them was getting the better of her.

However, Misty let go of her fear of Gyarados's to save it when it was attacked by Trainers she dealt with before. After that, Misty and Gyarados formed a strong bond with each other as they can do Mega Evolution together. Also, Misty would use Gyarados in a lot of battles as her ace battler and keep it with her whenever she leaves the Gym. Misty obtained Caserin, a Luvdisc, at the Cerulean Gym. Misty encourages Caserin which shows how they were able to become friends with each otter right away.

However, Misty would usually have Caserin stay at the Gym. Misty was given Azurill when it was an egg by Tracey and they even became very good friends with one another. Like Togetic during his days as a Togepi, Misty enjoys holding Azurill in her arms and is very protective of it.

In the series, Misty first is seen wearing a yellow crop top with red suspenders and light denim shorts. Her whole midriff is showing, but her belly button is not usually drawn. Her shoes were colored red and white, with a yellow streak in the middle. Misty's personality in the anime can be complex at times. She can be very nice to her friends but will then quickly change moods in a short amount of time, particularly anger.

She also encountered Team Rocket many times and would assist Ash and Brock in stopping them. Even though she wanted to stay with Ash, Misty felt obligated to watch over her family's Gym since her sisters would be gone on their world trip. She also wears yellow shorts, a crimson leotard under her vest, light and burnt orange high-tops, and white socks. In one of her cameo appearances in the Advanced Generation series, her Togepi evolves into Togetic.

Misty releases Togetic after it chooses to stay behind to defend the Mirage Kingdom and Togepi Paradise. However, she isn't the only one to rejoin Ash — May , Max , and Brock join him as well for the Battle Frontier challenges. She travels with Ash for two episodes and then returns to her Gym shortly afterward. Misty and Brock reuniting Ash along with meeting his Alolan friends for the first time.

Misty returns alongside with Brock in " Alola, Kanto! The next day, they travel to Cerulean City for their extracurricular lesson and after Brock tells Ash about his younger brother Forrest, who currently runs the Pewter City Gym, Misty tells them that her sisters are traveling, much to Brock's depression. Misty later battles against Ash using her Gyarados against his Pikachu. She also reveals the Key Stone hidden at the back of the hairclip of her ponytail as she Mega Evolves her Gyarados.

Ash and his classmates give her a tour and she meets Nina and Anela. She surfs with them in a school of Mantine and plays around with a wild Alolan Exeggutor. She later helps them fend off Team Rocket by releasing her Gyarados to rescue a school of Mantine with their attacks.

She angrily Mega Evolves her Gyarados, allowing Ash and the others to destroy the robot with their attacks and Z-Moves as she commands her Mega Gyarados to unleash Hydro Pump as a final blow, blasting Team Rocket off to the sky. Back at Melemele Island, she and Ash visit Brock while cooking some stew for dinner as Misty's Psyduck pops out on its own to eat their stew, much to Misty's annoyance.

She noticed Ash was falling asleep while watching the night of the full moon and soon after the trio spend the night at their tent while being watched happily by both Professor Burnet and Professor Kukui. Goldeen x4. About Us. Help Desk Watercooler. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Misty anime. Osser: Only to the extent that I used the piano. Manning: That intro seems to have become the signature for the recording.

It sets a tone at the beginning, and it is so distinctive. Osser: The rhythm section was playing, and just some violas and cellos sustaining harmony, just as a little cushion. Manning: In the second verse, the strings are now playing the fills, just like the piano did. They are sort of answering back to the singer, which was a typical device you used in your arrangements.

You often used a harp. Osser: I used a lot of oboes and flutes, and we got the great soloists to do them. We got the flute and oboe players from the New York Philharmonic. Manning: At the end, when the vocal fades out, you throw in three two-note string phrases before the final piano notes, which are the first three notes of the verse.

There seems to be a bit more echo on it. Osser: Columbia had a great studio and some terrific sound engineers such as Frank Laico. Osser: No. I was surprised that it was a big hit. So was Columbia. If they had felt it was going to be a hit, they would have released it as a single right away. It turned out that some disc jockeys started playing it off the album, and it caught fire. Manning : Did you continue to work with Mathis after the Heavenly album? Osser: Sure. I did a number of albums with him.

The next album we did was called Faithfully. That was before Burt was writing the kinds of songs he was famous for. Because the album was such a hit, they called Burt and asked him to write another song. Osser: He called me about 12 years ago.

He said he was going to do a Christmas concert tour, which would include a medley of Christmas songs. He asked me to write an overture — a medley of his hits — that the band would play before he came out and sang. He was doing a show in Long Island at that time, so I went out to one of his rehearsals and ran through it with him. That was the last time I saw him.

He still uses that overture. Most of the albums with him were all Italian songs. I used to conduct for his shows occasionally when he needed a sub for his regular conductor. Jerry talked a lot to his audience.

He was a very good joke teller. Manning: I have an obscure album that came out about , by a young singer named Diana Trask.

Diana sounded a lot like Eydie Gorme. I liked her, but it was your arrangements that made me buy it. Do you remember that album? Osser: Of course. We had a great band on that session. She was about 19 at the time. Manning: She did a bunch of standards on that album, including five songs by Richard Rodgers. Later on, she changed to country music and recorded in Nashville. Osser: I was conducting for Jerry Vale in Las Vegas once, maybe in the mid-seventies, and she saw my name on the marquee; so after the show, she came to see me.

Manning: When you read about the history of the great vocal recordings of the s and s, the arrangers that always get mentioned are Nelson Riddle, Billy May and Gordon Jenkins. I seldom see you mentioned. Osser : Well, a lot of the stuff those guys worked on was with Frank Sinatra.

But I figured out once that I arranged eight singles that became number one on the charts. The third was also by Georgia. That song put Dave Kapp in business. Dave was going to try to record a couple of pop singers, so he got Jane Morgan, and wanted to do four sides with her. He called me up and asked me to do the arrangements.

He told me to go up to her apartment and work on it with her. I played the piano, and we went through a bunch of songs, but we could only find three that she liked. I just made four sides with a piano player named Lou Weertz, with just a bass and drums.

I did a Jack Jones album with Dave also. I did an album one time with Georgia Gibbs, and the producers, Hugo and Luigi, were out of town.

He wrote a lot of lush arrangements. So they changed arrangers and brought in Nelson Riddle. His arrangements were more jazzy. Talking about Sinatra, Jimmy Van Heusen was one of my best friends. Sinatra sang almost every song that Jimmy wrote. His real name was Chester Babcock, and he was from Syracuse. He took his last name from the shirt company. I came to New York in , and met him in , when he was working at Remick Music.

They were always plugging songs. Bandleaders and singers would come up, and Jimmy would play the piano while someone would sing the songs they were plugging. Osser: I liked to do ballads, although I loved jazz. When I was in college, jazz was so big then.

When I graduated from college in , Benny Goodman was miles above anybody else. Osser: I arranged the vocal part for Martha Tilton. Benny did a weekly radio show called Camel Caravan. His arranger Jimmy Mundy got the flu, and Benny needed a couple of new numbers every week. He was the head guy at Robbins Music, and the brother of Harry Warren, the great songwriter. Benny told Charlie that he needed an arranger for a couple of weeks.

Charlie recommended me, so I did a few arrangements for next two Camel Caravan shows. Johnny Mercer was a guest on the first one. He was performing with a quintet, sort of in the style of the The Modernaires. I did two arrangements for them. He was a guest again for the next show. One day, he went there for dinner after the show. Ziggy Elman, the trumpet player, had played this fast Jewish-sounding tune that he had written.

Did you know that I was the conductor of the Miss America Pageant for 33 years? We had a piece live orchestra. Bert Parks started as the host the same year I started. He did it for 25 years. I started when John Williams was the conductor. After he left, Keith Lockhart took over.

He called me two or three years in a row and asked me to arrange some Irish songs for an Irish singer. I was doing a couple of arrangements a week for them. They called me to do the arrangements. Those were the tunes that Judy wanted to record. We had an appointment to meet Judy and her mother. I was there with the piano and we were trying to figure out the keys to sing the songs in.

I heard her sing a little bit and it sounded pretty good. I settled on a key, and then I asked Judy how it felt. She looked at her mother, who told me to take it up half a tone. We tried that, and then she looked at her mother again, who said to try it again the original way.

I played it through, and her mother said it was fine. The whole time, Judy never said one word. Well, the record wound up sounding so stiff. The record came out and went nowhere. Years later, after I got out of the service, I was working with bandleader Paul Whiteman, and we were doing some shows in California called the Philco Radio Hall of Fame.

On one of the shows, they had Judy Garland as a guest. Of course, by that time, she was a big star. When Paul was about to introduce me to her, I asked my wife if I should remind her that I did those songs with her when she was only Of course, Dad would have been playing a written score.

But, I loved the style of his playing it. And, you can hear them everywhere because of all the records he cut during those years. You can often tell that it is him.

Manning: I was playing the Heavenly album this morning, and I was listening to the tracks where your father is featured prominently, and I noticed that he really lays back on the rhythm. Manning: Your father studied at Yale School of Music on a scholarship. What do you think his aspirations would have been at that time? All my ancestors came from Amalfi and other parts of southern Italy.

His mother moved in with her parents, and my dad was brought up with them and his aunts and uncles. His mother worked in a sweatshop, sewing garments.

She had to work hard to bring up the family. My Dad grew up with an admiration for the work ethic that his mother had. His mother was one of most beautiful women I have ever met. We called her Grandma Acquarulo, which was the real family name. There was music in that entire family. They owned the house, and there was a Spinet piano on the top floor. When he got the telegram inviting him to join the band, he decided immediately that this is what he would do, because he wanted to help support his family, and because it was one of the most popular bands at the time, and he would be making decent money.

So he went. Dad found his calling very early in life, by way of wanting to support his family. My dad was never the kind of person who had big aspirations. He was very much in the moment. He was very practical. In those days, the Schubert Theater was big in New Haven, and there were a lot of big band venues in the city.

He was performing in New Haven, and my mother went to hear the band. They were married in My father was never just a studio musician. He was a big band performer, accompanist, songwriter and recording artist. Then he did television commercials. He was where the money was, but more importantly, where the art form was going.

Ackers: No. When he went on the road, my mother had to live with her parents, who were also immigrants. She was a little annoyed by the fact that my father was away. Dad played at famous nightclubs during that era, like the Coconut Grove. Then he went into the Army and put in charge of a band, as the conductor. He did recordings with her right off the bat. There are old records around with Mindy singing and my father playing piano. And he did a lot of radio broadcasts with her while in the Army.

When he was discharged, before the war ended, he went back on the road again. At that time, he would sometimes take my mom with him. The nightclub scene was very social. I am sure that she complained quite a bit whenever he was away without her. By that time, Mom and Dad had started living a pretty nice life. He was very popular and on the radio a lot. The big band era was ending about that time anyway. It was filled with famous people, especially artists.

He was still working as an accompanist, and sometimes he even played in the pit in Broadway shows. Did you ever realize that Misty is the only one of the Cerulean sisters who isn't named after a flower? Yup, her older sisters are named Daisy, Violet, and Lily. That surely makes one wonder why she's the odd one Apart from being the one with an odd name in the family, Misty is also extremely different from her older sisters, both physically and personality-wise.

The other sisters are also very feminine and sweet compared to Misty who has yet to discover her femininity and is often short-tempered. We also discovered in that episode that one of the reasons why Misty left is because she had grown tired of being judged by her sisters. Misty is often very black and white when it comes to the things she loves and hates. We've already established that Misty feels an aversion to bugs but she also has something to say when it comes to food.

She made it very clear that she cannot stand carrots and pepper, and by that, I mean she hates them. Misty probably dislikes these foods as much as she hates insects, so that's really saying something. I can understand carrots, but pepper? Doesn't that make one's meals very To each their own taste of course, but pepper seems to be one of those spices that everyone just loves, or at least doesn't mind that much. Gif by yoswallow. Apart from her orignal name in Japanese, Misty is known pretty much everywhere as "Misty".

Allow me to put an emphasis on "pretty much" here. Indeed, if most countries have decided to go along with the English name of the character, the French, once again, felt the need to change it and they named her: Ondine, after some water spirit.

Now that's the version I grew up with so I don't mind it but I was surprised when I watched the anime in english for the first time and it left me to wonder why the French decided to change her name.

It's fairly common for character's name to be changed in French, mostly for pronunciation purposes I suppose but "Misty" seems just fine to me, so why France, why? Misty is not one to hide her thoughts, nor would she ever back away from a challenge.

Because of that, she can sometimes feel insecure and even jealous of others if she fears she's going to be replaced. Say it with me now: "Jealousy is a sin". It's normal to have feelings of inadequacy from time to time, but Misty needs a better grip on herself. I don't know about you, but I imagine explosions. Misty never admitted her feelings for Ash at least in the English Dub , but it's not hard to guess what she felt when we know that she often start sulking. We've already learned so much about Misty so far, but here's another disturbing piece of information for you: Misty's original purpose in the series was to keep boys interested in the show.

It's alright, take some time to digest it The creators introduced her character as an "eye-candy", which is a little disappointing to female viewers of the show. They also revealed later on that it was the reason she was the first one in the trio to leave and she would be replaced by a new girl. It's hard to imagine her being just a pretty thing considering how complex and developed her character is.

It truly saddens me to know that one of my favorite childhood characters was never supposed to be the role model she is now Funny how most female characters in animes tend to wear pretty short clothes, and Misty, of course, is no exception.

One thing we can notice is that no matter how short her top is, you will never see her belly button unless she is wearing a proper bathing suit. Apparently, the creators decided not to give her a belly button in order for her not be too attractive.

Talk about a lot of nonsense. First we hear that Misty was there to attract male attention, and then we find out she can't be "too" attractive. Also, is that body-shaming I hear? Shouldn't Misty be able to wear whatever she wants and show off her belly-button if she wants to?

Perhaps the TV world isn't as evolved as the real world just yet. Misty appeared in the very first episode of the series. Ash takes Misty's bike to get there faster but the bike gets destroyed by lightning and Misty runs after Ash to demand he buy her a new bike. We were introduced to a rather intense Misty at the start, but we soon learn that she's got a big heart.

She sure held a grudge for some time but when Ash finally replaced her bike in "Gotta Catch Ya Later", Misty surprisingly decides to keep traveling with him.