GoggleShipping

GoggleShipping is the het ship between Ash and Giselle from the Pokémon fandom.

Canon


Giselle is a trainer that appears exclusively in “The School of Hard Knocks”, being the top student at the Pokémon Technical Institute. She tends to show off her beauty and her skills in combat, and is worshipped by other students of the institute.

Ash blushes at her seeing her in a photograph and later also seeing her in person. Giselle is surprised when Ash tells her about his Pokémon Trainer skills before battling his Pikachu with her Cubone. Misty challenges her for a battle and is defeated. Upon seeing Giselle's arrogance, Ash decides to fight her as well, while arguing that Pokémon training is more than types and levels – one needs to be friends with them, too. Giselle laughed haughtily and called Ash a beginner.

She teases Ash him about having been on a journey for two months and only having two Badges and three Pokémon. Ash manages to defeat her, and then Giselle humbles down admitting that there was more to Pokemon battles than books. Her school is then attacked by Team Rocket, and Ash and Giselle reconcile and team up to defeat them.

There were no other interactions after the episode, though both appear in the second opening theme Pokémon World.

Manga
Giselle has some brief appearances in The Electric Tale of Pikachu manga, though she did not interact directly with Ash in them.

Fanon
This pairing has some following. Giselle is the only girl Ash has ever shown attraction for. Her fans explain that Giselle is one of the few girls who combine her beauty with her great ability to be a Pokémon trainer, allowing her to be a possible partner of Ash and thus, be on a par with Serena, almost surpassing her.

As Giselle only appears in one episode of the original series, this could be considered a rare pairing despite the interactions. There are few fan-arts or fictions that represent this ship. Anti-GoggleShippers often argue that this was because Ash’s normally oblivious character was not developed that early on, his characterisation only changed throughout the years.

This ship is overshadowed by the more-popular PokéShipping (Ash×Misty) for the original series.

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