Johanna
| Johanna アヤコ Ayako | |
| File:AyakoDP.png Art from Diamond/Pearl anime | |
| Gender | Female |
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| Eye color | Blue |
| Hair color | Blue |
| Hometown | Twinleaf Town |
| Region | Sinnoh |
| Relatives | Dawn (anime) Dawn or Lucas (games) |
| Trainer class | Coordinator |
| Generation | IV |
| Games | Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum |
| Anime debut | Following A Maiden's Voyage! |
| English voice actor | Sarah Natochenny |
| Japanese voice actor | Makoto Tsumura |
Johanna (Japanese: アヤコ Ayako) is the mother of the player character in Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum. In the anime, she is the mother of Dawn.
In the games
Unlike previous mothers, Johanna is less content to stay at home. After the player begins their journey, she can be found at the Contest Hall and occasionally enters Master Rank Super Contests with her Kangaskhan.
She seems to be a friend of the judge Keira.
Pokémon
Contests
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In the anime
Johanna made her debut appearance in the anime in Following A Maiden's Voyage!.
She used to be a great Pokémon Coordinator and is also a former winner of the Grand Festival. Dawn wanted to follow in her footsteps and become a great coordinator as well. When Dawn left on her journey, Johanna gave her one of her old ribbons.
In The Bells are Singing!, it was revealed that she sewed Buneary's vest. As a young girl, she was shown participating in a Contest in a flashback in Battling the Generation Gap! against her childhood rival, Lila.
In Battling a Cute Drama! Ash, Brock, and Dawn received their new outfits from her.
Johanna appeared in Strategy Begins at Home! and met Ash and Brock in person for the first time. She used Glameow and an Umbreon in a double battle with her daughter, which she quickly won. While one might think that her skills might have gotten rusty since she became a mom, it turns out that she teaches a Coordinator class out of her home, and even has a battlefield behind her house for instructing her students. As a result, her skills are still as sharp as ever.
In Challenging a Towering Figure!, Johanna was the hostess for the tournament which was a part of the Twinleaf Festival. She wore a gown during the occasion.
She appeared in a brief cameo in DP174, DP175 and DP176 watching Dawn compete in the Sinnoh Grand Festival, then again in person in DP177 in the audience.
Pokémon
This listing is of Johanna's known Pokémon in the anime:
| Debut | Following A Maiden's Voyage! |
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| Voice actors | |
| Japanese | Chinami Nishimura |
| English | Chinami Nishimura |
- Main article: Johanna's Glameow
Johanna's Glameow was her main Pokémon as a coordinator. After Johanna retired from her career, Glameow became the family pet. It was seen batting against Lila's Delcatty in a flashback, where it lost by points. It later battled alongside Johanna's Umbreon against Dawn's Piplup and Pachirisu and won. Glameow was also seen in Challenging A Towering Figure! during the Twinleaf Festival battle tournament.
Its known attacks are Iron Tail, Attract, Quick Attack, Shadow Ball, and Swift.
| Debut | Strategy Begins at Home! |
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| Voice actors | |
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| English | Kayzie Rogers |
Johanna's Umbreon is her only other known Pokémon. It first appeared in Strategy Begins at Home!, where it battled against Dawn's Piplup and Pachirisu alongside Johanna's Glameow and won. It was later seen in Challenging a Towering Figure! during the Twinleaf Festival battle tournament.
Its known attacks are Attract, Quick Attack, Shadow Ball, and Swift.
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Trivia
- Like Ash's mother and May and Max's mother, her Japanese name also ends with コ ko.
- Johanna is the first mother of an anime protagonist to be directly based off a game counterpart.
- Johanna is the only mother of a player character in a handheld game with a known name to date.
- Of Johanna's Glameow and Umbreon, at least one of them is female. In Strategy Begins at Home!, they both used Attract on Piplup and Pachirisu. It worked against both, including Piplup who is a confirmed male.
- Johanna's Japanese name was originally intended to be Emiko (エミコ), as seen in the early sketches for Diamond & Pearl series.
Names
| Language | Name | Reference to |
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| Japanese | アヤコ Ayako | |
| English | Johanna | |
| French | Ingrid | |
| German | Katrin | |
| Italian | Olga | |
| Spanish | Casilda | |
| Korean | 진희 Jinhyi | |
| Chinese | 彩子 Cǎizǐ | From the name 彩子 Ayako. |
External links
- Ayako's Profile on Pokeani (Japanese)
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