Professor Juniper
- This article is about the woman who gives the player their starter Pokémon in Unova. For this character's father, see Cedric Juniper.
| Professor Aurea Juniper アララギ博士 Dr. Araragi | |
| File:Juniper.png Art by Ken Sugimori | |
| Gender | Female |
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| Eye color | Green/Cyan |
| Hair color | Light Brown |
| Hometown | Nuvema Town |
| Region | Unova |
| Relatives | Cedric Juniper (father) |
| Trainer class | Pokémon Professor |
| Generation | V |
| Games | Black and White |
| Anime debut | In The Shadow of Zekrom! |
| English voice actor | Khristine Hvam |
| Japanese voice actor | Naomi Shindō |
Professor Aurea Juniper (Japanese: アララギ博士 Dr. Araragi) is the resident Pokémon professor of the Unova region. She specializes in the origins of Pokémon, and is the first main series Pokémon professor who is female.
In the games
Professor Juniper debuted in Pokémon Black and White, where, like the other professors, she will give the player a Pokédex in her lab; however, she leaves a present containing the starter Pokémon at the player's house for the player, Bianca, and Cheren.
She also demonstrates to the player how to capture their first Pokémon, a level 2 Patrat, with her level 7 Minccino.
Over the course of the game, if the player visited her in her lab, Professor Juniper will hand out up to three TMs depending on the total number of Pokémon the player has seen. They are TM54 (False Swipe) (at 25 seen), TM17 (Protect), and TM10 (Hidden Power).
Pokémon
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Sprites
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File:Juniperstanddown.png |
| Sprite from Black and White's introduction. |
Back sprite from Black and White |
Xtranceiver sprite from Black and White |
Overworld sprite from Black and White |
In the anime
Professor Juniper made her first appearance in In The Shadow of Zekrom! and is an old friend of Professor Oak. She gives Ash, Delia and Oak a ride in her jeep to her lab so she can study Ash's Pikachu. She then shows Ash the new Starter Pokémon, and then gives Trip his first Pokémon.
Ash later returns to Professor Juniper's lab after finding out that Ash's Pikachu has lost his electricity from Zekrom. Later the storm arrives again but this time it gives Pikachu's electric powers back, and Ash departs from her lab the next day.
She reappeared in A Sandile Gusher of Change! where she sent Oshawott's Poké Ball to Ash. In Minccino-Neat and Tidy! it was shown that she sent Bianca to give Ash his badge case. She then spoke to Ash via Bianca's Xtransceiver. Ash sent his Pidove to her in BW018 to make room for his newly captured Sewaddle. He switched them in BW021.
In BW022 she thinks the problem of the Venipede swarm in Castelia City is something to do with the underground. Ash, Iris and Cilan meet up with Professor Juniper and leave to investigate the unusual activity caused by Team Rocket in the Desert Resort. She will appear in the Team Rocket arc.
Pokémon
This listing is of Professor Juniper's known Pokémon:
Gives to new Trainers
 Snivy |
 Tepig |
 Oshawott |
Pokémon she gave away to Trainers
| Debut | In The Shadow of Zekrom! |
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- Main article: Trip's Servine
He was chosen by Trip to be his starter Pokémon.
| Debut | In The Shadow of Zekrom! |
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- Main article: Ash's Oshawott
He tried to use his cuteness to win Trip over. However, Trip chose Snivy. He gained feelings for Ash after he called him cute, and he also watched the battle between Ash and Trip before returning. He later joined Ash's party.
Pokémon residing at Juniper's Lab
 Pidove → Tranquill ♀ |
In the manga
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
Although just starting, Professor Juniper has already appeared in the first chapter of the Black & White arc of Pokémon Adventures, where she was seen with the three starters, and mentioning to Fennel on the phone that tomorrow three children from Nuvema Town would be coming by to pick up the starters. She also commented that she hoped their trainers would be able to handle them, after they destroyed her office in a fight with each other. Of the three, Tepig ended up in Black's hands, while Cheren and Bianca received Snivy and Oshawott, respectively. She also issued them three individual copies of the Unova Pokédex, but an accident left two of them broken, and as of yet Black's is the only one still functional.
Pokémon
| Debut | Unknown |
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Minccino was used as a demonstration for catching Pokémon during Black's, Bianca's and Cheren's first day of their journey.
Given away
| Debut | Unknown |
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Black chose this Tepig as his starter Pokémon in Nuvema Town. He nicknamed it Poka (Japanese: ポカ Poka).
Poka's known moves are Ember and Flame Charge.
| Debut | Unknown |
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Bianca chose Oshawott after Black chose his Tepig and before she gave Snivy to Cheren.
Oshawott's known moves are Razor Shell and Tackle.
Trivia
- While Juniper is the first female professor in the games, she is not the first female professor in the anime. Professor Ivy of the Orange Archipelago takes this honor, having been introduced more than ten years prior to Juniper.
- Excluding Pokémon seen through hacking, Professor Juniper is the only regional Professor in the main series to own a Pokémon which is never given to either a protagonist or rival.
- However, Professor Oak had a whole team of Pokémon in secret coding for the Generation I games which was never used in the final copy.
- She is the only regional Professor shown to actually own the Pokémon presented in the game's introduction.
- She is the only NPC who demonstrates catching Pokémon who is seen to still possess the Pokémon after the demonstration.
- After Juniper catches the Patrat, it can be seen wandering about her laboratory.
- Like the professors before her, Professor Juniper is named after a tree.
- According to an NPC, Professor Juniper and her father were formerly Backpackers.
- According to Professor Oak in the anime, Professor Juniper is very young
- In Japanese her name means Orchid, and in English her name comes from a flower. This is a start that a professor's name isn't named after a tree in the English.
Names
| Language | Name | Reference to |
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| Japanese | アララギ博士 Dr. Araragi | アララギ Araragi, Japanese yew, or wild rocambole (old name). |
| English | Prof. Aurea Juniper | From Juniper. Her given name might be derived from Austrocedrus, or the Aurea butterfly genus, akin to the Araragi genus. |
| French | Prof. Keteleeria | From Keteleeria. |
| German | Prof. Esche | From Esche, German word for Ash. |
| Italian | Prof.ssa Aralia | From Aralia. |
| Spanish | Prof.ª Encina | From encina, Spanish word for Holm Oak. |
| Korean | 주박사 Ju-baksa | From 주목 jumok, Korean word for Japanese yew. |
| Chinese (Mandarin) | 紅豆杉博士 Dr. Hóngdòushān | May be derived from 東北紅豆杉 Dōngběi hóngdòushān (Japanese yew). Also, 紅豆杉 refers to the Chinese yew. |
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