Narrator

The narrator is a third person character of the Pokémon anime. He has been in almost every episode and movie.

The narrator usually speaks at the beginning and ending of each episode. In the beginning of an episode he usually informs the audience of what Ash Ketchum and his friends are doing or where they're heading. Sometimes he'll even explain what they did in the previous episode. He would usually conclude the episode with what Ash and company had learned during the episode or say what they were planning to do next. In movies, he usually is only heard at the beginning giving an overview of the Pokémon world.

In some of the episodes featured in the Weekly Pokémon Broadcasting Station, some of the regular characters would narrate the episode in first person in place of the narrator. When the episodes were dubbed in English, their narratives were replaced with the regular narration. The only time the first-person narration was kept from the Japanese version was at the beginning of Get the Show on the Road.

Voice actors

Language Voice actor Japanese 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka 前田敦子 Atsuko Maeda (PK25) 渡辺麻友 Mayu Watanabe (PK26) English Rodger Parsons (EP001-AG020*, The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon, AG146-present, M01-M05, M09-present) Mike Pollock (AG021-AG145, M06-M08) Erica Schroeder (PK24) Eileen Stevens (PK25) H.D. Quinn (SS029) Czech Pavel Soukup (EP001-EP209, DP001-present, M01-M03 and M11) Aleš Jarý (M04) Danish Torben Sekov Dutch Jeroen Keers Finnish Pasi Ruohonen (EP001-present, M01-M04 and M10-present) Unknown actor (M05-M07) European French Jean-Daniel Nicodème German Michael Schwarzmaier Hebrew עמי מנדלמן Ami Mendelman Indonesian Frenddy J.H. Pangkey (DP series, BW001-present, M08-M13) Italian Federico Danti (EP001-present) Dania Cericola (M08) Norwegian Trond Teigen Polish Mikołaj Klimek (EP001-AG040, DP053-present, M01-present, Mewtwo Returns) Piotr Bąk (DP001-DP052) Portuguese Brazil Fábio Moura (EP001-EP052, EP105-present) Marcelo Pissardini (EP053-EP104) Portugal Rui de Sá (EP001-EP209) Rui Quintas (EP210-DP052, Pokémon Chronicles) Mário Santos (DP053-present, M10-present) Paulo B (M01) Carlos Freixo (M02) José Jorge Duarte (M03 and M04) Unknown actor (M07) Russian Анатолий Зиновенко Anatolii Zinovenko (EP001-EP105) Andrei Simanov (12-13(1 half)season Petr Ivashenko 13(2 half)season-present Spanish Latin America Gerardo Vázquez Diego Armando Nieves (M04 and M05) Diego Brizzi (M06 and M07*) Spain Eduardo del Hoyo Amparo Valencia (PK25)

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