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The narrator, as represented in JN119 The narrator is a third-person character of the Pokémon anime . He has been in almost every episode and movie up until the conclusion of Pokémon Journeys: The Series
Overview 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 are heading. Sometimes, he will even explain what they did in the previous episode. He usually concludes the episode with what Ash and his friends have learned during the episode or say what they are planning to do next. In movies, he usually is only heard at the beginning, giving an overview of the Pokémon world .
There have been several instances of a character breaking the fourth wall and talking to the narrator, such as in Hypno's Naptime Misty told him not to congratulate her for unintentionally catching a Psyduck , and Radio Lulled the Mischievous Stars! Team Rocket interrupted the narrator's closing lines for the episode and gave him a listener mail to read for their radio show. In the clip show episodes JN119 , JN121 , and JN126 , the narrator hosted radio shows under the pseudonyms of (Japanese: ナレーさん Mr. Narra ), (Japanese: ナレー・ション Narra Tion ), and (Japanese: ナレタ先輩 Nareta-senpai ), respectively.
In some of the episodes featured in the Weekly Pokémon Broadcasting Station , regular characters would narrate in first-person in place of the narrator. When the episodes were dubbed in English, these were replaced with the regular narration. First-person narration was kept in English in Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire Get the Show on the Road Lillie also regularly narrated Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon Now You See Them, Now You Don't! The Professors' New Adventure! Night of a Thousand Poses!
Following the conclusion of Pokémon Journeys: The Series Pikachu no longer main characters, the narrator was also retired (other than a brief voice-over at the beginning of The Pendant That Starts It All (Part One) Liko replacing him in providing the opening and ending narrations.
Voice actors
Language
Voice actor
Japanese
石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka EP001 -SM091 , JNS05 , M01 -M22 ) Kenyu Horiuchi PK13 -PK22 , SM095 -JN147 , M23 ) Aiko Satō (PK01 ) Tamao Satō (PK04 ) Gara Takashima (PK05 -PK06 , PK08 -PK09 ) Noriko Sakai (PK07 ) Kumiko Endo (PK10 ) Yūka (PK11 ) Kazuko Sugiyama (Pichu Bros. in Party Panic ) Mayumi Iizuka Pichu Bros. in Party Panic "Narrated by Kasumi" version) Hanako Yamada (PK12 ) Kōichi Yamadera Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky - Beyond Time & Darkness ) Shōko Nakagawa PK23 ) Natsuna (PK24 ) Atsuko Maeda PK25 ) Mayu Watanabe PK26 ) Hideaki Tezuka (XYS01 ) Mizuki Yamamoto (PK27 )
English
Rodger Parsons (EP001 -AG020 * , The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon AG146 -JN147 , M01 -M05 , M09 -M23 ) Mike Pollock (AG021 -AG145 , M06 -M08 ) Erica Schroeder (PK24 ) Eileen Stevens (PK25 ) H.D. Quinn (XYS01 ) Sarah Natochenny (PK27 ) HZ001 )
Arabic
مروان فرحات Marwan Farhat (EP001 -EP105 ) Jihad Al Attrash (EP106 -EP209 ) Fadi Rifai (EP263 -AG092 ) Pierre Dagher (M07 ) Raymond Francis (M22 -M23 , JN001 -present and The Arceus Chronicles )
Chinese
Cantonese
張炳強 Jēung Bíngkèuhng (Billy Cheung)
Mandarin
Taiwan: Sūn Chéng Fú Shuǎng (EP208 -EP259 ) Yú Zhèngshēng (EP260 -present) Mainland China: Hán Lì (EP001 -EP053 )
Czech
Pavel Soukup (EP001 -EP209 , DP001 -present, M01 -M03 , M11 ) M04 ) M06 -M07 )
Danish
Torben Sekov
Dutch
Jeroen Keers
Filipino
Jefferson Utanes
Finnish
Pasi Ruohonen (EP001 -XY023 , XY025 -XY049 , M01 -M04 , M10 -M17 , M22 , MR , MoMP ) XY024 , XY050 -present, M18 -M21 ) M05 -M07 )
European French
Jean-Daniel Nicodème
German
Michael Schwarzmaier (EP001 -BW048 , M08 -M13 ) BW049 -present, M14 -present) M01 ) M02 -M04 ) M05 ) M06 -M07 ) M10 )
Hebrew
עמי מנדלמן Ami Mendelman
Hindi
Darpann (S01-for some episodes) (Cartoon Network dub) S09 , S10 , S14 ) (Cartoon Network dub) S13 ) (Cartoon Network dub) S04 -present) (Hungama dub)
Hungarian
Péter Tarján (original series and Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl
Icelandic
Harald G. Haraldsson (M03 ) M05 )
Indonesian
Frenddy J.H. Pangkey (Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl BW001 -present, M08 -M13 , M16 ) Pokémon the Series: XY Mega Evolution Special Pokémon the Series: XYZ Pokémon the Series: Sun and Moon M22 ) Pokémon Journeys: The Series M23 )
Italian
Federico Danti (EP001 -AG145 , DP001 -JN147 , M02 , M03 , M09 , M11 -present) AG146 -AG192 ) M01 ) M04 -M05 ) M06 -M07 ) M08 ) M10 ) Pichu Bros. in Party Panic )PK24 -PK26 ) PK27 )
Korean
양석정 Seok-jeong Yang
Norwegian
Trond Teigen
Polish
Mikołaj Klimek (EP001 -AG040 , DP053 -JN008 , M01 -M22 , Mewtwo Returns , PK07 ) DP001 -DP052 ) JN009 -JN048 )
Portuguese
Brazil
Fábio Moura (EP001 -EP052 , EP105 -XY093 , M01 , M03 -M18 ) EP053 -EP104 , M02 ) XY094 -XY140 , XYS05 , M19 ) SM001 -JN147 , M20 -M23 )HZ001 )
Portugal
Rui de Sá (EP001 -EP209 ) EP210 -DP052 , Pokémon Chronicles ) DP053 -present, M10 -present) M01 ) M02 ) M03 and M04 ) M07 )
Russian
Николай Карцев Nikolay Kartsev (EP001 -EP105 ) Nikita Prozorovsky (M01 -M03 ) Yaroslav Agikyan (DP001 -DP052 ) Victor Bakin (DP053 -DP104 ; M11 ) Andrei Simanov (DP105 -DP176 ; M12 ) Petr Ivashenko (AG001 -AG192 , DP177 -present; M08 -M10 , M13 -present)
Spanish
Latin America
Gerardo Vázquez HZ001 ) M04 -M05 ) M06 -M07 )*
Spain
Eduardo del Hoyo M19 ) PK25 -PK27 ) PMDAS ) ORASAT ) Mega Evolution Pokédex Short )
Swedish
Stephan Karlsén (S11)
Thai
อภินันท์ ธีระนันทกุล Apinan Teeranantakul Siravii Jirahirunchart (PK27 )
Turkish
Devrim Parscan SM001 -present)
Vietnamese
Hồ Tiến Đạt M10 -M18 ) M22 )
