User:HygorBH/Professor Juniper (anime)
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| Professor Aurea Juniper アララギ博士 Dr. Araragi | |
 Art from Pokémon the Series: Black & White | |
| Gender | Female |
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| Eye color | Mint Green |
| Hair color | Light Brown |
| Hometown | Nuvema Town |
| Region | Unova |
| Relatives | Cedric Juniper (father) |
| Trainer class | Pokémon Professor |
| Game counterpart | Professor Juniper |
| 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 a recurring character who appeared in the Pokémon anime. She is a Pokémon Professor from Nuvema Town.
History
Professor Juniper debuted in In The Shadow of Zekrom! as an old friend of Professor Oak. She gave Ash, Delia, and Oak a ride in her SUV to her lab so she could study Ash's Pikachu who was ill. Later, she showed Ash the Unova first partner Pokémon, then gave Trip his first Pokémon, Snivy.
Ash later returned to Professor Juniper's lab after finding out that Pikachu had lost his electricity from Zekrom. Later the storm arrived again but this time it gave Pikachu's electric powers back, and Ash departed from her lab the next day.
In A Sandile Gusher of Change!, Juniper sent Ash the Poké Ball belonging to the Oshawott that was supposed to go to a new Trainer, but wandered away to go with Ash. In Minccino-Neat and Tidy! it was shown that she had sent Bianca to give Ash his Badge case. She then spoke to Ash via Bianca's Xtransceiver.
Ash sent his Pidove to her in Sewaddle and Burgh in Pinwheel Forest!, in order to make room for his newly captured Sewaddle. He switched them in The Lost World of Gothitelle!.
In A Venipede Stampede!, Professor Juniper and her lab assistants monitored Venipede swarm event in Castelia City, and they quickly identified that the problem was linked with strong energy waves coming from the Desert Resort. She flew over to Castelia and met up with Ash and his friends to investigate the unusual activity caused by Team Rocket. She was also set to appear in the unaired and non-canonical final episodes of Team Rocket's Meteonite mission; in May 2023, the scripts for these episodes surfaced,[1], revealing that Juniper was to be involved in investigating the history of the Relic Castle and would recover a small Meteonite stolen by Team Rocket from the Nacrene City museum so it could be returned to Lenora.
In Archeops In The Modern World!, Fennel helped Juniper revive an Archen from a Plume Fossil. Archen later evolved into Archeops and left with a passing flock of Archeops. While the encounter was brief, Juniper was able to document the cry and behavioral data on the Archen evolutionary line.
In Crisis at Chargestone Cave!, the group encountered Professor Juniper while she and her team were conducting research on the electric stones of Chargestone Cave. Juniper also met up with Bianca for their planned trade in Evolution Exchange Excitement!. Juniper traded her Karrablast for Bianca's Shelmet, making both of them evolve at Chargestone Cave. In order to help Bianca work with her new Escavalier, Professor Juniper suggested they have a Tag Battle against Ash and Cilan, who used Boldore and Crustle, respectively. Although Professor Juniper's Accelgor and Bianca's Escavalier learned to work together and eventually defeat Boldore, they were both defeated by Crustle's Rock Wrecker. Juniper was surprised to encounter her father Cedric, who revealed that he had located the Hero's Ruin. Ash's group left with Cedric in Explorers of the Hero's Ruin!, while Professor Juniper remained behind to continue her Chargestone Cave research.
In New Places... Familiar Faces!, Juniper met up with Ash and his friends again when they returned to Nuvema Town after the Vertress Conference. She also presented a beginner Trainer, Nanette, the three first partner Pokémon. After some thinking, Nanette chose Tepig as her first Pokémon. Juniper also received a call from her father, who revealed that the White Ruins had been discovered. While Juniper was unable to join her father, she suggested Ash's group visit the new Aspertia Gym en route to the White Ruins.
In Farewell, Unova! Setting Sail for New Adventures!, Juniper told Ash and his friends about a cruise that would travel through the Decolore Islands to Kanto, after they expressed their wishes to travel to Kanto together. She bought tickets for them to board the ship, but a disguised James bumped into her on purpose to switch the tickets around with fakes to lure Ash and his friends into another scheme of Team Rocket's. She wished the group all the best before returning to her lab. She also made plans to transfer Ash's Unova Pokémon from her lab to Professor Oak's laboratory.
Juniper made a cameo appearance in the ending credits of Genesect and the Legend Awakened.
Character
Professor Juniper is pleasant and mature. She willingly offers her assistance, even providing Ash's group with ship tickets on two occasions, in New Places... Familiar Faces! and Farewell, Unova! Setting Sail for New Adventures!, respectively. She has a particular interest in the origins of Pokémon. Juniper is often busy with multiple projects at any given time, all of which require extensive fieldwork and data analysis back at the lab.
Pokémon
This listing is of Professor Juniper's known Pokémon:
On hand
| Debut | Enter Elesa, Electrifying Gym Leader! |
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| Voice actors | |
| Japanese | Kiyotaka Furushima (Shelmet) Kensuke Satō (Accelgor) |
| English | Eileen Stevens (Shelmet) Dan Green (Accelgor) |
Professor Juniper obtained Accelgor as a Shelmet when Bianca traded it to her for her Karrablast in Evolution Exchange Excitement! to trigger the evolution. It participated with Juniper's former Karrablast, now an Escavalier, in a Tag Battle against Boldore and Crustle, and unlike Escavalier with Bianca, obeyed Juniper with ease.
After Escavalier began obeying Bianca during the battle upon being protected by Substitute, the two Bug-types defeated Boldore with their combined Hyper Beam attacks but Accelgor was subsequently defeated in a single hit by a Shell Smash-boosted Rock Wrecker from Crustle, Escavalier soon following suit in the same manner.
Accelgor's known moves are Acid, Energy Ball, Protect, Substitute, Quick Attack, Recover, and Hyper Beam.
Traded away
| Debut | Evolution Exchange Excitement! |
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| Voice actors | |
| Japanese | Chinami Nishimura |
| English | Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld |
Karrablast was first mentioned in Crisis at Chargestone Cave! by Bianca when she announced her intention to trade her Shelmet for it so that both can evolve. Following a battle in Evolution Exchange Excitement! that showed off the Pokémon's abilities, the trade occurred.
Karrablast's known moves were Peck and Take Down when it was in Professor Juniper's possession.
Gives to new Trainers
 Snivy |
 Tepig |
 Oshawott |
Gave away to Trainers
 Trip's Snivy ♂ |
 Ash's Oshawott ♂ |
 Bianca's Pignite ♂ |
 Nanette's Tepig |
Formerly raised
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Working with Fennel in order to utilize Musharna's Dream Mist and using a Plume Fossil provided to her by Lenora, Professor Juniper was able to revive an Archen in a lab between Castelia City and Nimbasa Town. Archen quickly proved to be a handful and refused to eat modern Pokémon food. She soon formed a bond with Ash and his Tranquill as they attempted to teach Archen to fly.
Some ancient seeds were attached to Archen when she was revived and were unknowingly planted in the lab. Cry after cry, the seeds grew and grew until the vines had made the lab completely inaccessible. The vines then began blossoming with fruit, and Archen quickly ran up and helped herself to her first meal since being revived. She then evolved into Archeops and in turn, gained the ability to fly. However, Team Rocket attempted to capture Archeops and, in the process, destroyed the habitat she had created. Luckily, a flock of Archeops had heard her call and arrived to take her with them. After saying a farewell to her new friends , Archeops flew off to live with her own kind.
Archeops's only known moves are Dragon Breath and Peck.
Previously resided at her Lab
 Pidove → Tranquill → Unfezant ♀ |
 Sewaddle → Swadloon → Leavanny ♂ |
 Palpitoad ♂ |
 Roggenrola → Boldore |
 Tepig ♂ |
 Snivy ♀ |
Oshawott ♂ |
 Krokorok → Krookodile ♂ |
 Scraggy ♂ |
Voice actors
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Names
| Language | Name | Origin |
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| Japanese | アララギ博士 Dr. Araragi | From アララギ araragi (Japanese yew) |
| English | Professor Aurea Juniper | From juniper and the Chinese juniper cultivar 'Aurea' |
| German | Professor Esche | From Esche (ash) |
| Spanish | Profesora Encina | From encina (holm oak) |
| Profesora Juniper* | From her English name | |
| French | Professeure Keteleeria* | From Keteleeria |
| Professeur Keteleeria* | ||
| Italian | Professoressa Aralia | From the genus Aralia (spikenard) |
| Korean | 주박사 Dr. Ju | From 주목 (朱木) jumok (Japanese yew) and the surname 주 Joo |
| Chinese (Mandarin) | 紅豆杉博士 / 红豆杉博士 Dr. Hóngdòushān | From 紅豆杉 / 红豆杉 hóngdòushān / hùhngdáuchaam (yew) |
| Chinese (Cantonese) | 紅豆杉博士 Dr. Hùhngdáuchaam | |
| Finnish | Prof. Juniper | From her English name |
| Polish | Profesor Juniper | From her English name |
| Russian | Профессор Джунипер Professor Dzhuniper | Transcription of her English name |
| Thai | ดร. อารารากิ Dr. Araragi | Transcription of her Japanese name |
| Vietnamese | Giáo sư Araragi | Transcription of her Japanese name |
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