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Since 2009<ref>Confirmed by the ©2009 copyright date in the first season's redub ending credits</ref>, a re-dub of the first three seasons had been in the works and finally premiered on K2 in 2014 following the expiration of Mediaset's license. The new dub was to be more faithful to the English one and to the official Italian names for moves and cities used in the games. The original English Pokémon themes and texts (only for the "To be continued" and the title of the first about 20 episodes of Indigo League) were dubbed and translated in Italian as well.

The first two episodes of [[S17|Pokémon the Series: XY]] premiered on K2 on October 19, 2013 as a sneak peek and premiered fully on April 23, 2014.

All of the [[Pokémon movie]]s have been released in Italy so far. On February 28, March 6 and 13 2004, the first three movies were supposed to be broadcast, for the first time on TV, on Italy 1 in prime time. However, due to the low audience, only the first two movies aired. One year later, finally, the [[M03|third one]] was broadcast, this time on Sunday afternoon. After almost four-and-a-half years without any movie release (except for the events' cinema projections of the eight and tenth movies), the movies started to air again in 2009: [[M08|the eight]] and [[M09|the ninth]] were aired on Hiro (respectively on January and November 2009), ''[[M07|Destiny Deoxys]]'' was aired for the first time on Boing in July 2010, and ''[[M10|The Rise of Darkrai]]'' premiered on July 2011 via online broadcast on the official site; most recent movies (from [[M11|the eleventh]] onward) regularly air on Disney XD and K2 every year, following the seasons' path.

On February 21, 2015, [[M17|the seventeenth movie]] (the last one to also get a DVD release) premiered in the Italian cinemas with its special Pikachu episode, being the first Pokémon movie to be shown in cinema since almost fourteen years. ''[[M18|Hoopa and the Clash of Ages]]'' was first released in January 2016 on [[iTunes]], then premiered in TV (K2) on May 2. ''[[M19|Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel]]'' aired for the first time on K2 on November 19, 2016; ''[[M20|I Choose You!]]'' premiered in cinemas on November 6, 2017, while ''[[M21|The Power of Us]]'' was released on December 11, 2018 on [[iTunes Store|iTunes]] and [[Google Play]]. ''[[M22|Mewtwo Strikes Back—Evolution]]'' and ''[[M23|Secrets of the Jungle]]'' were distributed by [[Netflix]], debuting on the platform respectively on February 27, 2020 and October 8, 2021.

Traditionally, Mediaset, since its origins, has always created openings for cartoons and anime, some independent from the Japanese and North American opening themes. For Pokémon, nine themes have been made (for the first ten seasons and for Pokémon Chronicles). These Italian openings were not necessarily used for the same number of episodes as their counterparts in the English dub, with [[Pokémon: Beyond the Skies of the Adventure]] for example being directly introduced in the [[EP052|first episode]] of what in Italy became its [[S02|eponymous season]]. [[S06|Pokémon: Advanced]] and [[S07|Pokémon: Advanced Challenge]] later shared the same opening, as did [[S08|Pokémon: Advanced Battle]] and [[S09|Pokémon: Battle Frontier]]. This makes Italy one of only three known dubs outside of Japan and the United States to create original music for the Pokémon anime, the other two being {{pmin|Greater China}} and {{pmin|South Korea}}.

The English theme songs have been regularly translated and adapted for the Italian dub of the anime starting with [[We Will Be Heroes]]. Before that, only the first three English opening themes had been adapted in Italian, and exclusively in their movie version. Official Italian versions of the remaining English openings from the first ten seasons were also retroactively produced between 2014 and 2016, with many being shown for the first time on [[Pokémon TV]] (some episodes were however uploaded with the English openings and/or endings kept, without having been fixed since) around that time, effectively replacing the previous Italian-exclusive openings.

{{an|Iris}} was voiced by '''Francesca Bielli''', who had already voiced [[Maylene]] and {{an|Lyra}}, while {{an|Cilan}} (''Spighetto'') was voiced by '''Davide Albano'''.

{{an|Lillie}} (''Lylia''), {{an|Mallow}} (''Ibis''), and {{an|Lana}} (''Suiren'') were respectively dubbed by '''Giulia Maniglio''', '''Sabrina Bonfitto''' and '''Stefania Rusconi'''. {{an|Kiawe}}  (''Kawe'') was dubbed by '''Alessandro Capra''', who had already provided the voice for {{an|N}}, while {{an|Sophocles}} (''Chrys'') was dubbed by '''Patrizia Mottola''', who had also been the voice of [[Ritchie]] and [[Sawyer]].