Pokémon in Finland: Difference between revisions

|DP001=June 2, 2008{{tt|*|SUB Juniori}} <br> September 26, 2008{{tt|*|MTV3}}

|BW001=April 22, 2011{{tt|*|Sneak peek, MTV3}} <br> August 13, 2011{{tt|*|Actual season premiere, MTV3}}

All of the [[core series]] and [[spin-off Pokémon games|spin-off]] [[Pokémon games]] have been released in English in Finland, usually the same day as the release in the rest of Europe. The first ones being [[Pokémon Red and Blue Versions]], which arrived in Finnish stores on October 21, 1999.  

All games have their instruction booklet translated into both Finnish and Swedish. The only game released in Finnish is [[Pokémon Trading Card Game Online]], but only the interface had been translated and the cards themselves remained in English.

[[File:MTV3 Logo.png|thumb|left|80px|The current logo of the TV channel MTV3]]

Generally, episodes of the Pokémon anime air on Saturday and/or Sunday mornings on '''MTV3''', a Finnish commercial TV channel.

''[[S11|Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Battle Dimension]]'' has aired in Finnish on Jetix. When Jetix was replaced by Disney XD, Disney XD began to show reruns of ''Battle Dimension'' as well. Disney XD has also aired the [[M10|tenth]], [[M11|eleventh]] and [[M12|twelfth]] movies.

The 12th season started to be broadcast by MTV3 in September 2010, and finished on August 6th 2011. '''Katsomo''' started to upload the 13th season since 18 April 2011 and finished on August 11th 2011. New episodes were uploaded Mondays and Thursdays by 18:00.

Like some other European channels, MTV3 showed the first two episodes of ''Black and White'' as a "sneak peek" before the seasons actual airing. These episodes were shown on 22nd and 25 April, respectively. The season officially started airing on August 13, 2011.

Sub Juniori has started to return the first ten seasons of the series since the 12th of April 2010. Currently it's broadcasting the reruns of ''Pokémon: Advanced'' season.

Many episodes were not shown in Finland for unknown reasons. The [[EP080|last episode of the first season]] and the entire [[S02|second season]] were skipped and only about a half of the ''Johto Journeys'', ''Johto League Champions'', and the last 12 episodes of ''Master Quest'' were shown. This happened also to ''Pokémon Advanced'', as only the first 26 episodes were shown.

This changed during the ''Advanced Challenge'' season, as it was the first ever season to be shown completely in Finland. Every season after that have been broadcast in their entirety as well.

In Finland the anime is available on [[Netflix]].

The aired episodes were originally dubbed in Finnish by '''Oy PVP-Voice Ab''' from seasons 1 to 7, a dubbing company known of its numerous dubbings on different cartoons. '''Suomi Sun Studio''' has dubbed the series since ''[[S09|Pokémon: Battle Frontier]]'' season, though some episodes are dubbed by '''Dubberman'''.

A unique feature of the Finnish dub (and other Nordic dubs) is that the names of Pokémon [[move]]s have been left in English. This hasn't always been the case, but this came into effect when the seasons 9 and 10 were aired in Finland. The reasons behind the change are a bit hazy, but it has been assumed that this is because the Pokémon games and TCG are published in English in Finland as well. At the same time, it has been inconsistent whether {{Abilities}} are translated or not. Until season 8, the names of the moves were said in Finnish.

====Cast and Crew====

In the Finnish dub, several different voice actors have appeared. '''Sari Ann Moilanen''' was the original voice actress for [[Ash Ketchum]] in first and third seasons and the first four movies, though now he is voiced by '''Hanna Leino'''. '''Kiti Kokkonen''' is the most recent voice actress of {{an|Misty}}, and also [[Jessie]]'s voice actress in some seasons before season eleven, though both of these characters have had a few other voice actresses in some point: Misty has also been voiced by '''Outi Alanen''', '''Marjut Heikkinen''' and '''Pauliina Virta''', while Jessie has been voiced by '''Mari Laari''', '''Karolina Blom''' and '''Susa Saukko'''. Kiti Kokkonen has, though, also been the first of Misty's voice actresses. Brock was originally voiced by '''Juha Paananen''' in the first six seasons and after that by '''Jari Salo'''. Paananen made a surprise comeback in the beginning of season 12 with voicing Canalave City's Gym Leader [[Byron]] in two episodes.

{{an|May}} has been voiced by '''Aksa Korttila''' in seasons 6, 7 and the most of season 8, while '''Elise Langenoja''' has voiced [[Max]] from seasons 6 to 8. '''Mirjami Heikkinen''' is the voice actress for {{an|Dawn}}, while {{an|Iris}}'s voice actress is '''Saara Aalto'''. {{an|Cilan}} is voiced by '''Petrus Kähkönen''', who has voiced minor characters before. [[Gary Oak]] has been voiced by '''Pasi Ruohonen''', among other voice actors. Pasi Ruohonen had also voiced the [[narrator]] for many years, but starting with season 18 the narrator is voiced by '''Markus Bäckman'''. For some time at the beginning of the series, Gary shared the same voice actor with his grandfather {{an|Professor Oak}}. {{an|Serena}} is voiced by '''Alina Tomnikov''', {{an|Clemont}} is voiced by '''Henri Piispanen''', and {{an|Bonnie}} is voiced by '''Henni-Liisa Stam''', who had also voiced May in the last seven episodes of season 8, and some minor characters.

All the movies up to the [[M18|eighteenth movie]] (excluding ''[[M08|Lucario and the Mystery of Mew]]'' and ''[[M09|Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea]]''), as well as the anime specials ''[[Mewtwo Returns]]'' and ''[[The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon]]'' have been dubbed in Finnish. The [[M05|fifth]], [[M06|sixth]], and [[M07|seventh]] movies were dubbed by a completely different dubbing group and cast, similar to {{pmin|the Netherlands}}.

Out of all the [[Pikachu short]]s, ''[[PK01|Pikachu's Vacation]]'', ''[[PK02|Christmas Night]]'', ''[[PK03|Kanga Games]]'', ''[[PK04|Pikachu's Rescue Adventure]]'', ''[[PK05|Winter Games]]'', ''[[PK06|Stantler's Little Helpers]]'' and ''[[PK07|Pikachu & Pichu]]'' have been dubbed in Finnish, as well as the [[side story episodes|special episode]] ''[[SS019|Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Team Go-Getters Out of the Gate!]]''.

On July 25, 2014, Finnish publisher Pauna Media started publishing the {{chap|Red, Green & Blue}} and the {{chap|Yellow}} of [[Pokémon Adventures]] under the combined title ''Pokémon Adventures: Red, Blue & Green''. The first volume was published on July 25, 2014. There are plans to release the entire series. However, the original publishing schedule of one volume per month hasn't held up, and only the first five volumes have been released so far.

==External links==

*[http://www.pokemon.com/fi/ The official Finnish Pokémon website] (minisite)

*[http://pkmn.foorumi.eu/ The official Finnish forum]