Pokémon in South Asia: Difference between revisions

With ''[[EP158|A Goldenrod Opportunity]]'', [[S04|Pokémon: Johto League Champions]] debuted on Hungama TV on January 2, 2015. The voice actor of the Narrator was also changed. Also, Hungama fully introduced Tamil and Telugu dubs from this season. All the previous seasons were also dubbed into Tamil and Telugu, and started airing in those languages during reruns. From ''[[EP166|Two Hits and a Miss]]'' onwards, the channel started skipping parts of the episode before the title card, including the theme song and scenes before the theme song. Even scenes of episodes which had been aired fully before were also skipped during reruns. This practice started causing confusion among the viewers. However, sometimes during reruns and in the late-evening rerun time slot, the opening scenes and the theme song were aired. For ''[[EP195|The Poké Spokesman]]'' and ''[[EP196|Control Freak]]'', those scenes along with the theme song were aired during the main time slot. The scenes and the theme songs were reinstated starting with ''[[EP203|The Secret Actor's Guilt]]''. From ''[[EP206|The Joy of Water Pokemon]]'', Hungama TV again started skipping the theme song, but this time, scenes before the theme were not skipped. With ''[[EP209|Machoke, Machoke Man]]'', Hungama completed the initial run of [[S04|Pokémon: Johto League Champions]] on March 26, 2015.

On February 15, 2016, [[S07|Pokémon: Advanced Challenge]] debuted on Hungama TV with ''[[AG041|What You Seed is What You Get]]''. The channel also shifted the anime from a 1:00 PM time slot to a 6:30 PM time slot. From ''[[AG080|That's Just Swellow]]'' to ''[[AG083|Unfair Weather Friends]]'', the anime was shifted to an 8:00 PM time slot. ''[[AG084|Who's Flying Now?]]'' was skipped. Starting with ''[[AG084|Sky High Gym Battle!]]'', the anime was moved back to a 6:30 PM time slot. Starting with ''[[AG086|Lights, Camerupt, Action!]]'', the [[narrator]]'s voice, [[Nurse Joy]]'s dialogue, the [[Team Rocket mottos|Team Rocket motto]], etc. changed. Hungama completed the initial run of Pokémon: Advanced Challenge with ''[[AG092|Judgment Day!]]'' on April 28, 2016.

The first two episodes of [[S17|Pokémon the Series: XY]], ''[[XY001|Kalos, Where Dreams and Adventures Begin]]'' and ''[[XY002|Lumoise City Pursuit]]'', debuted on Hungama TV on May 9, 2015. Similarly to the other seasons, inconsistencies in the airing order were again noticed by viewers, such as the skipping of the episode ''[[XY017|A Rush of Ninja Wisdom]]'' for unknown reasons. After a month-long hiatus, Hungama resumed airing new episodes starting on August 1, 2015 with ''[[XY021|A PokéVision of Things to Come!]]'', skipping the previous two episodes, ''[[XY019|A Conspiracy to Conquer!]]'' and ''[[XY020|Breaking Titles at the Chateau!]]''. As ''[[XY024|An Undersea Place to Call Home!]]'' was aired out of order in the US dub, it was also skipped in the Hungama airings. From the middle of the season, Hungama aired the episodes a a part of a block named ''Pokemon Full On''. With ''[[XY049|Bonnie for the Defense!]]'', Hungama completed the initial run of the season on November 14, 2015.

For all of the Pokémon movies aired so far on Hungama TV, the channel has made a new logo for the movie. Many scenes from each movie were skipped, including the opening and ending themes. Despite the fact that Hungama TV airs the English dub of the anime, the movies aired were based on the original Japanese version. Pokémon movies have also been aired in blocks with {{wp|Beyblade}} and {{wp|Crayon Shin-chan}}.