Pokémon in Latin America: Difference between revisions

Beginning on January 1, 2010, the [[Pokémon: Indigo League|first season]] began to air on {{wp|Tooncast}}, a sister network of Cartoon Network and {{wp|Boomerang (Latin American TV channel)|Boomerang Latin America}}<ref>[http://www.anmtvla.com/2009/12/enero-en-tooncast-el-estreno-de-pokemon.html Enero en Tooncast: El estreno de Pokémon] (in Spanish)</ref>.

| [[Pokémon: Indigo League]]

| [[Pokémon: Adventures in the Orange Islands]]

| [[Pokémon: The Johto Journeys]]

| [[Pokémon: Johto League Champions]]

| [[Pokémon: Master Quest]]

| [[Pokémon: Advanced]]

| [[Pokémon: Advanced Challenge]]<br>[[Pokémon Chronicles]]

| [[Pokémon: Advanced Battle]]

| [[Pokémon: Battle Frontier]]

| [[Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl]]

| [[Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Battle Dimension]]

| [[Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Galactic Battles|Diamond and Pearl: Galactic Battles]]

| [[Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Sinnoh League Victors]]   

| [[Pokémon: Black & White]]

| [[Pokémon Black & White: Rival Destinies]]

| style="background: #fff" | [[Pokémon Black & White: Adventures in Unova]]

| style="background: #fff" | [[Pokémon the Series: XY]]

With the premiere of each season, the channel performs special promotions such as marathons of older episodes and, in years past, contests and other events. In December of 2002, to commemorate the premiere of ''[[Pokémon: Master Quest]]'' on January 1, 2003, the channel held a contest called "{{tt|Los Elegidos Pokémon|The Pokémon Chosen}}". To participate, viewers would vote for their favorite episodes on Cartoon Network's website, the most popular of which would be aired in a marathon on December 31, 2002.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20030207023701/http://www.cartoonnetworkla.com/spanish/promos/pokemon/ Los Elegidos Pokémon - Cartoon Network archive] (in Spanish)</ref>

On Cartoon Network, [[Pokémon: Indigo League|Season 1]] premiered September 6, 1999. [[Pokémon: Adventures in the Orange Islands|Season 2]] premiered in 2000, [[Pokémon: The Johto Journeys|Season 3]] in 2001 and [[Pokémon: Johto League Champions|Season 4]] in 2002.

[[Pokémon: Advanced|Season 6]] premiered on January 21, 2004, but only the first episode. It continued in March 2004 until the finale on December 6, 2004. [[Pokémon: Advanced Challenge|Season 7]] debuted on January 22, 2005 and broadcasted until the finale on September 19, 2005. [[Pokémon: Advanced Battle|Season 8]] premiered on August 8, 2006 and ran until the finale in October 2006. [[Pokémon: Battle Frontier|Season 9]] premiered on March 3, 2007 at 2:30pm and ran until the finale on February 2, 2008.

''[[Pokémon: Black & White]]'' premiered on March 17, 2012 at 2pm. On May 5, 2012, the schedule was changed to broadcast at 7am, causing much criticism by fans. On January 4, 2013, the schedule was changed again to Friday at 12:00pm until the finale on February 8, 2013. The movie ''[[M14|Black—Victini and Reshiram]]'' aired on November 29, 2012 at 12:00pm in Mexico and 2:00pm in the rest of Latin America. ''[[Pokémon Black & White: Rival Destinies]]'' premiered in April 19, 2013 and finale on November 15, 2013, while the movie ''[[M14|White—Victini and Zekrom]]'' aired on June 11, 2013. ''[[M15|Kyurem and the Sword of Justice]]'' premiered on November 1, 2013. ''[[Pokémon Black & White: Adventures in Unova]]'' premiered on February 3, 2014 at 2pm in Mexico and 12pm in the rest of Latin America. It ran until the finale on April 4, 2014. On May 30th, ''[[M16|Genesect and the Legend Awakened]]'' premiered simultaneously; except in Chile, where it was pushed one hour before the rest of the transmissions to avoid airing at the same time as a live soccer match against Egypt.

In March 2, 2015, [[Pokémon the Series: XY]] premiered at 2:00pm in Colombia, 2:30pm in Venezuela and 4:00pm in other countries, with new episodes being aired five days a week. Unlike previously, there was no advertising or any official announcement at all that the series was going to premiere, other than the synopsis for [[XY001]] being found on the [[Cartoon Network]] website's schedule a few days before, which was announced between the fan community by word of mouth.

The Latin American dub of the Pokémon anime is recorded and produced in Mexico. The series has been dubbed by four different companies. Originally, dubbing production was conducted by the company '''Audiomaster 3000''' of {{wp|Televisa}}, which dubbed the series from the [[Pokémon: Indigo League|first season]] until the first episodes of ''[[Pokémon: Advanced Challenge]]''. Audiomaster 3000 went out of business in 2005, leaving the [[Pokémon: Advanced Challenge|seventh season]] incomplete.  

On September 26, 2009, '''AF The Dubbing House''' confirmed on their [http://twitter.com/dubbinghouse Twitter] that they would start dubbing ''[[Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Galactic Battles]]'', indicating that they were the new dubbing company for the series. This company changed the voices of several main characters and terminology used (attack names and city names from the {{pmin|Spain|Castilian Spanish}} translation), but was able to return Gabo Ramos to the role of Ash Ketchum, because this actor has spent a recurrence in Argentina. However, [http://pokeguia.com/Televix_Entertainment Televix] was unaware that Gabriel Ramos recorded from Argentina, because they thought that Ramos was in Mexico. Upon hearing this they became angry with Dubbing House and Televix stopped distributing the series.  

'''Gerardo Vázquez''' was the dubbing director for the series from the [[Pokémon: Indigo League|first season]] until the [[Pokémon: Advanced|sixth season]]. He was also the director for ''[[Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl|Diamond and Pearl]]''.

'''Irwin Daayán''' (born November 9, 1978) was responsible for the voice of Ash in the absence of Gabriel Ramos from [[DP091]] until [[DP104]]. Daayán also provides the voices for [[Samurai]], {{pkmn|Mystery Club|Ken}}, [[Drew]] (starting from ''[[Pokémon: Advanced Challenge]]''), [[Conway]], [[Dome Ace Tucker]], and [[Tate and Liza|Tate]]. Daayán is a well-known voice actor, voicing numerous roles in other series including the main roles of {{wp|Yugi Mutou}}/{{wp|Yami Yugi}} in {{wp|Yu-Gi-Oh!|Yu-Gi-Oh!: Duel Monsters}}, Mugen in {{wp|Samurai Champloo}}, Goku in {{wp|Monkey Typhoon}} and {{wp|Pegasus Seiya}} in {{wp|Saint Seiya}}: Hades - Chapter Sanctuary and {{tt|Hades - Chapter Inferno|TV version}}.

'''Gaby Ugarte''' (born December 22, 1983) provided the voices for {{an|Dawn}} (from [[DP001]]-[[DP104]], [[DP158]]-[[DP191]]), {{mov|Melody}}, [[Jasmine]] and [[Giselle]]. She also dubs in other series, such as {{wp|Kuki Sanban}}/Numbuh Three in {{wp|Codename: Kids Next Door}}, Zatch Bell and Zeno Bell in {{wp|Zatch Bell!}}, Saya Otonashi in {{wp|Blood+}} and Gwen Tennyson in {{wp|Ben 10}} and {{wp|Ben 10: Alien Force}}. Ugarte left the show when dubbing production was moved to AF The Dubbing House, right at [[DP105|the beginning]] of the ''[[Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Galactic Battles|Galactic Battles]]'' season, coming back in the next season, although she was replaced in the fifteenth season because she was in France at the time.

'''Leyla Rangel''' voiced Dawn after Gaby Ugarte left in the 12nd season. Besides giving her voice to [[Mars]] during the [[Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Galactic Battles|previous season]], Leyla's prominent dubbing roles include Kagome Higurashi in {{wp|InuYasha}}, Kimberly Ann Possible in {{wp|Kim Possible}}, Estella Malone in {{wp|JONAS}}, Hermione Granger in the {{wp|Harry Potter film series}} (from {{wp|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)|The Goblet of Fire}} onwards), Ami in {{wp|Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi}}, and several of {{wp|Raven-Symoné}}'s TV and movie roles like {{wp|That's So Raven}} and {{wp|The Cheetah Girls}}, returned to voice Dawn in the fifteenth season since Gaby Ugarte was in France.

'''Gerardo García''' dubbed the voice of James for [[AG105]]-[[AG110]]. He is also the voice of [[Harley]], [[Paul]] ([[DP002]]-[[DP100]], [[DP163]]-present) and has voiced [[Tracey Sketchit]] since [[EP225]], He was also the director for ''[[Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Battle Dimension|Battle Dimension]]''.

[[Jessie]] has been voiced for the entire series by '''Diana Pérez'''. Pérez is also well-known for her role of {{wp|Monkey D. Luffy}} in {{wp|One Piece}}, He was also the director since ''[[Pokémon the Series: XY]]''.

[[Gary Oak]] has had five different voice actors in the Latin American dub. He was voiced by '''Gerardo del Valle''' up until the end of ''[[Pokémon: Master Quest]]''. For the ''[[Advanced Generation series]]'', he was voiced by '''Ricardo Bautista'''. He was voiced by '''Benjamín Rivera''' in [[DP045]] and by '''Noé Velásquez''' in [[DP085]]. In ''[[Pokémon Chronicles]]'', he was voiced by '''Victor Ugarte''', the brother of Xóchitl and Gaby.

* When speaking at an anime event at a school in {{wp|Buenos Aires}}, {{wp|Argentina}}, voice actor Gabriel Ramos revealed that ''[[Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Galactic Battles]]'' would have a total of 54 episodes.<ref>[http://pokemon-project.com/index.php?c=comentar&modo=ver&nid=333 Fancon: Kodomo Monsters - Pokémon Project] (in Spanish)</ref> However, season 12 ended with ''[[DP157|Gotta Get a Gible!]]'', which brought the total number of ''Galactic Battles'' episodes to 52.