Johanna

Johanna アヤコ Ayako
Artwork from Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl
Gender	Female
Eye color	Blue
Hair color	Blue
Hometown	Twinleaf Town
Region	Sinnoh
Relatives	Games: Lucas (son) or Dawn (daughter) Anime: Dawn (daughter) Adventures: Diamond (son)
Trainer class	Coordinator
Generation	IV, VIII
Games	Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl
Anime debut	Following A Maiden's Voyage!
English voice actor	Sarah Natochenny
Japanese voice actor	Makoto Tsumura

Johanna (Japanese: アヤコ Ayako) is the mother of the player character in Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum. She is an accomplished Pokémon Coordinator from Twinleaf Town.

In the anime, Johanna is the mother of Dawn and appears as a recurring character during Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl. In the Pokémon Adventures manga, she is the mother of Diamond.

In the core series games

Unlike previous mothers of player characters, Johanna is less content to stay at home. After the player begins their journey, she can be found at the Contest Hall in Hearthome City and occasionally enters Master Rank Super Contests with her Kangaskhan, nicknamed Jumpy (Japanese: ガルちゃん Garu-chan).

She is also shown to travel to the Resort Area, where every so often she will visit the player's Villa. She can also be encountered in the lobby of the Battle Hall, where she will be cheering in support of the player.

She seems to be a friend of the Contest Judge Keira.

Pokémon

Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum

	Type: Normal Unknown
Jumpy♀
Dizzy Punch Cool Appeal: 0     --               Endure Tough Appeal: 2 ♥♥   --               Reversal Cool Appeal: 2 ♥♥   --               Outrage Cool Appeal: 2 ♥♥   --

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl

	Type: Normal Unknown
Jumpy♀
Fake Out Normal Appeal: 1 ♥   --               Endure Normal Appeal: 3 ♥♥♥   --               Reversal Fighting Appeal: 0     --               Bulldoze Ground Appeal: 2 ♥♥   --

Items given

Item		Location	Games
	Running Shoes	Given to the player before leaving on the journey	D  P  Pt  BD  SP
	Guidebook	Given to the player before leaving on the journey	D  P  Pt  BD  SP
	Tuxedo/Dress	Given to the player in the Super Contest Hall	D  P  Pt  BD  SP

Gallery

Sprites and models

Overworld sprite from Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum	Overworld models from Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl		Contest model from Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl

Quotes

Main article: Johanna/Quotes

In the anime

History

Johanna when she was younger

Pre-series

As a young girl, she was shown participating in a Pokémon Contest in a flashback in Battling the Generation Gap! against her childhood rival, Lila. It was revealed that Lila was the first person to defeat Johanna, breaking her winning streak. However, after seeing how passionate Johanna was about Contests, she started questioning what she wanted to do. She sat down to talk to Johanna and the two decided they would pursue what they would be best at, with Johanna competing in Contests and Lila studying to become a Pokémon Stylist.

Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl

Johanna debuted in Following A Maiden's Voyage!. She told Dawn that to become a great Pokémon Coordinator, she would have to learn from Trainers and Breeders as well. Later, when Dawn was about to leave for her journey with a large suitcase full of clothes and jewelry, Johanna gave her a small backpack.

In The Bells are Singing!, it was revealed that she sewed Buneary's vest.

In Battling a Cute Drama!, Dawn, Ash, and Brock received cold-weather outfits for the area surrounding Snowpoint City from her.

Johanna in the Twinleaf Festival

Johanna appeared in Strategy Begins at Home! and met Ash and Brock in person for the first time. Together with Izzy and Cara, she was planning the events of the Twinleaf Festival. She later had a two-on-two Contest Battle with her daughter, using her Glameow and Umbreon against Dawn's Piplup and Pachirisu. Although she won the battle with relative ease, she was impressed by Dawn's teamwork and complimented her.

In Challenging a Towering Figure!, Johanna was the hostess for the Festival Battle Challenge which was a part of the Twinleaf Festival. She wore a gown during the occasion.

In Teaching the Student Teacher!, Johanna was supposed to have a seminar for children, "My Very First Pokémon Coordinator Class," but she had to fill in for a Nurse Joy who was taking care of too many Pokémon as a judge in the Neighborly Town Contest. Dawn volunteered to teach in her place. At the end of the episode, Johanna gave Dawn a new outfit to wear at the Grand Festival.

Johanna made brief cameo appearances from Last Call — First Round! to Coming Full-Festival Circle!, in which she watched Dawn compete in the Sinnoh Grand Festival. She then appeared again in person in A Grand Fight for Winning!, where she joined the audience. She also made a cameo appearance in the ending credits of Zoroark: Master of Illusions.

When Dawn returned home in DPS01, Johanna decided to have her Glameow and Umbreon battle Dawn's Piplup and Cyndaquil. However, after Piplup and Cyndaquil started squabbling, the battle was stopped. She is last seen saying her farewells to Dawn on her journey to Hoenn.

Johanna in Pokémon Journeys: The Series

Pokémon Journeys: The Series

Johanna appeared in Nightfall? Nightmares!, where Chloe watched a video of her being interviewed. During the interview, Johanna took the opportunity to promote a Contest that was to be held in Eterna City.

Character

Johanna and Dawn

Johanna is an accomplished Pokémon Coordinator, having won the Ribbon Cup and the title of Top Coordinator after winning the Sinnoh Grand Festival when she was younger. Dawn grew up inspired by her achievements and decided to follow in her footsteps, wanting to become a great Coordinator as well. When Dawn left on her journey, Johanna gave her the first Contest Ribbon she received, which both of them carried as a good luck charm.

Johanna watches all of Dawn's Contests on television along with her Glameow. She also has newspaper articles about Dawn's victories and pictures of her competing in Contests and the Hearthome Collection in her living room. Although she keeps track of Dawn's journey, she doesn't like to get too involved, telling Dawn she would be better off relying on her friends and her Pokémon instead of her mother, and to use her losses as a learning opportunity.

While one might think that her skills have gotten rusty since she became a mother, it turns out that she teaches a Coordinator class out of her home, even having a battlefield behind her house for instructing her students. As a result, her skills are still as sharp as ever, as shown when she battled Dawn.

Pokémon

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This listing is of Johanna's known Pokémon in the anime:

		Glameow
		Main article: Johanna's Glameow Johanna's Glameow was her main Pokémon as a Coordinator. After Johanna retired from her career, Glameow became the family pet. It was seen battling against Lila's Delcatty in a flashback, where it lost by points. It later battled alongside Johanna's Umbreon against Dawn's Piplup and Pachirisu and won. Glameow was also seen in Challenging A Towering Figure! during the Twinleaf Festival battle tournament.
Debut	Following A Maiden's Voyage!
Voice actors
Japanese	Chinami Nishimura
English	Chinami Nishimura

		Umbreon
		Johanna's Umbreon is her only other known Pokémon. It first appeared in Strategy Begins at Home!, where it battled against Dawn's Piplup and Pachirisu alongside Johanna's Glameow and won. It was later seen in Challenging a Towering Figure! during the Twinleaf Festival battle tournament. Umbreon's latest appearance was in DPS01 where it was used to battle Dawn's Piplup and Cyndaquil alongside Glameow. It was able to do some dazzling combinations with Glameow, but when Piplup and Cyndaquil unleashed their Whirlpool-Flame Wheel combination; the battle was stopped due to them fighting. Umbreon's known moves are Attract, Quick Attack, Shadow Ball, Swift, and Iron Tail.
Debut	Strategy Begins at Home!
Voice actors
Japanese
English	Kayzie Rogers

Contests

Johanna's achievements

Ribbons obtained

This listing is of the Ribbons Johanna has obtained:

• At least five Ribbons (prior to Following A Maiden's Voyage!)

Grand Festival ranking

Johanna has competed in the following Grand Festival tournaments:

• Sinnoh Grand Festival - Winner (prior to Following A Maiden's Voyage!)

Voice actors

Language Voice actor Japanese 津村まこと Makoto Tsumura English Sarah Natochenny Finnish Elise Langenoja (DP001-DP167) Ella Pyhältö (DP176, DP190-DP191) Raili Raitala (DP177) European French Fabienne Loriaux (DP001-DP191) Élisabeth Guinand (JN074) Hindi सबीना मलिक मौसम Sabina Malik Mausum Hungarian Ilona Molnár Indonesian Diah Sekartadji Wulandari (S24) Italian Daniela Fava Norwegian Lena Meieran Polish Bożena Furczyk (DP001-DP012, JN074) Monika Kwiatkowska (DP027-DP049) Anna Sroka (DP061-DP095, DP162-DP177) Julita Kożuszek-Borsuk (DP095, young) Anna Sztejner (DP137-DP141) Portuguese Brazil Denise Reis (DP001-DP012, DP043-DP061, DP095) Silvia Suzy (DP027) Elisa Villon (DP079) Lene Bastos (DP137-present) Portugal Sandra de Castro (DP001-DP049) Isabel Queirós (DP061-DP095) Ângela Marques (DP137-DP141) Spanish Latin America Karina Altamirano (DP001-DP004) Elena Ramírez (rest of S10) Cynthia Alfonso (S11) Unknown voice actress (S12) Belinda Martínez (S13, S24) Spain Gemma Martín

In the manga

Johanna in Pokémon Adventures

Diamond and Johanna

Pokémon Adventures

History

Prior to Diamond & Pearl arc

Johanna used to be a Super Contest Coordinator in the past. At some point in her career, she recorded a dance video.

HeartGold & SoulSilver arc

Johanna made a short cameo at the end of this chapter.

Diamond & Pearl arc

Johanna was first seen in Perturbed by Pachirisu when Platinum was watching Johanna's dance video to practice for the Dance Competition of her first Pokémon Super Contest.

She reappeared as a figment of Diamond's thoughts after the boy reminisced about the bonds that families share in Vexing Vespiquen & Unmanageable Mothim II.

She physically debuted in Stopping Sableye when Diamond learned that she had headed to Lake Verity to gather Berries and would be in danger because of Team Galactic's plan to blow up the lake. He went there and found her being held hostage by the Commander Mars. Johanna barely managed to escape with Diamond's help as he distracted Mars and allowed his mother to run away.

After returning home alongside Sebastian and Roseanne, she realized that the jacket and shoes that she ordered for Diamond were gone, and conjured the idea to call him on the phone she left in a pocket. Soon, though, after he received her call, she heard from him that he was infiltrating their flying shuttle and would be having a showdown with Team Galactic, much to her shock. Sebastian traveled to Pastoria City with Johanna and Roseanne to inform Pearl about Diamond's disappearance.

Platinum arc

Johanna became a Super Contest Coordinator once more by the end of this chapter.

Pokémon

		Glameow
		Main article: Johanna's Glameow Glameow is the family's house pet. It is also assumed to be her Contest Pokémon as it was shown that she earned many Ribbons in Sinnoh.
Debut	Perturbed by Pachirisu

		Kangaskhan ♀
		Kangaskhan is Johanna's second seen Pokémon. She is assumed to be another one of Johanna's Contest Pokémon as shown in a picture of her and Dexter. None of Kangaskhan's moves are known.
Debut	Stopping Sableye

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl

Johanna in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl

Johanna appeared in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl.

In the TCG

This is a listing of cards mentioning or featuring Johanna or her Pokémon in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

Mom Cards listed with a blue background are only legal to use in the current Expanded format. Cards listed with a green background are legal to use in both the current Standard and Expanded formats.
Card	Type	English Expansion	Rarity	#	Japanese Expansion	Rarity	#
Mom's Kindness	Su	Majestic Dawn		83/100	Torterra/Infernape/Empoleon Half Deck
					Giratina/Dialga Half Deck		013/014
					Piplup/Pikachu Half Deck		015/015
					Arceus LV.X Deck: Grass & Fire		017/017
					Arceus LV.X Deck: Lightning & Psychic		017/017

Trivia

Johanna's Ribbon

• In early builds of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, the player was originally going to also have a father, which is further evidenced by script files leftover in their remakes, Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl.
• Johanna is the first mother:
  • who has a role other than being a mother.
  • whose appearance in the anime is directly based on her game counterpart.
  • of a player character in the core series whose name is known.
• Johanna's Japanese name in the anime was originally intended to be Emiko (エミコ), as seen in the early sketches for Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl.^{[citation needed]}
• In the anime, the color of Johanna's first Ribbon—the one she gave Dawn at the start of her journey—is the same color as the Ribbon Dawn first earned but it wasn't the same Ribbon.

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	アヤコ Ayako
English, Latin American Spanish	Johanna
German	Katrin*
	Johanna*	Same as her English name
European Spanish	Casilda	Possibly from casa (home)
French	Ingrid*
	Johanna*	Same as her English name
Italian	Olga
Korean	진희 Jinhui
Chinese (Mandarin)	彩子 Cǎizǐ	From the Japanese name 彩子 Ayako
Chinese (Cantonese)	彩子 Chóijí
Vietnamese	Ayako	Transcription of her Japanese name

Jumpy

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	ガルちゃん Garu-chan	From ガルーラ Garura (Kangaskhan)
English, Italian	Jumpy	From jump
German	Hüpfer	From hüpfen (bounce)
Spanish	Kangur	From Kangaskhan and canguro (kangaroo)
French	Sauteur	From sauteur (jumper)
Italian	Jumpy	Same as English name
Korean	캥이 Keng-i	From 캥카 Kengka (Kangaskhan)
Chinese (Mandarin)	悅悅 Yuèyuè	From 躍 / 跃 yuè (to jump)
Chinese (Cantonese)	悅悅 Yuhtyuht	Same as Mandarin name

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References

Top Coordinators
Abby • Fantina • Johanna • Juan • Marina • Robert • Solidad • Wallace • Yuma • Zoey

Non-player characters in the core series games

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Anime characters
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See also: Pokémon Horizons characters

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