Pokémon in Brazil

Pokémon in Brazil
Flag of Brazil
Language	Brazilian Portuguese
Continent	South America
Original anime airdates
EP001	March 7, 1999
AG001	2004
DP001	February 9, 2008
BW001
XY001
SM001
JN001
HZ001

Pokémon arrived as anime with the broadcast of Pokémon, Eu Escolho Você! in Brazil on May 10th, 1999, during a morning TV program called Eliana & Alegria in Rede Record. Later it was shown in Rede Globo (2005-2008), and RedeTV! (2008-present).

Pokémon anime

File:Rede Record.jpg

Rede Record logo at the time.

Pokémon started airing on Rede Record in May 10, 1999 daily on mornings. Some months after, it also begun to air in the brazilian Cartoon Network channel, along with Dragon Ball Z. Both channels noticed the great sucess that they had in hands, and after some time of first season reairings, the second season started to air in the two, first in Record, and a week after, in Cartoon Network.

Cartoon Network logo.

The second season had also big audience, but not so much as the first. This was due to the broadcast of Digimon series in a rival channel of Record, Rede Globo, in the same hour. After, Rede Record acquired seasons ultin fourth.

When the audience of Pokémon lowered on Rede Record, Rede Globo purchase the new season 5th and Record lose Pokémon. Pokémon was so successful in the mornings of Globo she also bought the 6th and the 7th season.

When the episodes of Pokémon over, Globo replayed and took of your mornings. In 2008, RedeTV! In 2008, the RedeTV! was finding a temporary cartoon to debut new programs. But, Pokémon was so successful, that the RedeTV! bought the other seasons to display on the nights on the channel. Actually, Pokémon are on the animation block called TV Kids. In 2009, RedeTV! was the first to display the Pokémon Battle Dimension (Season 11) before the Cartoon Network.

Dubbing

When Pokémon arrived in Brazil, the Latin American distribution of Pokémon (Swen and Televix) led him to be dubbed the Master Sound Studios in Sao Paulo and then offer it to a TV station open. The Master Sound did a good job, despite some blunders, and chose a great voice cast for the protagonists. After the success achieved in Brazil and the world, the distributors brought the 2nd season of Pokémon, this time was dubbed the BKS. The BKS has committed more errors than the Master Sound and even changed the voices of the Narrator and Meowth. In addition, many voice actors in the series refused to dub the BKS and it took a lot of work to convince the original cast coming back.

The following year, the Swen Televix and decided to change the dubbing studio, especially after the controversy dubbing Sailor Moon R the BKS. The new studio that hosted the 3rd season of Pokemon was the Parisi Video, also of St. Paul, who also voiced the 4th, the 5th and 6th season. The Parisi brought the entire cast of the series around and between each other and blunders, has achieved a voiceover good, but not to pay its employees, ended up going bankrupt. Thus, the Swen and Televix brought the anime to be dubbed in another studio in Sao Paulo.

Centauro took anime from the 7th season and although this brings the main voice cast back, changed the voices of almost all the supporting cast and extras, but did such a good job who won an Oscar Dubbing (Yamato Award 2006) Award for Best Continuing / Redublagem. The good thing is that some of these changes proved for the better. The Centaur also dubbed the mini-series spin-off Pokémon Chronicles, which changed the voices of almost all supporting characters, but still did a good job on issues of translation and audio. After that, the 8th season (Pokémon - Advanced Battle) arrived in Brazil and was in charge of Centauro again! With a doubling troubled, full exchange of voices and translation errors, and a horrible opening song, raised much criticism from fans of the series.

The 9th season (Pokémon - Battle Frontier) arrived at the studio soon after and with the same scheme dubbed the 8th season, but with many improvements and a voice cast more stable with the return of some former players, oblivious to the 7th season and Chronicles . From the middle of the 9th season, the site Pokeplus started to help the studio that there were no more failures, which was very positive for the series. The Centaur was also the first studio to dub the anime as well as his movie (the eighth onwards), in addition to the special payment in the United States in 2005 and 2006.

External Links

• A Longa Trajetória de Pokémon no Brasil (In Brazilian Portuguese)

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