Pokémon in Latin America: Difference between revisions

All of the [[core series]] Pokémon games have been released in Latin American countries. Most games are available in English only, imported from {{pmin|the United States}}; however, {{game|Red and Blue|s}} were also available in Spanish, using the translation from {{pmin|Spain}}. The Spanish versions of Red and Blue were not available until 1999, months after the original release in English in October 1998. No other Pokémon games were available in Spanish in Latin America until the release of {{game|HeartGold and SoulSilver|s}}, which also use the Spanish translation from Spain. Despite the content of the games being almost identical to that of the releases from Spain, the Latin American Spanish versions of the games have their own country code in the serial numbers, LTN (instead of USA for English North America, or ESP for Spain, etc). As [[Pokémon X and Y]] feature multilingual support, the need for separate English and Spanish Game Cards from [[Generation VI]] onwards appears to have been eliminated, as players may choose their preferred language at the beginning of the game.  

Local events rarely occured in Latin American countries, particularly in a single country exclusively. The events were usually announced on the [[Pokémon.com]] website but in [[Generation V]], the events are announced on the web sites of the stores hosting the events.

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| style="background: #fff" | [[S16|Pokémon Black & White: Adventures in Unova]]

| style="background: #fff; {{roundybr|5px}}" | ''[[M16|Genesect and the Legend Awakened]]''

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| style="background: #fff" | [[S17|Pokémon the Series: XY]]

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In March 2, 2015, [[S17|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 [[S01|first season]] until the first episodes of ''Pokémon: Advanced Challenge''. Audiomaster 3000 went out of business in 2005, leaving the [[S07|seventh season]] incomplete.  

Thus, the series was rushed to '''Candiani Studios''', which dubbed the series until mid-2009, with many errors of pronunciation and changing voices of several characters, without changing the names of cities and attacks.  

On September 26, 2009, '''AF The Dubbing House''' confirmed on their [http://twitter.com/dubbinghouse Twitter] that they would start dubbing ''[[S12|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.  

Since the thirteenth season, the series is being dubbed by '''SDI Media de Mexico''' as reported in November 2010 via Eduardo Garza's [http://twitter.com/LaloGarx Twitter], which reported that he would be the dubbing director and asked for help to the fans to return to each character's original voice except for Ash's. The thirteenth season had more errors than the previous season, due to the terminology used (attack names from the {{pmin|Spain|Castilian Spanish}} translation), but several of these errors were corrected in the fourteenth season.  

The Latin American dub is based on the English dubs by [[4Kids Entertainment]] and [[The Pokémon Company International]], retaining all of their character names, Pokémon names, and any cuts or alterations present in the English dub. 4Kids entirely distributed their dub, but currently, TPCI only licenses the dub while [http://pokeguia.com/Televix_Entertainment Televix Entertainment] was responsible for distributing the series in the Latin American market from 1998 to 2010 and SDI Media Poland from 2010 on.

He provides the voices for Team Rocket's {{MTR}}, the [[Narrator]], [[Koga]], {{OBP|Victor|Kanto}}, {{p|Slowking}} from ''[[M02|The Power of One]]'', and {{p|Chatot}} in [[AG184]]. He has worked on several other anime series, dubbing characters such as {{wp|Raye Penber}} in {{wp|Death Note}}, the Narrator in {{wp|One Piece}}, Roberto Hongo in {{wp|Captain Tsubasa}}, and other non-anime roles such as {{wp|Dr. Hibbert}}, {{wp|Seymour Skinner}}, {{wp|Barney Gumble}}, {{wp|Sideshow Mel}} and {{wp|Jimbo Jones}} in {{wp|The Simpsons}} (starting from the sixteenth season besides was before the role of Hibbert since season ten, but was absent in the fifteen).

'''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 ''[[S12|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.

Starting from [[AG045]], May has been voiced by '''Mariana Ortiz'''. Ortiz has also provided the voices for [[Nurse Joy]], [[Erika]], {{mov|Lisa}}, and [[Marble]]. Her other voice acting work includes characters such as {{wp|Fuu}} from {{wp|Samurai Champloo}}, Kaoru Matsubara from {{wp|Powerpuff Girls Z}} and Meg Griffin from {{wp|Family Guy}} (starting from season four).

Both English- and Spanish-language cards for the [[Pokémon Trading Card Game]] are sold in Latin America. Spanish-language cards are recognized as tournament legal for {{TCG|Pokémon Organized Play}}.

Currently, two of the biggest and oldest Spanish-language Pokémon sites are [http://www.cpokemon.com Centro Pokémon] and [http://www.pokexperto.net Pokéxperto]. Both started on 2005 and are some of the must trusted Pokémon sites in Latin America and Spain. They post about the most recent news from the Pokémon video games, anime and TCG, and also have very large community forums.

So far, Mexico is the only Latin American country to have any [[Pokémon: Symphonic Evolutions]] concerts scheduled. Two performance dates for Pokémon: Symphonic Evolutions have been announced for Mexico in 2015 — the concerts will be performed in Mexico City on October 22 and in Monterrey on October 25.