Pokémon in New Zealand
Pokémon in New Zealand | ||||
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Languages | English | |||
Continent | Oceania | |||
Original anime airdates | ||||
EP001 | September 1998 | |||
AG001 | 2003 | |||
DP001 | August 2007 | |||
BW001 | ||||
XY001 | ||||
SM001 | ||||
JN001 | ||||
HZ001 |
The Pokémon franchise first reached New Zealand in late 1998 with the release of Pokémon Red and Blue Versions and the airing of the anime.
Pokémon video games
All Pokémon games that have been released in the United States have also been released in Canada, with the exception of the Pokémon mini. New games are always released on the same day that they are released in the United States. Pokémon games sold in Canada are direct imports of the American versions, so spelling variations such as color and center are not changed to colour and centre for the Canadian releases. While bilingual packaging and French-language instruction manuals are required by law to be included with the sale of all video games, no French-language Pokémon games have been released in Canada.
Typically, Nintendo does not distribute event Pokémon in Canada, although Canadian players may download Wi-Fi events. The recent introduction of Wi-Fi events has allowed Canadian players access to many previously unavailable event Pokémon.
Pokémon anime
In English
The English dub of the Pokémon anime has aired in Canada on YTV since September 1998, when Pokémon - I Choose You! debuted. In addition to airing the anime series, YTV also airs the Pokémon movies on occasion during their weekend "Moovibot" segment. Pokémon is very well received by YTV's viewers.[1]
Currently, YTV airs six episodes of Pokémon: Advanced Battle per week.
Day[2][3] | Time (EST)[2][3] |
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Monday | 8:00 AM |
Tuesday | 8:00 AM |
Wednesday | 8:00 AM |
Thursday | 8:00 AM |
Friday | 8:00 AM |
Saturday | 12:00 PM |
When the anime debuted on YTV, it aired on weekdays at 4:00 PM. When The Adventures in the Orange Islands debuted in the US, YTV continued to air Indigo League episodes until Wherefore Art Thou, Pokémon? aired on Kids' WB!. This is due to YTV's policy of not airing new episodes until there are enough new dubbed episodes to air five days a week until the end of the season. Back around this time, Pokémon sometimes received blocks of "back to back to back to back" specials. The first time this occurred, the block was called "Pokemania".
YTV began airing new Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl episodes on Saturdays in August 2007. A 3:30 PM weekday timeslot starting with Following A Maiden's Voyage was added on April 7, 2008. Eventually, these 3:30 PM episodes surpassed the timeline of the Saturday episodes, starting with Buizel Your Way out of This!. Thus, Canada started getting five new episodes per week. The episode that made the weekday afternoon episodes pass the Saturday ones was Buizel Your Way out of This!. The first season of the Diamond & Pearl series had finished its chronological airing on Tuesday, June 17, meaning that Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Battle Dimension should have started on the next Wednesday or possibly Saturday. However, this did not happen, as YTV began rerunning season 10 from the beginning. This is due to YTV's episode policy as stated above.
Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Battle Dimension briefly appeared for three weeks, airing on Fridays at 8:00 AM starting November 7, 2008. At one point, YTV was constantly changing their schedule around from Pokémon: Battle Frontier and Diamond and Pearl episodes at the times of 3:30 PM and 8:00 AM. On Monday, March 2, 2009, YTV began to air Battle Dimension regularly and only aired Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl episodes on Saturdays. On Wednesday, June 3, 2009, YTV aired the last episode of Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Battle Dimension. On Saturday, October 10, 2009, YTV began airing episodes of Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Galactic Battles.[4] On the same day, they aired Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time & Darkness at 12:00 PM, and also Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky - Beyond Time & Darkness at 12:30 PM (just one day after the US airing).[5] On November 20, 2009, YTV stopped airing episodes of Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Battle Dimension and began to air only Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Galactic Battles. On November 28, 2009, YTV aired the Canadian premier of Arceus and the Jewel of Life. Movies 8 through 11 have yet to air on the channel, however.
Currently, YTV is airing reruns of Pokémon: Advanced Battle.
In 2005, YTV launched an on demand anime channel simply named YTV Anime On Demand. The channel contained new and old programs, including series that do not air on the normal YTV. The Pokémon anime was also available on this service. In 2008, YTV renamed its on demand service to Bionix On Demand, which continues to offer Pokémon in its line-up to this day.[6]
While some episodes such as The Tower of Terror, Tentacool & Tentacruel, and Holiday Hi-Jynx were aired and later banned in the United States, they have not been banned from YTV's schedule. However, the channel has not aired any episodes which were also never aired in the United States, such as The Legend of Dratini and The Ice Cave.
In some areas of Canada, The WB (now The CW) is available on cable. With this, Canadians were able to watch the newest English-dubbed episodes on Kids' WB! before they aired on YTV. Since Cartoon Network became the USA's provider of the Pokémon anime in 2006, Canadians must now wait until the dubbed episodes air on YTV to watch them due to the fact that Cartoon Network is only available in the United States.
Cast and Crew
The voices used in the english dub shown in New Zealand are exactly the same as the United State version.
Pokémon Trading Card Game
(Info in early stages ) The Pokémon Trading Card Game was very popular with New Zealand children and school childreen alike.It was eventually banned in most schools , after fights and suspected gambling took place because of it.
Pokémon merchandise
Canada receives most of the same Pokémon merchandise that is available in the United States, such as plush toys and foods. All four Burger King promotions were available at Canadian Burger King outlets. Per national laws[7], all Pokémon toys and other merchandise come with bilingual packaging and instructions.
Several Pokémon books that have been released in English in Canada and the United States have been translated into French by Le Groupe Syntagme Inc for sale in Québec. Examples include many of Tracey West's Pokémon chapter books based on the anime, the Pokémon Adventure Series (Pokémon Collection Adventure), Pokémon Pop Quiz (Pokémon Questions-pièges) and Extreme Pokémon: The Guide for the Ultimate Fan (Extrêmes Pokémon: Le guide ultime des vrais mordus). VIZ Media exports all of its Pokémon manga to Canada, however, no Pokémon manga have been released in Canadian French.
All Pokémon board games released in the United States, such as Pokémon Master Trainer and Pokémon Yahtzee Jr., have been released in Canada in fully bilingual versions.
In the year 2000, YTV featured Pokémon Theme on their first Big Fun Party Mix CD.[8]
Trivia
- Scott Ramsoomair, the author of the webcomic Super Effective, is Canadian.[9]
- Pokémon.ca used to redirect to Pokémon.com.
References
- ↑ Your opinion of Pokemon - Have Your Say on YTV.com
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 For the latest Pokémon listings for YTV, see YTV's Pokémon show times list
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Anime TV Guide
- ↑ YTV's Pokemon board
- ↑ www.YTV.com :: AnimeMaster :: Article Archive
- ↑ Video On Demand - Exclusive Anime!
- ↑ Official Languages Act
- ↑ Big Fun Party Mix: Big Fun Party Mix: Amazon.ca: Music
- ↑ Scott Ramsooair Biography @ AnimeCons.com
- ↑ 404 Error | Pokémon.com (retrieved January 21, 2010)
The Pokémon franchise around the world | |
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Africa: | South Africa |
The Americas: | Brazil • Canada • Latin America • United States |
Asia: | Greater China • Indonesia • Japan • Malaysia • Philippines • Singapore • South Asia • South Korea • Thailand • Vietnam |
Europe: | Albania • Belgium • Bulgaria • Croatia • Czech Republic • Denmark • Finland • France • Germany • Greece Hungary • Iceland • Ireland • Italy • Latvia • Lithuania • Netherlands • North Macedonia • Norway • Poland Portugal • Romania • Russia • Serbia • Slovakia • Spain • Sweden • Ukraine • United Kingdom |
Middle East: | Arab world • Israel • Turkey |
Oceania: | Australia • New Zealand |
This article is part of Project Globe, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on the Pokémon franchise around the world. |