Pokémon in Sweden

Pokémon in Sweden
Flag of Sweden
Language	Swedish
Continent	Europe
Original anime airdates
EP001	March 4, 2000
AG001	May 15, 2004
DP001	February 26, 2008
BW001	September 3, 2011
XY001	March 30, 2014
SM001	August 26, 2017*
JN001
HZ001

The Pokémon anime first reached Sweden in March 2000, with the first broadcast of Pokémon - Jag väljer dig!.

Pokémon video games

Pokémon games are sold in Sweden in English with Swedish manuals. The games are released at the same time as in the rest of Europe. The only game released in Swedish is Pokémon Trading Card Game Online, but only the interface is translated, the cards themselves remains in English.

Stores known for distributing Pokémon events in Sweden are GameStop, and Toys "R" Us.

Pokémon anime

The Pokémon anime was broadcasted on Disney XD, previously known as Fox Kids and then Jetix, and TV4 in Sweden. The season Pokémon: Battle Frontier was not aired after the Pokémon: Advanced Battle season, but was just skipped, going directly to Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl. Pokémon: Battle Frontier was instead broadcasted on TV4+ and TV4's online site.

In Sweden the Best Wishes series of the anime is available on Viaplay and the XY series of the anime is available on Netflix in Danish, English, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish audio with Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish subtitles.

Movies

All movies up until the eighteenth, except Lucario and the Mystery of Mew and Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea have been dubbed into Swedish. The first four movies and Mewtwo Återkomsten have been released on VHS, and all movies up until the fifteenth movie have been released on DVD in Sweden.

On May 15, 2009, Disney XD had their premiere of Giratina and the Sky Warrior. The tenth movie has also aired on Disney XD. Arceus and the Jewel of Life had a television premiere on Disney XD in 2010 and was said to be released on DVD soon by "Egmont Kärnan AB". Lucario and the Mystery of Mew and Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea are not known to have been dubbed in Swedish.

Music

All opening themes used in the anime and movies has been dubbed into Swedish except for Born to Be a Winner and We Will Be Heroes movie versions which were left in English. All movie ending themes from Giratina and the Sky Warrior onward has been dubbed into Swedish.

The only Pokémon music CD to be released in Swedish is Pokémon 3 den ultimata samlingen. However, other albums in English, such as Pokémon the First Movie, have been available for sale in Sweden.

Cast and crew

Pokémon Trading Card Game

The TCG is released in Sweden in English at the same time as the rest of europe.

Pokémon and grammar

The word Pokémon and most Pokémon species names are of the commom grammatical gender in Swedish, meaning that they are used with the indefinitive article en and the definitive article den, den här, denna, however they are not inflected other than with the genitive suffix -s. Despie this, some other inflections such as the definitive singular form Pokémonen, can be heard throughout the series.

Trivia

• The headquarters of Bergsala, Nintendo's distributor in the Nordic countries and the Baltics (though in Finland, Nintendo's distributor was Agerex Oy from 1999 to 2002 and AMO Oy from 2002 to 2013), is located at Marios Gata, Kungsbacka, Sweden.

Related articles

• List of Swedish Pokémon themes
• List of Swedish Pokémon home video releases

External links

• The official Swedish Pokémon website (minisite)
• Pokémon at Nintendo.se

This article is part of Project Globe, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on the Pokémon franchise around the world.