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On June 27, 2014, after more than 3 years since Pokémon shifted to Pogo, {{wp|Cartoon Network (India)|Cartoon Network India}} made an announcement through [https://www.facebook.com/cartoonnetwork.india its official Facebook page] that [[Pokémon]] would soon be returning to Cartoon Network. The channel began airing [[Pokémon: Black & White]] from July 2, 2014, airing 2 new episodes on the weekdays. However, many of the episodes were aired out of order, which created confusion among viewers who were watching it for the first time. Instead of completing the fourteenth season run, it started airing reruns from 6 August, 2014, having originally aired till ''[[BW043|Mewoth's Scrafty Tactics]]''. CN later completed airing the remaining episodes airing them at late night time slot of 10 | On June 27, 2014, after more than 3 years since Pokémon shifted to Pogo, {{wp|Cartoon Network (India)|Cartoon Network India}} made an announcement through [https://www.facebook.com/cartoonnetwork.india its official Facebook page] that [[Pokémon]] would soon be returning to Cartoon Network. The channel began airing [[Pokémon: Black & White]] from July 2, 2014, airing 2 new episodes on the weekdays. However, many of the episodes were aired out of order, which created confusion among viewers who were watching it for the first time. Instead of completing the fourteenth season run, it started airing reruns from 6 August, 2014, having originally aired till ''[[BW043|Mewoth's Scrafty Tactics]]''. CN later completed airing the remaining episodes airing them at late night time slot of 10:30 pm without any promo on the channel. | ||
<!--No acute e, the official site listed the special without the acute-->On September 28, 2014, Cartooon Network had a special on Pokémon named ''P for {{AP|Pikachu}}'', in which they showed repeats of the first three episodes of the season. | <!--No acute e, the official site listed the special without the acute-->On September 28, 2014, Cartooon Network had a special on Pokémon named ''P for {{AP|Pikachu}}'', in which they showed repeats of the first three episodes of the season. On November 2, 2014, another special named ''Poke Diwali'' was aired to celebrate {{wp|Diwali}} and the next three episodes were aired. On January 4, 2015, to celebrate the {{wp|New Year}}, Cartoon Network had one more special named ''Poke New Year''<ref>Cartoon Network India (mobile) Schedule [https://archive.today/e6Oe2 (archive)]</ref>. The special aired the 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th episodes of Pokémon: Black and White. These specials had new theme songs and were repeated a number of times later<ref>CN India (mobile) TV Schedule archives [http://archive.today/f3zwy (1)] [http://archive.today/ICZE2 (2)] [http://archive.today/7QiKr (3)] [http://archive.today/o6znN (4)]</ref>. | ||
Cartoon Network India teased Pokémon BW, possibly the upcoming new season [[Pokémon Black & White: Rival Destinies]] on its facebook page on 22 February, 2015.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/CartoonNetwork.India/photos/a.174237375919745.43856.170368282973321/942111682465640/?type=1&theater]</ref> | Cartoon Network India teased Pokémon BW, possibly the upcoming new season [[Pokémon Black & White: Rival Destinies]] on its facebook page on 22 February, 2015.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/CartoonNetwork.India/photos/a.174237375919745.43856.170368282973321/942111682465640/?type=1&theater]</ref> | ||
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| Pokémon in South Asia | ||||
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| Language | Hindi Tamil Telugu English | |||
| Continent | Asia | |||
| Original anime airdates | ||||
| EP001 | May 12, 2003[1] May 19, 2014 | |||
| AG001 | May 9, 2006 | |||
| DP001 | November 9, 2009 November 16, 2009 | |||
| BW001 | June 17, 2013 July 2, 2014 November 3, 2014 | |||
| XY001 | ||||
| SM001 | ||||
| JN001 | ||||
| HZ001 | ||||
The Pokémon franchise (Hindi: पोकेमोन Pokémon, Urdu: پوکيمون Pokémon) made its debut in the Indian subcontinent in 2003, with the broadcast of the first anime episode in both English and Hindi languages on Cartoon Network India. The respective channel aired the show for eight years straight (2003-2011), up to Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Battle Dimension.
The anime also started airing on Cartoon Network Pakistan; the channel currently airs the Best Wishes series.
In March of 2011, the anime was shifted from Cartoon Network India to Pogo. It aired the Diamond & Pearl series in its entirety, along with the first season of the Best Wishes series. In July 2014, the anime made its return to Cartoon Network India with Pokémon: Black and White.
In May 2014, the anime was also picked up by Hungama TV, which started airing the Original series. Starting from Pokémon: Johto League Champions, the channel introduced Tamil and Telegu dubs for the series.
Pokémon games
While Nintendo has yet to make its way in the Indian subcontinent market officially, the Pokémon games and some other Nintendo products are available on online retail sites.
Pokémon anime
The Pokémon anime is available in the following South Asian territories: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
| Country | Channels |
|---|---|
| Afghanistan | Cartoon Network Pakistan |
| Bangladesh | |
| Pakistan | |
| Bhutan | Cartoon Network India Pogo TV Hungama TV |
| India | |
| Nepal | |
| Sri Lanka |
Cartoon Network & Pogo
Original series
Pokémon: Indigo League premiered on Cartoon Network India on May 12, 2003 as a part of its Toonami block and it was made available in both Hindi and English languages. The anime soon became one of the highly rated show on the respective channel, especially during its peak, and concluded its first run in the same year.
Immediately after the first season, Pokémon: Adventures in the Orange Islands made its Indian debut in late 2003 and ended its run in the mid of 2004. Following the year long re-run airings, Pokémon: The Johto Journeys made its long-awaited premiere on Cartoon Network.
Affiliated with Cartoon Network India, a separate Cartoon Network feed was launched for the Pakistani audience in 2004, which was later made available in Afghanistan and Bangladesh as well. Due to the affiliation, both channels broadcasted the anime simultaneously. With Pokémon: Master Quest, Cartoon Network India introduced two additional dubs for the Indian viewers, Tamil and Telugu. The original series concluded its first complete run in the mid of 2005.
On November 14, 2006, Cartoon Network India aired the first Pokémon movie, Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns, as a part of its Children's day programming.
| Debut | Season(s) of Pokémon Original series aired |
|---|---|
| May 12, 2003 | Pokémon: Indigo League |
| 2003 - 2004 | Pokémon: Adventures in the Orange Islands |
| 2004 | Pokémon: The Johto Journeys |
| 2004 - 2005 | Pokémon: Johto League Champions |
| May 18, 2005[2] | Pokémon: Master Quest |
Advanced Generation series
Pokémon: Advanced made its South Asian debut on May 9, 2006 and concluded in July of the same year. After four months of reruns, Pokémon: Advanced Challenge was simulcasted on November 6, 2006. The trailers for the seventh season were also aired in the Indian theaters. It ended its first run on January 4, 2007. Following this season, Cartoon Network introduced a new block called Dastaan-e-Pokémon.
Dastaan-e-Pokémon, a one-hour block, started January 8, 2007 with the first episode of the anime. The block continued to air all of the previous seasons, from the first season up to the seventh. Almost a year later, Pokémon: Advanced Battle made its way to South Asia. Also, it was the first time when a season premiered with two back-to-back episodes on the respective channels. The block ended in the end of 2008, followed by Pokémon: Battle Frontier.
The final season of the Advanced Generation series. Pokémon: Battle Frontier debuted in November of 2008. It began to air on Cartoon Network Pakistan two weeks after its Indian debut. Following the ten months long rerun airings, Pokémon: Diamond & Pearl premiered in the respective territories.
| Year | Season(s) of Pokémon Advanced Generation series aired |
|---|---|
| 2006 | Pokémon: Advanced |
| Nov. 6, 2006[3] | Pokémon: Advanced Challenge |
| 2008 | Pokémon: Advanced Battle |
| 2008 - 2009 | Pokémon: Battle Frontier |
Diamond & Pearl series
Unprecedentedly, the first season of the Diamond & Pearl series aired in Pakistan starting November 9, 2009 and in India on November 16 of the same year. Due to unknown reasons, Cartoon Network Pakistan wrapped up the season prematurely in just five weeks. As a result, around 23 episodes were skipped, from O'er the Rampardos We Watched! to A Stand-Up Sit-Down!. However, all the episodes were aired in their actual order during the rerun airings.
After keeping it on air for eight years, Cartoon Network India dropped the series in early 2011. The anime was then picked up by Pogo, its sister channel. It started with the season premiere of Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Galactic Battles for the Indian audience, which later made its Pakistani debut on August 1 and concluded on October 11, 2011.
On October 3, 2011, Pogo took the opportunity to air Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Sinnoh League Victors for the first time in India. However, The Fleeing Tower Of Sunyshore! and Teaching the Student Teacher! were skipped due to unknown reasons, an issue which was fixed in the following rerun airings. The season finale, Memories are Made of Bliss!, aired on October 25 of the same year. On a related note, the season completed its first run on Cartoon Network Pakistan from February 1 to March 19, 2012.
| Year | Season(s) of Pokémon Diamond & Pearl series aired |
|---|---|
| 2009 - 2010 | Pokémon: Diamond & Pearl |
| 2010 | Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Battle Dimension |
| 2011 | Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Galactic Battles Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Sinnoh League Victors* |
| 2012 | Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Sinnoh League Victors* |
Best Wishes series
After almost a year and eight months long gap, Pogo premiered the fourteenth season of the anime on June 17, 2013. Many changes were introduced, including: a new time-slot for the show, new voices for the narrator as well as Delia Ketchum. Instead of following the original production order, Pogo skipped the episodes The Dragon Master's Path! and Cilan Versus Trip, Ash Versus Georgia!, due to some unknown reasons. The channel completed the run of the season with the season finale, Battle for the Underground, on Thursday, 5th September. The re-runs of the season began from 9th September, continuing at the same time slot. Later on during these re-runs, the episodes of The Dragon Master's Path! and Cilan Versus Trip, Ash Versus Georgia! were broadcasted.
On June 27, 2014, after more than 3 years since Pokémon shifted to Pogo, Cartoon Network India made an announcement through its official Facebook page that Pokémon would soon be returning to Cartoon Network. The channel began airing Pokémon: Black & White from July 2, 2014, airing 2 new episodes on the weekdays. However, many of the episodes were aired out of order, which created confusion among viewers who were watching it for the first time. Instead of completing the fourteenth season run, it started airing reruns from 6 August, 2014, having originally aired till Mewoth's Scrafty Tactics. CN later completed airing the remaining episodes airing them at late night time slot of 10:30 pm without any promo on the channel.
On September 28, 2014, Cartooon Network had a special on Pokémon named P for Pikachu, in which they showed repeats of the first three episodes of the season. On November 2, 2014, another special named Poke Diwali was aired to celebrate Diwali and the next three episodes were aired. On January 4, 2015, to celebrate the New Year, Cartoon Network had one more special named Poke New Year[4]. The special aired the 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th episodes of Pokémon: Black and White. These specials had new theme songs and were repeated a number of times later[5].
Cartoon Network India teased Pokémon BW, possibly the upcoming new season Pokémon Black & White: Rival Destinies on its facebook page on 22 February, 2015.[6]
The BW series premiered on Cartoon Network Pakistan on November 3, 2014.
| Year | Season(s) of Pokémon Best Wishes series aired |
|---|---|
| 2013 | Pokémon: Black & White* |
| 2014 | Pokémon: Black & White* |
Hungama TV
Around the beginning of 2014, Disney Inc. bought the airings rights for Pokémon. However, the respective company did not acquire the rights for the anime's previous Hindi dub. While the exact reasons for re-dubbing are not known, there is a good possibility that such decisions were made because of Disney India and UTV's policy, implemented in 2010-2011, that all the dubs of Disney channel properties will be carried out in-house.
Original series
With Pokémon, I Choose You!, the anime made its Hungama TV debut on May 19, 2014. Hungama TV introduced a block for Pokémon reruns, PokéThon (coined from Pokémon and Marathon). Similar to the Cartoon Network airings, a couple of inconsistencies in the airing order were noticed by viewers. Following Its Mr. Mine Time, Hungama aired Holiday Hi-Jynx on August 14, 2014 and Snow Way Out! on August 18, 2014, followed by Showdown at the Pokécorral. Some episodes like Beauty and the Beach was skipped because it contains inappropriate material, and EP035 and EP038 were also skipped by Hungama as they are banned. Hungama received many complaints from the parents for the airing of Holiday Hi-Jynx[citation needed] claiming that this episode is controversial for kids as the episode features Jynx. Therefore, after Hungama received complains, they never re-aired that episode[citation needed]. Pokemon: Indigo League completed its initial run on September 10, 2014, with the airing of Friends to the End!.
Pokémon: Adventures in the Orange Islands debuted on Hungama TV on September 11, 2014, with Pallet Party Panic. Hungama TV now introduced an another block for Pokémon reruns, PokéVaar (literally PokéDay). More inconsistencies were noticed by viewers, and some episodes, including Stage Fight and The Mandarin Island Miss Match were permanently skipped because of controversy for kids in these two episodes featuring Jynx belonging to a trainer. The reason for skipping these two episodes for this reason is because Hungama had already received many complains for the airing of Holiday Hi-Jynx[citation needed] as mentioned above and due to this, these two episodes were permanently skipped and then were never aired not even during reruns. However, some other episodes like Misty Meets Her Match, A Tent Situation and The Rivalry Revival were skipped because of the limit of the channel's time level package[citation needed]. Because of this reason, they needed to skip these 3 episodes. However, episodes skipped for the time level package problem were aired later during reruns[citation needed].
On October 30, 2014, Pokémon: The Johto Journeys debuted on Hungama TV with Don't Touch That 'dile, even though all episodes of the previous season were not aired at that time. The channel also started using a red logo for Pokémon, instead of the regular one. As had happened with earlier seasons, another episode, Fighting Flyer with Fire, was skipped again for their time level package problem as mentioned above but this episode too aired later during reruns. Similarly, one more block for reruns was introduced, named PakdoThon (coined from Pakdo (Hindi word for catch) and marathon). Some episodes of this season were aired with additional Tamil and Telegu dubs. With The Fortune Hunters, Pokémon: The Johto Journeys completed its initial run on December 29, 2014.
With A Goldenrod Opportunity, Pokémon: Johto League Champions debuted on Hungama TV on January 2, 2015. A change of cast of the Narrator and the PokéDex were introduced. From Two Hits and a Miss, the channel also started skipping the parts of the episode before the title card, as they want to skip the theme song, but unlike previous seasons, there are some scenes before the theme song. Even the scenes of those episodes which had been aired fully (with the theme and the scenes before the theme) before were also skipped during reruns. Also, Hungama fully introduced Tamil and Telugu dubs. All the previous seasons were also dubbed into Tamil and Telugu, and started airing in those languages during re-runs.
| Debut | Season(s) of Pokémon Original series aired |
|---|---|
| May 19, 2014 | Pokémon: Indigo League |
| September 11, 2014 | Pokémon: Adventures in the Orange Islands |
| October 30, 2014 | Pokémon: The Johto Journeys |
| January 2, 2015 | Pokémon: Johto League Champions |
Reception
The anime has been very well-received since its launch on Hungama TV. Consistently ranking on top in its respective demographics, the show used to reach an audience of around 57.1 million across India, 24.2 million of which are children[7][8]. The audience has since then grown to 96.9 million individuals, out of which 32.9 million are children[9].
Pokémon movies
| Debut | Movie(s)/special(s) aired* |
|---|---|
| November 14, 2006[10] | Mewtwo Returns |
| 2009 | Pokémon Chronicles Lucario and the Mystery of Mew Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea* |
| 2010 | Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea* |
| 2011 | The Rise of Darkrai Giratina and the Sky Warrior* Arceus and the Jewel of Life* |
| 2012 | Zoroark Master of illusions* |
Cast and Crew
Hindi dub
| Character | Voice actor |
|---|---|
| Ash | Rahul Sharma (Cartoon Network dub)[citation needed] Nachiket Dighe[11] (Hungama dub) |
| Misty | Rucha Dighe[11] (Hungama dub) |
| Brock | Abhishek Singh (Cartoon Network dub) Uplaksh Kochhar[11] (Hungama dub) |
| Tracey | Nachiket Dighe (Cartoon Network dub) |
| Jessie | Shagufta Baig[11] (Hungama dub) |
| James | Kishore Bhatt[12] (Cartoon Network dub) Rajesh Shukla[11] (Hungama dub) |
| Meowth | Saumya Daan[11] (Hungama dub) |
Tamil dub
| Character / Role | Voice actor |
|---|---|
| Opening theme singer | Karthik [13] |
Pokémon manga
English-translated Pokémon manga was distributed in India by Chuang Yi.
Pokémon merchandise
- Pokémon became an instant hit in India and almost always used to be the number one kids show on TV. Due to its huge popularity, many pirated Pokémon products began to be sold in India.[14]
- Pokémon merchandise is available in India from Reliance Home video and games.
- Pokémon Rakhis were available in India, with Pikachu and the starter Pokémon of Unova region.
- Pokémon collectibles were available for free in every Cheetos snack pack.
- On the Toonami block, Cartoon Network hosted a contest titled "Toonami-Game On Video Game Championship" in 2006, with Pokémon merchandise given out as prizes.[3]
Trivia
- Starting from Pokémon: Black & White, Cartoon Network aired the show in English and Hindi only, hence the Tamil and Telugu feeds have aired only from Season 5 to Season 14.
- Instead of following the usual tradition of literally translating the moves' names in Hindi, several of them have been kept the same as in English starting season 14.
- From the mid of second run of Pokémon: Black & White, Cartoon Network replaced the regular opening with a new one.
- After the initial few episodes of each season, Hungama TV stopped airing the opening themes and the credits.
- The Hungama TV dub changed the name of the Pokédex to PokéTab (Hindi: पोकेटॅब).
- Prior to Princess vs. Princess, Hungama TV did not include the Who's that Pokémon segment for Pokémon: Indigo League airings. They stopped the segment from Snow Way Out!. It was restarted from Friends and Foe Alike! and stopped after Poké Ball Peril and again restarted it from Shell Shock.
- Hungama TV made a PokéRap for their Indigo League airings. It bears no resemblance to the original Pokérap and is only called Pokérap because it was subtitled as such. It started airing from Here comes the Squirtle Squad! and stopped after Princess Vs. Princess. It was restarted from Friends and Foe Alike, and stopped after Poké Ball Peril. After Poke Ball Peril, this Pokerap was then never re aired.
- Hungama TV made another PokéRap which started airing as a promo for season 2. It had three variants and featured live action dance sequences. Starting from December 2014, Hungama TV stopped airing these three variants.
Related articles
External links
- Cartoon Network India official site
- Cartoon Network India official Facebook page
- Pogo TV official site
- Pokémon merchandise
References
- ↑ Indian Television
- ↑ Indian Television
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Indian Televison
- ↑ Cartoon Network India (mobile) Schedule (archive)
- ↑ CN India (mobile) TV Schedule archives (1) (2) (3) (4)
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Inside Games (Japanese)
- ↑ The Hindu Business Line
- ↑ Indian Television
- ↑ Indian Television
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 Bulbapedia Staff had contacted an official source, who wish to remain anonymous.
- ↑ Indian television
- ↑ Afaqs
- ↑ Indian Television
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