Pokémon in the Czech Republic

Pokémon in the Czech Republic
Flag of the Czech Republic
Language	Czech
Continent	Europe
Original anime airdates
EP001	2000
AG001
DP001	January 2009
BW001
XY001
SM001
JN001
HZ001

The Pokémon franchise first reached the Czech Republic in 2000, with the first broadcast of EP001 in Czech.

Pokémon games

All Pokémon games are sold in Czech stores in English.

Pokémon anime

Of the original series, only 211 episodes and four movies have been dubbed to Czech. The fifth season, as well as the entire Advanced Generation series, have been skipped. However, dubbing has been resumed starting with the Diamond & Pearl series.

Cast and crew

The leading role of Ash Ketchum was given to Radek Škvor, who was ten years old at the time the show first reached the Czech Republic, making him the same age as his character. Radek's older brother Jan Škvor later voiced Tracey Sketchit the following season. Along with fellow main cast member Eva Spoustová, who provides the voice of Misty, Radek is one of the only two cast members to keep their role throughout the entire series. Eva also voiced Jessie and Nurse Joy at one point.

The third main character, Brock, was voiced by Petr Písařík, and later Martin Písařík. In the Diamond & Pearl series series, well known Czech actor, singer and composer Jan Maxián took over the role, as well as that of Professor Oak, who was previously dubbed by Jiří Prager. Jan's work on Professor Oak caused controversy amongst Czech Pokémon fans, many of which stated Maxián's voice is too young for Professor Oak. When Professor Oak appeared again in DP003, however, Zdeněk Hruška, who also voices Paul, took over this role. Maxián also sung Diamond and Pearl and We Will Be Heroes, and gave his voice to Saturn, Brad Van Darn, and other minor characters.

Team Rocket's Jessie, James and Meowth were dubbed by Dana Černá, Michal Michálek, and Marek Libert respectively. Their boss Giovanni was dubbed by Pavel Soukup, one of most popular Czech actors and voice actors, who has also worked as a dub director and dubbed the narrator. For reasons unknown, Giovanni was portrayed by Jiří Plachý in the first movie, even though Soukup was still on the series.

Other notable voice actors in the Czech dub of the Pokémon anime include Rozita Erbanová as Dawn, Klára Jandová and Jana Páleníčková as Officer Jenny, and Kateřina Lojdová as Nurse Joy.

Music

In 2001, the soundtrack album Pokémon 2.B.A. Master was translated into Czech under the title Pokémon, Chyťte je všechny!. The Totally Pokémon CD was also translated to Czech later that year, titled Pokémon, Johtovy Cesty.

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