Johanna

Johanna アヤコ Ayako
Art from Diamond/Pearl anime
Gender	Female
Eye color	Blue
Hair color	Blue
Hometown	Twinleaf Town
Region	Sinnoh
Relatives	Dawn (anime) Dawn or Lucas (games)
Class	Coordinator
Generation	IV
Games	Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum
First episode	Following a Maiden's Voyage!
English voice actor	Sarah Natochenny
Japanese voice actor	Makoto Tsumura

Johanna (Japanese: アヤコ Ayako) is the mother of the player character in Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum. In the anime, she is the mother of Dawn.

In the games

Unlike previous mothers, Johanna is less content to stay at home. After the player begins their journey, she can be found at the Contest Hall and occasionally enters Master Rank Super Contests with her Kangaskhan.

She seems to be a friend of the judge Keira.

Pokémon

Contests

Jumpy ♀	Normal
Moves
Dizzy Punch	Cool	0
Endure	Tough	2 ♥♥
Reversal	Cool	2 ♥♥
Outrage	Cool	2 ♥♥

In the anime

Young Johanna along with her Glameow

Johanna made her debut appearance in the anime in Following a Maiden's Voyage.

She used to be a great Pokémon Coordinator and is also a former winner of the Grand Festival. Dawn wanted to follow in her footsteps and become a great coordinator as well. When Dawn left on her journey, Johanna gave her one of her old ribbons.

In The Bells are Singing!, it was revealed that she sewed Buneary's vest. As a young girl, she was shown participating in a Contest in a flashback in Battling the Generation Gap! against her childhood rival, Lila.

Johanna in a gown

In Battling a Cute Drama! Ash, Brock, and Dawn received their new outfits from her.

Johanna appeared in Strategy Begins at Home! and met Ash and Brock in person for the first time. She used Glameow and an Umbreon in a double battle with her daughter, which she eventually won.

In Challenging a Towering Figure!, Johanna was the hostess for the tournament which was a part of the Twinleaf Festival. She wore a gown during the occasion.

Pokémon

This listing is of Johanna's known Pokémon in the anime:

		Glameow
		Main article: Johanna's Glameow Johanna's Glameow was her main Pokémon as a coordinator. After Johanna retired from her career, Glameow became the family pet. It was seen batting against Lila's Delcatty in a flashback, where it lost by points. It later battled alongside Johanna's Umbreon against Dawn's Piplup and Pachirisu and won. Glameow was also seen in Challenging A Towering Figure! during the Twinleaf Festival battle tournament. Its known attacks are Iron Tail, Attract, Quick Attack, Shadow Ball, and Swift.
Debuts in	Following a Maiden's Voyage!
Voice actors
Japanese	Chinami Nishimura
English	Chinami Nishimura

		Umbreon
		Johanna's Umbreon is her only other known Pokémon. It first appeared in Strategy Begins at Home!, where it battled against Dawn's Piplup and Pachirisu alongside Johanna's Glameow and won. It was later seen in Challenging a Towering Figure! during the Twinleaf Festival battle tournament. Its known attacks are Attract, Quick Attack, Shadow Ball, and Swift.
Debuts in	Strategy Begins at Home!
Voice actors
Japanese	N/A
English	Kayzie Rogers

Voice actors

Trivia

• Like Ash's mother and May and Max's mother, her Japanese name also ends with コ ko.
• Johanna is the first mother of an anime protagonist to be directly based off a game counterpart.
• Johanna is the only mother of a player character in a handheld game with a known name to date.

External links

• Ayako's Profile on Pokeani (Japanese)

This game character article is part of Project CharacterDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each character found in the Pokémon games.