Pokémon in Hungary

Pokémon in Hungary
Flag of Hungary
Language	Hungarian
Continent	Europe
Original anime airdates
EP001	June 10, 2000
AG001	2007
DP001	2009
BW001	Not Aired
XY001	Not Aired
SM001	Not Aired
JN001
HZ001

The Pokémon franchise arrived in Hungary with the airing of Téged választalak, Pikachu! on June 10, 2000.

Video games

Pokémon games are sold in Hungary in English. From the 1990s, Hungary was in the distribution network of the Austrian company Stadlbauer. From 2014, products are sold by ConQuest Entertainment.^[1]

Anime

The first three seasons were first broadcasted on RTL Club from June 10, 2000 till Early 2004 with episodes airing every Saturday and Sunday. The titles for episodes of the first three seasons were localized with the intros. After season 3 and onwards, for some reason, they stopped localizing the episode titles until the Diamond & Pearl series. During 2001, a controversy similar to those made in the Arab world and Turkey around the same time, made by ORTT, stated that Pokémon brainwashed children and that it had a negative impact on them and their brain development. This controversy threatened to end the show as it continued as it carried through the next few years. Despite this controversy, RTL Club continued to air the anime because dropping it during that time would have caused them to lose up to about 50 million Euros (58.3 million US Dollars) in revenue for Hasbro. In addition, they would have also lost a majority of their audience of ages 4-17, which were tremendous at the time, with around 50-65% of them watching the show.^[2]

Beginning in Early 2004, a new channel known as A + (or Anime +) began to re-air the first season of the anime. Instead of re-airing seasons 2 and 3, season 4 aired from around early to mid-2005 until mid-2006, when the company was sold and changed its name to Animax. Animax aired seasons 5 and 6 through mid-2007 and mid-2008, respectively, though the exact air dates for these seasons are unknown. These seasons were also broadcasted on RTL Club at around the same time.

RTL Club had once again started airing the anime's seventh season around mid-2008, after the airing of the 315th episode, it was removed from TV. It is unknown whether seasons 8 and 9 aired on TV, but episodes of these seasons are available online, though few episodes have been found. The release dates for these seasons are currently unknown. The 10th and 11th seasons began to air on Jetix (previously named Fox Kids and later renamed Disney Channel) in early-2009 but with most of voice actors having been replaced. However, when Jetix changed into the Disney Channel, season 12 was released with many of the original voice actors reprising their roles. The anime continued to air until mid- to late 2011. However, like in Romania, the 13th season was skipped. Anything beyond season 12 hasn't been dubbed as of now since the fall of ORTT in December 2011.

The only opening themes of the anime that were translated and dubbed into Hungarian were of seasons 1 through 3 and seasons 10 through 12. The intros of seasons 4 through 9 were left in English for unknown reasons.

Movies

In total, the first eight movies, as well as the 10th, 11th, and 20th movies were released in Hungary. All other movies were skipped due to unknown reasons. On November 9, 2000, the first movie saw its theatrical release. The second film was released on April 5, 2001. On March 28, 2004, RTL Club aired the Pokémon's 3rd film before releasing it in theaters. RTL Club aired the 4th and 6th Movies on March 19, 2011 which were later repeated on May 18 and May 25. On June 16, 2011, the same channel aired the fifth movie was released and also repeated on August 25th. The seventh film was also made watchable on December 2014 and February 2015. The release dates for the eighth, 10th, 11th, and 20th movies are unknown. It is unknown whether the 20th movie was dubbed into Hungarian but left the intro in English or if the movie itself was left undubbed but had a Hungarian translation provided. No other movies have been made or released as of now.

Cast and crew

SDI Media Hungary has been responsible for production of the anime since around 2011. The following list of Hungarian voice actors is not completely accurate due to many online versions being published, and some of those versions have not confirmed the info shown here.

Music

The Pokémon soundtracks 2.B.A. Master and Totally Pokémon were made and dubbed into Hungarian. The first Pokémon soundtrack 2.B.A. Master was made by Gold Stúdió and was distributed by, marketed by, and made available on CD under the name of Pokémon - A népszerű TV-sorozat zenéje by BMG Hungary (formerly known as BMG Ariola Hungary).^[3] The lyrics for the 1st soundtrack were written by Székely Anna, engineered by Tőzsér Attila, produced by Berkes Gábor and sung by Németh Attila and Fehér Adrien. Németh Attila and an unknown voice actor also sung the lyrics of the 3rd soundtrack: Totally Pokémon which was released under the name Pokémon - Utazások Johto-ba. The release dates for these tracks are currently unknown.

Related articles

• List of Hungarian Pokémon themes
• List of international voice actors

References

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