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This article is about the woman who gives the player their first partner Pokémon in Unova. For this character's father, see Cedric Juniper.

Professor Aurea Juniper アララギ博士 Dr. Araragi
Art by Ken Sugimori
Age	Unknown
Gender	Female
Eye color	Green (games) Mint Green (anime)
Hair color	Light Brown
Hometown	Nuvema Town
Region	Unova
Relatives	Cedric Juniper (father)
Generation	V
Games	Black, White, Black 2, and White 2
Anime series	Pokémon the Series
Debut	In The Shadow of Zekrom!
English voice actor	Khristine Hvam
Japanese voice actor	Naomi Shindō
Manga series	Pokémon Adventures Pocket Monsters BW: Good Partners Pokémon Pocket Monsters series
Debut	Fussing and Fighting (Adventures) BWGP02 (BWGP) PMHGSS20 (PPM)

Professor Aurea Juniper (Japanese: アララギ博士 Dr. Araragi) is the resident Pokémon Professor of Nuvema Town in the Unova region. She specializes in the origins of Pokémon.

In the core series games

Professor Juniper debuted in Pokémon Black and White, where, like the other professors, she will give the player a Pokédex in her lab; however, she leaves a present containing the first partner Pokémon at the player's house for the player, Bianca, and Cheren. She also demonstrates to the player how to capture their first Pokémon, a level 2 Patrat, with her level 7 Minccino.

Over the course of the game, if the player visits her in her lab, Professor Juniper will hand out a total of three TMs depending on the number of Unova Pokédex Pokémon the player has seen: TM54 (False Swipe) after seeing 25 Pokémon, TM17 (Protect) after seeing 60 Pokémon, and TM10 (Hidden Power) after seeing 115 Pokémon.

In Pokémon Black 2 and White 2, the player can call her over Xtransceiver to have the Pokédex evaluated, or to ask how a Pokémon in their party evolves.

Pokémon

Pokémon Black and White

Professor Juniper Route 1 Black and White
Type: Normal Unknown Ability: Cute Charm Held item: None Minccino♀ Lv.7 Pound Normal Physical   --       Growl Normal Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --

Gives to new Trainers

These Pokémon are shipped to the player's house at the beginning of Black and White. After the player makes their selection, Bianca picks the Pokémon that is at a type disadvantage towards theirs while Cheren takes the remaining companion.

Type: Grass Unknown Ability: Overgrow Held item: None Snivy♂/♀ Lv.5 Tackle Normal Physical   --       Leer Normal Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --

Type: Fire Unknown Ability: Blaze Held item: None Tepig♂/♀ Lv.5 Tackle Normal Physical   --       Tail Whip Normal Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --

Type: Water Unknown Ability: Torrent Held item: None Oshawott♂/♀ Lv.5 Tackle Normal Physical   --       Tail Whip Normal Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --

Caught in tutorial

	Type: Normal Unknown Ability: Run Away or Keen Eye Held item: None
Patrat♂/♀ Lv.2
Leer Normal Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --

Pokémon Black 2 and White 2

Cinccino

Watchog

Gallery

Artwork

Official artwork from Pokémon the Series: Black & White

Sprites

Intro sprite from Generation V	Overworld sprite from Generation V	Back sprite from Black and White	Xtransceiver sprite from Black and White	Xtransceiver sprite from Black 2 and White 2

Quotes

Main article: Professor Juniper/Quotes

In the anime

Main series

Professor Juniper in the anime

In the anime, Professor Juniper debuted in In The Shadow of Zekrom! as an old friend of Professor Oak. She gave Ash, Delia, and Oak a ride in her SUV to her lab so she could study Ash's Pikachu who was ill. Later, she showed Ash the Unova first partner Pokémon, then gave Trip his first Pokémon, Snivy.

Ash later returned to Professor Juniper's lab after finding out that Pikachu had lost his electricity from Zekrom. Later the storm arrived again but this time it gave Pikachu's electric powers back, and Ash departed from her lab the next day.

In A Sandile Gusher of Change!, Juniper sent Ash the Poké Ball belonging to the Oshawott that was supposed to go to a new Trainer, but wandered away to go with Ash. In Minccino-Neat and Tidy! it was shown that she had sent Bianca to give Ash his Badge case. She then spoke to Ash via Bianca's Xtransceiver.

Ash sent his Pidove to her in Sewaddle and Burgh in Pinwheel Forest!, in order to make room for his newly captured Sewaddle. He switched them in The Lost World of Gothitelle!.

In A Venipede Stampede!, Professor Juniper and her lab assistants monitored Venipede swarm event in Castelia City, and they quickly identified that the problem was linked with strong energy waves coming from the Desert Resort. She flew over to Castelia and met up with Ash and his friends to investigate the unusual activity caused by Team Rocket. She was also set to appear in the unaired and non-canonical final episodes of Team Rocket's Meteonite mission; in May 2023, the scripts for these episodes surfaced,^[1] revealing that Juniper was to be involved in investigating the history of the Relic Castle and would recover a small Meteonite stolen by Team Rocket from the Nacrene City museum so it could be returned to Lenora.

In Archeops In The Modern World!, Fennel helped Juniper revive an Archen from a Plume Fossil. Archen later evolved into Archeops and left with a passing flock of Archeops. While the encounter was brief, Juniper was able to document the cry and behavioral data on the Archen evolutionary line.

In Crisis at Chargestone Cave!, the group encountered Professor Juniper while she and her team were conducting research on the electric stones of Chargestone Cave. Juniper also met up with Bianca for their planned trade in Evolution Exchange Excitement!. Juniper traded her Karrablast for Bianca's Shelmet, making both of them evolve at Chargestone Cave. In order to help Bianca work with her new Escavalier, Professor Juniper suggested they have a Tag Battle against Ash and Cilan, who used Boldore and Crustle, respectively. Although Professor Juniper's Accelgor and Bianca's Escavalier learned to work together and eventually defeat Boldore, they were both defeated by Crustle's Rock Wrecker. Juniper was surprised to encounter her father Cedric, who revealed that he had located the Hero's Ruin. Ash's group left with Cedric in Explorers of the Hero's Ruin!, while Professor Juniper remained behind to continue her Chargestone Cave research.

In New Places... Familiar Faces!, Juniper met up with Ash and his friends again when they returned to Nuvema Town after the Vertress Conference. She also presented a beginner Trainer, Nanette, the three first partner Pokémon. After some thinking, Nanette chose Tepig as her first Pokémon. Juniper also received a call from her father, who revealed that the White Ruins had been discovered. While Juniper was unable to join her father, she suggested Ash's group visit the new Aspertia Gym en route to the White Ruins.

In Farewell, Unova! Setting Sail for New Adventures!, Juniper told Ash and his friends about a cruise that would travel through the Decolore Islands to Kanto, after they expressed their wishes to travel to Kanto together. She bought tickets for them to board the ship, but a disguised James bumped into her on purpose to switch the tickets around with fakes to lure Ash and his friends into another scheme of Team Rocket's. She wished the group all the best before returning to her lab. She also made plans to transfer Ash's Unova Pokémon from her lab to Professor Oak's laboratory.

Juniper made a cameo appearance in the ending credits of Genesect and the Legend Awakened.

Character

Professor Juniper is pleasant and mature. She willingly offers her assistance, even providing Ash's group with ship tickets on two occasions, in New Places... Familiar Faces! and Farewell, Unova! Setting Sail for New Adventures!, respectively. She has a particular interest in the origins of Pokémon. Juniper is often busy with multiple projects at any given time, all of which require extensive fieldwork and data analysis back at the lab.

Pokémon

This listing is of Professor Juniper's known Pokémon:

On hand

		Shelmet → Accelgor
		Professor Juniper obtained Accelgor as a Shelmet when Bianca traded it to her for her Karrablast in Evolution Exchange Excitement! to trigger the evolution. It participated with Juniper's former Karrablast, now an Escavalier, in a Tag Battle against Boldore and Crustle, and unlike Escavalier with Bianca, obeyed Juniper with ease. After Escavalier began obeying Bianca during the battle upon being protected by Substitute, the two Bug-types defeated Boldore with their combined Hyper Beam attacks but Accelgor was subsequently defeated in a single hit by a Shell Smash-boosted Rock Wrecker from Crustle, Escavalier soon following suit in the same manner. Accelgor's known moves are Acid, Energy Ball, Protect, Substitute, Quick Attack, Recover, and Hyper Beam.
Debut	Enter Elesa, Electrifying Gym Leader!
Voice actors
Japanese	Kiyotaka Furushima (Shelmet) Kensuke Satō (Accelgor)
English	Eileen Stevens (Shelmet) Dan Green (Accelgor)

Traded away

		Karrablast
		Karrablast was first mentioned in Crisis at Chargestone Cave! by Bianca when she announced her intention to trade her Shelmet for it so that both can evolve. Following a battle in Evolution Exchange Excitement! that showed off the Pokémon's abilities, the trade occurred. Karrablast's known moves were Peck and Take Down when it was in Professor Juniper's possession.
Debut	Evolution Exchange Excitement!
Voice actors
Japanese	Chinami Nishimura
English	Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld

Gives to new Trainers

Snivy

Tepig

Oshawott

Gave away to Trainers

Trip's Snivy ♂

Ash's Oshawott ♂

Bianca's Pignite ♂

Nanette's Tepig

Formerly raised

		Plume Fossil → Archen → Archeops ♀
		Working with Fennel in order to utilize Musharna's Dream Mist and using a Plume Fossil provided to her by Lenora, Professor Juniper was able to revive an Archen in a lab between Castelia City and Nimbasa Town. Archen quickly proved to be a handful and refused to eat modern Pokémon food. She soon formed a bond with Ash and his Tranquill as they attempted to teach Archen to fly. Some ancient seeds were attached to Archen when she was revived and were unknowingly planted in the lab. Cry after cry, the seeds grew and grew until the vines had made the lab completely inaccessible. The vines then began blossoming with fruit, and Archen quickly ran up and helped herself to her first meal since being revived. She then evolved into Archeops and in turn, gained the ability to fly. However, Team Rocket attempted to capture Archeops and, in the process, destroyed the habitat she had created. Luckily, a flock of Archeops had heard her call and arrived to take her with them. After saying a farewell to her new friends, Archeops flew off to live with her own kind. Archeops's only known moves are Dragon Breath and Peck.
Debut	Archeops In The Modern World!

Previously resided at her Lab

Pidove → Tranquill → Unfezant ♀	Sewaddle → Swadloon → Leavanny ♂	Palpitoad ♂	Roggenrola → Boldore
Tepig ♂	Snivy ♀	Oshawott ♂	Krokorok → Krookodile ♂
Scraggy ♂

Voice actors

GOTCHA!

Professor Juniper briefly appeared in GOTCHA!.

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Professor Juniper in Pokémon Adventures

History

Black & White arc

Professor Juniper debuted in Fussing and Fighting, where she prepared three first partner Pokémon to be given to three new Trainers. While on a call with Fennel, the first partner Pokémon got into a fight into each other. The next day, Juniper had three first partner Pokémon mailed alongside a set of three Pokédexes to the house of Black, one of the new Trainers. Of the three, Tepig ended up in Black's hands, while Cheren and Bianca received Snivy and Oshawott, respectively. Due to Black's impatient nature, he accidentally dropped Cheren and Bianca's Pokédexes in a puddle of rainwater, damaging and rendering them unusable. While the Pokédexes undergo repairs, Juniper sent Cheren and Bianca off to find Black and inform him to keep his Pokédex safe.

After Cheren and Bianca successfully met up with Black, they gave Professor Juniper his Xtransceiver number so that she may be in contact with him. In At Liberty on Liberty Garden, she contacted Black to have him and White travel to Liberty Garden in order to get data on the Mythical Pokémon Victini. After Black succeeded in this mission, Professor Juniper's father, Cedric Juniper, arrived to assist in repairing the Pokédexes.

By A Lost Melody, Professor Juniper and her father successfully repaired the Pokédexes. She had Cedric sent to Castelia City in order to deliver Bianca her fixed Pokédex. To Juniper's shock, Bianca revealed that she decided to become her assistant and instead handed the Pokédex over to White.

In A Wretched Reunion, Juniper traveled to Route 6 alongside Fennel. There, they witnessed Black, White, and Cedric in battle with N, the king of Team Plasma. During the battle, Cedric revealed that a year ago, N barged into his lab and liberated a second set of first partner Pokémon meant to be given out to another set of Trainers. N chastised Professor Juniper for her treatment of the first partner Pokémon given to Black and his friends and claimed that she only thinks of them as objects meant to be researched. When Black tried to stop N, his Musha chose to run away instead of eating his dreams as usual. The shock of losing one of his most trusted Pokémon caused Black to faint from shock.

In Dream a Little Dream, Professor Juniper, Fennel, Amanita, and White looked after Black at the Pokémon League gates while they watch the tournament.

Black 2 & White 2 arc

In Pink Slip, Professor Juniper hides in Fennel's home alongside Fennel, Amanita, Bianca, and Cedric Juniper to escape the Plasma Frigate freezing Unova's cities. There, Fennel reveals that after researching the Dream Mist for two years, she managed to discover another dimension known as the Pokémon Dream World. She hypothesizes that this may have been where Black went to after being sealed into the Light Stone. To confirm this, Fennel has White sent to the Entralink, where the real world and Dream World are most connected. The operation proves to be a success as White manages to find and obtain the Light Stone.

Pokémon

		Minccino ♀
		Minccino is Professor Juniper's only known Pokémon. Minccino is usually seen cleaning messes with or for the Professor. None of Minccino's moves are known, and her Ability is Technician.
Debut	Fussing and Fighting

Gave away to Trainers

		Tepig ♂
		Main article: Bo Tepig was first seen in Professor Juniper's lab alongside the other first partner Pokémon. After stealing some of Professor Juniper's dinner, it got into a fight with Snivy after accidentally spilling Berry juice on it. The fight eventually escalated to the point where Oshawott angrily attacked the two, creating a mess of the Professor's lab. Later, he was chosen by Black to join his team and was later nicknamed Tep (Japanese: ポカ Poka).
Debut	Fussing and Fighting

		Snivy ♂
		Main article: Cheren's Snivy Snivy was first seen in Professor Juniper's lab where it got into a fight with the Professor's Tepig after it got Berry juice sprayed over it before being violently stopped by her Oshawott. Later, he was delivered to Black's house, only to get into another fight with Tepig. Bianca picked up Snivy and gave it to Cheren, stating that Snivy resembled him.
Debut	Fussing and Fighting

		Oshawott ♂
		Main article: Bianca's Oshawott Oshawott was first seen in Professor Juniper's lab where it tried to stop a fight between Tepig and Snivy, only to be hit by the latter and making it join the fight as well, leaving the lab in a complete mess. Later, it was delivered to Black along with Tepig and Snivy and once again stopped his partners from a fight. Afterwards, Bianca took Oshawott for herself.
Debut	Fussing and Fighting

Pocket Monsters BW: Good Partners

Professor Juniper in Pocket Monsters BW Good Partners

Professor Juniper appeared in BWGP02. Takurō and Mashiro had arrived in Accumula Town and saw her. She evaluated Takurō's Pokédex and commented on how it was filling up quite a bit. She then told him to keep it up. Professor Juniper then told the two about a Purrloin that was causing trouble. Later, when Takurō had his Pidove flap up a gust of wind, Professor Juniper went with Mashiro to a cliff where Takurō was but discovered that Takurō had already rescued himself and Purrloin.

Pokémon Pocket Monsters

Professor Juniper in Pocket Monsters BW

Professor Juniper first appeared in PMHGSS20 as a cameo.

She makes her full appearance in PMBW01. She was the first character in Unova that Red met. Professor Juniper can get upset if someone mentions her age being very old but calms down if she is complimented. In that same chapter, she met with Black, Bianca and Cheren to give them their first Pokémon.

Pokémon

Gives to new Trainers

Snivy

Tepig

Oshawott

In the TCG

This listing is of cards mentioning or featuring Professor Juniper in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

Related cards Cards listed with a blue background are only legal to use in the current Expanded format. Cards listed with a green background are legal to use in both the current Standard and Expanded formats.
Card	Type	English Expansion	Rarity	#	Japanese Expansion	Rarity	#
Professor Juniper	Su	Black & White		101/114	Black Collection		053/053
					BW-P Promotional cards		012/BW-P
		Dark Explorers		98/108	Reshiram-EX Battle Strength Deck		015/018
					Zekrom-EX Battle Strength Deck		015/018
					Hydreigon Half Deck		013/015
					Garchomp Half Deck		013/015
					Master Deck Build Box EX		040/046
					Black Kyurem-EX Battle Strength Deck		015/018
					White Kyurem-EX Battle Strength Deck		015/018
		Plasma Freeze		116/116	Thunder Knuckle		055/051
		Plasma Blast		84/101	Blastoise + Kyurem-EX Combo Deck		014/018
Professor's Research Professor Juniper	Su	Shining Fates		060/072	Venusaur VMAX Starter Set		016/021
					Charizard VMAX Starter Set		018/021
		SWSH Black Star Promos		SWSH152	VMAX Climax		266/184

Trivia

• According to an NPC, Professor Juniper and her father were formerly Backpackers.
• Aurea's first name is only revealed in the English version. In Japanese, both she and Cedric are known simply as "Dr. Araragi", although Cedric gets his own first name in all languages except Japanese and Chinese.
• Professor Juniper was the first female Pokémon Professor.
• In the original Japanese version of the anime, Professor Juniper often says the phrase "あらら Arara" (meaning "oh my"), which is a reference to her name.

Names

References

See also

• Images on the Bulbagarden Archives

Capture tutors Old man • Primo • Professor Oak • Dude • Ethan/Lyra • Wally • Lucas/Dawn • Professor Juniper Bianca • Calem/Serena • Professor Kukui • Leon • Professor Laventon • Nemona