Professor Juniper

Professor Juniper (Japanese: アララギ博士 Dr. Araragi) is the resident Pokémon professor of the Unova region. She specializes in the origins of Pokémon, and is the first main series Pokémon professor who is female.

In the 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 starter Pokémon at the player's house for the player, Bel, and Cheren.

She also demonstrates to the player how to capture their first Pokémon, a level 2 Minezumi, with her level 7 Minccino.

Pokémon

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

Caught in tutorial

	Types: Normal Unknown Ability: Unknown Held item: None
Minezumi Lv.2
Leer Normal Status   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --

Sprites

		File:Juniperstanddown.png
Sprite from Black and White's introduction.	Back sprite from Black and White	Overworld sprite from Black and White

In the anime

Professor Juniper in the anime

Professor Juniper makes her first appearance in BW001 and is an old friend of Professor Oak. She gives Ash, Delia and Oak a ride in her jeep to her lab so she can study Ash's Pikachu. She then shows Ash the new Starter Pokémon with Shooti, and gives Shooti his first Poké Balls.

Ash later returns to Professor Juniper's lab after finding out that Ash's Pikachu has lost his electricity from Zekrom. Later the storm arrives again but this time it gives Pikachu's electric powers back, and Ash departs from her lab the next day.

She reappeared in BW003 where she sent Oshawott's Poké Ball to Ash. In BW013 it was shown that she sent Bel to give Ash his badge case. She then spoke to Ash via Bel's Live Caster.

Pokémon

This listing is of Professor Juniper's known Pokémon: She also has these Pokémon to give to new Trainers:

		Snivy
		Snivy is a Pokémon that Professor Juniper gives to new Trainers. One appeared in BW001, where it appeared to Ash and Shooti. It was chosen by Shooti to be his starter Pokémon.
Debut	BW001

		Tepig
		Tepig is a Pokémon that Professor Juniper gives to new Trainers. One appeared in BW001, where it appeared to Ash and Shooti.
Debut	BW001

		Oshawott
		Oshawott is a Pokémon that Professor Juniper gives to new Trainers. One appeared in BW001, where it appeared to Ash and Shooti. While it tried to use its cuteness, Shooti still chose Snivy. It gained feelings for Ash after he called it cute, and it also watched the battle between Ash and Shooti before returning. It later decided to follow Ash.
Debut	BW001

Known Trainers with her starter Pokémon in the anime

File:Shooti Janovy.png Shooti's Janovy ♂

Ash's Oshawott ♂

In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Professor Juniper in the manga

Although just starting, Professor Juniper has already appeared in the first chapter of the Black & White arc of Pokémon Adventures, where she was seen with the three starters, talking to Makomo on the phone, and mentioning that tomorrow three boys and girls from Kanoko Town would be coming by to pick up the starters, also commenting that she hoped their trainers would be able to handle them, after they destroyed her office in a fight with each other. Of the three, Tepig ended up in Black's hands, while Cheren and Bel received Snivy and Oshawott, respectively. She also issued them three individual copies of the Unova Pokédex, but an accident left two of them broken, and as of yet Black's is the only one still functional.

Pokémon

Given away

Poka (Given to Black)

Snivy (Given to Cheren)

Oshawott (Given to Bel)

Trivia

• While Juniper is the first female professor in the games, she is not the first female professor in the anime. Professor Ivy of the Orange Archipelago takes this honor, having been introduced more than ten years prior to Juniper.
• After Juniper catches the Minezumi, it can be seen wandering about her laboratory.

Names

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.