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Todd Snap (Japanese: トオル Tōru), is a professional Pokémon photographer. He is one of the few fairly major characters in the Pokémon franchise who has no Pokémon of his own.

He has two separate names in the English-language dub. He is known as Todd in the Kids' WB! and the newly produced Cartoon Network version and Snap in the DVD/VHS version. When Pokémon.com announced that his episodes would air on Toonami Jetstream to celebrate the release of Pokémon Snap on Virtual Console in December 2007, this received a retcon by making Snap his surname.

In the anime

Todd first appeared in Pokémon Paparazzi. He had recently become famous after he took a picture of a supposedly extinct Aerodactyl (coincidentally the same one that tried to eat Ash, who was also on the photo, albeit blurred). He was hailed for being able to "capture any Pokémon on film". After seeing the article in a magazine, Meowth misunderstood the wording, not seeing the "on film" part. Team Rocket disguised themselves and hired Todd to capture Pikachu.

Todd set out to capture the perfect picture of Pikachu, which irritated Ash - the two boys eventually settled their differences, however. Todd traveled with the group for a short time, but left at the end of The Breeding Center Secret before Ash, Misty, and Brock boarded the ship for Cinnabar Island.

Later, Todd showed up again in Moving Pictures up in the mountains of Johto, trying to capture a picture of the Legendary Bird, Articuno. After successfully photographing the Legendary Pokémon in Freeze Frame, Todd went his own way once again.

His Japanese voice actor is 山口勝平 Kappei Yamaguchi and his English voice actor is Jimmy Zoppi.

In the games

Todd is the protagonist of Pokémon Snap, a photography game. Professor Oak hired him to go to Pokémon Island with the ZERO-ONE to take pictures of wild Pokémon behaving naturally for a Pokémon Report. He traveled all over the island getting pictures of all the species, and received Pokémon food, Pester Balls, a Poké Flute, and the Dash Engine upgrade to help him capture the best images possible. While there, he also took pictures of the Pokémon Signs, and Professor Oak used them to discern the location of the rarest Pokémon, Mew.

In the Pokémon Special manga

In Pokémon Special, Todd is a reporter and photographer on assignment at the Battle Frontier. There, he encountered the eccentric young Emerald - the strange young man ended up saving Todd from a wild Sudowoodo. He then followed the events in the Battle Frontier, aiding Emerald along with Latias and Latios during the crisis. At the end, Prof. Oak asked him if he could work with him and if he could go to an island where there are lots of Pokémon, and take pictures of them.

Trivia

Names

External links

• Tōru's Profile on Pokeani (Japanese)