Professor Cerise

If you were looking for the location featured in Pokémon Adventures, see Cerise Island.

Professor Cerise サクラギ博士 Dr. Sakuragi
Professor Cerise in Pokémon Journeys: The Series
Gender	Male
Eye color	Green
Hair color	Maroon
Hometown	Vermilion City
Region	Kanto
Relatives	Talia (wife), Chloe (daughter), Parker (son)
Trainer class	Pokémon Professor
Animated debut	Legend? Go! Friends? Go!
English voice actor	Ray Chase
Japanese voice actor	Yūichi Nakamura (Adult) Eri Kitamura (Child)

Professor Cerise (Japanese: サクラギ博士 Dr. Sakuragi) is a Pokémon Professor who appeared in Pokémon Journeys: The Series. He is the father of Chloe and the professor of the Cerise Laboratory in Vermilion City.

In animation

History

Professor Cerise and Talia during high school

Pre-series

As revealed in Best Friend...Worst Nightmare!, Professor Cerise met his wife, Talia, when they attended the same high school. After noticing that Talia wasn't drawing anymore, he encouraged her to continue pursuing her dreams to become a comic book artist.

Pokémon Journeys: The Series

Professor Cerise

Professor Cerise made a cameo in a fantasy in Enter Pikachu!. He physically debuted in Legend? Go! Friends? Go! during the opening ceremony of Cerise Laboratory, where he explained his goal of studying everything about Pokémon to better understand them and the world itself. During his speech, Cerise received an alert of changes in the atmosphere, leading him to predict the appearance of a rare Pokémon at the Vermilion harbor.

Later, he was impressed after hearing Ash and Goh's findings after their encounter with the rare Pokémon, Lugia, and offered the two to become research fellows at his lab, which they accepted. Afterward, Cerise offered Goh to choose one of the Kanto first partner Pokémon, but Goh declined, wanting to make Mew his first Pokémon instead.

In Ivysaur's Mysterious Tower!, Cerise gave Ash a smartphone before releasing his two Rotom from their Poké Balls. The Rotom proceeded to enter Ash and Goh's smartphones, turning them into Rotom Phones. Since then, Cerise has been sending Ash and Goh on various missions around the Pokémon world.

In Dreams Are Made of These!, Cerise accompanied some children during a Pokémon Orienteering competition, where he competed against a team led by Chloe and Goh and another led by Ash. At the end of the day, his team became the winners of the competition when they arrived first at the finish. He encouraged all participants to pursue their respective dreams, however.

In To Train, or Not to Train!, Chloe befriended an Eevee and caught her. After this, Professor Cerise handed his daughter a Rotom Phone.

In Reuniting for the First Time!, Professor Cerise watched Chloe's participation in the Contest Spectacular in Lilycove City. He was quite proud of his daughter's progress after the performance.

In Radio Lulled the Mischievous Stars!, Professor Cerise became a fan of Team Rocket's radio show, along with Ren. He quickly became an avid listener and managed to receive multiple badges for his participation.

In Infinite Possibilities!, Professor Cerise took Chloe on a camping trip, where he encountered Grover from his childhood.

Character

Young Professor Cerise

Professor Cerise is a calm but friendly person. He is very knowledgeable about Pokémon, being deemed a genius since he was young. He is also exceptionally enthusiastic when it comes to studying Pokémon. Sometimes, he gets so carried away that it embarrasses his daughter, prompting her to rein him in. As revealed in Radio Lulled the Mischievous Stars!, he feels that Chloe spends more time with Pokémon than him. He can also be overprotective towards her, as seen when got worried of the idea of her going to Sinnoh alone.

Professor Cerise has a good relationship with other Pokémon Professors, such as Professor Oak and Professor Magnolia.

Pokémon

This listing is of Professor Cerise's only known Pokémon in Pokémon the Series:

With Ash, Goh, and Chloe

Rotom (×3)

Adopted

Yamper ♂

Debut	Legend? Go! Friends? Go!
Voice actors
Japanese	Inuko Inuyama
English	Tara Jayne Sands

Main article: Professor Cerise's Yamper

Professor Cerise received this Yamper from a friend in the Galar region. Yamper is especially fond of Cerise's daughter, Chloe, and is often seen with her when she is home or at the Cerise Laboratory.

Befriended

Clefairy → Clefable

Debut	Infinite Possibilities!
Voice actors
Japanese	Mariko Nagai

Professor Cerise first encountered Clefable when it was a Clefairy when it was being chased by a Beedrill. Professor Cerise was able to scare the Beedrill away with a stick and with the help of Grover was able to heal it of its injury.

Years later when on a camping trip with his family, Professor Cerise reunited with Clefairy after it evolved into a Clefable. A group of Clefairy were doing a dance around Moon Stones when they were attacked by a group of Golbat. With the help of Chloe's Eevee, the Golbat were driving away and the other Clefairy evolved into Clefable.

Clefable's only known move is Metronome.
Clefable has also used Thunder Wave, Petal Blizzard, and Psychic via Metronome.

Gives to new Trainers

Professor Cerise has these Pokémon to give to new Trainers:

Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle

Debut	Legend? Go! Friends? Go!

Professor Cerise offered Goh a choice between Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle, but Goh refused, saying he wanted his first Pokémon to be Mew.

None of their moves are known.

Other

Egg → Piplup (multiple)

Debut	A Midsummer Night's Light!

These Piplup were being watched by Professor Cerise while they were still Eggs. They hatched in A Midsummer Night's Light!, leaving every member of the lab team trying to handle them.

None of Piplup's moves are known.

Voice actors

Language Voice actor Japanese 中村悠一 Yūichi Nakamura (adult) 喜多村英梨 Eri Kitamura (child) English Ray Chase Arabic فادي الرفاعي Fadi Rifai Mandarin Chinese 于正昇 Yú Zhèngshēng Finnish Matti Ristinen European French Pierre Lognay Marie Braam (child) Hebrew אליעזר וייס Eliezer Weiss Indonesian Muhammad Romli Korean 황창영 Hwang Changyoung Norwegian Pål Mathiesen Polish Mateusz Kwiecień Portuguese Brazil Daniel Müller Portugal Tiago Araújo Russian Михаил Тихонов Mikhail Tikhonov Spanish Latin America Mauricio Pérez Alfredo Leal (teenager) Spain Iñaki Crespo Laura Ruiz (child)

Artwork

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In the manga

Pokémon Journeys

Professor Cerise appears in Pokémon Journeys, playing the same role as he does in the anime.

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	サクラギ博士 Dr. Sakuragi	From 桜木 sakuragi (cherry tree), the national tree of Japan, or 桜木町駅 Sakuragichō-eki (Sakuragichō Station, a train station in Yokohama on the Blue Line and formerly on the Tōkyū Tōyoko Line)
English	Professor Cerise	From cerise (French for cherry)
German	Professor Kirsch	From Kirsche (cherry)
European Spanish	Profesor Cerezo	From cerezo (cherry tree)
French	Professeur Cerise	From cerise (cherry)
Italian	Professor Cerasa	From cerasa (a dialectal word for cherry)
Korean	채박사 Chae-baksa	From 체리 cherry and the surname 채 Chae
Chinese (Mandarin)	櫻木博士 / 樱木博士 Yīngmù-bóshì	From the Japanese surname 櫻木 Sakuragi. Contains 櫻 yīng (cherry).
Indonesian, Malaysian, Latin American Spanish	Profesor Cerise	Same as his English name
Brazilian Portuguese	Professor Cerejeira	From cerejeira (cherry tree)
Vietnamese	Giáo sư Sakuragi	Same as his Japanese name

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