Pokémon in Romania

From Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia.
Jump to navigationJump to search
Pokémon in Romania

Flag of Romania
LanguageRomanian
ContinentEurope
Original animated series airdates
EP0012001
AG001Never aired
DP001September 2008
BW001Never aired
XY001Never aired
SM001April 1, 2018
JN001July 1, 2021
HZ001

ThePokémon franchise first reachedRomania with the airing ofPokémon Te Aleg Pe Tine!.

Pokémon video games

The Pokémon games are sold in Romania in English. Between 2001 and 2003, the distributor was SKIN Media. Since 2004, TNT Games, which went bankrupt in 2012, started to sell the games.[1] CD Media has been a distributor of Nintendo in Romania since 2016.[2] The subsidiary company Best Distribution deals with the sale of products in this country.

Pokémon merchandise

In 2000, it was available for Romanian fans to get Pokémon stickers by buying Chipicao (a croissant brand). They included the first 151 Pokémon.

Pokémon animation

ThePokémon animated series has been dubbed from thefirst season to thefifth. The other seasons have been skipped for unclear reasons, and fromPokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl, only thethirteenth never aired.

The series first aired in the 2000s, with the first four seasons airing onProTV before moving toTVR1. The fifth season premiered onAnimax. The entirePokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire was skipped due to unknown reasons. The animated series resumed with the airing of thetenth season onJetix in September 2008 but with entirely different voice actors. Theeleventh season premiered in January 2009. Jetix becameDisney Channel Romania on September 19, 2009 and it started airing thetwelfth season in the same year. The animated series stopped airing after the twelfth season for unknown reasons.

After a very long hiatus, the animated series finally returned on April 1, 2018 with the release ofPokemon: Serialul - Soarele și Luna onNetflix. Thetwenty-first season was also released on April 1, 2019. Only the voice actors for Ash and James, Cristian Niculescu and Dan Lupu respectively, returned for those two seasons.

All of the English theme songs of these seasons have been dubbed into Romanian, except the tenth.

Pokémon movies

M11 was released under the titleGiratina și Războinicul Văzduhului and aired on Jetix.M21 was released in 2018 under the titlePokémon – Filmul: Puterea e în noi. A Romanian dubbed version ofM22 was released on Netflix on February 27, 2020 under the titlePokémon: Mew 2 contraatacă – Evoluție.

Cast and crew

The dub of theoriginal series is by Zone Studio Oradea. Fast Production Film dubbed thetenth andeleventh seasons. Thetwelfth season is dubbed by Ager Film. When the animated series returned for its hiatus, Fast Production Film returned to dub thetwentieth andtwenty-first seasons.

S01 -S05 (Zone Studio Oradea)

S10 -S12 (Fast Production Film and Ager Film)

S20 -S22 (Fast Production Film)

References

Related articles

ThePokémon franchise around the world
Africa:South Africa
The Americas:Brazil •Canada •Latin America •United States
Asia:Hong Kong •Indonesia •Japan •mainland China •Malaysia •Philippines
Singapore •South Asia •South Korea •Thailand •Taiwan •Vietnam
Europe:Albania •Belgium •Bulgaria •Croatia •Czech Republic •Denmark •Finland •France •Germany •Greece
Hungary •Iceland •Ireland •Italy •Latvia •Lithuania •Netherlands •North Macedonia •Norway •Poland
Portugal •Romania •Russia •Serbia •Slovakia •Spain •Sweden •Ukraine •United Kingdom
Middle East:Arab world •Israel •Turkey
Oceania:Australia •New Zealand
This article is part ofProject Globe, aBulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on the Pokémon franchise around the world.