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

Professor Aurea Juniper アララギ博士Dr. Araragi
Art byKen Sugimori
Age	Unknown
Gender	Female
Eye color	Green(games) Mint Green(Pokémon the Series)
Hair color	Light Brown
Hometown	Nuvema Town
Region	Unova
Relatives	Cedric Juniper (father)
Generation	V
Games	Black, White,Black 2, White 2
Animated 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 residentPokémon Professor ofNuvema Town in theUnova region. She specializes in the origins of Pokémon.

In the core series games

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

Over the course of the game, if the player visits her in her lab, Professor Juniper will hand out a total of threeTMs 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, andTM10 (Hidden Power) after seeing 115 Pokémon.

InPokémon 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

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Professor Juniper

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Route 1

Black and White

Minccino♀Lv.7

Type:

Normal

Ability:

Cute Charm

Held item:

None

Effort levels:

Pound

Normal

Physical

Growl

Normal

Status

Gives to new Trainers

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

Snivy♂/♀Lv.5

Type:

Grass

Ability:

Overgrow

Held item:

None

Effort levels:

Tackle

Normal

Physical

Leer

Normal

Status

Tepig♂/♀Lv.5

Type:

Fire

Ability:

Blaze

Held item:

None

Effort levels:

Tackle

Normal

Physical

Tail Whip

Normal

Status

Oshawott♂/♀Lv.5

Type:

Water

Ability:

Torrent

Held item:

None

Effort levels:

Tackle

Normal

Physical

Tail Whip

Normal

Status

Caught in tutorial

Patrat♂/♀Lv.2

Type:

Normal

Ability:

Run Away or
Keen Eye

Held item:

None

Effort levels:

Leer

Normal

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 animation

Pokémon the Series

In theanimated series, Professor Juniper debuted inIn The Shadow of Zekrom! as an old friend ofProfessor Oak. She gaveAsh,Delia, and Oak a ride in her SUV to her lab so she could studyAsh's Pikachu who was ill. Later, she showed Ash the Unovafirst partner Pokémon, then gaveTrip his firstPokémon,Snivy.

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

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

Ash sent hisPidove to her inSewaddle and Burgh in Pinwheel Forest!, in order to make room for his newly capturedSewaddle. He switched them inThe Lost World of Gothitelle!.

InA Venipede Stampede!, Professor Juniper and her lab assistants monitoredVenipede swarm event inCastelia City, and they quickly identified that the problem was linked with strong energy waves coming from theDesert Resort. She flew over to Castelia and met up with Ash andhis friends to investigate the unusual activity caused byTeam Rocket. She was also set to appear in the unaired and non-canonicalfinalepisodes of Team Rocket'sMeteonite mission; in May 2023, the scripts for these episodes surfaced,^[1] revealing that Juniper was to be involved in investigating the history of theRelic Castle and would recover a small Meteonite stolen by Team Rocket from theNacrene City museum so it could be returned toLenora.

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

InCrisis at Chargestone Cave!, the group encountered Professor Juniper while she and her team were conducting research on the electric stones ofChargestone Cave. Juniper also met up with Bianca for their plannedtrade inEvolution Exchange Excitement!. Juniper traded herKarrablast for Bianca'sShelmet, making both of them evolve atChargestone Cave. In order to help Bianca work with her newEscavalier, Professor Juniper suggested they have aTag Battle against Ash and Cilan, who usedBoldore andCrustle, respectively. Although Professor Juniper'sAccelgor and Bianca's Escavalier learned to work together and eventually defeat Boldore, they were both defeated by Crustle'sRock Wrecker. Juniper was surprised to encounter her fatherCedric, who revealed that he had located theHero's Ruin. Ash's group left with Cedric inExplorers of the Hero's Ruin!, while Professor Juniper remained behind to continue her Chargestone Cave research.

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

InFarewell, Unova! Setting Sail for New Adventures!, Juniper told Ash andhis friends about a cruise that would travel through theDecolore Islands toKanto, after they expressed their wishes to travel to Kanto together. She bought tickets for them to board the ship, but a disguisedJames bumped into her on purpose to switch the tickets around with fakes to lure Ash and his friends into another scheme ofTeam 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 toProfessor Oak's laboratory.

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

Character

Professor Juniper is pleasant and mature. She willingly offers her assistance, even providingAsh's group with ship tickets on two occasions, inNew Places... Familiar Faces! andFarewell, 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

Debut	Enter Elesa, Electrifying Gym Leader!
Voice actors
Japanese	Kiyotaka Furushima (Shelmet) Kensuke Satō (Accelgor)
English	Eileen Stevens (Shelmet) Dan Green (Accelgor)

Professor Juniper obtainedAccelgor as aShelmet whenBianca traded it to her for herKarrablast inEvolution Exchange Excitement! to trigger the Evolution. It participated with Juniper's former Karrablast, now anEscavalier, in aTag Battle againstBoldore andCrustle, and unlike Escavalier with Bianca, obeyed Juniper with ease.

After Escavalier began obeying Bianca during the battle upon being protected bySubstitute, the twoBug-types defeated Boldore with their combinedHyper Beam attacks but Accelgor was subsequently defeated in a single hit by aShell Smash-boostedRock Wrecker from Crustle, Escavalier soon following suit in the same manner.

Accelgor's known moves areAcid,Energy Ball,Protect,Substitute,Quick Attack,Recover, andHyper Beam.

Traded away

Karrablast

Debut	Evolution Exchange Excitement!
Voice actors
Japanese	Chinami Nishimura
English	Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld

Karrablast was first mentioned inCrisis at Chargestone Cave! byBianca when she announced her intention to trade herShelmet for it so that both can evolve. Following a battle inEvolution Exchange Excitement! that showed off the Pokémon's abilities, the trade occurred.

Karrablast's known moves werePeck andTake Down when it was in Professor Juniper's possession.

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

This section is missing information on this character's Japanese voice actor and English voice actor. Please feel free to edit this section to add this information.

Plume Fossil → Archen →Archeops♀

Debut	Archeops In The Modern World!

Working withFennel in order to utilizeMusharna'sDream Mist and using aPlume Fossil provided to her byLenora, Professor Juniper was able to revive anArchen in a lab betweenCastelia City andNimbasa Town. Archen quickly proved to be a handful and refused to eat modernPokémon food. She soon formed a bond withAsh and hisTranquill 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 intoArcheops 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 areDragon Breath andPeck.

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 inGOTCHA!.

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

History

Black & White arc

Professor Juniper debuted inFussing and Fighting, where she prepared threefirst partner Pokémon to be given to three new Trainers. While on a call withFennel, the first partner Pokémon got into a fight into each other. Thenext day, Juniper had three first partner Pokémon mailed alongside a set of three Pokédexes to the house ofBlack, one of the new Trainers. Of the three,Tepig ended up in Black's hands, whileCheren andBianca receivedSnivy andOshawott, 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 hisXtransceiver number so that she may be in contact with him. InAt Liberty on Liberty Garden, she contacted Black to have him andWhite travel toLiberty Garden in order to get data on theMythical PokémonVictini. After Black succeeded in this mission, Professor Juniper's father,Cedric Juniper, arrived to assist in repairing the Pokédexes.

ByA Lost Melody, Professor Juniper and her father successfully repaired the Pokédexes. She had Cedric sent toCastelia 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.

InA Wretched Reunion, Juniper traveled toRoute 6 alongside Fennel. There, they witnessed Black, White, and Cedric in battle withN, the king ofTeam 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, hisMusha 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.

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

Black 2 & White 2 arc

InPink Slip, Professor Juniper hides in Fennel's home alongside Fennel, Amanita,Bianca, and Cedric Juniper to escape thePlasma 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 thePokémon Dream World. She hypothesizes that this may have been where Black went to after being sealed into theLight Stone. To confirm this, Fennel has White sent to theEntralink, 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♀

Debut	Fussing and Fighting

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 isTechnician.

Gave away to Trainers

Tepig♂

Debut	Fussing and Fighting

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 withSnivy after accidentally spilling Berry juice on it. The fight eventually escalated to the point whereOshawott angrily attacked the two, creating a mess of the Professor's lab. Later, he was chosen byBlack to join his team and was later nicknamed Tep (Japanese:ポカPoka).

Snivy♂

Debut	Fussing and Fighting

Main article:Cheren's Snivy

Snivy was first seen in Professor Juniper's lab where it got into a fight with the Professor'sTepig after it got Berry juice sprayed over it before being violently stopped by herOshawott. 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.

Oshawott♂

Debut	Fussing and Fighting

Main article:Bianca's Oshawott

Oshawott was first seen in Professor Juniper's lab where it tried to stop a fight betweenTepig andSnivy, 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 toBlack along with Tepig and Snivy and once again stopped his partners from a fight. Afterwards, Bianca took Oshawott for herself.

Pocket Monsters BW: Good Partners

Professor Juniper appeared inBWGP02.Takurō andMashiro had arrived inAccumula Town and saw her. She evaluatedTakurō'sPokédex 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 aPurrloin that was causing trouble. Later, when Takurō had hisPidove 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 first appeared inPMHGSS20 as a cameo.

She makes her full appearance inPMBW01. She was the first character in Unova thatRed 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 andCheren 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 thePokémon Trading Card Game.

Related cards Cards listed with ablue background are only legal to use in the currentExpanded format. Cards listed with agreen background are legal to use in both the currentStandard andExpanded 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 ResearchProfessor 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 andher father were formerlyBackpackers.
• 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 is the first femalePokémon Professor, and the only woman to make anintroduction for acore series game.
• In the original Japanese version of theanimated series, Professor Juniper often says the phrase "あららArara" (meaning "oh my"), which is a reference to her name.
• Professor Juniper is the only regionalcore series Pokémon Professor introduced as ofGeneration VIII who did not appear inPokémon Journeys: The Series.

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Notes

References

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