Obscure Pokémon anime trivia

[Greninjaman]

Speaking of type trends on Ash's teams, that reminds me that none of Ash's Pokemon besides Pikachu ever used an Electric attack until the Alola saga with Melmetal and Naganadel. Pikachu's monopoly of the Electric-type on Ash's teams is just that strong.

well, Pikachu is the only one of the three to get the STAB boost from Electric Type moves.

 

[Ghost Diplocaulus]

well, Pikachu is the only one of the three to get the STAB boost from Electric Type moves.

Yes, but Electric is still decent coverage.

 

[Enzo]

I know this is a repost of another thread, but it's cuz fits this thread just as well, lol.

On the brazillian dub, "Thunderbolt" got translated as ''Choque do Trovão", and that's because the literal translation of ''thunderbolt'' would be ''raio", but the issue is because ''raio'' is way too short, so it wouldn't fit the dub because the audio wouldn't fit the character's mouths, while ''Choque do Trovão" did.

The ultimate problem is because the literal translation for ''Thunder Shock" in portuguese is also ''Choque do Trovão".

And on the very beginning of the anime dub here in Brasil, they basically used the same term for both moves. And two things also made matters worse: the moves are visually indistinguishable from one another and Ash's Pikachu had both on his moveset for quite the while.

In the end, they decided to keep the translated "Choque do Trovão" because not only is Thunderbolt way more proeminent, as Ash's Pikachu's primary and most well-known move (as well as many other Pokémon just use Thunderbolt as opposed to Thunder Shock), but also because they couldn't find a good name replacement for the move. Also, I do think it's cuz the name just stuck and got too well-known for the brazillian kids. They had no way to go back.

So, in the end, Thunder Shock got translated as "Choque Elétrico" up until XY, when they ultimately decided on "Trovoada de Choques", which like,,, it is the closest thing to the english name but still sounds very weird to me lol.

 

[KerfishSea]

The guy who voices Ash's Dracovish is the same nut who voices freaking GOKU wtf bro I learned that yesterday smh

 

[Arceusgjengen]

Also, the guy who voices James in the Norwegian version (Simen Sand) also voices Mr. Krabs in the Norwegian version of SpongeBob. Trond Teigen, who voices Prof. Samson Oak, also voices SpongeBob himself.

 

[KerfishSea]

If I remember these two (Bash and Bella) have the same Japanese voice actors as Jessie and James

 

[prog rocker]

The guy who voices Ash's Dracovish is the same nut who voices freaking GOKU wtf bro I learned that yesterday smh

He also voiced Jimmy and Juan, which are... admittedly not characters I expected him to voice.

 

[MarshiyanMisutaa]

In the turkish dub, Sora and Matt from Digimon had the same VAs as Misty and Ash.

 

[Arceusgjengen]

I just remembered (yesterday) that the Norwegian version of Sun & Moon references animals TWICE.

Alolan Open House: Ash: "Ja, hun er flink med dyr." (Yeah, she is good with animals.)

Real Life...Inquire Within: James: "Dust!" Ash: "Dust?" James: "Øh, du store alpakka, det var jammen bra!" ("Du store alpakka" is a common Norwegian expression.)

 

[Rockapheller]

I bought Amazon Prime today to watch movies while I go to work and return. I randomly came across 16th season of Pokémon there, from the Black & White series. The funny part is, it is rated 7+. Yeah, the kids' show that we know of lol. I have... absolutely no idea why.

 

[Arceusgjengen]

It's rated that on Netflix here in Norway too, so I am not surprised.

 

[Enzo]

In the brazillian dub, in BW107, more specifically the infamous Cameron League battle, there's a dubbing error.

When Cameron sends out his Swanna, Iris just goes "It's Swanna! A Water and Fire type Pokémon!"

 

[RetroPokeFan]

In the brazillian dub, in BW107, more specifically the infamous Cameron League battle, there's a dubbing error.

When Cameron sends out his Swanna, Iris just goes "It's Swanna! A Water and Fire type Pokémon!"

It seems when Cameron is involved, everybody goes off their rockers.

 

[Jared DiCarlo]

Crispin Freeman was a script writer for the first two seasons of the dub. Unfortunately, we'll never know which ones he wrote because of the terrible way dub credits were formatted back then.

 

[jbmasta]

Tracey’s Marill is the only main character Pokémon to produce an egg, and I believe Misty is the only character to have hatched an egg produced by a previously established individual Pokémon.

 

[Blob]

Tracey’s Marill is the only main character Pokémon to produce an egg, and I believe Misty is the only character to have hatched an egg produced by a previously established individual Pokémon.

When did that happen?

 

[jbmasta]

When did that happen?

During AG. Ash returns to Pallet Town after the Hoenn League and Misty is at the lab with the Azurill she hatched from the Tracey’s Marill egg. The specific episode is The Scheme Team.

 

[Ghost Diplocaulus]

Togetic and Togekiss have so far had literally no major or even minor roles in the anime outside of having been under the command of Misty and Dawn respectively. In fact, the only other appearances those two have outside their position as members of said girl companions' teams are as single background cameos (the epsiode where Dawn went up against Ursula's Plusle and Minun for Togetic and the Giratina movie for Togekiss)

 

[cricketlaxwolvesbandy]

With Serena and May’s appearance in JN105, every companion of Ash has appeared in JN in some shape and form except for Max. Can we get an F in the chat.

 

[BigDocFan]

JN105 marks the first appearance of Walrein in the main series anime since AG144