Pokémon in Romania

The Pokémon franchise first reached  with the airing of Pokémon Te Aleg Pe Tine!.

Pokémon video games
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. CD Media has been a distributor of Nintendo in Romania since 2016. 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 anime
The has been dubbed from the first season to the fifth. The other seasons have been skipped for unclear reasons, and from the, only the thirteenth never aired.

The series first aired in the 2000s, with the first four seasons airing on before moving to. The fifth season premiered on. The entire was skipped due to unknown reasons. The anime resumed with the airing of the tenth season on in September 2008 but with entriely different voice actors. The eleventh season premiered in January 2009. Jetix became on September 19, 2009 and it started airing the twelfth season in the same year. The anime stopped airing after the twelfth season for unknown reasons.

After a very long hiatus, the anime finally returned on April 1, 2018 with the release of on. Only the voice actors for Ash and James, Cristian Niculescu and Dan Lupu respectively, returned for this season.

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

Pokémon movies
M11 was released under the title  and aired on Jetix.

Cast and crew
The dub of the original series is by Zone Studio Oradea. Fast Production Film dubbed the tenth and eleventh seasons. The twelfth season is dubbed by Ager Film. The 20th season was once again dubbed by Fast Production Film.

S01 - S05 (Zone Studio Oradea)

 * Ash Ketchum: Cristina Serac
 * Mirela Corbeanu
 * Jessie: Mariana Presecan
 * James: Doru Fârte
 * Sebastian Lupu
 * Doru Presecan

S10 - S12 (Fast Production Film and Ager Film)

 * Ash Ketchum: Cristian Niculescu
 * Constantin Lupescu
 * Maria Obretin
 * Jessie: Florentina Țilea
 * James: Dan Lupu
 * Narrator: Cătălin Rotaru
 * Paul: Cătălin Rotaru

S20 (Fast Production Film)

 * Ash Ketchum: Cristian (Cristi) Niculescu
 * Raluca Botez
 * Octavian Mitrică
 * Alexandra Radu
 * Alina Teianu
 * Adrian Dima
 * Alexandru Gheorghiu
 * Samson Oak: Ionuț Grama
 * Mihai Munteniță
 * Ernest Fazekas
 * Andreea Istrate
 * James: Dan Lupu
 * Jessie: Silvia Gâscă
 * Narrator: Elias Ferkin
 * Gladion: Elias Ferkin
 * Theodora Stancu
 * Olivia: Tamara Roman
 * Cristi Neacșu

Related articles

 * List of Romanian Pokémon themes