Who Knows Chinese Names Of Pokemon

[Maxim Posthumus]

It's important. I must know Chinese Names of Pokemon. I need them! They have to be romanized.
Thanks in advance.

 

[bell02+]

At the risk of looking foolish... was pokemon ever released in China officially?

 

[Doctor Oak]

.....buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh....

Nintendo's relationship with China has been an iffy one. They stopped officially releasing anything there for a long time because of piracy. The IQue being their first step into China in years and years.

Whether that iffy relationship includes prevention of the original Gameboy and Gameboy Games - well-established at the end of the eighties - is completely beyond me i'm afraid.

My guess is that there was never any official Chinese Pokemon Release.

 

[Maxim Posthumus]

Maybe, games was never released in China but they have Pokemon Anime Dub. I've heard Chinese Pokemon Sing called "Counting Pocket Monsters". It's just like Pokerap. But when I hear these strange Chinese names I don't know what's that Pokemon.

 

[Transfinite]

All I know is that Pikachu is still Pikachu in Chinese, and that Pokemon Special and Pokemon PiPiPi Adventure had official releases in Mandarin and in Taiwanese (or whatever).

 

[pikapal]

I think it was released in China, well toys anyway. I have some Pokémon toys from China and I think they are offical. They have licensing marks on them that say they were made by Tomy. I can post a picture of them if you want.

 

[Doctor Oak]

Well, toys are one thing. They could have been released as merch to go with the anime and arn't 100% under Nintendo's jurisdiction.

Games, on the other hand... Unfortunately, it's not that easy to check to see what it's release status was in China. The most likely factor is that it was never officially released, as was Nintendo's policy from 1995 at least to 2003.

 

[bell02+]

I think it was released in China, well toys anyway. I have some Pokémon toys from China and I think they are offical. They have licensing marks on them that say they were made by Tomy. I can post a picture of them if you want.

well, I don't know if that means anything, mechants import stuff from japan. Tomy is a japanese company in the first place. The only proof is the Anime (though the japanese dub is often sold there too with subs, since the series was dubbed in Mandarin, it seems true), which seemed dubed. Maybe pokemon.com still has foriegn names up.

 

[Maxim Posthumus]

But this thread is not about Pokemon in China. It's about CHINESE NAMES OF POKES. Who knows them?

 

[Zhen Lin]

Well, considering that there is no official Pokémon in China, do you expect them to have official Chinese names for the Pokémon too? There will be a lot of variants.

 

[Zeta]

Was Pokemon ever released in Hong Kong? It's almost an entirely seperate country from China, so if Pokemon has been released there, Chinese Pokemon names should exist SOMEWHERE.

 

[Zhen Lin]

Numerous translated manga and dubbed anime (not to mention the unlicensed ones) exist - so there are names. In fact, I'd say there are many of them. Not just the simplified/traditional distinction - I'm thinking there would be two, three names for one Pokémon.

 

[Masato]

Was Pokemon ever released in Hong Kong? It's almost an entirely seperate country from China, so if Pokemon has been released there, Chinese Pokemon names should exist SOMEWHERE.

Pokemon has been released in Hong Kong. Despite the fact that I've seen it at Hong kong I'm not sure about the Pokemon's names in Hong Kong since i don't understand cantonese that well. However, I did remember the English dub being aired in Hong Kong.

 

[FireEmblemPride]

I listened to the Chinese PokeRap recently. Couldn't tell who was who.