Pokémon in Crenisa

Pokémon games first arrived in Crenisa on February 3, 1997, with the release of Pokémon Red and Green, it was popular when the game released in Crenisa, then Pokémon Trading Card Game released in Crenisa on April 1997 and Pokémon anime premiere on the launch of Disney Channel Crenisa on 1999.

Anime
Pokémon anime premiered in Crenisa on Disney Channel as part of its launch on May 2, 1999, the anime moved (while premiere of "The Johto Journeys" episodes still ongoing) to Nickelodeon on September 1, 2000 after Disney Channel closed due to lack of carriage, at same day, Nickelodeon ratings was raised from 3.1% to 7.9%

on February 21, 2004, Nickelodeon Crenisa concluded its Pokémon anime run with premiere of 3 episodes ("Hoenn Alone!", "Get the Show on the Road!" and "A Ruin With a View"), shortly after third episode, Nickelodeon Crenisa informed their Pokémon viewers to continue watch Pokémon anime on Fox Kids in later this 2004 as the anime moves to Fox Kids on July 6, 2004 with the release of "Advanced Generation" season though Nickelodeon Crenisa stills broadcasts the rerun of Season 1-5 of Pokémon anime until August 31, 2020, when Viacom Crenisa's broadcasting rights of Pokémon season 1-5 (which is owned by The Pokémon Company Crenisa) expired.

Reruns of Season 1-6 of Pokémon anime began to air on the recently launched channel, Nicktoons on August 1, 2004, however on May 6, 2006, the premieres of new episodes of the anime (beginning with Battle Frontier) was moved to Nicktoons then on November 2006, though the reruns of Pokémon Battle Frontier (and new seasons from that onwards until Black & White: Adventures in Unova and Beyond) still broadcasts on Jetix/Disney XD, it later moved to the recently relaunched Disney Channel as Nicktoons ceases broadcast, at same day, Toon Disney began to broadcast reruns of season 1-9 of Pokémon anime until its closure on May 2009.

on March 2, 2017, after 11 years, Disney Channel concluded its Pokémon anime run, after the premiere of final episode of Pokémon XYZ, they informed their Pokémon viewers to continue watch Pokémon anime on Cartoon Network as the anime moves to Cartoon Network with the premiere of Pokémon Sun and Moon on April 17, 2017, though Disney Channel Crenisa still airs the reruns of Pokémon XY, XY: Kalos Quest and XYZ until 2019.

since April 17, 2017, Cartoon Network Crenisa is premiere home of new episodes of Pokémon anime, during its run, Cartoon Network Crenisa premiered new episodes of Pokémon Sun & Moon, Ultra Adventures, Ultra Legends, Journeys, Master Journeys and Ultimate Journeys.

on 2023, as confirmed by The Pokémon Company Crenisa, 11-episode Pokémon anime special about Ash and Pikachu's final adventures sets to premiere simulcastly on Cartoon Network, Boing, Disney Channel and Nickelodeon on likely between April-June 2023, however the marathon of every Pokémon episodes (with exceptions of all banned episodes that aren't aired on any Crenisan channels) will air everyday at 6am-12am (each episode will air on these times at :00, :20 and :40 basis) from April 1-28, 2023 on Boing.

on 2023, as confirmed by The Pokémon Company Crenisa, through "Ash and Pikachu's Final Adventures" announcement on December 2022, the anime would moved to Discovery Kids with the premiere of recently announced new season with new protagonists, which title is yet to be announced.

Re-runs of Pokémon anime on Preschool channels
on October 24, 2006, after Viacom Crenisa terminated its deal with Disney Crenisa (which led to Nick Jr. Crenisa removes Playhouse Disney shows from its schedule, closure of Nicktoons and the launch of Disney Crenisa's three new channels), Nick Jr. Crenisa suddenly added Pokémon anime to its schedule as the replacement of "Jojo's Circus" on Nick Jr. Crenisa, that airing was suddenly popular as kids ages 5-9 in Crenisa likes Pokémon, that also led to mass confusion among Pokémon fans worldwide, spreaded like online news, Nick Jr. Crenisa's reruns of Pokémon season 1-5 lasted until August 31, 2020.

on December 2006, about 2 months after Nick Jr. Classics Crenisa's declining ratings after it stopped airing Anpanman (after Disney Crenisa and Turner Crenisa acquired the exclusive rights to air Anpanman), Nick Jr. Classics Crenisa began to air season 1 and 2 of Pokémon on its respective 7:20pm and 9:40pm slot, it was slightly success but on May 2008, Nick Jr. Classics Crenisa plans to air season 3 of Pokémon but not going forward due to limitation, leading to declining ratings, the reruns of Pokémon on Nick Jr. Classics Crenisa was lasted until its closure on May 31, 2009, the last episodes airing of Pokémon on Nick Jr. Classics Crenisa was "The Breeding Center Secret" and "Pokémon Shipwreck!" respectively.

on 2017, due to Crenisan preschoolers likes several Pokémons (particularly Pikachu, Pichu, Jigglypuff, Eevee and Piplup) and several characters of the anime (like Ash, May, Dawn and Brock), the reruns of season 1-19 of Pokémon anime began to broadcast on Disney Junior, which led to mass confusion as Pokémon anime isn't preschool show and why would a preschool channel broadcast that anime?, that weird reruns still broadcasts until the closure of Disney Junior on January 1, 2023, it also led to Disney Junior Crenisa to air Digimon Digital Monsters later in 2019.

on December 12, 2022, a random Pokémon fan in Crenisa, named "RaichuFever7", spotted 2 "Pokémon" episodes "Pokémon - I Choose You!" and "Pokémon Emergency!" on the respective 10am and 10:30am slots on Cartoonito Crenisa EPG for January 9 (along with Foster's Home on Cartoonito Crenisa on January 2), speculating that Pokémon anime is coming to Cartoonito Crenisa and posted it on their Twitter account on that same day, confusing some Pokémon fans in Crenisa, however on December 23, 2022, via The Pokémon Company Crenisa's official press release, they confirmed that season 1-5 of Pokémon anime will begin to air on Cartoonito Crenisa starting January 9, 2023, later on January 7, 2023, The Pokémon Comoany Crenisa announced that additional seasons (from season 6-25) of Pokémon would later air on Cartoonito Crenisa soon following the positive ratings of incoming premiere of Pokémon anime on Cartoonito Crenisa.

Pokémon on streaming services in Crenisa
On 2009, season 1-9 of Pokémon began to stream on the local streaming service, SkyStream until its service closure on 2015.

on 2015, season 1-13 of Pokémon began to stream on Netflix Crenisa but for the first time, rather than usual original Japanese openings, the Netflix print uses English print (although season 9-13 uses original Japanese/Crenisan print and lacks English dub and has Japanese and Crenisan audio but remaining seasons has English dub while lacking original Japanese audio) and seasons are separated as series (for example, season 1 is categorised as "Pokémon: Indigo League", season 2 are categorised as "Pokémon: Adventures in Orange Islands" and season 3 are categorised as "Pokémon: The Johto Journeys"), later remaining seasons (up to season 22) was added to Netflix Crenisa on January 1, 2020, as of now, Netflix Crenisa currently streaming season 1-22 of Pokémon.

on 2020, season 1-19 of Pokémon began to stream on Disney+ Hotstar Crenisa as part of its launch titles, unlike Netflix, Disney+ Hotstar print of Pokémon uses the original Japanese/Crenisan print (although Diamond & Pearl 16:9 episodes are cropped to 4:3, but seasons (from Black & White onwards) uses 16:9) and uses the batches of seasons as "seasons" (for example, season 1-5 are categorised as "Pokémon", season 6-9 are categorised as "Advanced Generation" and season 10-13 are categorised as "Diamond and Pearl").

on 2022, Pokémon anime was added to HBO Crenisa's launch titles but only Sun & Moon and Journeys seasons.

re-runs on other networks
On 2003, Nick GaS Crenisa began to re-runs season 1-5 of Pokémon.

season 1-9 of Pokémon began to broadcast on recently launched Kids Station, the 100% Japanese content kids channel in Crenisa that was launched on 2008.

Pokémon on broadcast television
on June 2000, STV12 began to broadcast season 1 of Pokémon every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

VideoNow releases of Pokémon episodes in Crenisa
on 2002, after Pokémon Crenisa Inc. (though parent company, Viacom Crenisa's affiliate, Nickelodeon) signed deal with Tiger Electronics, the first ever Pokémon release for VideoNow was "I Choose You!", which is the Crenisan VideoNow release for the episode "Pokémon - I Choose You", despite B&W video, that release went extremely popular, which also led to popularity of VideoNow in Crenisa.

The last ever Pokémon release on VideoNow in Crenisa was "Butch and Cassidy Strikes Again!", which is Crenisan VideoNow Color release of "The Fortune Hunters", released on May 4, 2009.

Pokémon Chronicles
The spin-off anime (focused on other Pokémon characters, other than Ash), "Pokémon Chronicles" released in Crenisa on 2005 through DVD release by Walt Disney Home Entertainment, however in 2006, the anime premiered on Crenisan TV screens, through Playhouse Disney, despite the anime isn't preschool, making mass confusion (with Playhouse Disney airing other non-preschool shows, KaBlam! and Lilo & Stitch: The Series), because of that, Playhouse Disney usually airs "Pokémon Chronicles" on 9:30pm (or the usual time before Playhouse Disney's usual sign-off time) to avoid confusion.

Movies
on October 17, 1999, Pokémon: The Mewtwo Revolution (along with the short film, Pikachu's Vacation) was released to Crenisan cinemas with Walt Disney Pictures as distributor of that film in Crenisa.

on June 6, 2000, the second film, Pokémon: Lugia Revalation (along with two short films, Pikachu's Rescue and Slowking's Day) was released to Crenisan cinemas with Walt Disney Pictures as distributor of that film in Crenisa

on April 8, 2001, the third film, Pokémon: Entei - The Spell of Unown was released to Crenisan cinemas, with Paramount Pictures (under "Nickelodeon Movies" banner) as distributor of that film

on September 26, 2017, the film, Pokémon: Ash's First Adventures Retold: I Choose You! was released to Crenisan cinemas, for the first time, this is the first Pokémon film released in Crenisa without Crenisan distributor.

on May 10, 2019, Pokémon Detective Pikachu was released to Crenisan cinemas by Warner Bros. Pictures, while the film was distributed to Crenisa by The Pokémon Company Crenisa and Warner Bros.

on October 17, 2019, Pokémon: The Mewtwo Revolution - Evolution was released to Crenisan cinemas, with Walt Disney Pictures (which distributed The Mewtwo Revolution) as the distributor of the film in Crenisa, unlike other countries, the movie isn't stream on Netflix Crenisa but instead of that, the film streams on Disney+ Hotstar Crenisa as part of its launch titles (along with Pokémon: The Mewtwo Revolution and Pokémon: Lugia Revalation).

Television airings
on January 6, 2000, the movie, Pokémon: The Mewtwo Revolution was premiered to Crenisan television on Disney Channel.

on August 25, 2000, the movie, Pokémon: Lugia Revalation, was premiered to Crenisan television on Disney Channel and only aired once on that channel, as Disney Channel ceased broadcasts, a week later, later on December 5, 2000, the movie re-runs on Nickelodeon Crenisa.

on September 7, 2001, Pokémon: Entei - The Spell of Unown was premiered to Crenisan television on Nickelodeon, also the first time that movie premieres its Crenisan TV run on Nickelodeon.

Stores
on May 2000, the first Pokémon Center store in Crenisa was opened in Kowaipa City.

Trivia

 * The Crenisan versions of Pokémon anime retains Japanese opening, closing and segments (like "Dare da"), therefore the English opening, English closing and English segments (like "Who's That Pokémon!") will never appears in the Crenisan versions of that anime as the Crenisan prints uses the original Japanese version (without any edits, with exception of a particular Pokémon, Jynx, which has its skin recolored to purple), despite that, the English dub can still be use on alternate audio tracks of the networks that airs Pokémon anime and streaming services.
 * in English dub, despite using 4Kids (until Advanced Battle)/The Pokémon Company International dub, the Crenisan print still uses original japanese music score, rather than different music score.
 * despite that, the Netflix prints uses the English version, which uses English opening, English closing and English segments, however other streaming services (like Disney+ HBO) uses the Crenisan version of Pokémon anime.
 * Nick Jr. Classics Crenisa has different print of Pokémon season 1 and 2, unlike other networks (like Nick Jr., Nickelodeon, Fox Kids/Jetix/Disney XD and Disney Channel), and has notable changes.
 * in English dub (via English audio track as one of three audio tracks available on Nick Jr. Crenisa/Nick Jr. Classics Crenisa, however Comedy Central (which timeshares with former 2) only has English audio with Crenisan and Japanese subtitles), the Nick Jr. Classics Crenisa print uses 4Kids print with edits made by 4Kids, despite it, the Nick Jr. Classics Crenisa print of Pokémon still uses original Japanese opening and closing, also lacking English opening, English closing, Pokérap and Jukebox segments.
 * despite that, on the episode, Bye Bye Butterfree and Friends to the End!, the Pokémon English theme song can be heard (despite the original Japanese theme song on Crenisan and Japanese audio track) on Nick Jr. Classics Crenisa
 * on Nick Jr. Classics Crenisa prints of season 1 and 2 of Pokémon, the "Dare Da?"/"Who's That Pokémon" eyecatch, next episode preview segments and Professor Oak ending segments are cut to fit on Nick Jr. Classics Crenisa, despite that, other Crenisan prints (especially Nickelodeon Crenisa and Nick Jr. Crenisaof Pokémon retains "Dare Da?" eyecatch and Professor Oak ending segments.
 * on the episode, The Ultimate Test! however, the second half of "Dare Da?" eyecatch, which reveals the black circle as Jigglypuff from the Above remains intact on Nick Jr. Classics Crenisa for unknown reason, but the first half of "Dare Da?" eyecatch was still cutted on Nick Jr. Classics Crenisa prints.
 * on the English audio track, there is a error, which has audio with English "Who's That Pokémon?" eyecatch on it, which confuse Crenisan viewers thinking Jigglypuff as "Vulpix" due to the announcer saying "It's Vulpix!", it became a meme worldwide on May 2021.
 * The following episodes "The Legend of Dratini", "Electric Soldier Porygon" and "The Ice Cave" never to be premiere in Crenisa due to specific reasons (like for Electric Soldier Porygon, that episode has seizure scenes (like Pikachu shoots at missle)).
 * due to blackface, the Pokémon episode "Holiday Hi-Jynx" never premiered in Crenisa until it was premiered on Nick Jr. Crenisa on December 4, 2006 with edits mostly involving Jynx.
 * Beauty and the Beach was skipped on preschool channels (Nick Jr., Nick Jr. Classics, Disney Junior Crenisa and most likely, Cartoonito) due to a particular scenes where James wears bikini, which is concerning but only aired one time on Toon Disney on May 3, 2008 and likely to air again on Boing on April 2023 as part of its 28-day Pokémon marathon.
 * the rights of Pokémon movies (that are distributed by Paramount in that country) in Crenisa are currently owned by The Pokémon Company Crenisa since September 1, 2020 as Viacom Crenisa's deals with The Pokémon Company Crenisa expires.
 * Crenisa is the only country where the Mystery Gift (especially Event Pokemons) can be distribute to every broadcasts of any episode of Pokémon and Pokémon Chronicles and TV broadcasts of any Pokémon movies since 2007.
 * These Mystery Gifts (like items, Pokémons and Event Pokémons) can be found either on screen graphics or after end credits or end segments
 * in Crenisa, the most popular Pokémons are Pikachu, Jigglypuff, Skitty, Piplup, Clefairy, Emolga and Scorbunny.