Johanna

Johanna (Japanese: アヤコ Ayako) is the mother of the player character in . She is an accomplished Pokémon Coordinator from Twinleaf Town.
In , Johanna is the mother of and appears as a recurring character during . In the Pokémon Adventures , she is the mother of .
==In the core series games==
Unlike previous mothers of player characters, Johanna is less content to stay at home. After the player begins their , she can be found at the Contest Hall in Hearthome City and occasionally enters Master Rank s with her , nicknamed Jumpy (Japanese: ガルちゃん Garu-chan).
She is also shown to travel to the Resort Area, where every so often she will visit the player's Villa. She can also be encountered in the lobby of the Battle Hall, where she will be cheering in support of the player.
She seems to be a friend of the Contest Judge Keira.
===Pokémon===
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===Items given===
==Gallery==
===Sprites and models===
 	 	 	
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==Quotes==
==In animation==
===History===
====Pre-series====
As a young girl, she was shown participating in a Pokémon Contest in a flashback in Battling the Generation Gap! against her childhood rival, Lila. It was revealed that Lila was the first person to defeat Johanna, breaking her winning streak. However, after seeing how passionate Johanna was about Contests, she started questioning what she wanted to do. She sat down to talk to Johanna and the two decided they would pursue what they would be best at, with Johanna competing in Contests and Lila studying to become a Pokémon Stylist.
====Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl====
Johanna debuted in Following A Maiden's Voyage!. She told Dawn that to become a great Pokémon Coordinator, she would have to learn from s and as well. Later, when Dawn was about to leave for her with a large suitcase full of clothes and jewelry, Johanna gave her a small backpack.
In The Bells are Singing!, it was revealed that she sewed 's vest.
In Battling a Cute Drama!, Dawn, , and received cold-weather outfits for the area surrounding Snowpoint City from her.
Johanna appeared in Strategy Begins at Home! and met Ash and Brock in person for the first time. Together with Izzy and Cara, she was planning the events of the Twinleaf Festival. She later had a two-on-two Contest Battle with her daughter, using her and against Dawn's Piplup and . Although she won the battle with relative ease, she was impressed by Dawn's teamwork and complimented her.
In Challenging a Towering Figure!, Johanna was the hostess for the Festival Battle Challenge which was a part of the Twinleaf Festival. She wore a gown during the occasion.
In Teaching the Student Teacher!, Johanna was supposed to have a seminar for children, "My Very First Pokémon Coordinator Class," but she had to fill in for a Nurse Joy who was taking care of too many Pokémon as a judge in the Neighborly Town . Dawn volunteered to teach in her place. At the end of the episode, Johanna gave Dawn a new outfit to wear at the Grand Festival.
Johanna made brief cameo appearances from Last Call — First Round! to Coming Full-Festival Circle!, in which she watched Dawn compete in the Sinnoh Grand Festival. She then appeared again in person in A Grand Fight for Winning!, where she joined the audience. She also made a cameo appearance in the ending credits of Zoroark: Master of Illusions.
When Dawn returned home in DPS01, Johanna decided to have her Glameow and Umbreon battle Dawn's and . However, after Piplup and Cyndaquil started squabbling, the battle was stopped. She is last seen saying her farewells to on her journey to Hoenn.
====Pokémon Journeys: The Series====
Johanna appeared in Nightfall? Nightmares!, where Chloe watched a video of her being interviewed. During the interview, Johanna took the opportunity to promote a Contest that was to be held in Eterna City.
===Character===
Johanna is an accomplished Pokémon Coordinator, having won the Ribbon Cup and the title of Top Coordinator after winning the Sinnoh Grand Festival when she was younger. Dawn grew up inspired by her achievements and decided to follow in her footsteps, wanting to become a great Coordinator as well. When Dawn left on her , Johanna gave her the first Ribbon she received, which both of them carried as a good luck charm.
Johanna watches all of Dawn's Contests on television along with her . She also has newspaper articles about Dawn's victories and pictures of her competing in Contests and the Hearthome Collection in her living room. Although she keeps track of Dawn's journey, she doesn't like to get too involved, telling Dawn she would be better off relying on her friends and her instead of her mother, and to use her losses as a learning opportunity.
While one might think that her skills have gotten rusty since she became a mother, it turns out that she teaches a class out of her home, even having a battlefield behind her house for instructing her students. As a result, her skills are still as sharp as ever, as shown when she battled Dawn.
===Pokémon===
This listing is of Johanna's known in :
===Contests===
====Ribbons obtained====
This listing is of the Ribbons Johanna has obtained:
* At least five Ribbons (prior to Following A Maiden's Voyage!)
====Grand Festival ranking====
Johanna has competed in the following Grand Festival tournaments:
* Sinnoh Grand Festival - Winner (prior to Following A Maiden's Voyage!)
===Voice actors===
==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
====History====
=====Prior to =====
Johanna used to be a in the past. At some point in her career, she recorded a dance video.
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Johanna made a short cameo at the end of this chapter.
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Johanna was first seen in Perturbed by Pachirisu when was watching Johanna's dance video to practice for the Dance Competition of her first Pokémon Super Contest. 
She reappeared as a figment of 's thoughts after the boy reminisced about the bonds that families share in Vexing Vespiquen & Unmanageable Mothim II.
She physically debuted in Stopping Sableye when Diamond learned that she had headed to Lake Verity to gather and would be in danger because of Team Galactic's plan to blow up the lake. He went there and found her being held hostage by the Mars. Johanna barely managed to escape with Diamond's help as he distracted Mars and allowed his mother to run away.
After returning home alongside and Roseanne, she realized that the jacket and shoes that she ordered for Diamond were gone, and conjured the idea to call him on the phone she left in a pocket. Soon, though, after he received her call, she heard from him that he was infiltrating their flying shuttle and would be having a showdown with Team Galactic, much to her shock. Sebastian traveled to Pastoria City with Johanna and Roseanne to inform about Diamond's disappearance.
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Johanna became a Super Contest Coordinator once more by the end of this chapter.
====Pokémon====
===Pokémon Diamond and Pearl===
Johanna appeared in .
==In the TCG==
This is a listing of cards mentioning or featuring Johanna or her Pokémon in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.
==Trivia==
* In early builds of , the was originally going to also have a father, which is further evidenced by script files leftover in their remakes, .https://web.archive.org/web/20231001124935/https://twitter.com/Lewchube/status/1708462187696595066
* Johanna is the first mother:
** who has a role other than being a mother.
** whose appearance in the is directly based on her game counterpart.
** of a player character in the core series whose name is known.
* Johanna's Japanese name in the animated series was originally intended to be Emiko (エミコ), as seen in the early sketches for .
* In the animated series, the color of Johanna's first Ribbon—the one she gave Dawn at the start of her journey—is the same color as the Ribbon Dawn first earned but it wasn't the same Ribbon.
Johanna Ribbon Dawn.png|Johanna's Ribbon
Floaroma Ribbon.png|The Floaroma Ribbon
==Names==
Language 	Name 	Origin
Japanese 	アヤコ Ayako 	From 阿古屋貝 Akoya-gai ()
English, Latin American Spanish	Johanna 	
German 	Katrin 	
German 	Johanna 	Same as her English name
European Spanish 	Casilda 	Possibly from casa (home)
French 	Ingrid 	
French 	Johanna 	Same as her English name
Italian 	Olga 	
Korean 	진희 Jinhui 	From 진주조개 jinju-jogae (Akoya pearl oyster)
Chinese () 	彩子 Cǎizǐ 	From the Japanese name 彩子 Ayako
Chinese () 	彩子 Chóijí 	From the Japanese name 彩子 Ayako
Vietnamese 	Ayako 	Transcription of her Japanese name
Jumpy
Language 	Name 	Origin
Japanese 	ガルちゃん Garu-chan 	From ガルーラ Garura ()
English, Italian	Jumpy 	From jump
German 	Hüpfer 	From hüpfen (bounce)
Spanish 	Kangur 	From Kangaskhan and canguro (kangaroo)
French 	Sauteur 	From sauteur (jumper)
Italian 	Jumpy 	Same as English name
Korean 	캥이 Keng-i 	From 캥카 Kengka (Kangaskhan)
Chinese () 	悅悅 Yuèyuè 	From 躍 / 跃 yuè (to jump)
Chinese () 	悅悅 Yuhtyuht 	Same as Mandarin name
==References==
==Related articles==
* Mother
* Images on the Bulbagarden Archives
Category:Mothers
Category:Animation characters
Category:Manga characters
Category:Diamond and Pearl characters
Category:Platinum characters
Category:Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl characters
Category:Coordinators
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Category:Pokémon Adventures characters
Category:Contest Judges
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