Johanna is Dawn/Hikari&#039;s mother and a former Grand Festival champion in her day.    Johanna made her debut appearance in the anime in Following A Maiden&#039;s Voyage!.    She used to be a great Pok&eacute;mon Coordinator and is also a former winner of the Grand Festival. Dawn wanted to follow in her footsteps and become a great coordinator as well. When Dawn left on her journey, Johanna gave her one of her old ribbons.    In The Bells are Singing!, it was revealed that she sewed Buneary&#039;s vest. As a young girl, she was shown participating in a Contest in a flashback in Battling the Generation Gap! against her childhood rival, Lila.    In Battling a Cute Drama! Ash, Brock, and Dawn received their new outfits from her.    Johanna appeared in Strategy Begins at Home! and met Ash and Brock in person for the first time. She used Glameow and an Umbreon in a double battle with her daughter, which she quickly won. While one might think that her skills might have gotten rusty since she became a mom, it turns out that she teaches a Coordinator class out of her home, and even has a battlefield behind her house for instructing her students. As a result, her skills are still as sharp as ever.    In Challenging a Towering Figure!, Johanna was the hostess for the tournament which was a part of the Twinleaf Festival. She wore a gown during the occasion.    She appeared in a brief cameo in DP174, DP175 and DP176 watching Dawn compete in the Sinnoh Grand Festival, then again in person in DP177 in the audience.    [credit to bulbapedia]

After defeating Brandon and declining the offer to be a Frontier Brain, Ash sets off to travel through the far away land of Sinnoh. Once he gets there, he meets up with Hikari, a local trainer from the region, and they decide to travel together.

__Height:__ 157cm (5'2")

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A Russian-American voice actress and film editor. She is best known for voicing Ash Ketchum and various other characters in the English dub of Pokémon since 2006, as well as Alicia in the 2006 video game Bullet Witch. She has also edited documentaries for networks such as MSNBC and worked as an assistant editor on the films Life of Crime, Cold Comes the Night, Worst Friends, and Cruise. She won the 2019 Voice Arts Awards in the category "Outstanding Animation/Gaming Demo Best Voiceover."

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- Cass Hamada (Big Hero 6 and Big Hero 6: The Series)
- Cleo Sertori (H2O: Just Add Water)
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- Mônica Sorrento (Alma Indomable)
- Imperatriz Ferrer de Meléndez (Corazón Apasionado')
- Elsa (Once Upon a Time)
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Two special episodes during the airing of Pokemon Best Wishes! featuring the old characters from the Diamond & Pearl series Hikari and Takeshi with their Pokemon. 
 
Episode 1: Hikari - Setting off on a New Journey! (ヒカリ・新たなる旅立ち!) 
 
Episode 2: Nibi Gym - The Greatest Crisis Ever! (ニビジム・史上最大の危機!)

Pokémon Trainer Satoshi has a new plan: see the world! But first, he and his partner Pikachu are headed to the opening of the Sakuragi Institute, a research facility dedicated to uncovering the mysteries of Pokémon in every region. Satoshi meets Gou, another boy with boundless curiosity about Pokémon, and both are overjoyed when Professor Sakuragi asks them to become official research fellows. With Satoshi as determined as ever to become a Pokémon Master, and Gou aiming to catch one of every Pokémon (including the Mythical Mew), our heroes are in for adventure and excitement as they explore the wide world of Pokémon!
 
(Source: Pokémon TV)
 
Note: Episode 119, 121, 126 and 128 are recap episodes that did not air outside of Japan.

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