Ash’s voice is interpreted by:

Japan: Rica Matsumoto

In Japan, the voice actors are called Seiyuu and they are very important figures, because in Japanese culture it’ss as if they “reincarnated” the characters they dub.

In fact, there is no wonder when Rica is often called “Satoshi Sama” or similar.

Rica, as well as being a talented actress and voice actress, is also a singer, In fact, in addition to having published some of her albums, she sang most of the opening themes of the anime Pokémon impersonating Ash who, in dubbing too, is rendered very well by the masculine voice of Rica.

About Ash, Rica said during an interview: “Satoshi (Ash) always comes up with fun phrases, such as ‘pajama wa jama’ (Japanese pun that more or less means ‘pajamas are a threat’) or jokes. This is what drew me to him as a character. “

Ash dubbed by Rica in the first series:

Ash dubbed by Rica now:

English dub: Veronica Taylor & Sarah Natochenny

Veronyca Taylor has been Ash’s English voice actress for 4Kids Entertainment and has held this role until the series Advanced Battle comprised. From then on she has been replaced by Sarah Natochenny.

Veronica voiced Ash in the first 8 seasons, so she gavea childish voice to the character (despite she tried, as far as possible, to create a more “mature” voice) . With the transition from 4Kids to Pokémon USA, which required a change of voice actors too, the staff decided to give Ash a voice similar to Rica Matsumoto’s one, so the role passed to Sarah Natochenny.

Veronica Taylor was also the voice of Delia (Ash’s Mom) and May, while Sarah Natochenny was also Dawn’s Buneary.

Veronica’s voice while she interprets Ash:

Sarah’s voice while she interprets Ash:

Italy: Davide Garbolino

Italian famous voice actor who interpreted many characters in animated series and movies. Several years ago led “Ciao Ciao” and “Ciao Ciao Mattina”. He is the official voice of Topo Gigio (2005) and Bugs Bunny.

Regarding the Pokémon anime, Davide interprets Ash’s voice since the first series, therefore always, in fact, over the years, he has done an excellent job of recreating the  “growing up voice” of Ash.

He also directed the dubbing of the film “Pokémon The Rise of Darkrai”.

Davide’s voice while he interprets Ash (tracks taken from the 3rd movie and XY, so you can notice the “growing up” voice)

Spain: Adolfo Moreno

Adolfo’s voice while he interprets Ash: 

Germany: Veronika Neugebauer and Caroline Combrinck

Veronika Neugebauer has dubbed Ash only in some series (EP158–DP104), the principal (who still holds the role) is Caroline Combrinck (EP001–EP157, DP105-now).

Veronika’s voice while she interprets Ash:

France: Aurelien Ringelheim

Aurelien’s voice while he interprets Ash:

Norway: Nils-Martin Crawfurd

Nils-Martin’s voice while he interprets Ash:

Sweden: Dick Eriksson

Dick’s voice while he interprets Ash:

Denmark: Mathias Klenske

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Matias’s voice while he interprets Ash:

Other States:

Arab		Buthaina Shia

Catalan

Enric Puig

Chinese Mandarin

Hè Shìfāng Li Míngxìng Wāng Shìwěi

Czech Republic

Radek Škvor

Croatian

Saša Buneta Marko Torjanac

Philippine

Klariz Magboo

Finnish

Sari Moilanen Hanna Savikko

Dutch

Christa Lips

Canadian

Sébastien Reding

Greek

Voula Kosta

Israeli

Yonatan Magon Daniel Magon

Hindi

Rahul Sharma (Cartoon Network dub) Nachiket Dighe (Hungama dub)

Hungarian

Szvetlov Balázs Ungvári Gergely

Korean

Choi Deok-Hyi Lee Seon-Ho An Hyeon-Seo

Polish

Hanna Kinder-Kiss (EP001-AG040, DP053-now, all movies) Grzegorz Drojewski (DP001-DP052)

Portuguese		Fábio Lucindo
		Maria João Luís (EP001-EP031) Sandra Faleiro (EP032-EP094) Sandra de Castro (EP095-EP128, EP158-EP209, AG093-AG177), DP001-now, Pokémon Live) Alexandra Sedas (EP129-EP157) Cristina Carvalhal (movies 3 and 4) Bárbara Lourenço (EP210-AG040) Raquel Ferreira (AG041-AG092) Ana Madureira (AG178-AG192)

Russian

Anna Levchenko (EP001-EP105) Larisa Nekipelova (DP105-present)

Latin America

Gabriel Ramos Irwin Daayán (DP091-DP104) Emiliano Dionisi (movies 6 and 7)

Turkish

Ahmet Taşar

 

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