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Doraemon
Promotional poster
Also known as	Doraemon: Gadget Cat from the Future
Genre	Science fiction Comedy
Based on	Doraemon byFujiko F. Fujio [ja]
Written by	Manami Sakurai (composition)[1]
Screenplay by	Higashi Shimizu[1] Kimihito Ito[1] Yosuke Suzuki[1] Isao Murayama[1] Teruko Uchiumi[1]
Directed by	Soichiro Zen (2005–2017) Shinnosuke Yakuwa (2017–2018) Hirofumi Ogura (2020–present)[1]
Voices of	Wasabi Mizuta Megumi Ōhara Yumi Kakazu Subaru Kimura Tomokazu Seki
Music by	Kan Sawada[1]
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of seasons	21
No. of episodes	892 (1,707+ segments)[2](list of episodes)
Production
Editor	Yuki Tsudo[1]
Running time	20-26 minutes
Production companies	TV Asahi ADK Emotions[a] Shin-Ei Animation
Original release
Network	ANN (TV Asahi)
Release	April 15, 2005 (2005-04-15) – present
Related
1979 anime 1973 anime

Doraemon (ドラえもん,Doraemon) is a Japaneseanimetelevision series based onFujiko F. Fujio [ja]'smanga ofthe same name and is the successor to both the1979 anime and1973 anime of the same name, serving as the third adaptation in the franchise. The series, produced byShin-Ei Animation,TV Asahi andADK Emotions, premiered on TV Asahi and its affiliates in Japan on April 15, 2005, and currently airs in over fifty countries internationally. Since its premiere in 2005,Doraemon has aired892 episodes, multiple holiday specials, and 19 feature films. ThisDoraemon anime series is referred to in Asia as the Mizuta Edition (水田版), afterWasabi Mizuta, the voice actress who voicesDoraemon in this series.^[3]

Over the course of its run, the show has had three English dubs. The first one was licensed byViz Media for North American broadcast exclusively, and developed byBang Zoom! Entertainment and aired onDisney XD in the United States asDoraemon: Gadget Cat From the Future from July 7, 2014 to September 1, 2015, with reruns lasting until 2018.^[4][5] The second dub was licensed by LUK Internacional and produced by Red Angel Media inHong Kong, and began running onBoomerang in the United Kingdom on August 7, 2015, but ended its run not long after in January 2016. The third dub was licensed bySpacetoon India and produced by EarCandy inSouth Africa,^[6] and aired onDisney Channel inIndia sometime in early 2020, and on Disney Channel HD from August 14, 2023 to May 10, 2025, although episodes of the dub are still occasionally broadcast.

As of 2025, TV Asahi holds the distribution and licensing rights to the series, as well as the previous television adaptation and the feature-length movies.

Doraemon is acat-likerobot from the 22nd century future who's sent to the present time to steer a 10-year old elementary boy namedNobita Nobi, an unintelligent, naive and clumsy boy, on the right path in order to secure hisfuture. Nobita's closest friend and love interest isShizuka Minamoto, while his frenemies who bully and tease him areTakeshi Goda andSuneo Honekawa.

Beginning in 2004, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the then-ongoing1979 anime and the release ofDoraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey, a significant revival of theDoraemon series began development, which would become the third series produced in the franchise. A trailer for the newDoraemon series was previewed for the first time on March 25, 2005, at the end of the first television broadcast ofDoraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey. A week after the 1979 anime finale broadcast on March 18, the television broadcast of the film contained goodbye messages from the 1979 anime voice actorsNobuyo Ōyama,Noriko Ohara,Kazuya Tatekabe,Michiko Nomura andKaneta Kimotsuki, respectively. The anime officially premiered as a one-hour special on April 15 of that same year, less than a month after the 1979 anime had ended.^[19][20]

With the shift, the majority of the personnel from the 1979 anime stepped down, and were replaced by a new team for the new series, as well as the original voice actors. Sōichirō Zen, who had previously worked on the 1979 anime, served as the director of the 2005 anime for more than 12 years, from 2005 to 2017. Ayumu Watanabe had previously worked on the 1979 anime, beginning in the late 1980s, and after the transition, he was tasked with developing character designs for the series, where he worked for eight years.

The new series features updated versions of the characters, different settings, and a new soundtrack. Although the anime is more faithful to the original manga and volumes, some changes were made. Many of the episodes that adapted chapters from the manga were extended to either have a better conclusion or a good moral to the story. In addition, some elements from the manga were toned down. Some examples include all of Doraemon's gadgets that resembled medicine being changed to different appliances, and Nobita's dad (who smoked often in the manga) rarely smoking in the new series.^[9] All mini corners, partners, and next episodes previews in all episodes are cut to fit for the 30-minute block in international versions, except forHong Kong, which are cut to fit for the 15-minute block in its time-slot. Since May 1, 2009, the series airs inhigh definition. The episodes are recorded at APU Meguro Studio.

First revealed in June 2017, starting on July 28, 2017, with the episodes "I'm Mini Doraemon" and "The Elephant and the Uncle", the show got overhauled visually to use more vivid colors, which included the poster artwork.^[21][22][23] The characters were altered to closely resemble their original designs. Shinnosuke Yakuwa, who directed several of theDoraemon films, joined the production team as head director for the anime in 2018,^[24] and was succeeded by Hirofumi Ogura in 2020. By 2023, the series' production staff had been divided into two groups.

Originally, the show aired on Fridays at 7:00pm from its premiere to September 29, 2017, the same network timeslot that the 1979 anime aired on from 1981 up until its conclusion in 2004. As of October 5, 2019, the anime now airs Saturday afternoons at 5:00pm onTV Asahi and other ANN stations.^[25]

The series has paid respect to past cast members, most recently Nobuyo Ōyama, the voice for Doraemon for the 1979 series who died on September 29, 2024.^[26] The episode "Emperor's New Clothes!? Ultra Yoroi" was scheduled to be rebroadcast, but it was replaced with a montage of clips from the 1979 anime honoring Ōyama's contributions to the series and the episode "Wolfman Cream".^[27]

On November 22, 2004,The Asahi Shimbun revealed in an exclusive article that the series' five voice actors were considered by the production team to be replaced by a group of newer, younger voice actors, with their roles slated to begin in April of the following year,^[28][29][30] which was met with confusion and great public interest as the news of such a big change was very abrupt; many employees from TV Asahi learned about the news from the article, while the staff that worked on the anime were previously briefed.

One of the reasons for the new casting was becauseNobuyo Ōyama, the original voice actress for Doraemon in the 1979 anime, wanted to step down since 2001 due to health issues she faced in July of that year. Furthermore,Michiko Nomura, who voiced Shizuka in the 1979 anime, quit the longest-running seriesSazae-san to focus more on her management position duties at her husband'sKen Productions studio and left alongside the original cast. It was also due to the fact that most of the cast members by that time were in their mid 60s.^[28] The voice actors to the five main characters, Doraemon, Nobita, Shizuka, Gian, and Suneo, were chosen from a pool of 590 applicants. Auditions for the series were held in order to select a voice that would best fit the original anime's atmosphere, starting in December 2004. TV Asahi stated in March 2005 that they chose voice actors who sounded similar to the predecessors, so that there wouldn't be a significant change from the original voice actors to the new voice actors.^[31] The new voice actors for the new series were officially announced on March 13, 2005, and were also revealed on March 28 of that year during a news conference inRoppongi Hills.

Subaru Kimura, the voice of Gian in the anime, was the youngest member of the new cast that was confirmed, as he was 14 years old at the time.^[31] Subaru was formerly a member of a children's theater group, but he had no experience as a voice actor, and one of the reasons he auditioned for the job was just to gain popularity in class. Subaru was initially terrified at the auditions, but he finally landed the role of Gian.^[32][33] Wasabi Mizuta was chosen to play the title character and was approached byKazuya Tatekabe, who had previously voiced Gian in the 1979 anime, to audition for the series. Mizuta was initially concerned about being fired, due to the negative criticisms about the sudden change in voice actors, but afterDoraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006 released, she continued with the role.^[34] Yumi Kakazu acquired the part of Shizuka, after previously having auditioned for the roles of Doraemon, Suneo, Nobita and Gian.^[16]

There are three notable English dubs that were produced: Bang Zoom's American English dub, Red Angel Media's British/Hong Kong English dub (which aired onBoomerang), and EarCandy's South African English dub (which aired onDisney Channel).

In the United States,Doraemon: Gadget Cat from the Future was first announced in May 2014.^[4] Produced byFujiko F. Fujio Pro,TV Asahi,Bang Zoom! Entertainment, and distributed byViz Media,Gadget Cat from the Future aired onDisney XD from July 7, 2014, to September 1, 2015, for a total of two seasons and 52 episodes. The dub features veteran anime voice actressMona Marshall in the title role of Doraemon andJohnny Yong Bosch as Nobita, who is known in the English dub as "Noby". In Canada,Gadget Cat from the Future briefly aired onDisney XD's Canadian feed, before being re-branded asFamily CHRGD. In Australia, the series started airing on 26 January 2015 onNetwork Ten, before moving toCartoon Network andBoomerang.^[35] It was announced that reruns of the American version would be re-imported to Japan and aired onDisney Channel Japan starting on February 1, 2016. The network also provides a Japanese dub of the version as a secondary audio feed.^[36]

The English dub has been heavily modified to meet American broadcasting guidelines, censoring content deemed inappropriate for American children, as well as replacing many Japanese cultural elements with American cultural elements. Some modifications include Americanized character and gadget name changes from the English version of the manga, an episode order completely different from the Japanese episode order, nudity being heavily censored by adding steam, cloud effects, or clothing,^[37][38] and some episodes having several minutes of footage cut.^[5]

However, certain uniquely Japanese characteristics - such as house structure, kneeling on the floor to eat, the side where cars drive, and Nobisuke Nobi (Toby Nobi)'skimono - remain. Japanese food featured throughout the series were also localized: while Doraemon's favorite food,dorayaki, was kept in but referred as "yummy buns", others were edited out and replaced with Western equivalents, such asomurice becoming pancakes. All the background music and sound effects were replaced with new background music and sound effects deemed "easier for American children to empathize".^[5] At least one character's personality was also partially rewritten. Shizuka, renamed Sue in the English dub. is portrayed as more tomboyish and athletic than the Japanese version, although her sweet nature and kind personality were not changed. This is reportedly because her traditionally Japanese habits were perceived as being difficult for American children to understand in test viewings of the Japanese version.^{[citation needed]}

In the United Kingdom,Gadget Cat from the Future was first announced by LUK International in mid-July 2015^[39] and began broadcasting on August 17, 2015 onBoomerang.^[39] However, it finished its run sometime in January 2016 and has never been broadcast since, due to it being considered a failure in the British market and was removed from the Boomerang lineup in early 2016. This dub is believed to have covered 26 episodes, with some of these episodes having not been found. Unlike the previous English dub from the United States, this dub is more accurate to the original scripts from the Japanese version of the series, as well as the opening and episode orders. Two notable differences are that in this dub, the original title cards are retained, albeit with English localization, unlike the American dub, which superimposed the text over the episode and removed the Japanese title card. However, unlike the American dub, Japanese text in the episodes (e.g. signs) in the UK dub are unlocalized, with no subtitles or voiceover whatsoever translating them. Despite this dub being made for and to be broadcast in the United Kingdom only, it was produced inHong Kong, where the dub was recorded at Red Angel Media. The names of the main characters are borrowed from the English dub from the United States.

InIndia,Doraemon was aired in English on Disney Channel in early 2020, and later on Disney Channel HD from August 14, 2023 to May 10, 2025. This dub was produced by EarCandy inSouth Africa and licensed bySpacetoon India, and covers seasons 15 and 16. Like LUK International's dub, this dub is more accurate to the Japanese version of the series, although some dialogue, such as references to beef or alcohol products, is muted to meet Indian broadcasting standards. Unlike the other two dubs, this dub consists of a very limited cast of only three actors who play the roles of every character.

In thisDoraemon series, since 2005, there are two "mini corners" that were broadcast during the series' runtime:Doraemon Mini Theater from April to July 2005 andDora Dora Mini Theater from October to December 2022. Like the 1979 anime, the series included holiday and birthday specials.

In Japanese, the series features a total of eight opening themes, with the first song being "Doraemon no Uta," which originally served as the opening theme for the whole 1979 anime. Beginning in October 2005, "Doraemon no Uta" was replaced for the first time by "Hagushichao". Most of the international versions of the series only use thethird opening theme and their own endings.

As of November 2024, the current opening theme is "Yume wo Kanaete Doraemon", which is sung and performed by Mao. The song was previously used from 2007 to 2019. The last broadcast of the previous theme song, "Doraemon", was aired on November 2.^[40][41][42] The American dub uses its own unique opening sequence that compiles footage from the Japanese version. To explain the premise of the story, a narration by Doraemon about "why he came from the future" is utilized rather than an actual opening theme.^[5] The ending theme is an instrumental played over scenes from the second variation of the third Japanese opening theme.

Since the series incorporates all the credits into the opening theme, an ending theme is primarily absent. However, some episodes use an ending theme.

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