Doraemon (ドラえもん?)[4] is a Japanese manga series created by Fujiko F. Fujio (the pen name of Hiroshi Fujimoto) and Fujiko A. Fujio (the pen name of Motō Abiko) which later became an anime series and Asian franchise. The series is about a robotic cat named Doraemon, who travels back in time from the 22nd century to aid a schoolboy, Nobita Nobi (野比 のび太 Nobi Nobita?).The series first appeared in December 1969, when it was published simultaneously in six different magazines. In total, 1,344 stories were created in the original series, which are published by Shogakukan under the Tentōmushi (てんとう虫?) manga brand, extending to forty-five volumes. The volumes are collected in the Takaoka Central Library in Toyama, Japan. Fujio was born in Toyama.
A majority of Doraemon episodes are comedies with moral lessons regarding values such as integrity, perseverance, courage, family and respect for elders. Several noteworthy environmental issues are often visited, including homeless animals, endangered species, deforestation, and pollution. Topics such as dinosaurs, the flat Earth theory, wormhole traveling, Gulliver's Travels, and the history of Japan are often covered.
Doraemon was awarded the Japan Cartoonists Association Award for excellence in 1973. Doraemon was awarded the first Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga in 1982,[5] and the first Osamu Tezuka Culture Award in 1997. In March 2008, Japan's Foreign Ministry appointed Doraemon as the nation's first "anime ambassador."[6] Ministry spokesman explained the novel decision as an attempt to help people in other countries to understand Japanese anime better and to deepen their interest in Japanese culture."[7] The Foreign Ministry action confirms that Doraemon has come to be considered a Japanese cultural icon. In 2002, the anime character was acclaimed as an Asian Hero in a special feature survey conducted by Time Asia magazine
Doraemon is sent back in time by Nobita Nobi's great-great grandson Sewashi to improve Nobita's circumstances so that his descendants may enjoy a better future. In the original timeline, Nobita experienced nothing but misery and misfortune throughout his life. As a result of this, Nobita's failures in school and subsequently, his career, have left his family line beset with financial problems. In order to alter history and better the Nobi family's fortunes, Sewashi sent him a robot called Doraemon.
Doraemon has a pocket from which he produces many gadgets, medicines, and tools from the future. The pocket is called yojigen-pocket, or 4-dimensional pocket.
Although he can hear perfectly well, Doraemon has no ears: his robotic ears were eaten by a mouse, giving him a series-longphobia of the creatures.
The stories are formulaic, usually focused on the everyday struggles of fourth grader Nobita, the protagonist of the story. In a typical chapter, Nobita comes home crying about a problem he faces in school and/or the local neighborhood. After hearing him out, Doraemon always offers helpful advice to his problem(s), but that's never enough for Nobita, who is consistently looking for the "quick, easy" way out (which offers insight to the viewers as to why Nobita's life turned out the way it did). Finally, after Nobita's pleading and/or goading, Doraemon produces a futuristic gadget out of his aforementioned pouch to help Nobita fix his problem, enact revenge, or flaunt to his friends.
Nobita usually goes too far, despite Doraemon's best intentions and warnings, and gets into deeper trouble than before. Sometimes, Nobita's friends (usually Suneo or Jaian) steal the gadgets and end up misusing them. However, by the end of the story, there is usually retribution to the characters who end up misusing them, and a moral is taught.
| Episode Number | Aired Date | Episode Name | Japanese Name | Plot |
| 001 | 1979-04-02 | Dream Town, Nobita Land | ゆめの町ノビタランド | The episode starts with Nobita getting bored. Then Suneo invites them to play Dodgeball, but when they get to the place they usually play gets turned into a place to put materials. Then Doraemon takes out a camera which can make miniature versions of buildings. They successfully make Nobita Land and invited their friends to play, but it gets destroyed by Nobita's Mother in the end. The episode ends with all the scrap metal landing on Doraemon. |
| 002 | 1979-04-03 | Transformation Biscuits | 変身ビスケット | The episode starts with Nobita's mother asking Nobita to buy desserts to treat their visitor. He goes up stairs and finds a box ofTransformation Biscuts. He eats a cat shaped one and then takes the box to the visitor, who eats four of the biscuits. Then his mother reminds him to buy the desserts. He then goes to buy desserts and to his shock, turns into a cat for five minutes. Later, Nobita and Doraemon then try to stop his mother from seeing the transformation happening on the visitor. The episode ends with Nobita's father fainting upon seeing that Nobita's mother had turned into a rabbit after eating a biscuit. |
| 003 | 1979-04-04 | Memory Bread for Testing | テストにアンキパン | The episode starts with Nobita running into Doraemon and asking him for a tool to help him study for his examinations that takes place tomorrow. Doraemon gives him some Memory Bread which Nobita eats and understands the work. Later, he relaxed and ate desserts until he became full, but Doraemon forces him to eats extra memory bread. The episode ends with Nobita vomiting and re-eating memory bread from the start the very next day. |
| 004 | 1979-04-05 | N & S Emblems | Ｎ・Ｓワッペン | The episode starts with Gian playing with two magnets. Nobita then says that he should know about magnetic properties inkindergarten. Gian then gets really angry and chases after Nobita. Nobita runs home and asks Doraemon for help, and he gives Nobita some N and S emblems after successfully testing them on Nobita's parents. Then he puts a S emblem on Nobita and the other S emblem on Gian. Nobita then escapes from Gian, but he instead makes a mistake and ends up being attracted to Gian. The episode ends with Doraemon ignoring Nobita when he pleads for help. |
| 005 | 1979-04-06 | Wrestling Killer | ころばし屋 | The episode starts with Nobita and Gian being almost late for school and running into each other. An angry Gian then knocks Nobita down, causing him to be late. Doraemon tries to aid Nobita with a Wrestling Killer tool. At first, Nobita mistakes it for agun, but later understand how it works and uses it to knock Gian down. Later Suneo tricks him and he sets the tool to knock Suneo down, but accidentally caused it to turn against him. He then wastes ¥100 trying to stop the tool. The episode ends withNobita falling down the stairs. |
| 006 | 1979-04-07 | Nobita's Bride | のび太のおよめさん | The episode starts with Nobita and Doraemon celebrating Nobita's birthday. Then they go to the future and they try to find Nobita's bride, who turns out to be Shizuka. Then they almost get beaten up by Nobita's son in the future due to a mix-up, for Nobita's son looked just like him. The two escaped with injury and find Shizuka in Nobita's house presenting him with a present. The episode ends with Shizuka and Nobita walking away. |
| 007 | 1979-04-09 | Doraemon's Prediction | ドラえもんの大予言 | The episode starts with Nobita getting home and wanting to go to Shizuka's house to play, but is stopped by Doraemon. He then open a book and tells Nobita that if he goes out, he will get in hospital because he will be hit by a truck. After persuation by Shizuka, Doraemon goes outside with Nobita and uses a "future mirror" to see what will happen to them in 10 seconds time. Eventually, after near-accidents, they make it there but when he opens the door he gets hit by a toy truck on the head. The episode ends with Nobita laughing with Doraemon. First use of flying hats. |
| 008 | 1979-04-10 | Dinosaur Hunting | 恐竜ハンター | Doraemon and Nobita's first time travel. They get into a drawer which leads to them travelling on a time machine and end up ten billion years in the past. After shrinking one dinosaur, Doraemon cannot find his gun but they manage to escape the second one, with Nobita leaving his glasses behind, which are found in the present time, to the amazement of scientists. |
| 009 | 1979-04-11 | Spy War about top secret | 悪魔のパスポート | The episode starts with Nobita breaking his teacher's vase while he was cleaning the classroom with Suneo. Suneo agreed to help Nobita cover up his crime, on the condition that he must do whatever Suneo wants. Fearing his teacher, Nobita reluctantly agreed. Along the way, Suneo and his friends taunt Nobita about the vase. Doraemon furiously takes out a tool that spies on Suneo's house, and Nobita found out that Suneo had a habit of bedwetting. Suneo's plan backfired when Nobita taunted him with his secret bedwetting habit. In the end, Suneo's friends wanted to taunt Nobita by making him do a headstand and bark like a dog, but Suneo, fearing that Nobita may uncover his secret, did the headstand. |
| 010 | 1979-04-12 | Lucky Gun | ラッキーガン | Nobita has some bad luck so Doraemon gives him a gun which shoots red bullets (actually bursts of light) for good luck and black bullets for bad luck, but no way of deciding which you get. Cowardly Nobita has 3 others try it first and they all get good luck. A little boy takes the gun and shoots Nobita with a black bullet and he gets all bad luck. |
| 011 | 1979-04-13 | Cursing Camera | のろいのカメラ | Nobita accidentally makes voodoo dolls of Doraemon and his parents using the camera and they fall into the hands of two rough girls. |
| 012 | 1979-04-14 | Build up Subway | 地下鉄をつくっちゃえ | Nobita and Doraemon use a digging machine to build their own subway as a birthday present for Nobita's father so he doesn't have to take the very crowded public subway to work. |
| 013 | 1979-04-16 | One Time Exam at least in the Life | 一生に一度は百点を | Doraemon lends Nobita a computer pencil which writes all the answers to his homework. Gian steals it and uses it in an exam to get 100% but his father thinks he is cheating and beats him. Suneo and Gian now Nobita's friends. |
| 014 | 1979-04-17 | Game of exchanging Mom | 正義の味方・セルフ仮面 | Nobita, Shizuka and Suneo are all fed up with their mothers so Doraemon arranges it for them to swap parents and they find that mums are not so bad after all. |
| 015 | 1979-04-18 | Air Combat | オオカミ一家 | Doraemon gives the gang model planes which shrink them down so they can fly inside them. Gian gets the only jet plane and shoots the others down, then afterwards rests on top of the Tokyo Tower, only to have his model plane fall off, stranding him there. |
| 016 | 1979-04-19 | Door out of nothing | ママをとりかえっこ | Nobita wants his independence from his family so Doraemon gives him a door which when placed against a wall, creates a room behind it which can be lived in. Nobita finds he is not ready to leave home yet. |
| 017 | 1979-04-20 | Run, Machine-Horse! | タイムふろしき | The horses are stilts. Cry baby Nobita has boasted that he will enter a stilt race tomorrow but he does not know how to walk on stilts so Doraemon goes to the 22nd Century to get him a cross between a stilt and a horse. Gian steals it so Doraemon becomes a tough teacher as he trains Nobita to walk on stilts. The mechanical stilt horse runs amok in Gian's house. |
| 018 | 1979-04-21 | Yes, I do | 珍加羅峠の宝物 | A new girl nearby ignores Nobita. Doraemon gives him a cupid's bow whose arrows will cause anyone he shoots to love him. The first arrow hits a dog, then an ugly girl. An ugly man accidentally shoots Doraemon. Finally an arrow hits the girl and she falls for Nobita but he ends up being chased by the ugly girl who still has a love arrow in her. |
| 019 | 1979-04-23 | Traffic Tools Combination | 大空中戦 | Nobita wants to fight monsters using Doraemon's toys which give him the power of a plane, a tank and a submarine but finds he gets only petty jobs. |
| 020 | 1979-04-24 | Pretty Mai | ナイヘヤドア | Doraemon falls madly in love with a toy cat. The owner lets him have it after he rescues it from a dog and he uses 22nd century technology to make it as real as he is, only to find out that it too is a male cat. |
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