Doraemon (1979)

Nobita Nobi is a normal fourth grade student. This all changes, however, when a blue robotic cat appears from his desk drawer. Calling himself Doraemon, this robot tells Nobita that his future descendants from the 22nd century live in poverty because of all the mistakes he made. Therefore, they have sent Doraemon to serve as a guide and mentor to Nobita, so that their future may change for the better. What Doraemon comes to learn, though, is that Nobita is the weakest and laziest student in the whole school.

To assist in his quest, Doraemon has a four-dimensional pocket with him, in which he keeps various machines and gadgets from the future. Unfortunately, these often result in even more trouble for Nobita. Will Doraemon really be able to achieve his mission of changing Nobita, or will he remain as he is?

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Doraemon Main

Ooyama, Nobuyo Japanese

Nobi, Nobita Main

Ohara, Noriko Japanese

Minamoto, Shizuka Main

Nomura, Michiko Japanese

Honekawa, Suneo Main

Kimotsuki, Kaneta Japanese

Gouda, Takeshi Main

Tatekabe, Kazuya Japanese

Dorami Supporting

Yokozawa, Keiko Japanese

Dekisugi, Hidetoshi Supporting

Shirakawa, Sumiko Japanese

Nobi, Tamako Supporting

Chijimatsu, Sachiko Japanese

Hoshino, Sumire Supporting

Yokozawa, Keiko Japanese

Kibo Supporting

Shimamoto, Sumi Japanese

Shibayama, Tsutomu Director

Watanabe, Ayumu Episode Director, Storyboard, Animation Director

Moriwaki, Makoto Episode Director, Storyboard

Hara, Keiichi Episode Director, Storyboard, Assistant Director

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Dec 20, 2023

JayremyTM

Recommended

Well, I could go very long with this one. What could you exactly talk about Doraemon? There are millions of great things that you could talk about Doraemon. Whether it's affecting the anime world, how it inspired children when we were kids, animation, drama, movies that aren't canon but you could be talking about them for miles and miles ahead about how great they are, the backstory of every single character in Doraemon that could make a whole movie out of it, Nobita's future with Shizuka and how he's been living with Doraemon, Stand By Me: Doraemon that's undoubtedly one of the best anime movies ... in the world, influence on Japan and the whole world, in Florence in Southeast Asia, and hundreds of things you could mention to show how strong Doraemon's influence is. Doraemon is an anime that you don't need to worry about how the story goes because every story, episode, or chronicle has its own story. It doesn't need to be in order, and you don't need to watch every single episode to recollect everything because every single one of Doraemon's episodes has its own story, much like how Tom and Jerry have their own story in every episode. Doraemon can be watched from a young age to the oldest; it's like how Lego sets are designed for ages 1 to 99 to play with. It's just like that because Doraemon is simply the anime that can bring people together, allowing them to sit and enjoy like the friends they are, just like the friends they are with Nobita, Doraemon, Giant, Shizuka, Suneo, and the people they are friends with. If you have a bad day from work or feel like you want to seek happiness for your life, this is the anime that will really help you out a lot or feels like you need something to relax, watch Doraemon.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Mar 13, 2017

hass447

Mixed Feelings

The story centers around a complete loser who is lazy, stupid, irresponsible, and wears a pair of impossibly large glasses. He is in love with a girl in his class but he never had the courage to tell her how he feels. He is constantly being bullied by two boys in the neighborhood: a fat guy with confidence in his athletic abilities with a heart of gold and a wealthy boy who's got a bird's beak for mouth. In 22nd century, Skynet decided to send advanced robots back to the present day to destroy humanity. Skynet sent different robots to different countries, and for Japan, ... they sent a blut fat robot cat called Doraemon. It's mission, help the loser boy overcome otherwise insurmountable obstacles through futuristic gadgets, so the boy may survive the natural selection and breed even more losers, thus weakening humanity's genes so the robots can take over.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Mar 7, 2017

gesouix

Not Recommended

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These days it goes against the grain for a person to rip on a cult classic.
Allow me to do just that, write a review that'll do this series justice.

Art 4/10:
Severely dated, by today standards this series comes off immediately as an eyesore. Absolutely pathetic by the 80s animation criteria. This series came out around the time of the VHS era, the time when animation was purely hand drawn and devoid of any graphical rendering from CGI. I am a sap for smooth hand drawn animation and I can sympathise if the series cannot deliver those moments all the time, since that demands painful labours ... and a creative knack for animation per se. But Doraemon was lackadaisical from start to finish, not a single moment throughout the 1787 episodes when I thought there was a redeeming scene that might salvage this utter disaster area, animation-wise.

Sound 4/10:
Mediocre in every possible sense. I have no gripe on the sound effects since they're par for the course. The voice acting feels forced, as if the VOs just treated this like a run of the mill kid show and phoned in their run of the mill performance. The OP song is cringe worthy to the point of obsession-inducing but that is my personal beef.

Character 4/10:
The show is laden with characters with the most cliche tropes you can possibly imagine: The challenged protagonist, the posh snub, the aggressive macho, the bland cute girl,... Notice the way I didn't go into further description of these certain character about their traits and background because there wasn't any to speak of.

Story 4/10:
The story revolves around this spineless 8 year-old who was accompanied by a sentient robot from the future and his daily struggles with his life and peers. The robot was sent back to him with a view to helping him cope with his challenges and hardships as well as shaping him into a functional unit of society. Now the series did try to get a little creative by throwing in these futuristic devices which the characters capitalise for their own means, ultimately resulting in hilarity by the end of every episode. Unfortunately I cannot overlook the fact that the plot for this series straight up refused to develop into any particular direction and as a result, this became a major grind for me. After the 10th episode I immediately realised what kind of show I was getting into.

Enjoyment 4/10:
Again I must address the fact that character progression is non-existent in this series, too was any twists and coup de theatre that I was desperate praying for towards the end of doraemon. Perhaps this might get immensely more interesting were all of the hubbub being carried out just simply a figment of the protagonists's rich imagination, but then again this is not those kind of shows.

Overall 4/10:
Doraemon is amongst the most insipid, trying series out there. I don't get how this is hailed as the embodiment of many people's childhood and such. Why can't your people's childhood be something a little more tasteful like Legend of The Galactic Heroes, or Neon Genesis Evangelion?

Doraemon was okay, production quality was good and the story was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed it!

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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