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Japanesse Doraemon Theme Song

noreply@blogger.com (ikhwan 013-7805343) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:15:00 +0000

Doraemon: Japanesse Doraemon Theme Song

konna koto ii na
dekitara ii na
anna yume konna yume ippai aru kedo

minna minna minna
kanaete kureru
fushigina POKKE de kanaete kureru
sora wo jiyuu ni tobitai na

(hai! takekoputaa!)

AN AN AN
tottemo daisuki
DORAEMON

shukudai touban shiken ni otsukai
anna koto konna koto taihen dakedo

minna minna minna
tasukete kureru
benrina dougu de tasukete kureru
omocha no heitai da

(sore! tototsugeki!)

AN AN AN
tottemo daisuki
DORAEMON

anna toko ii na
iketara ii na
kono kuni ano shima takusan aru kedo

minna minna minna
ikasete kureru
mirai no kikai de kanaete kureru
sekai ryokou ni ikitai na

(ufufufu… doko demo DOA!)

AN AN AN
tottemo daisuki
DORAEMON

AN AN AN
tottemo daisuki
DORAEMON
Doraemon: English Doraemon Theme Song

this sort of thing is good
I wish I could do it
that sort of dream, this sort of dream, I have many of them but

all of them, all of them, all of them
he grants my dreams
he grants my dreams with a mysterious pocket
I want to fly freely in the sky

(Here! Bamboo-copter!)

ah ah ah
I love you very much,
Doraemon

homework, school duties, exams and errands
because that sort of thing and this sort of thing are awful

all of them, all of them, all of them
he helps me
he helps me with a convenient tool
look! a toy soldier

(Here! Attack!)

ah ah ah
I love you very much,
Doraemon

that place is nice
I wish I could go
this country, that island, there is many of them, but

all of them, all of them, all of them
he makes me able to go to them
he uses a gadget of the future to grant my wish
I want to go on a world trip

The Cuddliest Hero in Asia

noreply@blogger.com (ikhwan 013-7805343) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:00:00 +0000

DORAEMON may be Japan's cutest export, says Pico Iyer, and his relentless optimism inspires a continent

You've seen him, even if you don't know his name. And if you've seen him, you've been warmed—even inspired—by his energized air of optimism. That bubble-headed creature with a broad smile, a paw raised in greeting and a disarming blueness beams down at us not only across Japan but on the streets of Hanoi, in courses at American colleges, in cinemas in Hong Kong (where he chatters away in Cantonese). Yes, he sells fireworks, adorns postage stamps, blinks as a cursor on Sony PCs and appears in movies about the Dorabian Nights. But more than that, he transmits a message that transcends every language: the future can be likable, the present is redeemable, and you can be happy even if you're blue.

For many years now the Japanese have given us all snazzy machines and elegant styles; their animE and manga designs are so globally compelling that the hip trans-Atlantic music group Gorillaz uses animE figures as virtual front men, and Disney's Lion King was said to have been inspired by the masterful cartoons of Osamu Tezuka. Athletes like Ichiro Suzuki and Hidetoshi Nakata are increasingly electrifying international sporting arenas with their blend of smooth craft and high efficiency. But none of Japan's cultural exports, it could be said, has the warmth, the companionable charm or the zany humanity of the 22nd century cat who has a gadget, if not quite an answer, for everything.

Doraemon lives in a world indistinguishable from our own: his weekly TV shows and annual movies have him inhabiting a typical street in a typical Japanese (and therefore quasi-Western) neighborhood. His best friend, Nobita (the name means knocked down), is a classically helpless, bespectacled fourth-grader who is always being bullied by classmates and shouted at by mother or teacher. Like any good buddy, Doraemon accompanies his pal to baseball practice, sits by his side as he wrestles with his homework and tries to protect him from evil-eyed Suneo and the lumbering Gian. Unlike most best friends however, Doraemon sleeps (as Nobita lays down his futon on the floor) in a closet. His time machine is, well, to be honest, in a desk.

Like the most immortal of such characters, in short—one thinks of Snoopy or Paddington Bear—Doraemon comes with a personality and a history. He weighs 129.3 kg, his height is 129.3 cm and his birthday is Sept. 3, 2112. He has a favorite food (dorayaki—sweet bean paste sandwiched between two small pancakes) and a little sister, Dorami, who is yellow and has ears and long eyelashes (a cousin, perhaps, of Hello Kitty). While Japan's idoru, or mass-produced pop stars, often seem as generic as machines, the country's animated characters, like Doraemon, have the bigheaded individuality of real rebels.

Part of Doraemon's particular appeal though, is that, like Hanna-Barbera's irresistible Top Cat and Yogi Bear, he is ready to take on every situation—and likely, somehow, to get it wrong. Each time Nobita is being afflicted, Doraemon will reach into the fourth-dimensional pocket in his stomach and pull out a takekoputa (flying device) or a dokodemo door, which allows them to go anywhere. But the two can only fly low over the suburban houses in the neighborhood, and the dokodemo door often takes them to the places they most wish to avoid. The reason Doraemon is blue, according to the most recent accounts, is that a robot mouse bit off his ears, and he was so rattled by his girlfriend's ensuing laughter that he turned a little turquoise. The suspicion persists, in fact, that in the realm of 22nd century cats, Doraemon is something of a Nobita.

There is a distinctly Japanese quality to all this, in the ingenuity of the Doraemonic gizmos (all portable), his determination to put a bright face on things and never to give up, and even in some of the little cat's idiosyncrasies (one of his machines allows him and Nobita to watch Shizuka-chan, the little girl who is the object of Nobita's affections, in the shower). At heart, Doraemon is profoundly human: it's the very essence of his charm that he has a girlfriend—a small cat called Mi-chan—but she always seems a little out of reach.

Indeed, Doraemon's crossover appeal may be best appreciated if you set him next to the other cartoon figure that Japan has long made ubiquitous. Hello Kitty seems to have no reason to exist other than to be cute. Utterly adorable, often clad in pink and entirely passive, she seems to represent what little Asian girls are told to be in public. Doraemon, by comparison, is as tubby and twinkling as a salaryman after one too many beers. Hello Kitty, after all, has no mouth and never moves; Doraemon seems often to be all mouth, and in every 30-minute episode of his show, is to be seen worried, chortling, goggle-eyed, at peace or pounding on the floor in frustration and then calmly dipping his paw into a bag of cookies.

Scholars of the form may place him in the distinguished line of Astro Boy, Osamu Tezuka's early-'60s creation, who had 100,000-horsepower hydraulics in his arms, searchlights in his wide eyes and a nuclear fission generator in his chest. While Godzilla and Gamera, for example, were nuclear age mutants who showed how science could turn on us, Doraemon (like Astro Boy) offers a more hopeful and benign version of technology. Others might liken his impact not just to that of PokEmon but to the Totoro of Hayao Miyazaki, the visionary animator-craftsman whose ravishing Hiroshige dusks and ecological parables are so commanding that Disney bought the U.S. rights to all his work. But, really, Doraemon belongs in a category of his own: not just a companion (like Winnie the Pooh) and not just an icon (like Mickey Mouse). While Bart Simpson says and does what all of us fear to do, Doraemon does what we dream of doing. As Donald George, the global travel editor of Lonely Planet Publications, says, following a video showing of Doraemon in Oakland, California: "He represents a wonderful combination of innocence and imagination—and you come away with that childlike feeling that anything really is possible. It's the same feeling I get when I travel."

The other part of the Doraemon legend that has made him an evergreen source of nostalgia in Japan for three decades now (or, in a country of fads, 300 fashion spin cycles) is the story behind the story. Most of the country knows the heart-tugging tale of Hiroshi Fujimoto, who created Doraemon in comic-book form in 1969 and then recruited his old elementary school classmate Abiko Moto to work with him (when Fujimoto died, in 1999, it was front page news). And Nobuyo Oyama, who gives Doraemon his voice, is such an institution that she regularly appears on Japanese TV as a performer in her own right. As Japan transforms itself weekly to try to find its place in the modern world, Doraemon is one of the few constants who can bring a grandma in a kimono and a yellow-haired teenager together; so far, he's outlasted 17 Prime Ministers.

Does that make him a hero, you might ask? A hero, in Joseph Campbell's formulation, is an archetypal figure who leaves home, overcomes obstacles and in some way speaks to the universal feeling inside us that we can do more than we are doing and become better versions of ourselves. By that criterion, the sometimes blundering but always triumphant cat with the irrepressible gleam in his eye more than qualifies. He takes the very condition that we associate with melancholy—being blue—and makes it smile.

Doraemon Revenge Game

noreply@blogger.com (ikhwan 013-7805343) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:51:00 +0000

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Anime 8

noreply@blogger.com (ikhwan 013-7805343) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:47:00 +0000

External links

* (Japanese) Doraemon Official Website

* (Japanese) Doraemon Movie Official Website

* (Japanese) Doraemon Official TV Asahi Website

* (Japanese) Doraemon Secret Dōgu List, a comprehensive list of dōgu featured in Doraemon

* (Italian) Doraemon nel Paese Preistorico (Nobita no Kyouryuu - Hiroshi Fukutomi, 1980)

* Doraemon article from TIME Asia Edition

* Doraemon (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia

* Doraemon at the Internet Movie Database

* Viz Media Webpage on Doraemon

* List of Characters (With Preview)

Anime 7

noreply@blogger.com (ikhwan 013-7805343) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:06:00 +0000

See also

* List of non-Japanese Doraemon versions
* List of Doraemon media
* Kiteretsu Daihyakka, a similar manga by Fujiko F. Fujio
* The Doraemons, a spin-off about Doraemon and his friends from Robot School
* Dorabase, a spin-off about robot cats who play on a baseball team.

Anime 6

noreply@blogger.com (ikhwan 013-7805343) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:40:00 +0000

Significance

On 22 April 2002, on the special issue of Asian Hero in TIME Magazine, Doraemon was selected as one of the 22 Asian Heroes. Being the only cartoon character selected, Doraemon was described as "The Cuddliest Hero in Asia".

In 2005, the Japan Society of New York selected Doraemon as a culturally significant work of Japanese otaku pop-culture in its exhibit Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture, curated by renowned artist Takashi Murakami. In Murakami's analysis, he states that Doraemon's formulaic plotlines typified the "wish fulfilment" mentality of 1970s Japan, where the electronics revolution glamorized the idea that one could solve their problems with machines and gadgets rather than hard work or individual intelligence.[citation needed]

In 2008, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs appointed Doraemon to be as the first anime cultural ambassador[3][4].

Despite having no official appearance in the United States, Doraemon influenced a number of shows on the US-based TV network, Nickelodeon. Doraemon is the predecessor-of-sorts to Butch Hartman's animated TV series, The Fairly OddParents (which airs on the above-mentioned channel), and has the same plot and style of humor. Both series have also met with high popularity worldwide.

In many ways, Doraemon was the first of its kind. It has been considered to be a prototype of the modern slapstick cartoon series for children such as the above-mentioned The Fairly OddParents, SpongeBob SquarePants (another US-made show made by Nickelodeon), and Fujiko Fujio's own bleak Kiteretsu Daihyakka. Also Disney's Phineas and Ferb has some similarities especially with most of the show's characters.

Anime 5

noreply@blogger.com (ikhwan 013-7805343) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:44:00 +0000

Ending themes

The ending themes used for the weekly Doraemon series airing between 1979 and 2005 were:

Since the 2005 series incorporated all the credits into the Opening Sequence, these three themes were used as the Ending Theme.

Three songs were used for the separate weekday Doraemon series.

Anime 4

noreply@blogger.com (ikhwan 013-7805343) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:13:00 +0000

Opening themes

The opening theme used for the weekly Doraemon series airing between 1979 and 2005 was Song of Doraemon (ドラえもんのうた, doraemon no uta?), which was performed by five different performers over the course of its years:

In the New Doraemon Series (2005), new opening themes songs were used, except for the first one

Two songs were used for a separate weekday Doraemon series which is a part of Fujiko Fujio Theater (藤子不二雄劇場, Fujiko Fujio Gekijoo), the first song being the same as the first song of the weekly series

Anime 3

noreply@blogger.com (ikhwan 013-7805343) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:04:00 +0000

NTV Cast

Anime 3

noreply@blogger.com (ikhwan 013-7805343) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:02:00 +0000

Voice actors

From 1979 to April 2005, the same five voice actors provided the main voices in Doraemon. However, they retired in April 2005 partially due to the 25th anniversary of the Doraemon television series. On March 13, 2005, TV Asahi announced the new voice actors for the five main characters:

* Nobita - Hiroko Maruyama (stand-in for Ohara, July 23, 1979 ~ July 28, 1979)
* Suneo - Naoki Tatsuta (stand-in for Kimotsuki, November 15, 1985 ~ December 6, 1985)
* Nobita's Papa - Masayuki Katō (Start ~ October 2, 1992)
* Sensei - Ritsuo Sawa → Osamu Katou → Kazuhiko Inoue (Start ~ September 1981)
* Kaminari - Shingo Kanemoto (February 8, 1985 (character debut) ~ September 14, 1990)
* Shizuka's Mother - Keiko Yokozawa (Start ~ August 1981)
* Suneo's Mother - Yoshino Ōtori (Start ~ March 8, 1991)

Anime 2

noreply@blogger.com (ikhwan 013-7805343) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 08:29:00 +0000

Feature films

In 1980, Toho released the first of a series of annual feature length animated films based on the lengthly special volumes published annually. The films are more action-adventure oriented and unlike the anime and manga, some based on the stories in the volumes, they have more of a shōnen demographic, taking the familiar characters of Doraemon and placing them in a variety of exotic and perilous settings. Nobita and his friends have visited the age of the dinosaurs, the far reaches of the galaxy, the heart of darkest Africa (where they encountered a race of sentient bipedal dogs), the depths of the ocean, and a world of magic. Some of the films are based on legends such as Atlantis, and on literary works such as Journey to the West and Arabian Nights. Some films also have serious themes, especially on environmental topics and the use of technology. Overall, the films have a somewhat darker tone in their stories, unlike the manga and anime.

The most recent Doraemon film, Nobita's Great Battle of the Mermaid King, will be released on March 6, 2010.

Anime

noreply@blogger.com (ikhwan 013-7805343) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:13:00 +0000

Television series

After a brief and unpopular animated series in 1973 by Nippon Television, Doraemon remained fairly exclusive in manga form until 1979 when a newly formed animation studio, Shin-Ei Animation (Now owned by TV Asahi) produced an anime series of Doraemon. This series became incredibly popular, and ended with 1,049 episodes on March 25, 2005.

Celebrating Doraemon's anniversary, a new Doraemon series produced by Studio Pierrot began airing on TV Asahi on April 15, 2005 with new voice actors and staff, and updated character designs.

Popularity

noreply@blogger.com (ikhwan 013-7805343) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:50:00 +0000

Doraemon is a term of common knowledge in Japan.

Newspapers also regularly make references to Doraemon and his pocket as a something with the ability to satisfy all wishes. Other characters in the series are also referenced frequently on TV shows with similar looking casts. Some magazines have used the analogy that America is the Takeshi of the world and Japan is his little brother Suneo.

Doraemon was awarded the first Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga in 1982, and the first Osamu Tezuka Culture Award in 1997.

Other appearances

noreply@blogger.com (ikhwan 013-7805343) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:06:00 +0000

Doraemon is a cultural phenomenon in Japan and can be seen in many places.

For example, Doraemon is used as a promotional character by Art Hikkoshi Center (アート引越センター, Āto hikkoshi sentā?), by a moving company, and by Cocos, a restaurant chain. Doraemon also appears in appeals for charity, the "Doraemon Fund". Doraemon toys and novelties are also often found in Japan, with literally thousands of items for sale.

Doraemon, Nobita, and the other characters also appear in various educational manga. Doraemon is also mentioned in several anime and manga by other mangakas.

Doraemon is referenced in the current Blue Man Group show running in Tokyo. The Blue Men play a short snippet of the show's theme song, and one dons Doraemon's beanie.

The Japanese guitar company, ESP Guitars, makes a Doraemon shaped guitar.

There are nearly 50 Japanese-only video games ranging from Action Adventure, to RPG games, that began with the Emerson's Arcadia 2001 system. For a complete list of these games see List of Doraemon media.

The music video for the single "From a Distance" off of the Bicycles & Tricycles album by ambient house act, The Orb revolves around Doraemon.

Doraemon can be seen in Taiko no Tatsujin 11 and 12, Meccha! Taiko no Tatsujin DS: 7tsu no Shima no Daibouken, and Taiko no Tatsujin Wii.

Tools

noreply@blogger.com (ikhwan 013-7805343) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:52:00 +0000

Doraemon's tools

Doraemon can take out various devices known as tools from his fourth-dimensional pocket. Some of the gadgets are based on real Japanese household devices with fanciful twists, but most are completely science fiction (although some may be based on folklore or religious stories).

Thousands of tools have been featured in Doraemon. Estimates have placed the number of tools at approximately 4,500.

Other dōgu

noreply@blogger.com (ikhwan 013-7805343) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:59:00 +0000

Of the approximately 4,500 different dōgu featured in Doraemon, most appear only once:

* Adaptation beam (テキオー灯, Tekiō Tou?) is another often-used gadget which enables the user to adapt to any kind of hostile environments, including outer space and deep undersea.
* Air glue allows the user to stick things in the air.
* Air Crayons (空気クレヨン, Kuuki Kureyon?) are used to draw things in the air, which then become real. Also there is a air eraser for erase the drawings.
* Air tubes are nose plugs that allow the user to breathe freely underwater.
* Almighty pass (オールマイティパス, Ōrumaiti Pasu?) is a passport which grants the holder access to anywhere and anything without cost or identification. Nobita once used the pass for free taxi rides, going into pubs, and visiting a famous celebrity's house. The pass is very expensive and has an expiration date which requires renewal.
* Animal biscuits (変身ビスケット, Henshin Bisuketto?, it means Transforming Biscuit) are animal crackers which transforms the consumer into the animal the biscuit is shaped after for a short period of time.(It effect works until 5 minutes)
* Antenna allows the user to be prepared for hazards in advance (though the wearer won't know what will actually happen). For instance, the antenna induced Nobita's future dad (Nobisuke) to bring a spare pair of pants before going out because it knew he will be splashed with water from a puddle later.
* Anything Mine Gas is a gas that makes anything sprayed with it attracted to the sprayer and flee from anyone else.
* Anywhere Gas serves the same function as the Anywhere Door (Dokodemo Door) except it's in the form of a pink mist emitted by a machine. It was used once in the "Nobita and the Animal Planet" movie before blowing up at the end. The product itself was removed from the 22nd Century market due to its instability and customer complaints.
* Apartment tree is a self-growing underground apartment that completes in 10 minutes. However, it can only provide living spaces for 24 hours (one day), after that the spaces provided will be refilled by earth.

* Bamboo horse (ウマタケ, Umatake?, A play on takeuma, which means "bamboo stilts") is a hybrid creature combining the horse and the bamboo, but is highly temperamental. It needs to be fed carrots and cared for to become loyal. Doraemon gives one to Nobita in order for Nobita to win a stilts walking contest.
* Bird hats are hats shaped like heads of birds. The wearer will have the same ability as the type of bird worn. For example an owl hat will make the wearer inactive during daytime, while an albatross hat requires the wearer to sprint before flying.
* Bomb of Equality is a miniature missile launching platform. It holds a bomb which can be filled with the "essence" of a person (such as a solution of dirt under his fingernail), and launched to explode into ashes. Then, for the following day, everybody within the explosion radii of the bomb will share the "essence" provider's characters, habits, or even bad lucks.

* Chocolate Heart (ココロチョコ, Kokorotyoko?) is heart-shaped chocolate that causes the consumer to have the same idea as, or agree with, the person who eats the first piece.
* Choto Ma-timer A time stopping Pocket Watch. With a simple touch of its upper button, time freezes around the user, as another touch restores Time Flow. (Seen on "The Night before the Wedding" Special.)
* Cloud hardening gas (雲かためガス, Kumokatame Gasu?) is a gas which solidifies clouds upon application, allowing the clouds to be walked upon. Doraemon and his friends once used this gas to construct a cloud city in the movie Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds.
* Confessors' Crickets (ペコペコバッタ?) are small robotic crickets which enter a designated target's nostrils and forces the person to confess everything he/she did wrong--from silly blunders to major crimes. The crickets can only be expelled from their targets through a forced sneeze induced by pepper.

* Deep sea cream allows the user to go underwater for extended periods of time without need for air or insulation from the cold.
* Duplicating mirror is a mirror that allows one to duplicate any object by putting the object in front of the mirror. After a few seconds, the reflection becomes real and the user can reach inside the mirror to retrieve the duplicate.

* Epidemical viruses are black powder used to spread a popularity trait to everyone.

* Fairy-tale glasses a pair of glasses with the ability to enable the wearer to talk to animals and plants.
* Forgetful stick a stick which would make a person forget things, that happened on a particular time frame, once hit with. The time frame can be set using a dial.
* Fluffy medicine considerably lightens the weight of the users, allowing them to float into the sky. Taking too much at once can be disastrous.

* Horror Story Lamp anything said by the will-o-wisp will actually happen, in a logical way. For example, when Nobita said plates would shatter and a knife would enter a room, but a thief entered the house.

* Instant Christmas tree is a Christmas tree that grows instantly when planted. Similar tools include the instant vine, which grows into the sky moments after planting.
* Invisible Lacquer is a spray-can filled with a lacquer that makes anything sprayed invisible. Nobita steathily took it from Doraemon to play pranks on his friends and family.

* Lucky Star An edible Star-Shaped sweet which grants its user 3 hours of striking Luck. Nobita used it to rescue one of his friends in Nobita and the Animal Planet movie with some cunning and startling luck.
* Lightning cloud is a small floating cloud which unleashes lightning bolts when activated by a pulling switch. Doraemon gives it to Nobita to help him overcome his fear of thunder. The lightning bolts are not as strong as the real thing but powerful enough to frighten people and wreak havoc.

* Magic Hands are gloves that, well... It puts your arms to shame. Nobita used them to pick on people without actually standing next to them.
* Magic Mouth seen in an eyecatcher, it allows the wearer to eat from a distance.
* Magic Oshiri is a (rubber?) torso which causes pain to that area when spanked. Its like Magic Hands made for spanking.
* Mecha Maker is a machine which remembers the user's drawing of a giant mecha (usually of science fiction origin) of his/her own desigh, and feed on raw materials (Nobita used old toys, for example) to build the design into a functional mecha. The constructed mecha will be powered by the user via a remote control. The size and toughness of the constructed mecha depend on the quality and quantity of raw materials fed into the machine.

* Memory bread (アンキパン, Anki pan?) is a bread used to imprint pages, which after ingestion, will imbue the consumer with the content imprinted on the bread. However, after a day everything you memorized goes away. While studying for an exam, Nobita ate too much bread that he got an indigestion and had to start all over.
* Memory Disc an LP disc that stores a person's memory. The stored memory is then played in a special LP player. Nobita used it to help his Mommy find her wallet.
* Mini-airplanes are miniature toy airplanes (modeled after WWI aircraft) which can be piloted. The users shrink themselves down by stepping on the airplane's cockpit, after which they can engage other users in dogfights. The pilot is automatically ejected with a parachute after their plane is shot down.

* Personal guardian is a small human-shaped toy dressed as a samurai with a wooden sword that will protect from attack the person who gives him an old Japanese coin. Doraemon gave it to Nobita to protect himself from Gian and Suneo, with the later stole it from him. Nobita asked Doraemon for a second guardian, but both guardians had the same weakness: Shizuka.
* Present root (プレゼントルーツ, Purezento ruutsu?) is an antenna and a monitor that serves to trackback the origin of presents. Doraemon and Nobita used it to discover what was a mysterious big prize that Gian won in a TV program and steadfastly refused to tell them what it was. It turned out to be a giant teddy bear.

* Remote control for persons (人間リモコン, Ningen rimocon?) is a remote control that works on people. By putting a sensor on the person, the one with the remote controller can make this person go faster, rewind or pause. Doraemon uses it to make Nobita do his homework in the homonym episode, but then Nobita misuses it as always.
* Restoring beam is a lamp which is able to restore broken items back to their original state.
* Reverse bulbs are light bulbs which will turn surrounding areas to darkness when switched on.
* Samurai's Top-Knot is a fake top-knot modelled after the hairstyle of a samurai. Once placed onto the user's head, it will allow the user to perceive his/her surrounding world as that of ancient Japan (in particular Senkoku Period, the time where samurai thrived), and will change the user's speech pattern to a samurai's formal style. According to Doraemon, this is a common toy in the 22nd century for the children to "play samurai".
* Sea water filter is a straw-like device that instantly filters seawater when the user drinks through it.
* Secret keeping dog is a piggy bank-like dog. The user writes his or her secret on a piece of paper and feed it to the dog for safekeeping. But when the dog is fed with too many secrets, it will expel all the papers from its mouth.
* Shadow separation scissors are scissors which can turn a person's shadows into physical beings which then can be commanded by its owner. However, the shadow must be "glued" back after a certain amount of time or it will replace the owner and turn the owner into its shadow.
* Shocker Gun is a gun that emits a strong electrical beam, powerful enough to bring down a horse.
* Sniffy octopus is an octopus that spits out a substance which makes a person extremely annoying.
* Sticker of Souls are colourful stickers that can be stuck on any non-organic objects, such as furnitures and toys. This allows the items in question to be come anthropomorphic (as they are given "souls") and will express their feelings aloud. They will even act on their own to take actions against those who misuses them.
* Sticker of truth is a small rubber sticker which can be stuck to anyone in order to make the wearer tell the truth. Nobita once used it on Suneo because Suneo was flattering people for his own selfish motives.
* Superhero belt is a belt with a slot and a button on the buckle. When the user wears it on his/her waist and says "Suit On!", the clothing he/she wears will immediately transforme into a costume that resembles a superhero's garb. Then the user can write a made-up "superhero move" on the card included in the belt and insert it into the slot on the buckle, and actually perform that move, no matter how fat-fetched that "move" sounds. (Nobita invents a move called "Machine-gun Fist" which allowed him to perform a series of rapid punches; and Shizuka invented one called "I-Am-Sorry Ray" which allowed her to shoot a ray out of her finger and whoever got hit will immediately apologize.) However, the spelling of the move's name is critical to the performance of it.
* Super-strength candy is a candy that gives the person who ates it Superman-like strength. A nagging robot salesman left Doraemon a sample, that he threw into the trash. Nobita recovered it, ate it and tried to use it to get revenge on Gian and Suneo, not knowing the sample had a three-minute limit. He used the form in the sample box to buy a full one from the future, but Shizuka's toddler cousin ate it by accident and Doraemon went to the future to buy another candy to counteract the super-strength candy.
* Time camera is a camera capable of taking pictures in the past. The camera takes a picture that shows what the scene was according to the time set by its user. Nobita used it to find his dad’s missing wallet.
* Time TV is a portable television which can broadcast events from the past or the future.
* Transformation ring and cards is a tool that can transform a person to an animal. There are the animal cards that if the user inserts a card in the slot in the circle the person will transform to that animal. Nobita used it to transform in to a fish but putted the circle half part of the body only so he transformed in to the merman. In order to use it, the user must first naked.

* Water pressure gun is the underwater version of the air pressure gun. It was used by Nobita in one story to fend off a shark attack.
* Weather Machine is used in many episodes to freely control weather. Works by inserting weather cards into the machine.

* Underwater firewood is firewood that can be burned underwater.

* Yume-corder literally "dream recorder", it records and plays the most cherised dream of any person. Nobita wanted it to record Shizuka's dream, but ended up recording not only hers, but Doraemon, Suneo and Giant's as well. He wanted to know who Shizuka wanted to marry, only to discover she hasn't decided yet (her fiancé's face was blank on her dream).

Recurring Dōgu

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List of Recurring Dōgu

Fourth-dimensional pocket (四次元ポケット?)
The inside of this pocket connects to the fourth dimension and acts like a wormhole (see also: hammerspace). It is usually shown attached to Doraemon's abdomen. Doraemon has a spare pocket which connects to the same location. Nobita has used the spare pocket on occasion, often for mischievous purposes but sometimes for helpful purposes (for example, he used it to save Doraemon on the movie Nobita to Buriki no Rabirinsu [Nobita and Tin-Plate Labyrinth]).

Time machine (タイムマシン?)
The entrance to Doraemon's time machine is in Nobita's desk drawer. The time machine looks like a simple platform with a control console, and a clock with five hands overhanging the console. Doraemon is often seen piloting the time machine. Dorami has her own time machine shaped like a tulip, suggesting a variety of models available in the future. The time machine can create an exit in a specific place spatially as well as temporally. An alternative to the time machine is the time belt, which does not change the wearer's location relative to Earth. The presence of this machine is not known by Nobita's mother.

Take-copter (タケコプター?)
One of the main modes of transportation for the various characters is the take-copter, which combines the words taketombo (竹とんぼ, lit. bamboo dragonfly, the Japanese name for the bamboo-copter?), and part of the word herikoputā (ヘリコプター?), which means helicopter. The take-copter was also called the heri-tombo (ヘリトンボ?) in early stories. The device is a propeller attached to a tiny suction cup which can be attached to enable flight. Ever since the first few Doraemon stories, the take-copter is seen attached to the head instead of the waist, similar to a propeller beanie, due to a mishap with Nobita's shorts. The take-copter has also been attached to objects to enable its flight. One of its disadvantage is its short battery life.

Moshimo-box (もしもボックス?)
The moshimo-box is a pun based on the Japanese greeting used on the telephone moshi moshi, and the phrase meaning "what if", or moshimo. The device is a telephone booth where the characters dial a number and propose a "what if" scenario which alters the world. Nobita has wished for a world where money was not necessary, and purchasing an item meant receiving cash, and being robbed meant being forced to take cash, causing store clerks to force cash onto his hands upon attempting to purchase toys. Nobita has also wished for a world without mirrors, and for a world where lazy people who napped would be hailed as celebrities. But any situation caused by using this telephone booth may be reverted by using this telephone to make a phone call to request for "Reverting/Restoring to the original situation". This used to be the ending of the story that mentions about the telephone booth.

Dokodemo door (どこでもドア, lit. anywhere door?)
One of Doraemon's most commonly used gadgets is the dokodemo door, a door which allows travel to anywhere by simply going through the door. In an early story, the door is able to travel to the end of the universe, but in later chapters, the door is said to only be able to travel a maximum distance of 100,000 light years and cannot access other dimensions. Another limitation of the door is that it can only safely connect two known locations in its mapping computer, which also has a limited range of information based on Time as shown in the movie "Nobita's Dinosaur."

Time Furoshiki (タイムふろしき, lit. Time wrapping cloth?)
Another frequently used gadget, the time cloth has the ability to advance or reverse time depending on which of its two different colored sides are used. When an object is wrapped around with one face outward, the flow of time reverses, causing the object to become newer. When wrapped around the other way, time moves forward, causing the object to become older. It was first used by Nobita to turn old appliances to new appliances to make money, but its uses extend to many other things, such as converting an object back to its starting material, repairing broken machinery, aging or de-aging people, and restoring millions-of-years old fossils. When picked up, of course, the holder does not age, which means the cloth is only activated upon covering an item, hence it can floating over objects with no user and still change the time of objects.

Small light (スモールライト?)
Small light is a lamp similar to a flashlight that will shrink objects and people to minuscule sizes. Its opposite is the big light (ビッグライト?), which enlarges objects and people. Another tool that is used in a similar capacity is the Gulliver Tunnel, which causes a person to grow or shrink depending on which entrance he takes; however, its ratio of shrinking and enlarging is fixed. Unlike the Gulliver Tunnel, however, the effect of the Small light is not permanent and will wear off after a period of time has passed (seen in the series to be anywhere from a few hours in the comics to a few days in the movie Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars)

Pass Loop (通り抜けフープ, Tōrinuke Fūpu?)
A loop which creates a passage through a solid object such as a wall when placed upon it. Nobita has used this to escape from when his mother locked him in a storage shed, and to install watching gadgets in the movie theater.

Air cannon (空気砲, Kūkihō?)
A gun barrel worn on the arm used to fire a powerful burst of air which can knock out the victim when the user says "bang". Later models, featured in the long manga and movies, are fired with a trigger.

Translation konjac (ほんやくコンニャク, hon'yaku-konnyaku?)
A piece of konjac jelly which enables a person to understand and speak any known language in the universe. The effect begins after the person ingests the jelly, but the duration of the effect is unknown. While the ones Doraemon uses are usually unflavored, in the story Nobita's Birth of Japan (のび太の日本誕生?), he used one labeled to be miso flavored, suggesting the existence of various flavors, which are more expensive.

Clothes Changing Camera (着せ替えカメラ, Kisekae kamera?)
A camera that uses a picture of clothing instead of film, and changes the clothes of the person in the viewfinder to the clothing in the picture. It may also be used with no picture or an incomplete picture, with embarrassing results. The story about Doraemon's fourth-dimensional dustbin shows that the damaged camera will make the person naked (ie. when Shizuka used the damaged camera on Nobita, he turned naked). The camera is often used in the long stories and movies, where the gang must disguise themselves in unfamiliar places to avoid attracting undue attention, or to provide with a second change of clothes such as bathing suits.

Dōgu

noreply@blogger.com (ikhwan 013-7805343) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:32:00 +0000

List of Doraemon's Dōgu

Doraemon can take out various devices known as dōgu (道具, lit. gadget?) from his fourth-dimensional pocket. Some of the gadgets are based on real Japanese household devices with fanciful twists, but most are completely science fiction (although some may be based on folklore or religious stories).

Thousands of dōgu have been featured in Doraemon. Some[who?] have placed the number of dōgu at approximately 4,500. It is this constant variety which makes Doraemon popular even among adult readers/viewers. In the series, the availability of dogu depends sometimes on the money Doraemon has available, and he often says some dogu are expensive in the future.

Some of the recurring dōgu appear also in Fujiko F. Fujio's other works such as 21-emon, Kiteretsu Daihyakka, Mikio to Mikio or Pāman.

Doraemon's Dōgu Tool

Other characters

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Gariben-kun (ガリベンくん?)
Seiyū: Mayumi Tanaka

A rival to Hidetoshi Dekisugi. He appears to be a soft-spoken and decent boy, however deep down inside he resents Deskisugi of being better at anything than him. In one chapter, he makes cruel prank calls to his rival, telling Dekisugi to go to hell every night. This problem caused Hidetoshi's grades to drop, and Doraemon decided to use a specific gadget to teach Gariben a lesson. Gariben begged Hidetoshi not to tell the teacher or the rest of the class about it, and the latter forgave him, on the condition that he promise not to do it again.

Tame-kun (多目くん?)

(本屋のおじさん?)

An owner of bookstore, who often expels anyone who stand and read comics, magazines, or novels in his bookstore for free (usually Nobita).

Funyako Funyao (フニャコフニャ夫?)

A parody of Fujiko Fujio. He was often being lectured or complained by other people saying that his comic book idea was overdue.

会社社長

Tsubasa Ito (伊藤翼?)
Seiyū: Mayumi Shō (1985~1986), Sanae Hukayuki (1992), Haruna Ikezawa (2003),　Masayo Kurata (2006)

Moteo Mote (茂手もて夫?)

Jaiko's boyfriend.

(ドンジャラ村のホイ?)

(キー坊?)

(島山あらら?)

Kaminari (神成?)
Seiyū: Banjō Ginga (1981), Shingo Kanemoto (1985~1990), Takeshi Watabe (1991~March 2005), Katsuhisa Hōki (July 2005~)
An old man who lives next to the vacant lot where Nobita and the gang play baseball. They sometimes "accidentally" throw baseballs, rocks, or even one of Doraemon's gadgets through his window, breaking it and sometimes knocking over his prized bonsai. The children refer to him as Kaminari-oyaji (雷おやじ,, Old Man Thunder?), because he shouts so loud that they scatter. Kaminari is his family name.

Koike (ラーメンおじさん（小池さん?)

Sumire Hosino (星野スミレ?)

She is a professional singer and has a necklace with a photo of her friend. This friend had gone away from Japan, but she is certain that he'll return.

(18エモン?)

(19エモン?)
21-emon's grandfather, who was an owner of a nearly dilapidated hotel, Tsuzureya (つづれやホテル

Characters - Animal

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Animal

Nora Neko no Kero (のらネコのクロ?)

Nora Inu no Kero (のらイヌのクロ?)

Mii Chan (ミイちゃん?)
Seiyū: Unknown→Mari Mashiba→Junko Asami→Kumiko Watanabe→Midori Nakazawa→Motoko Kumai→Fujiko Takimoto→Sachi Matsumoto(1981~March 2005)
A regular female cat from Nobita's timeline, who either hangs out or goes on dates with Doraemon.

Muku (ムク?)
Seiyū: Tesshō Genda (1981), Kazuyo Aoki→Kazuya Tatekabe (~March 2005), Yasuhiro Takato (May 2007)
Gian's pet dog. At first Gian didn't want him around and tried to get rid of him, but after he saved Gian from being eaten by a lion that had at first tried to eat Nobita, Gian warmed up to him.Also known as Buzo.

Characters - Robots

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Robots

Gatchako (ガチャ子?)
Seiyū: Junko Hori (1973)

Toraemon (トラえもん?)
Seiyū: Keiko Yamamoto (1979)

Noramyako (ノラミャー子?)
Seiyū: Yūko Minaguchi (1995 film), Ai Nonaka (2007)
Doraemon's girlfriend from the 22nd Century.

Pawaemon (パワえもん?)
Seiyū: Mitsuaki Madono (2007)

Characters Goda family

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Goda family

Jaiko (ジャイ子?)
Jaiko is Giant's younger sister, who would have been Nobita's wife in the future had Doraemon not intervened. She appears in the very first chapter of the manga, even before the introduction of Gian. Her name Jaiko is usually considered a nickname, but Fujiko never gave her a real name. An aspiring mangaka, Jaiko goes by her amateur mangaka pen name Christine Goda (クリスチーネ剛田, Kurisuchīne Gōda?), and sometimes submits her manga to publishing companies for prizes. She mostly fails in these contest because her storytelling is still rough. She is sometimes referred to as Hana.

Giant's Mother
Seiyū: Kazuyo Aoki (1979~March 2005), Miyako Takeuchi (April 2005~)
She's the owner of a small but successful shop, as well as the only person that Giant is deathly afraid of. Her constant abuse and cruel punishment suggests that Gian may have inherited his mother or ancestor's bullish trait.

Giant's Father
Seiyū: Masayuki Katō (1979~1980), Yū Shimaka (1987), Daisuke Gōri (November 1987), Yū Shimaka (1993)
Appeared in only one or two stories. Seen with a crewcut and big-sized.

Characters-Honekawa family

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Honekawa family

Suneo's Mother
Seiyū: Kazue Takahashi (1973), Yoshino Ōtori (1979~March 1991), Mari Yokō (April 1991~March 2005), Minami Takayama (April 2005~)

She loves Suneo very much and spoils him rotten. She sports curly hair and is often seen showing off her jewellery or branded handbags.

Suneo's Father
Seiyū: Unknown (1973), Osmau Katō (1979~March 2005), Kaneta Kimotsuki (Stand-in for Katō, May 1989~January 1990), Hideyuki Tanaka (June 2005~)

He appears less frequently than Suneo's mother, distinguishable with straight hair and a mustache. He is often the one who initiates holiday tours that Suneo would invite his friends for.

Sunetsugu (スネツグ?)
Seiyū: Naoki Tatsuta (1985), Yuki Kaida (2006)
Suneo's younger brother who lives in New York with his uncle (who is single and raised him like a son). He has a great respect for his older brother, but only because of Suneo's arrogant brags and lies in their correspondence.

Sunekichi (スネ吉?)
Seiyū: Issei Futamata (1984~March 2005), Takumi Yamazaki (December 2005~)
Suneo's college age cousin.

スネ夫の曾祖母

Characters-Minamoto family

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Minamoto family

Shizuka's Mother
Seiyū: Keiko Yokozawa (1979~1981), Masako Matsubara (August 1981~March 2005), Ai Orikasa (April 2005~)
Shizuka's mother. She's kind, but can also be quite exigent on Shizuka sometimes.

Yoshio Minamoto (源義雄, Minamoto Yoshio?)
Seiyū: Masayuki Katō (1979~1980), Masaru Ikeda (1981), Akira Kume (1999), Aruno Tahara (July 2005~)

Shizuka's Father. He is rarely seen in the series. His most well-known appearance in the series was in the future when he had a long talk with adult Shizuka over her choice to marry Nobita, and giving support for her decision.

美術評論家のおじさん

Characters - Nobi family

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Nobita family

Nobita's father and laid-back salaryman. He is very considerate of Nobita, often seen arriving home from work to placate Tamako's anger towards Nobita; this habit may come from Nobisuke's own childhood, since his father (and Nobita's grandfather) was very similar to Tamako. He has trouble quitting smoking and is self-conscious about his inability to pass the driving test. He also has a poor memory and sometimes arrives home drunk from nightly business meetings. He was once an aspiring art student. He also likes golf, which most Japanese businessmen and employees play.

Tamako Nobi (Rukia Nobi) (野比玉子, Nobi Tamako?)
Nobita's stay-at-home mother. She is usually seen scolding Nobita or sending him out of the house (a typical Japanese household punishment used by parents, unlike grounding which is a North American-only punishment). She actually loves her son very much, but is disappointed by his lazy attitude and academic failures. Several episodes involve Nobita trying to avoid his mother’s scolding by using Doraemon’s gadgets. Her maiden name is revealed to be 'Kataoka'. She also disliked animals. She has a tendency of stopping Nobita from going out to play and force him to study. However, on cold weather days, she almost always urges Nobita to go out and play.

Sewashi (セワシ?)
Nobita's great-great-grandson, he is the one who sends Doraemon back to the past to look after Nobita. Sewashi first bought Doraemon in 2112 when Doraemon still had ears and his original factory paint. He sent him because his pocket money was too less due to Nobita's academically and economically medium status. Sewashi is also the owner of Doraemon's sister, Dorami.

Nobisuke (ノビスケ?)
Nobita and Shizuka's son, named after Nobita's father. He is a better athlete than Nobita and far more clever. In one of the stories, he did not hesitate to beat up young Nobita when young Nobita tried to stop him from running away from home. Also, he is shown as being a bully and brave enough to bully Gian and Suneo's son.

Nobirou Nobi (野比のび郎, Nobi Nobirou?)
The younger brother of Nobisuke (Nobita's father). He is an excellent athlete and seems to be successful. He adores his brother very much, and is welcomed the most by his nephew in New year occasion.

Tamao Kataoka (片岡玉夫, Kataoka Tamao?)
Tamako's younger brother and Nobita's uncle.

Nobita's Grand Mother

Mother of Nobisuke Nobi. Before the main storyline, Nobita adored her quite often until she passed away when he's in kindergarten. When Nobita travels to the past, she always recognizes him as her grandson.

Nobita's Grand Father

Nobita's Grand Father, he was very strict and very rude to Nobisuke (Nobita's father). After all he loved him very much. He seen only one time in this show where his all nature was identified clearly.