Doraemon

Doraemon (ドラえもん) is an anime family comedy TV series created by Fujiko F. Fujio and based on the manga series of the same name. This anime is the successor of the 1973 anime. It premiered on April 2, 1979 on TV Asahi.

Synopsis Doraemon, a cat robot from the 22nd century, is sent to help Nobita Nobi, a young boy, who scores poor grades and is frequently bullied by his two classmates, Takeshi Goda (nicknamed "Gian") and Suneo Honekawa (Gian's sidekick).

Dubbing History[]

The earliest known dub was produced by CINAR Studios, Inc. and recorded at Montreal's Sonolab in 1985.^[1] Titled The Adventures of Albert and Sidney, it aired Saturday mornings on CBC TV 8 in Barbados in the late 1980's and early 1990's.^[2] The Japanese signs weren't translated, with it using an original theme song and replacement background music. Doraemon and Nobita were renamed to Albert and Sidney, respectively, with Gian, Suneo and Shizuka believed to have been renamed to "Buster", "Ricky" and "Lucy". Despite this, it is clear that the show is still set in Japan. The dub was planned to air in the United States on TBS, but ultimately never was. As its release was limited, the only footage to surface has been a short reel released by the dub's composer Jérôme Langlois in September 2020.^[3] The Cinar version was the only English dub in which Nobita is voiced by a male child actor until Stand by Me Doraemon 2 in where the younger version of Nobita was voiced by a child actor.

Other known dubs are the Asian dubs by Voiceovers Unlimited and Speedy Video (containing the same laughable voices and editing as their infamous dubs of the Dragon Ball Z films), and a dub made for TV Asahi by Phuuz Entertainment in the United States. In addition, a pitch pilot for a gag dub was done for MTV UK in the 1990's but wasn’t picked up possibly due to its use of puberty jokes.^[4] Relatively little is known about any of them, other than the MTV gag dub had Doraemon's name spelt as "Doreamon", probably to make it easier to pronounce for either the voice actors or the viewers at home, the TV Asahi/Phuuz dub was made for export related reasons, and the only footage of the Voiceovers Unlimited dub to resurface online is from a promo for Kids Central uploaded in 2021.^[5]

Cast[]

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor
			CINAR/Sonolab	Odex/Voiceovers Unlimited [6]	Omni Productions	Speedy Video
	Doraemon	Nobuyo Ōyama	A.J. Henderson	Hossan Leong	Gemma McClean	Zahisham Ujang Sham
	Nobita Nobi	Noriko Ohara	Steven Bednarski	Denise Tan	¿?	Noriah Abd Rahman
		Kōzō Shioya (teenage, ep. 783)				¿?
	Shizuka Minamoto	Michiko Nomura	Alison Darcy[7]	Denise Tan	¿?	Noriah Abd Rahman
	Suneo Honekawa	Kaneta Kimotsuki	¿?	Hossan Leong		¿?
	Takeshi "Gian" Goda	Kazuya Tatekabe		Gerald Chew[8]		Ashikin Nadzir
	Nobisuke Nobi	Masayuki Katō (eps. 1-1,147)	Michael Rudder			¿?
		Yosuke Naka (eps. 1,148-1,787)
	Tamako Nobi	Sachiko Chijimatsu	¿?	Denise Tan
	Sensei	Ritsuo Sawa (eps. 1-156)		¿?
		Osamu Katō
		Kazuhiko Inoue (eps. 157-439)
		Ryōichi Tanaka (eps. 440-1,787)

Notes[]

• Despite Cindy Creekmore listing the Odex dub on her resume, Christian Lee has stated she was not involved in this dub.
• Speedy Video's dub uses its own names for the human characters:
  • Nobita is called Specky
  • Shizuka is called Joanne
  • Suneo is called Timmy
  • Gian is called Bob
• Speedy's dub also uses lifted music from Dragon Ball Z, along with other works such as Star Wars and Titanic.

See Also[]

• Doraemon (2005)
• Stand by Me Doraemon
• Stand by Me Doraemon 2
• Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas

References[]

External Links[]

• Doraemon (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Doraemon at the Internet Movie Database