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2[[caption-width-right:350: The [[TheApprentice Ojamajos]] (left to right): [[TheLancer Onpu]], [[TheSmartGuy Hazuki]], [[TheHeroine Doremi]], [[TheBigGuy Aiko]], [[TheHeart Momoko]] and [[TagalongKid Pop]].]]
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4->''"If you had magic, what would you do?"''
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6Creator/ToeiAnimation's CuteWitch CashCowFranchise from 1999 to 2003, spanning a four year-long television series, with an extra series airing in 2004.
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8''Ojamajo Doremi''[[note]]Known internationally as ''Magical Doremi''[[/note]] (Ojamajo being a {{portmanteau}} of "ojama", meaning a hindrance and "majo", meaning witch) tells the story of Doremi Harukaze, the self-proclaimed "[[ButtMonkey unluckiest pretty girl in the whole world]]", who dreams of becoming a witch just like in the stories she reads. One day she stumbles across a mysterious shop run by an old woman who fits the profile of a witch to a tee. Doremi calls her out on it, and suddenly the woman transforms into an ugly little frog thing: turns out she really ''was'' a witch, and this is what happens when a human correctly identifies one.
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10The ex-witch, Majo Rika, takes her on as an apprentice witch so that Doremi can eventually gain enough magical power to change her back. The thing is, Doremi is ''[[IneptMage horrible]]'' when it comes to learning the trade, which leads to Majo Rika branding her an ojamajo. Not soon afterwards, Doremi's two friends [[LonelyRichKid Hazuki Fujiwara]] and [[{{Tomboy}} Aiko Senoo]] get in on the act, and in the latter half of the series, [[IdolSinger Onpu Segawa]]- another apprentice witch who uses magic for selfish reasons- turns up as an antagonist of sorts.
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12In the second series (''Ojamajo Doremi # (Sharp)''), [[LateArrivalSpoiler Onpu has reformed]] and Doremi gains a magical "daughter" called Hana that she has to raise for one year. The third series (''Mo~tto! Ojamajo Doremi'') introduces American witch apprentice Momoko Asuka to help the group pass a test to become formal witches. This test involves turning their shop into a bakery for the season. The fourth and final television series (''Ojamajo Doremi Dokka~n!'') has Hana [[PlotRelevantAgeUp force-grow herself]] to the same age as Doremi so she can attend school with her "mommy". A fifth series followed (''Ojamajo Doremi Na-i-sho'') that was set during ''Mo~tto'' and focused on various secrets held by the main characters.
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14The franchise was a massively popular series in Japan; notably, it's the third longest MagicalGirl series to date behind ''Anime/PrettyCure'' and ''Franchise/SailorMoon'', but unlike the two other touchstone series, the show takes place in a single continuity.
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16The series has been dubbed into several languages and released in multiple countries under the name ''Magical [=DoReMi=]''. In America it was licensed by [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]], becoming the first version ''not'' to call the main character "Doremi" (instead they called her '''Do'''rie, turning Hazuki and Aiko into '''Re'''anne and '''Mi'''rabelle respectively to retain the pun in the title). While the first twenty-six episodes were aired on television, the last twenty-five were only available online.
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18In 2011, Kodansha began publishing a series of LightNovel trilogies under the title ''Ojamajo Doremi 16''. The novels were penned by Midori Kuriyama, the series' main episode writer, with illustrations provided by Yoshihiko Umakoshi, the original series' character designer. The story take place years after the ending of the original anime series, where Doremi is now a high school student. The stories are written in the same episodic format as the television series, dealing with problems in both Doremi's personal life and affairs in the Witch World. After the release of ''Ojamajo Doremi 16 ~Come On!~'', the novel continued on as a second trilogy titled ''Ojamajo Doremi 17'', and later a third titled ''Ojamajo Doremi 18''. The LN series reached its conclusion with ''Ojamajo Doremi 19''.
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20In 2019, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the series, there's an original net animation called ''Ojamajo Doremi: Comedy Theater'' that features chibi versions of the character designs light novel series. An additional light novel called ''Ojamajo Doremi 20'', written by Yumi Kageyama, has also been released, alongside a fall 2020 movie called ''Majo Minarai Wo Sagashite,'' which is set in an alternate canon where ''Ojamajo Doremi'' exists as a ShowWithinAShow.
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22Despite that, the film is not the end of the franchise. [[https://twitter.com/anythinkanifan/status/1583785732979974145]]
23A new animated project is slated for release in 2024 for the series' 25th anniversary, though the contents of it are currently unknown.
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25Not to be confused with ''Anime/{{Ojarumaru}}''.
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27This series has a [[Characters/OjamajoDoremi character sheet.]] And now it has a [[Recap/OjamajoDoremi recap]] in the works.
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36* AbortedArc: The writers forgot that the girls had yet to collect all the bad cards in the first season. Luckily, they tied this arc up in season two.
37* ADayInTheLimelight: Many characters get focus episodes to help them with [[CharacterDevelopment their growth]]. This includes every single student in Doremi's class. Several of those characters even get it multiple times!
38* AdaptationalNationality: The Latin American and European dubs keep the characters' Japanese ethnicity ambiguous, but the English dub blatantly changes the setting from Japan to North America by renaming the characters and locations with Western names. The South Korean dub also changes the characters to Korean to comply with national broadcasting regulations, as blatantly Japanese content could not be aired on certain channels due to political tension between the two countries.
39* AdjectiveNounFred: The title, ''Ojamajo Doremi'', directly translates into "Troublesome Witch Doremi."
40* AdultsAreUseless: Unlike a lot of children's anime, not only do the parents and teachers provide a major support network, but are often shown to be just as developed as the main kid characters. They can slip into this trope, [[RuleOfFunny should the comedy call for it.]]
41* AerithAndBob: Everyone else's names are common Japanese names except for Doremi, Pop, and Onpu.[[note]]These names all have [[MusicalThemeNaming something to do with music]]; Doremi's name refers to the first three notes of the musical scale, Pop's name likely refers to [[{{Pop}} pop music]], and Onpu's name means "musical note".[[/note]] Likewise, the names of people who live in New York are common as well, with Momoko being the Aerith while living there.
42* AllDeathsFinal: If someone were to die in this show, they're all but assured to remain dead. Sure, there is magic to bring people BackFromTheDead, but doing so ''will'' cost the caster her life upon success. For that reason, that magic is forbidden and thus hasn't been used successfully onscreen. ''Ever''.
43* AllForNothing: in ''Series 1'' and ''Sharp'', the girls go through hardship after hardship to pass the tests and become full fledged Witches...and then have to give them up to save someone: Onpu in the former and Hana in the latter.
44* AllGirlsWantBadBoys:
45** Masaru Yada, on who Hazuki has a obvious crush. Though he's more TroubledButCute rather than actually "bad".
46** Akatsuki during ''Sharp'', though he kept his anti-villainous tendencies concealed until TheReveal.
47** The man Onpu daydreamed about in ''Naisho'' episode 10 is depicted as being bad.
48* AllThereInTheManual: Who is this Majorhythm? How come I haven't heard of Rhythm Makihatayama? You mean, she's just in the {{Visual Novel}} game? Oh.
49* AllYourPowersCombined: Magical Stage. All Ojamajos who are present (except Hana for all but the penultimate one) need to be resent just to use this spell. In ''Sharp'', TheHighQueen gives the girls a set of Calls that would let them do this even when separate.
50* AlphabetSong: The song "Sweet Song ABC" lists a dessert or snack item associated with each letter of the English alphabet.
51* AlphaBitch:
52** Reika Tamaki, also the resident {{Ojou}}. Momoko is actually able to relate and make friends with her due to being similar ([[IdenticalStranger too similar]]) to a friend in America, Mary. She also gives an excellent lampshading...
53-->'''Momoko''': I really don't like people like Tamaki-san, but you see her type no matter which country's school you are in.
54** LovableAlphaBitch: SpoiledBrat as she is, Tamaki isn't completely evil either. Her [[ADayInTheLimelight focus episode]] in the first season has her going through an HeroicBSOD [[spoiler: when she doubts that her BumblingDad truly loves her]] and bonding with Shiori.
55** She gains even more sympathetic development during Motto, where [[spoiler: her self-centered and bratty behavior is revealed to be caused by her loneliness and insecurity. Momoko sees through this and becomes close friends with her, and also helps others to see Reika's true self.]]
56** Erika, Reika's cousin, antagonizes Pop and her friends. Like her sister, she becomes a LovableAlphaBitch later in ''Dokkan''.
57* AlternativeForeignThemeSong
58* AlwaysInClassOne: Played with. In the first half of the series, the main characters are in class 2. However, there's a student shuffle in the third season that splits up the girls -- Doremi (later joined by Momoko and Hana) is in class 1 with her regular teacher Seki; Hazuki, Aiko, and Onpu stay in class 2 but get a new teacher in Nishizawa.
59* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Pop antagonizes Doremi throughout the first half of the first season, often considering herself better than her older sibling. She [[CharacterDevelopment grows out of this]] starting when she gets her magic.
60* TheApprentice: Doremi and the other girls throughout the series are under the tutelage of various [[ForcedTransformation transformed]] Witches. They technically avert this whenever they either become full-fledged Witches or have to give up being Witches.
61* ArtEvolution: The girls change outfits and get taller in the second half of the series, but the overall designs get better in the second half of ''Sharp''. This is justified as the show begins with the girls in 3rd grade and ends with them graduating 6th grade and the elementary school.
62* ArtShift: The ending for ''Naisho'' depicts the girls in a simplified, roughly-drawn art style with a noticeable LineBoil, almost to the point of StylisticSuck.
63* AudienceShift: ''Ojamajo Doremi'' is a show targeted towards little girls, but ''Ojamajo Doremi 16'' is targeted to people who grew up with the show. Also, since the 15th anniversary of ''Ojamajo Doremi'', Bandai has been releasing ''Doremi''-themed products for adult women, such as make-up and jewelry accessories.
64* TheBGrade: In one episode, Hazuki is devastated when she gets a "Try Harder" grade on her report card even though all of her other grades were outstanding.
65* BalloonBelly: Lala in ''Ojamajo Doremi Sharp'' ep. 16; Hazuki and Aiko in ''Ojamajo Doremi Dokkan!'' ep. 12. The latter is because the twosome had to eat Doremi's and Hana's meals in addition to their own due to an emergency on Hana's part.
66* BangFlagGun: Hazuki's kidnappers in episode 19 of the first season threatened her with a trick gun, which they also believed was real until it was fired.
67* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:Akatsuki in ''Sharp'' started off by getting close to Doremi for the sole purpose of using her to get to Hana. Eventually, he developed genuine feelings towards her and ultimately made his HeelFaceTurn.]]
68* BelligerentSexualTension: Happens a lot between Doremi and Kotake, as they're often at odds with each other. However, they occasionally do have an AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther moment.
69* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: Doremi, Hazuki, and Aiko durin first season, respectively. Doremi refers to herself as "the world's unluckiest girl", Hazuki is legitimately intelligent and consistently makes good grades throughout the show, and Aiko is the athletic one.
70* BeneathTheMask: Applies to every character on the show. Elaborating would take a lot of space...
71* BigBad: [[spoiler: [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Majo Tourbillion]]]], the previous Witch Queen
72* BigDamnHeroes:
73** In episode 14 of ''Dokkan'', Doremi saves Hana from certain death at the [[DoubleEntendre tentacles]] of a plant monster.
74** Done a lot in ''Sharp'' when the girls are rescuing Hana.
75* TheBigGuy: Female example in Aiko, though she also doubled as TheLancer during the first season before Onpu made her HeelFaceTurn. She still lapses back into the role from time to time.
76* BirthdayEpisode: Hazuki gets this on Valentine's Day in ''Naisho''. Doremi also gets one in ''Motto''.
77* BitchAlert: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in Aiko's introductory episode. Initially making comments that make her come off as a [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] version of her character later in the show, it's revealed that she's actually a nice kid.
78* BittersweetEnding: The first two seasons. ''Especially'' the first. ([[spoiler:Right after they've become full-fledged witches, Onpu falls into a ConvenientComa as LaserGuidedKarma hits her for repeatedly using her powers for mind control (even when, that particular time, she had actually used them ''to save herself and the others''), so Doremi and the other girls have to practically give up everything to save her]]). [[spoiler:And in the penultimate episode; the girls must chose between becoming witches [[WhoWantsToLiveForever outlive anyone they care about]], or stay human but leaving Hana and the Witch World until she become the great Queen.]]
79* BlushSticker: Hana-chan typically has these (particularly during ''Sharp'' and ''Motto''). Other characters get them too from time to time.
80* BookAndSwitch: In the first episode, Doremi is reading a book about witchcraft hidden inside a reading book in class. She humiliates herself by accidentally reading from the witch book when asked to read from a page.
81* BookEnds: Twice. Once during the beginning and end of the first season, and again at the end of the series.
82* BrutalHonesty: Aiko and Momoko both had this flaw when they transferred. To a degree, also Onpu.
83* TheBrute: Leon, who is physically the strongest of the FLAT4 and was shown being able to single-handedly defeat an entire basketball team. [[spoiler:This only applied before his HeelFaceTurn.]]
84* BunglingInventor: Majo Toron, [[OneSceneWonder during her only real appearance]]. This only applies to those inventions she had the girls test.
85* BumblingDad: Practically all the fathers, to some degree. Special mention goes to Reika's father and Kenji (Aiko's dad).
86* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:At the end of the final series, the girls must choose between becoming full-fledged, long-lived Witches or remain as humans and stay in their own world. Only Hana leaves for the Witch World while the rest of the girls decide that they will stay in the human world.]]
87* CallBack: ''Dokkan'' contains numerous references to events and characters that haven't been mentioned since the first two seasons. Done to even greater extent in the light novel, which is pure ContinuityPorn.
88* CallingYourAttacks: {{Lampshaded}}: One of the reasons for the Royal Patraine upgrade was that Oyajide could counter their spells before they could finish.
89* CallingYourBathroomBreaks: In episode 2 of ''Dokka~n!'', Hana-chan yells "Toilet!" in the middle of class. Turns out that she was using this as an excuse to play pranks on the students in her witch form.
90* CameraAbuse: Only the first the first EyeCatch displays this, where Majo Rika is thrown face first into the camera due to Dodo's clumsiness.
91* CameraFiend: Kaori Shimakura seems this way [[spoiler:until we learn that she does so because of [[HeroicSelfDeprecation self-esteem problems:]] Kaori views herself as ugly, thus she captures the world in her camera to hide her feelings of inadequacy.]]
92* CantCatchUp: Doremi's little sister Pop, who (being four/five years old at the start of the series) progresses at a much slower rate than the rest of the girls: It takes her ''four seasons'' to achieve what the other six manage in one, and even then doesn't get her crystal until the final Magical Stage. Mind you, this is ''not'' because she's not as good as Doremi; she's far more adept. It's just that you can only go to the Witch World at night--and [[HeavySleeper she can't stay awake that long, no matter how hard she tries.]] Try to wake her up? HilarityEnsues followed closely by AmusingInjuries.\
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94[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by ''Dokkan'', when Pop finally reached the Level 1 test. Doremi even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] this. [[spoiler:However, Pop came to start thinking about why she wanted to be a witch and realizing that it was because she wanted to be like Doremi. Mota and Motamota seemed to know this and gave Pop some time for her to decide.]]
95* CareerVersusMan: This was the main plot of the ''Ojamajo Doremi 17'' LightNovel. After hearing [[spoiler:Marina and Kimura]] break up to pursue their future goals, Doremi becomes worried about what will happen when she and Kotake have to make the same choice. [[spoiler:''Ojamajo Doremi 19'' reveals that they are still a couple.]]
96* CatchPhrase:
97** Doremi's "I'm the unluckiest pretty girl in the whole world!"
98** Momoko: [[BigOMG Oh my God!]]
99** Hana: "Chii~su!" is how she says "hello". [[BorrowedCatchPhrase Doremi sometimes uses it, too.]]
100* CharacterDevelopment: A lot of it for main characters and classmates alike.
101* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Doremi becoming a witch was planned by the Queen the entire time, who had been watching out for her since the girl was five years old!]]
102* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Doremi ''never'' gets a stable boyfriend. [[spoiler:She at least got married. To whom we may never know, but ''Ojamajo Doremi 16, 17, 18, and 19'' imply it was Kotake.]]
103-->[[spoiler:'''Fami''': "The fact that I'm here is proof!"]]
104* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Majo Ruka's fairy Hehe is only seen in the original ''Ojamajo Doremi'' series and does not make an appearance in subsequent sequels, nor does Majo Ruka make a comment as to where she is. This is because Hehe's voice actress, Creator/HirokoKonishi, decided to step away from voice acting in 2000.
105* ClingyJealousGirl: Miho Maruyama gives off this vibe in ''Motto!'' episode 8.
106* CompressedHair: Seki-sensei has long hair. Where she puts it all when she's riding her motorcycle and wearing her helmet is anyone's guess.
107* CurbStompBattle:
108** ''Sharp'' Episode 46. [=FLAT4=] vs. Royal Patraine Ojamajos. If it hadn't been for Doremi [[TalkingYourWayOut talking to them]], the girls would've completely lost. To wit: The [=FLAT4=] were {{No Sell}}ing all of their attacks and Akatsuki had trapped the girls in giant bubbles that Hazuki was unable to break out of. Doremi managed to break free, but she was all alone, had limited magic, and against four powerful opponents.
109** The ''Sharp'' finale had the girls facing [[BigBad Previous Witch Queen's predecessor]]. None of them retained their powers after trying to get the {{Macguffin}}, and she could easily have prevented them from getting it, but they (barely) succeeded either way.
110** ANYONE vs. [[PhysicalGod Majo Tourbillon]]. [[spoiler:It was established that she had the most powerful magic of any Witch in the last 1000 years, and she can definitely prove it.]]
111** Royal Patraine Ojamajos vs. Oyajide. The girls win. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Every. Single. Time.]]
112* CuteWitch: The girls primarily use their powers to help out and do other mundane things throughout the series. To list each of these would take too long. And when they actually come to fighting evil, they usually do so through unorthodox and impractical means and have to have their powers boosted in order to be successful. The latter case comes to a head in ''Sharp'' episode 46 [[spoiler:when the [[ThePsychoRangers FLAT4]] prove too powerful AND skillful to take on in a fight, unlike [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Oyajide]]]].
113* CheatedAngle: Doremi and Aiko's hairstyles will mostly flip between shots.
114* DaddysGirl: Played with rather interestingly in the first season: the reason behind Reika Tamaki's RichBitch behavior is that her dad spoils her rotten... [[spoiler:and dad's reason to do it is that he feels guilty for letting Reika get seriously injured due to his carelessness.]]
115* DancingTheme: "Ojamajo {{Ondo}} de Happipi!" Lots of dancing is seen during that ending as well. A magazine-only DVD even taught the dance using the cast of Ojamajo Kids.
116* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Forbidden Magic. All have repercussions when used:
117** [[HealingMagicIsTheHardest Healing Magic]] transfers the wounds to the caster and has unpredictable effects when the caster uses it on herself.
118** [[BackFromTheDead Revival]] Magic kills the caster upon success.
119** MindControl Magic puts the caster in a coma; the length of which is proportional to how much is used.
120* DarkAndTroubledPast: Incredibly enough, Doremi and Aiko both have one. [[spoiler:Both manage to get better in the end]].
121** Doremi was forced by her mother to take piano lessons and it's shown that it was much to her displeasure. [[spoiler:Then she had to play in front of a lot of people, but she made several mistakes because she was too nervous and that failure left her traumatized]]. She stopped playing the piano after that.
122** Aiko had to witness her parents arguing, and later divorcing, [[spoiler:while she was in hospital because of an incident]]. At first, she thought it was her fault, but actually [[spoiler:it was because her mother lost a kid due to over-working]]. She still suffers every now and then.
123* DealWithTheDevil: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]]. [[spoiler:The [[BigBad previous Queen]] offers to fulfill Momoko's desire to see Majo Monroe again in exchange for using her to bring Hana to the [[EldritchLocation Cursed Forest]] and kill her there. Ultimately [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in that the [[JackassGenie previous Queen]] [[DemonicPossession really didn't]] [[BrainwashedAndCrazy give Momoko any]] [[LotusEaterMachine say in the matter.]]]]
124* DeathIsCheap: Very much [[AvertedTrope averted]]. Though magic can bring back the dead, doing so will result in the reviver dying instead upon success.
125* TheDiaperChange: Happens a lot to Hana-chan:
126** In the first episode of ''Sharp'', Hana's diaper leaks as soon as Doremi picks her up.
127** In episode 9 of ''Sharp'', the girls change Hana's diaper in a service area's baby room.
128** In episode 12 of ''Sharp'', it is revealed the Aiko is good at changing diapers.
129** In one scene in episode 13 of ''Sharp'', Hana's diaper leaks.
130** In a scene in episode 17 of ''Sharp'', the participants of the baby race take a break to have their diapers changed.
131** Doremi tries to change Hana in episode 18 of ''Sharp'' when she is crying, but fails because she is fussy. She tries to transform to change the diaper, but decides against it.
132** The plot of episode 27 of ''Sharp'' is spurred by Hana getting diaper rash after a diaper change. The girls have to find a special flower to use as ointment.
133** In episode 43 of ''Sharp'', Hana needs her diaper changed in class, which confuses the students.
134** In episode 47 of ''Sharp'', Oyajide tries to change Hana's diaper to cheer her up, but it does not work.
135** Episode 32 of ''Mo~tto!'' has a scene where Hana-chan's diaper is changed. Later in the episode, Momoko practices changing diapers with a doll that looks like Hana, but fails because the diaper keeps coming off.
136** In episode 47 of ''Mo~tto!'', Hana cries because her diaper is leaking.
137** In episode 5 of ''Naisho'', Pop changes Hana's diaper after failing to take her to the potty on time.
138* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: In the first episode, Doremi is taught that she needs to put the uniform on before the music runs out, something she learns quickly. Every transformation using a variant of the Taps has the background music start when they first tap the button and only last as long as it takes for them to put their uniform on.
139* DoItYourselfThemeTune: All the openings (and some of the endings) are sung by MAHO Dou, the collective name for the voice actresses of the main characters.
140* TheDragon: Akatsuki to Oyajide during ''Sharp''. [[spoiler:Oyajide to Ojijide, though Oyajide was more along the lines of a DragonInChief.]]
141* DramaticIrony: All throughout ''Sharp''.
142** [[spoiler:First, we have Ojijide tasking Oyajide with kidnapping Hana. The audience knows what's going on, but the Ojamajos don't and are legitimately shocked and horrified when Oyajide reveals his intentions and succeeds.]]
143** [[spoiler:Next, we have the introduction of Akatsuki and then his allegiance is revealed later. During episode 46, Doremi is [[HeroicBSOD heartbroken]] by the [[EtTuBrute revelation]].]]
144* DubInducedPlotHole: The English dub stated that there were eight witch exams when there were actually nine total, and none of the episodes involving the exams were cut... so which one was technically not an exam?
145** The English dub also changed some of the characters' backgrounds, most noticeably Masaru Yada/Justin Bailey. In the dub, he was a transfer student from a boarding school... except that Doremi and Hazuki have known him since kindergarten and he even showed up in a flashback from when the girls were little. Good thing 4Kids never got past the first season, otherwise it would be strange trying to explain how Doremi had never heard of him even though they've literally been in the same class since kindergarten.
146* DubInducedPlotlineChange: The English dub had a drastically different format compared to the original and the other foreign dubs. While it was one of the better dubs by Creator/FourKidsEntertainment, there were still a liberal amount of changes made, which included erasing any text on signs (even ones in English), changing the spells into random rhymes, changing the characters' names and settings from Japanese, adding clouds to flashbacks, cutting out the characters hitting or slapping each other, and even creating their own transformation sequence using stock footage from previous episodes. They've even gone their way to create a sing-a-long for each episode. Some of the conflict resolutions were changed as well -- for example, in episode 2, originally, Hazuki wanted to stop the FreakyFridayFlip because she felt selfish for going to the extent of tricking Doremi's family just to escape her daily life. In the dub, it was changed to a BeYourself moral, where she decides she misses her own life. Episode 19, which involved Hazuki getting kidnapped, was infamously edited so that [[AbuseMistake the kidnapping was just a misunderstanding]], and episode 30, which had a lot of Buddhist imagery and involved the main characters hanging out at a graveyard, was cut.
147* DubNameChange:
148** The 4Kids dub changes up the three main characters' names to '''Do'''rrie, '''Re'''anne and '''Mi'''rabelle to retain the show title. Also, Onpu became Ellie Craft, Pop became Caitlyn, Maho Rika became Patina, and so forth. Also, the term "Witch Apprentice" is renamed to "Witchling".
149** For the Witch items, Taps became Dreamspinners, Pollon became Wandalers and Wandawhirls, and Magic Spheres became Spell Drops.
150** The magical dimension known as the Witch World is renamed the "Lunaverse".
151** Witch Frogs, the ForcedTransformation for exposed witches, are renamed "Greenlings".
152** Magical Stage, the combined magic of all the girls, became "Perfect Harmony".
153* DyingRace: The Wizards during ''Sharp'' (only '''''30''''' remained by the time the series started!). It's one of the reasons [[WellIntentionedExtremist Ojijide]] wanted to kidnap Hana and regain their lost land. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] during the later seasons [[spoiler:when TheHighQueen restores their remaining land to fertility and allowing the Wizards to repopulate.]]
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156* {{Edutainment}}: Has shades of this, particularly ''Motto''. Also, in a press release, 4Kids Entertainment pitched the show as such.
157* EldritchLocation: The Witch World and, by definition, The Wizard World are bizarre by human standards. The skies are strange and twisting and land itself seems to float in the air.
158* EmbarrassingDampSheets:
159** Episode 8 of the original series ends with [[spoiler: Dodo wetting Doremi's bed]].
160** In episode 5 of Naisho, one of the signs alerting the Harukaze family parents that Pop isn't acting normal that day is that she wet the bed overnight.
161* EscortMission: During ''Sharp'', the girls had to raise and protect Hana-chan since she was a defenseless baby. [[spoiler:The girls were serious enough about it, and they became even more serious after [[WhamEpisode episode 22]] rolled by.]]
162* EvilGenius: Fujio, who is shown to be the most intelligent of the [=FLAT4=] and is the one taking notes of almost everything that's going on around him. [[spoiler:This only applies before his HeelFaceTurn.]]
163* ExactWords: Typically during the Level 1 exam. The proctors say that one has to use magic to help someone in the human world and receive a "thank you" in return ''all without getting caught''. They never say how the thanks is received, or from whom you need to get the thanks from.
164** In ''Series 1'', the girls helped a fox cub out and got a thank you from it in its own language. It was accepted.
165** In ''Dokkan'' for both Pop's and Hana's exams, the former used magic to conjure a wind to protect a class project from the rain; the class thanked the wind, which was an indirect thanks to Pop, so she passed. On the other hand, Hana didn't use magic and got thanks...and Mota and Motamota said she failed as a result, but are taking it up with with the Senate.
166* EyeCatch: Varied wildly from season to season and even had separate parts to them.
167** Season 1: The first one had the fairies bouncing on the register until Dodo accidentally slammed Majo Rika followed by them producing cards of their respective owners. The second one showed the girls scanning various items with Pop scanning Majo Rika, with the other part being the girls playing Rock Paper Scissors with Oyajide where Pop wins.
168** ''Sharp'': The first one showed the Ojamajos using their calls for various activities only for Pop to steal one of them; she is then seen talking with her boyfriends while Doremi, the owner of the stolen call, looks for it. The second one showed Doremi allowing the fairies into her patraine call followed by the fairies going into their teenage forms within the Patraine laptop.
169** ''Motto'': The first one shows a pair of the girls with a card with their witch apprentice outfits and their works clothes, where they pop out in either one. This ends with two Doremi's popping out wearing the two outfits, since there was only 5 Witch Apprentices at this time. This is followed by them baking a pie. The next one is them making some chocolate covered fruit with the next having the fairies fly into the recipe book.
170** ''Dokkaan'': This first eye catch has many variations, but it involves the girls giving Hana a makeover where they give her certain aspects of their own looks. This includes:
171*** Aiko giving Hana a spring in her hair.
172*** Momoko drawing on thick eyebrows on Hana.
173*** Onpu curling her eyelashes.
174*** Hazuki giving her the circular lens glasses she wears.
175** These all end with Doremi brushing her hair at the end. This is followed by Hana making jewelry for the girls, ending up covering Doremi with a bunch of them. The next one involves the girls making a sweater for Pao, followed by Hana and Pao dancing.
176** ''Nai-sho'': There's only one set of eyecatches here where the girls whisper the word "Naisho" into another's ear followed by them saying the name of the show.
177* FaceHeelTurn: Oyajide in ''Sharp''. Ojijide warns him that the Wizard World is dying and that they need Hana's magic to save it. He then offers him a FriendOrIdolDecision as a last resort, which overrides any morality he had and gets the turn under way.
178* TheFaceless:
179** The Queen of the Witches kept her face hidden beneath a veil at all times [[spoiler: until episode 50 of Dokkan]].
180** The BigBad's face was featureless aside from GlowingEyesOfDoom. [[spoiler:Until the ''Motto'' finale.]]
181* FakeBand: The Maho Dou, who sing the opening theme songs. Later on, the main girls form an in-show band to record a song together.
182* FakeWizardry: On one episode the girls had a magic exam, during which they had to defeat other witches who obviously had many years of experience and vast numbers of spells in their arsenals. What did they do to impress them and win the competition? [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Irony STAGE MAGIC TRICKS of course]], and since the witches were so used to using real magic they didn't question if the magic was real. They assumed they were rare tricks even for them (like Hazuki rotating her head many times).
183* FantasticAesop: Don't cure others / resurrect the dead with magic... Because it damages you instead. And would get you punished when caught (if you're still alive).
184* FantasticRacism:
185** During Pao's debut, a number of grey elephants wanted nothing to do with her since she was different. DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything
186** Some Witches have expressed some disdain for humans.
187* {{Flanderization}}:
188** Happens to Momoko regarding her CloudCuckooLander tendencies during ''Dokkan''.
189** Happens to Doremi from time to time regarding to her [[TheDitz ditzy and clueless]] tendencies in the 4Kids dub.
190* FlyingBroomstick: All Witches use these to help get around. Any Witch who was [[ForcedTransformation turned into a Witch Frog]] uses something else instead, like a dustpan or a bucket.
191* FoodPorn: Never watch ''Motto!'' on an empty stomach.
192* ForgottenBirthday: One of the Doremi-focused episodes in ''Motto!'' had her being upset that everyone is acting distant towards her, only to realize it was to help set up her SurpriseParty.
193* FourGirlEnsemble: For the first two series:
194** The naive one: Doremi
195** The tomboy one: Aiko
196** The pretty one: Pop (though mostly in the sense that she brags about her many boyfriends to Doremi), who is eventually replaced by Onpu in ''Sharp''
197** The mom (though Aiko and Hazuki end up sharing this role): Hazuki
198* FreakyFridayFlip:
199** Doremi uses magic to spend a day in Hazuki's body in episode 2 of the original series.
200** Episode 5 of Naisho has Pop ask Hana to swap bodies with her so that she can be toilet-trained.
201* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: It's one thing to close all portals that connect the witch and the human worlds so [[spoiler:that witches won't go through the same suffering the previous Witch Queen went through]]. It's another to let the one person that could cancel the curse [[spoiler:die of fever and curse her so that she can't grow]]. Worse if that person is a barely '''ONE-YEAR OLD BABY'''! Right, [[spoiler:Majo-Tourbillon?]]
202* FrillyUpgrade: [[AvertedTrope Avoids]] this for the most part by giving the cast an entirely new wardrobe in each season. In ''Motto'', their uniforms were even ''reversible''! ''Sharp'' plays this straight with the [[MidSeasonUpgrade Royal Patraine]].
203* FunWithForeignLanguages
204* GadgeteerGenius: Majo Toron, during her only appearance, is confirmed to have invented the girls' current porons and is later shown to have made a number of working gadgets. It appears she zigzags between GadgeteerGenius and BunglingInventor...
205* GassyGastronomy: In episode 40, we learn that Onpu Segawa refuses to eat sweet potatoes after an incident where she ate one and then farted in public that made the news. According to her, child idols cannot be seen farting or gaining a lot of weight, as it would taint the image she has of being perfect.
206* GenkiGirl: Doremi, Momoko and 11-year-old Hana-chan.
207* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan:
208** Doremi's mother has such a moment when Doremi blames herself [[spoiler:for getting Hana sick]].
209** [[spoiler: Everyone does this during the GrandFinale to help snap Doremi out of her HeroicBSOD by reminding her of how she helped them and made their lives better just from her boundless compassion alone.]]
210* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: Every time a witch is found out...
211* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Plenty between Doremi and Pop. Pop generally finds Doremi immature and irresponsible, and Doremi can't stand her DeadpanSnarker moments. However, Pop secretly admires Doremi and will watch out for her when things get tough.
212* GratuitousEnglish: Alexander T. Oyajide. Leon's occasion of habitually throwing English in his speech got {{Lampshaded}} by Aiko:
213-->'''Aiko''': "Me, me, me, me!" Would you quit it with your half-hearted English?!
214** Also just Momoko in general.
215* GrayAndGreyMorality: All of the characters are portrayed in a realistic manner and the villains all have credible [[FreudianExcuse excuses]] to be doing what they're doing. Two examples:
216** Doremi can be [[ThisLoserIsYou relatively selfish, greedy, and self-centered]]. On the other hand, she has shown a great many number of moments when she was compassionate and pure hearted and generally wanting to do the right thing no matter what.
217** The BigBad. Her goal is to prevent contact between the worlds by any means necessary and is even [[WouldHurtAChild willing to hurt children]] to ensure it. However, she wants to do this so as to prevent other witches from feeling the same unbearable pain she felt when she lost her husband to an accident and her son to old age and her grand children to their own paths.
218* HairAntennae: The FLAT 4 use this to cast magic. It functions as IdiotHair most of time.
219* HeDidntMakeIt: [[spoiler:Or rather, ''she'': [[TearJerker poor Non-chan succumbs to her cancer]] at the end of ''Naisho'' episode 12.]]
220* HealingMagicIsTheHardest: Using magic to heal is a forbidden technique that comes at the cost of the magic user's own health. The one instance where the user wasn't subjected to the fatal state like she should have was because the spell's power was shared with a ''much'' more experienced witch.
221* TheHeart: Momoko. [[spoiler:Doremi as well in addition to her being TheLeader and TheHeroine since she's the one who keeps the group together... In some occasions.]]
222* HeavySleeper: Pop literally Can'tCatchUp due to her being unable to wake up early for her exams.
223* HeelFaceTurn: Onpu, Oyajide; even Tamaki becomes a bit less of a JerkAss.
224* HeroicBSOD: A few throughout the series.
225** Momoko suffers one when she was called out by the other Ojamajos for letting Hana get sick during ''Motto''.
226** [[spoiler:Aiko becomes depressed when she feels she has failed to get her parents back together. She nearly uses forbidden magic in the process.]]
227** [[spoiler:Doremi in the GrandFinale. She is so distraught over losing her closest friends to their chosen paths that she ignores everyone's pleas. Even her TrademarkFavoriteFood, steak, did nothing.]]
228* HeroicSacrifice:
229** [[spoiler:All the girls but Pop willingly risk being put into a millenia-long slumber to get the Love Supreme flower needed to save Hana's life in the finale of ''Sharp''. Doremi barely succeeds, but [[TearJerker is also put under.]] Thankfully, Hana's first word ("MAMA!") was strong enough to wake them.]]
230** Earlier, during the first season, [[spoiler:[[DarkMagicalGirl Onpu]] uses MindControl to save everyone from [[ForcedTransformation being turned into Witch Frogs]]; this caused her to fall into a coma due to her charm deteriorating and allowing [[LaserGuidedKarma karma]] to strike.]]
231** [[spoiler:The girls [[ShaggyDogStory give up their powers to save Onpu from her punishment.]]]]
232** Momoko nearly does this in her BackStory when she tries to bring back Majo Monroe. [[spoiler:Her crystal shattered from the strain of having to use such a powerful spell, causing her to fail and costing the poor girl her powers.]]
233* HiddenElfVillage: The Witch World (and by extension [[SpearCounterpart The Wizard World]]) is concealed from the humans by means of being in a different dimension. Justified in this case since the Witches legitimately fear and have distrust of humans (the former being because of the BigBad's [[ForcedTransformation curse]] and the latter being because some humans took advantage of Witches back when the curse wasn't around).
234** One episode had a straighter example in the form of El Dorado. This El Dorado was created when a group of Witches decided to live secluded on Earth and cast aside their magic. Subverted somewhat in that these Witches are welcoming to those who could actually find it ("somewhat" meaning that the only ones shown to have found it were either Witches or Witch Apprentices themselves; [[DontExplainTheJoke in short, elves finding a hidden elf village]]).
235* TheHighQueen: The Queen of the Witch World.
236* {{Hikikomori}}: The reason Kayoko hasn't been going to school. She gets over it in the ChristmasEpisode after two separate episodes of progress in ''Motto!''.
237* HonestAxe: Doremi pulls this on Miyamoto in ''Na-i-sho'' episode 8 after he accidentally breaks Sachiko's recorder.
238* HugeSchoolgirl: Naomi Okuyama is an eight-year-old version of this trope.
239* HumansAreBastards: Some Witches have this view of humans. It had a greater majority during flashbacks, where it was mentioned that some humans took advantage of Witches to get what they wanted and showed ungratefulness. This view was one reason the Witch World cut its ties to the Human World. It continues to this day, with some Witches still claiming that humans are greedy enough to take advantage of magic if ever given the chance.
240* HumansAreSpecial: Some Witches have this view of humans. For one reason or another, when a human makes something, there is something in it that magic can never reproduce, no matter how hard anyone tries. [[spoiler:Finally, the BigBad made it to where if a human (and ''only'' a human) were to identify a Witch, the curse would be triggered.]]
241* INeverGotAnyLetters: Aiko discovers that her mom has made several attempts to contact her in the past after her parents' divorce, but never received any of the letters she sent. Turns out that all of her letters were collected and hidden by her father, making Aiko very upset.
242* IdiotHair: Too many to count.
243* IdolSinger: Onpu
244* IfItTastesBadItMustBeGoodForYou: This applies to the case of Hana, who hates vegetables, but must eat them to restore her magical energy.
245%%* ImageSong
246* INeedYouStronger: [[HonorBeforeReason Akatsuki allowed the girls to transform into Royal Patraine to make the final fight fair]]. Unfortunately, [[CurbstompBattle the [=FLAT4=] didn't really have to worry about losing anyway.]]
247* InflatingBodyGag: Oyajide in ''Ojamajo Doremi Sharp'' ep. 41. After he gets caught kidnapping Hana, Doremi uses her magical powers to summon an air compressor and inflate him to the size of a balloon. Then, Aiko uses a giant tack that sends Oyajide flying all over the TV studio's hallways.
248* InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha: One episode of ''Motto'' involved Doremi turning into a HumongousMecha in one of Nobuko's and Miho's mangas.
249* InsultBackfire: "Ojamajo" was originally used by Majo Rika to refer to the girl's clumsiness and incompetence. By season 2, the girls took it as meaning "apprentices" instead.
250* JumpedAtTheCall: Doremi's reaction when Majo Rika and Lala tell her she must become a witch is...
251-->'''Doremi''': To tell you the truth, I've always wanted to become a witch... "Please make me a witch? Please, please, pleaaaaase?!"
252* KingIncognito: Female example for the Queen of the Witches [[spoiler:in that she had been watching over the girls the entire time as Yuki-sensei]].
253* TheLancer: Aiko was this in the first series before Onpu performed her HeelFaceTurn. By the beginning of ''Sharp'', Onpu was all but TheLancer from then on, though Aiko occasionally lapses back into the role.
254* LateArrivalSpoiler: Hana becoming a witch apprentice is technically a surprise spoiler to newcomers who haven't seen the show, yet ''Dokka~n!'' makes this unavoidable due to its FirstEpisodeTwist. Toei doesn't help this either in since they throw her image around ''Dokka~n!'' promotions and merchandise like free candy.
255* LaughThemselvesSick: Hazuki ''always'' laughs uncontrollably whenever the [=SOS=] Trio make a joke. Momoko gets this way about Toyoken too.
256* LightNovels: ''Ojamajo Doremi 16'' and ''Ojamajo Doremi 17''.
257* ListSong: ''Sweet Song ABC'' (in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin alphabetical order]], even!) and ''Oh! Yasai Samba''
258* TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: Used by Oyajide during episode 22 of ''Sharp''. Onpu lampshades it.
259* LittlestCancerPatient: Nozomi aka Non-chan. [[spoiler: And uncommonly for the trope, she actually ''does'' die.]]
260* LonelyRichKid: Hazuki, Tamaki to some degree
261* LongLived: The witches are capable of dying even though their lifespans are longer than humans, notable examples being Majo Monroe and Majo Clara.
262* LoopholeAbuse: In the light novels, when the girls become witch apprentices once again, they ask the Witch Queen to set an artificial restriction on them, so that when one uses magic for her own purposes, they will lose their powers. Not long later, the girls start to ''abuse the rule they set up themselves'' -- Oh god, I'm in trouble yet I can't use magic for my own purpose! But no worries, I'll just ask my friends to use magic to solve this problem for me.
263* LoveConfession: Doremi wants to give one to Igarashi-sempai, but at the end of the series someone confesses to ''her''!
264-->[[spoiler:'''Kotake''']]: Well, yeah it's true you're a total klutz, but I...I...well to say it, everyone here loves you!
265** [[spoiler:Kimitaka]] also confesses to Pop [[spoiler:before he moves away]].
266* LoveTriangle: Somehow happened with both Doremi and Hazuki. In the latter case, it's clearly one-sided from Fujio to Hazuki but played with in the former as both Kotake and Akatsuki's focus episode(s) with Doremi are in different seasons. In the end [[spoiler:Doremi chooses Kotake]].
267* LukeYouAreMyFather: Faami, from the final episode of ''Naisho'', is [[spoiler:Doremi's granddaughter]].
268[[/folder]]
269[[folder:M(ont blanc)-P(udding)]]
270* MageSpecies: While it's possible to gain powers while being born a human, some witches and wizards are instead born, and come from plants.
271* MagicAIsMagicA: Magic can do almost anything without consequence as long as you're powerful enough, except for a small number of forbidden acts which are defined very early on: [[BackFromTheDead revival from the dead]], [[TheMedic healing]], and MindControl.
272* MagicalIncantation: Each girl has their own specific magic spell for common magic as well as a variant for casting [[AllYourPowersCombined Magical Stage]]. The 4Kids dub ended up creating unnecessary work for themselves by ditching the standard "Incantation+What I Want+Appear" formula by having the girls create rhymes on the spot.
273* MagicWand:
274** An odd variant: all the Porons used in the series are actually musical instruments from the Witch World, but not used via MagicMusic.
275** Some Witches use the more generic variety.
276* MamaBear: All the girls in ''Sharp'', '''especially''' Doremi in the last few episodes.
277* MaternallyChallenged:
278** Are little girls really ready to take care of a newborn?
279** In Motto! Ojamajo Doremi episode 32, Momoko works her hardest to become a "Mama" for Hana-chan (she wanted Hana to treat her the same as she did the more experienced Ojamajos), but not only does she repeatedly have trouble, she [[spoiler:accidentally puts Hana's life in danger by letting her eat too much pudding and giving her a stomachache. Aiko, on behalf of all the Ojamajos, threatens to never let Momoko near Hana again, sending Momoko into a HeroicBSOD. It took a pep talk from Onpu to get Momoko's motivation back]].
280* MayIBorrowACupOfSugar: Aiko was under the impression that her mother had remarried after seeing her with a baby. This gives her the push to convince her father to do the same when he gets set up on a date with his boss' daughter. Later, when Aiko spies on her mother again, she sees a neighbor of her mother visiting her to borrow [=MSG=] (sugar in the dub version) and finds out that the baby was actually the neighbor's.
281* MeaningfulName: Hana in Japanese means flower ([[JustifiedTrope justified]] because it was Doremi who named her), and Tourbillon in French means spiral.
282** Doremi, Hazuki, Aiko and Onpu's Italian names are respectively Doremì, Melody, Sinfony and Lullaby. More obvious than that...
283* MenAreGenericWomenAreSpecial: The original Japanese version calls witches 魔女 (''majo'', literally "magical women") and wizards 魔法使い (''mahō tsukai'', literally "magic user").
284* MerchandiseDriven: Lots of things in the show only appear for the purpose of new merchandise. This sadly means the fairies often get the brunt of character development or spotlight episodes, even though they ironically get [[MidSeasonUpgrade Mid-season upgrades]] as well. Speaking of witch!
285* MidSeasonUpgrade: Twice. The first time was during the first season with an upgrade to their porons. The second, which occurred during ''Sharp'', gave the Royal Patraine, which was only used when Oyajide kidnapped Hana-chan [[spoiler:and when Majo Tourbillon threatened Hana-chan's life at the end of ''Sharp''.]]
286* MindScrew: Onpu has a MindScrew CharacterDevelopment episode in ''Na-i-sho'' when she recounts what it really means to be herself in spite of her IdolSinger career, where she has to take on roles and display a public image that is not exactly who she really is.
287* {{Mordor}}: The Wizard World is a bleak, dark, and, as described by Ojijide, an infertile wasteland. It is so inhospitable that the Wizards themselves have become a DyingRace (only '''''30''''' of the remain!) and hatch a plot to [[ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption start a war with the Witches so they could regain their lost land and survive]]. It wasn't always like that; it only turned into this barren wasteland after the previous King of the Wizard World lost a good deal of land to a previous Queen of the Witch World in a game of cards. [[spoiler:The Wizard World is restored to its former glory by the current Witch Queen after the current Wizard King expresses remorse for his and his people's actions. Today, it is very much an aversion of this trope.]]
288* MoreThanMindControl: Some of the cursed brambles worked this way: [[spoiler:The curses they cast to make their victims cross the DespairEventHorizon invoked things that were genuine issues or insecurities for said victims (Majo Ume and Majo Rika feeling depressed regarding being Witch Frogs and the possibility of never returning to normal and Tamaki via her insecurity about being a normal school girl upon graduating elementary).]]
289* {{Mukokuseki}}: Usually played straight, but there are a few exceptions. In the episode where Momoko receives a video letter from her TokenBlackFriend Beth in New York, Beth's new friend Sachiko is drawn with narrower eyes to highlight the racial differences between the two girls.
290* MundaneUtility:
291** Per the norm with CuteWitch animes, the girls use their magic to secretly help people with their problems.
292** In ''Motto!'', the girls use their awesome magical powers to... bake.
293** The girls subvert this in ''Sharp'' when they decide to take care of Hana ''without'' magic.
294* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: George, Majo Tourbillon's husband, made a cake named after her called "Tourbillon My Love".
295* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: [[BigBad Majo]] [[MeaningfulName Tourbillon]].
296* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Played with. TheHighQueen usually gives the girls new powers in order to help them with the current task at hand, such as aiding them in using Royal Patraine when they're not together, extracting Bad Cards, etc.
297* NewTransferStudent: Aiko, Onpu, and Momoko all came from separate schools before they arrived. Hana-chan technically counts since she's from the Witch World Kindergarten.
298* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Doremi especially, but the main things that come to mind are the first two season finales [[spoiler:when they have to save Onpu and then save Hana, respectively]].
299* NoblewomansLaugh: Reika Tamaki gives the infamous "Oh ho ho ho ho!" laugh a lot, [[{{Ojou}} naturally]]. Erika uses it, too.
300* NonSerialMovie: Completely averted in the ''Sharp'' movie (which takes place right before episode 40), but the ''Motto'' movie is very vague (though it ties in with the series during ''Dokkan'').
301* {{Odango}}: It's such an iconic part of Doremi's design that the 20th anniversary logo has an [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ojamajowitchling/images/2/29/20AnnivEvent.png/revision/latest?cb=20190419175544 almost copyright infringing Mickey like shape]]
302* OddNameOut: In the Italian version, the main characters are named after music (i.e. Hazuki is named Melody, Onpu is named Lullaby and so on). The only exception is Momoko, who is called Mindy. She's no more the odd one with Hana's joining of the group, who is simply called Hanna.
303* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:Sometime after ''Ojamajo Doremi Dokka~n!'', Hazuki and Yada get together, as they're mentioned to have been dating for quite a while in the LightNovel. Also, Doremi and Kotake get together after having a significant amount of UnresolvedSexualTension between them.]]
304%%* {{Ojou}}:
305%%** Reika
306%%** Hazuki to some degree.
307* OnTheNextEpisodeOfCatchPhrase: ''Ojamajo Doremi'' has a different one for each season:
308** Season 1: ''"Happiness and luckiness, reach everyone!"''
309** Season 2 (''Sharp''): ''"Thump, thump, tremble, tremble, spin, spin, revolve!"'' (Or if you're watching the {{fansub}}, ''"Happiness and excitement for everyone!"'')
310** Season 3 (''Mo~tto!''): ''"Cheerfulness to cookies! We'll teach you the recipe of magic!"''
311** Season 4 (''Dokka~n!''): ''"Pure, pure dream become big!"''
312** {{OVA}} (''Na-i-sho''): ''"You may take notes, but pass them around secretly!"''
313%%* OpaqueLenses: Hazuki, when she gets scared.
314* OutOfContextEavesdropping: Nagato's parents are stunned when they learn their daughter overheard them fighting about her. It can come off as them arguing over a mentally disabled child, since Nagato mentioned she was a slow worker.
315* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Losing a child happens several times in the series, and since witches live very long, it's generally expected that they'd outlive their kids if they marry a human man and bear his children.
316* OvercomplicatedMenuOrder: In the first series, Doremi gets one of these at her first apprentice witch exam, which is to conjure up whatever is requested by the examiners. She doesn't pass.
317* PaperThinDisguise:
318** Majo Rika does little to disguise the fact that she's a Witch and outright dresses accordingly. This gets her caught and cursed when Doremi uncovers her.
319** [[DisguisedinDrag Oyajide uses magic once to disguise himself as a woman]], and his masculine mannerisms continue to show through along with his mustache after Hana's magic undoes part of it. It's also played for CreepyCrossdessor.
320* PetTheDog: Reika is a selfish and shrill {{Ojou}}, but an episode in the first season showed her feeling ''genuinely'' insecure about her dad's love and taking the local ill girl Shiori under her wing.
321* PickyEater: Hana during ''Motto!'' Though later in the season, Hana isn't as responsible for this as she is earlier in the season: [[spoiler:the former Witch Queen's predecessor casts a curse on Hana that makes her hate vegetables, resetting a problem that the Ojamajos had previously solved using carrot cake]].
322* PlayingPictionary: This happens to Doremi a lot in the first season. People usually can't tell what her crafts are supposed to resemble because she's such a TerribleArtist. In episode 17, Majo Rika and Lala both guessed wrong as to what Doremi's charm resembled, while in episode 12, Misaki kept insisting Doremi's "panda" charm was a "soccer ball" charm.
323* PokemonSpeak: All of the fairies who accompany the main characters (Dodo, Rere, Mimi, Roro, Nini, Toto, and Fafa) say nothing but their own names for most of the series. It doesn't inconvenience them in the slightest.
324* PowerCrystal: Used to fuel the girls' magic in the first season.
325%%* ThePowerOfFriendship
326* PottyDance:
327** Pop makes it quite clear she has to go after eating ice cream in episode 7.
328** Happens in episode 5 of Naisho when Pop needs to go in her classroom, and does this while standing on a table. This causes all of her classmates to show concern for her.
329* PottyEmergency:
330** In episode 7, Poppu has one after buying ice cream she got with the extra money she was supposed to use for mame daifuku for her grandmother.
331** This happens to Pop while in Hana's body in episode 5 of Naisho while she is in school. Pop, who is in Hana's body, races to Doremi's classroom to alert her to this problem. She takes her out to try to get her to the restroom, [[spoiler: but she winds up fainting and wetting herself, much to the disappointment of Pop, who is in Hana-chan's body]].
332* PottyFailure:
333** Pop ends up wetting herself right before she could make it inside the restroom in episode 7.
334** This sets up the plot of episode 5 of Naisho: Pop is upset that Hana cannot use her potty chair properly and always has this when she tries to make it. Pop thinks that swapping bodies with her will solve this problem. [[spoiler: She's wrong, as Hana still wets herself when she is in the body of someone much older than her.]] However, [[spoiler: it's much easier for Pop to get to the bathroom while she is in Hana's baby body]].
335* PrinceAndPauper: In the second episode, Doremi uses magic to [[FreakyFridayFlip swap bodies]] with Hazuki.
336* PrizedPossessionGiveaway: In the episode "A Wish For A Precious Shirt", Misaki sells his favorite shirt to the Maho-Dou. Upon finding out that it's a hand-me-down, the girls try to return it to him.
337* ProductPromotionParade: "I Won't Lose To Hana-Chan!" opens with a scene where the girls use the products featured in the MAHO Dou Hobby Series product line.
338* ProductionThrowback: The dandelion motif was a CallBack BookEnds to ''Yume no Crayon Oukoku'', the show that held ''Doremi'''s previous time slot that Junichi Sato, Hiromi Seki, and Midori Kuriyama also worked on. ''Yume no Crayon Oukoku'' had ended with a piece of fluff flying in the sky, and the dandelion was a reference to that.
339* ThePsychoRangers: The Flat 4 in ''Sharp'': four apprentice wizards that oppose the girls.
340* PublicDomainSoundtrack: Episode 6 of ''Na-i-sho'' uses Tchaikovsky's [[Theatre/TheNutcracker "Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy"]].
341[[/folder]]
342
343[[folder:Q(uince jam)-Z(enbu)]]
344* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: What the main girls are.
345** Doremi is a CuteClumsyGirl who was BornUnlucky.
346** Hazuki is a ShrinkingViolet who happens to be [[TheSmartGuy the Smart Girl]].
347** Aiko is an athletic {{Tomboy}} with a level of BrutalHonesty (at first) and [[GenreSavvy Genre Savviness]].
348** Onpu is the ex-DarkMagicalGirl and an IdolSinger.
349** Momoko is a CloudCuckooLander bake chef in training.
350** Hana is a GenkiGirl with SpecialSnowflakeSyndrome who happens to be heir-apparent to the throne of Majo Kai.
351** Pop is a WiseBeyondTheirYears DeadpanSnarker TagalongKid.
352%%* RhymesOnADime: The 4kids dub uses this when the girls cast a spell.
353* RhymingWizardry: In the 4Kids dub, the witch apprentices chant a rhyme describing what they want to happen.
354%%* RoleCalled
355* RunningGag: Doremi's never getting to eat steak, Seki-san throwing her chalk, Doremi's parents always fighting (he's a BumblingDad, she's a {{Tsundere}}), Hazuki's "Majo Rika Majo Rika"[[BuffySpeak -ing]] when she's scared... to name a few.
356* TheRunaway: Kids run away from home a bit due to being upset at their parents. You almost couldn't blame the girls from being worried about Hana in ''Dokkan'', even when Majorika and Lala tell them that they were being overbearing.
357* SacrificialRevivalSpell: One of the Forbidden Spells is bringing someone back from the dead, for the exact reason of it being a trade of lives.
358* ScaryShinyGlasses: Hazuki Fujiwara's glasses did this at some point in the second episode of ''Ojamajo Doremi DOKKAAN!''.
359* ScoobyStack: In episode 11 of the first series, Doremi, Hazuki, and Aiko spy on Kimura and Marina in this fashion. They fall on top of each other at the end and run away.
360* SecretSecretKeeper: Ms. Seki suspects correctly the girls have a real reason for working at a magic shop. This becomes subverted since she trusts their judgement and doesn't investigate any further, thereby keeping the actual secret a secret. [[spoiler: Ironic considering that Yuki, the school's nurse, was the Witch Queen in disguise.]]
361* {{Sentai}}: [[ShowWithinAShow The Battle Rangers]], complete with FiveManBand and ColorCodedCharacters.
362* SeparatedAtBirth: In book 3 of ''Ojamajo Doremi 16'', [[spoiler:Hana is revealed to have a twin sister who she must compete against to win the throne to the Witch World.]]
363* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:The girls lose their powers ([[AllForNothing which they had worked so hard to fully attain...]]) as a consequence for using [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique forbidden magic]] to save Onpu. And then at the beginning of ''Sharp'', the girls get their powers back, but only as apprentices with their crystals held by TheHighQueen; they regain them successfully, but their crystals were shattered by the BigBad, leaving them without their powers again. Subverted somewhat in ''Motto'', where TheHighQueen proposes to make the girls full-fledged Witches only to have half of the senate oppose it due to their crystals having been destroyed; they agree to make them apprentices again and agree to let them be Witches so long as the pass a series of tests; the Ojamajos pass them, but the issue of reconstructing their crystals remained. And in ''Dokkan'', the girls are faced with a dilemma: Either become full-fledged Witches and stay in the Witch World forever or return to being normal girls; they choose the latter...only to eventually become apprentices again in ''Ojamajo Doremi 16/17/18''.]]
364* ShoutOut: Pao is a young elephant ostracized by her herd for her large ears, which she can use to fly. [[WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}} Hmm...]]
365* ShownTheirWork:
366** In season 1 episode 31, Shino refers to the round tents in Mongolia (which is identified on a map) by their correct name, gers.
367** In episode 40 of ''Dokka~n'', the back of a postcard from Italy is briefly seen. It is filled with hand-written text, perfectly readable and in correct Italian. Whoever they consulted for this scene must have given a hand on ''Anime/AshitaNoNadja'' (the next series by the same staff), since a couple of letters in perfect Italian are seen there too.
368* ShrinkingViolet: Hazuki, given her shy tendencies. Marina is this as well.
369* SlidingScaleOFIdealismVsCynicism: A somewhat polarized case, in that bonds, kindness, dreams etc. are often portrayed idealistic, while larger problems with humanity lie on the cynical end. Notable examples:
370** Idealism - Bonds: Surely [[spoiler:leaving Hana at the end of ''Dokkan'' poses little problems for children growing up, right?]]
371** Idealism - Kindness: Episode 19 of ''S1'' had Hazuki get kidnapped. Instead of giving the moral of not talking to strangers, the kids are told that if they help the kidnappers get their dream jobs the right way, they'll begin to repent and come to their senses. Also in the light novels, when Hazuki receives continued bullying from school and social media, the girls dig into the culprit's true thoughts and fix the culprit's mindset with kindness. Don't expect this to work in real life.
372** Idealism - Dreams: ''Dokkan'' episode 24 has the group dressing up as super heroes and going around causing mischief in a misguided attempt at "heroics", even disrupting a shooting for "[[ShowWithinAShow Battle Rangers]]" and causing a severe deviance from the script.
373** Cynicism - Humanity: ''Dokkan'' episode 40 displays a somewhat pessimistic view on humanity with the indication that [[spoiler:one cannot be understood by society merely because she never ages, even if she hides her witch identity - which makes up a good reason for the apprentices' choice in the ''Dokkan'' ending]].
374* SlipknotPonytail: Doremi's {{odango}}s are surprisingly durable for their size... except when [[spoiler:her crystal shatters in the end of ''Sharp''.]]
375* TheSmartGuy: Female example in Hazuki, who is easily the smartest girl in the group and has solved a lot of intellectual puzzles throughout the series where Doremi and Aiko could not.
376* SpotlightStealingSquad:[[Administrivia/TropesAreTools This show basically uses this trope to develop the brand new witch apprentices of each season.]]
377* StockFootage: All transformations, spells, and a few other scenes for good measure. Can't be a magical girl show without recycled animation.
378* TagalongKid: Pop, from the first season to the very end.
379* TakenForGranite: Oyajide does this to the girls in ''Sharp'' episode 22 so as to get away after his duplicity has been uncovered. He tries again the next episode, but by then TheHighQueen has granted the girls [[MidSeasonUpgrade the Royal Patraine]], allowing them to NoSell his magic while curbstomping him.
380* ThemeNaming:
381** Almost all the witches have "Majo" (witch) attached to the beginning of their names. In the beginning of the series, you'll notice that are a few witches (Dela, Mota, and Motamota) who don't follow this naming convention, and it seems to have been restricted to Majo Rika and Majo Ruka only, as both of them were named after Majolica and Majorca respectively, illustrating their connections. Perhaps one of the writers thought the "majo" was supposed to be a title for a witch and subsequently added it on every single witch that was introduced from then on.
382** With the exception of Hehe and Baba, the fairies are all named after a piece of the Japanese [[{{Scales}} music scale]].
383** In the Italian dub, Hazuki, Aiko, and Onpu are named Melody, Symphony, and Lullaby respectively to match Doremi.
384* ThinkHappyThoughts: The way to destroy the six brambles of sadness and wake up [[spoiler:Majo Tourbillon]].
385* ThirdPersonPerson: Hana usually refers to herself in the third-person. She gets mocked for this by [[AlphaBitch Tamaki]].
386* ThreePlusTwo: The teams used to start off in threes with Doremi, Hazuki, and Aiko in the first season, with Pop as the [[TagalongKid Tagalong Kid]] (even though she still kind of is...) and when Onpu was not officially part of the group. {{Lampshaded}} by Onpu occasionally in talk segments of [=CDs=] and in ''Ojamajo Doremi #'', where she feels left out because they have been friends longer with each other than with her.
387* TitledAfterTheSong: Lots of episode titles in the English dub by 4Kids contained [[ShoutOut ShoutOuts]] to Western songs, as well as books and films. For starters, "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" is a song by Neil Diamond and Music/BarbraStreisand, "Sketches of Pain" is a song by Music/TearsForFears, "Train a Comin'" is a song by Music/JimiHendrix, and that's not even getting into the ones with a PunBasedTitle.
388* ToiletHumor:
389** In the first series, a {{Kaiju}} fanboy has a lot of ''"Gazamadon"'' merchandise and even a few original pieces, including a bank that releases coins by pooping it out. The girls are more than a little grossed out when they see that particular item.
390** In the stinger for a ''Dokkan'' episode, the girls are wondering where numerous beads came from. Then they see Pao-chan pooping them out and they end up grossed out.
391* ToiletTrainingPlot: Naisho episode 5 has Pop, after trying to get Hana-chan to use her potty, tries to switch bodies with her so that she can use it in her body. After [[spoiler: suffering numerous {{Potty Failure}}s while stuck with Hana's mind]], Pop learns that [[spoiler: toilet training takes a lot of time and patience, and isn't something that can happen in an instant by using magic]].
392%% * TokenBlackFriend: One of Momoko's American friends, Beth.
393* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Doremi ''loves'' her steak. Pity she [[ButtMonkey never gets any]]. Meanwhile, Aiko likes takoyaki (chocolate doodles in the 4kids dub), Hazuki likes chiffon cake, Onpu likes crepés, Momoko likes strawberry tarts, and Hana gets a SweetTooth for pudding to match Pop.
394* TragicOneShotCharacter: Nozomi in ''Na-i-sho''.
395* TransformationIsAFreeAction: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. It legitimately takes a lot of time to transform and use Magical Stage to get to Royal Patraine. Oyajide took advantage of this during ''Sharp'' when eluding the girls. Akatsuki wanted to be chivalrous and make the final fight fair during ''Sharp'' episode 46.
396* TransformationNameAnnouncement: ''"Pree-ty Wit-chi ''(character name)''-chi!"'' (In the dub, "Fa la de la dong ding, now I am a witchling!").
397* TransformationSequence: With a twist: In season one, the girls must complete their transformation before the music coming from their Tap ends. This is changed in subsequent seasons.
398* TransformationTrinket: Apprentice Tap (first season), Rhythm Tap (''Sharp''), Parara Tap (''Motto!''), Cologne Tap (''Dokkan!''), Puarin Compact (''Dokkan!'')
399* TranslatorMicrobes: Momoko's magic gives her a greater grasp of Japanese than normal; later, she uses the headset on her baker's outfit to translate her speech perfectly. Eventually, she learns enough that she doesn't need it any more.
400* UnexpectedlyDarkEpisode: Way more common than you think. Some episodes reveal things like [[spoiler: Doremi's mother contemplating suicide before she found out she was pregnant with Doremi, Aiko learning that her parent's divorce was caused by a miscarriage, Aiko being traumatized by her grandfather hitting her mother when her grandmother died, etc.]]''Dokkaan'' 40 and ''Naisho'' 4 are perhaps the most glaring departures from the show's comedic slice-of-life formula in terms of style, as both are very insular, character-based episodes that one would usually expect from adult psychological anime. Not because either episode contains any explicit content, but their themes about self-doubt and struggling maturity are more meant to be read between the lines.
401* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Hey! Aren't those girls flying around on broomsticks? [[SarcasmMode Seems pretty boring to me!]] This is taken apart in episode 50 of ''Series 1'' [[spoiler:when everyone notices and follows them to the Mahou-Dou and nearly [[ForcedTransformation turns them into Witch Frogs]].]]
402** This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in Comedy Theatre, where Doremi and Hazuki talk about the new troubles and boons that come with being a witch apprentice in the modern age.
403* UsedToBeASweetKid: Applied to Masaru Yada regarding his delinquent tendencies, though still is a nice person.
404* VisitByDivorcedDad: In this case, it's actually Aiko's ''mom'' that's making the visits, as Aiko is under her father's custody [[spoiler:since she made the choice to stay with him when she was originally going to live with her mother]].
405* VoluntaryShapeshifting:
406** The girls use their magic to transform into cute little animals a ''lot''.
407** Their fairies can transform into their respective owners when they need to go somewhere without arousing suspicion... but they retain their PokemonSpeak vocabulary.
408* WeirdnessCensor: Most people who would catch a glimpse of their magic typically write it off as a dream, a hallucination, or some other trick. The girls exploit this to help deter people when they help from behind the scenes.
409* WhamEpisode:
410** Episode 22 of ''Sharp''. [[spoiler:Up until then, it was just the girls trying to raise Hana. After this episode, they have to protect her from being captured and generally forces them to be on higher alert.]]
411** Episode 25: A [[NiceGuy nice young boy]] appears at the Mahou-Dou and takes an interest in Doremi. [[spoiler:He's Oyajide's accomplice and is just using Doremi to get closer to Hana.]]
412** Episode 47: A previous Queen reveals her presence and a desire to keep the [[ForcedTransformation Curse of Majo Gaeru]] alive by killing Hana. [[spoiler:She is doing this to make sure other Witches don't suffer as she did.]]
413** Episode 28 of ''Motto'': An incredibly out of left field episode which seems like a normal episode about Hana, until Majo Tourbillion shows up with the curse forest in tow and curses Hana to hate vegtables.
414** Episode 1 of ''Dokkan'': Hana becomes bored with Majo Kai and [[PlotRelevantAgeUp ages herself]] to Doremi's age, [[spoiler: destroying her pendant in the process.]]
415** Episode 30 of ''Dokkan'': The vines around the Previous Queen's Predecessor expand and begin casting curses. [[spoiler:One of them appears in the human world at the end of the episode.]]
416** Episode 43 of ''Dokkan'': [[spoiler:Vines have been revealed to be all over Misora and, quite likely, the world. And they were also capable of sprouting ''anywhere''.]]
417* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The epilogue shows Momoko back in New York with her old friends, Onpu giving autographs at a panel, Aiko living happily with her parents, Hana and her friends from kindergarten playing with Pao-chan, Hazuki out shopping with her mother and choosing an outfit of her own while declining the one her mother picked out for her, and Doremi confessing to a shadowed-out boy [[spoiler:who is later revealed to be Kotake in ''Ojamajo Doremi 16'']]. Done while playing the [[BookEnds the first season opening]] no less!
418* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The town that the show is based on, Misora City/Misora Town (DependingOnTheWriter), is a fictional location in the Kantou region of Japan. Many people suspect that it's based off of the real-life Misora Town in Otsu, but that's all the way in the ''Kansai'' region.
419* WhiteAndGreyMorality: Virtually everyone in this series is at least good in some way. The Ojamajos are unambiguously good albeit with some flaws, the BigBad is ultimately a WellIntentionedExtremist (as are the Wizards), and the {{Muggle}}s are typically nice and have redeeming qualities. The only characters who have shown any actual malice were either mentioned solely in a flashback or have [[CharacterDevelopment grown out]] of their JerkAss tendencies.
420* WhoWantsToLiveForever:
421** In Dokkan 40, Doremi befriends the witch Mirai Sakura living in the human world, who is [[spoiler:forced to constantly move around and part from the people she loves due to her long lifespan. Made even worse by leaving it ambiguous whether she does it to not be found out as a witch, or because she can't bear the pain of having to see them grow old and die before her or [[TakeAThirdOption both]].]]
422** A major part of the former Witch Queen's backstory is [[spoiler:her outliving her own son and seeing him pass away from old age right in front of her.]]
423* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Hazuki is deathly afraid of ghosts to the point that in a drama CD, she practically goes insane at Yamauchi's ghost story. Yada shares this with Hazuki, and Momoko later picks up this fear as well. All three have a [[MadnessMantra chant]] that they use to ward off the fear. It seldom works.
424--> Hazuki and/or Momoko: '''"Majo Rika! Majo Rika! Majo Rika! Majo Rika!"'''
425* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Pop Harukaze. So much so that most students in her class look up to her as a leader.
426* WizardingSchool: The girls have to learn how to use magic and pass a series of tests to be granted additional powers.
427* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The previous Witch Queen, who is villain for the second half of the series, is a tamer version of this trope (as she only tries to prevent interaction between humans and witches).
428* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: [[spoiler:Used right before the GrandFinale to help snap Doremi out of her HeroicBSOD.]]
429* WorldOfTechnicolorHair: Despite the realism this series has, the Ojamajos, along with several other characters, have hair colors that are definitively outrageous in terms of hair color. The Witches and Wizards have this too, but it's [[JustifiedTrope justified]] given their magical nature.
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