Line #42 Trivia/OjamajoDoremi


1	* ActingForTwo: Nami Miyahara voices both Momoko ''and'' Masaru.
2	* ActorSharedBackground:
3	** Creator/RumiShishido, who voices Onpu Segawa, was an IdolSinger like Onpu, and both also had mothers that pushed them into that career. Shishido even says Onpu's personality is similar to hers, and that, like Onpu in ''Ojamajo Doremi 16'', she also had trouble finding more mature roles due to people type-casting her Onpu voice as more appropriate for kid-friendly shows.
4	** Creator/NamiMiyahara, who voices Momoko, has a similar background to Momoko in that she went to live abroad with her family at a young age and became fluent in English (though the difference is that Miyahara lived in Austria instead of the US).
5	* AnimeFirst: The manga series that came about only covered a small amount of the anime and changed several things.
6	* {{Cancellation}}: In the United States, ''Magical [=DoReMi=]'' was taken off air from low ratings after being on the channel for only ''half a year''. Part of it may be related to ''Magical [=DoReMi=]'' airing at 7:30 AM every Saturday (a time where ''no one'' would actually want to get up to watch the show), but the sad truth was, considering the state of non-cable children's programming at the time, the show was never was going to be popular. This is partially due to the United States' lack of interest in magical girl shows and also because children's television blocks became unpopular in the late 90s. By the mid-2000s, 4Kids TV was still one of the only few non-cable cartoon blocks still struggling to stay alive. The remainder of the series was then put on 4Kids' website via streaming. There was also a planned second wave of toy sets for the second half of the show, some of which leaked Oyajide and Onpu's names, but never came to fruition because of the flop.
7	* CelebrityVoiceActor:
8	** In the Mexican Spanish dub, Doremi is voiced by the Mexican soap opera actress Vanessa Acosta. This was a pretty unusual casting move for a Mexican actor, since Mexican Spanish dubs for anime series never use famous actors compared with other dubs from other kinds of stuff (like WesternAnimation, Disney movies, etc.)
9	** Tomoyo Harada, a pop idol from TheEighties turned actress, voiced Mirai Sakura in episode 40 of ''Dokkan''.
10	* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The anime is known as ''Magical Doremi'' in numerous other dubs, as the word ''"ojamajo"'' is an untranslatable pun on the words ''"Ojama"'' (something/someone who gets in the way and is useless) and ''"Majo"'' (a witch). 4Kids went a step further by calling it ''Magical [=DoReMi=]," changing the meaning of the title from a description of the main character into a combined pun of the first two letters of the new names they gave the main characters: '''Do'''rie, '''Re'''anne and '''Mi'''rabelle.
11	* CrossdressingVoices:
12	** Many of the male classmates are voiced by women, with the exception of Nobuaki Yamauchi, Takurou Hagiwara, Jun Sato, and Susumu Yanagita.
13	** Akatsuki is voiced by Tomo Saeki, Fujio by Creator/MamikoNoto, Leon by Creator/MayumiYamaguchi, and Tooru by Kazumi Okazuki, all of whom are female.
14	* TheDanza:
15	** Igarashi has the same surname as the director of the show, Takuya Igarashi.
16	** Miss Seki has the same surname as the producer of the show, Hiromi Seki.
17	** Maki Takahashi, Igarashi's girlfriend, is named after Maki Takahashi, a sales representative of Bandai in charge of the show's toy line.
18	* DuelingDubs:
19	** Did you know that there were ''two'' English dubs before 4Kids licensed ''Doremi''? Creator/TheOceanGroup dubbed the PilotEpisode when Toei Animation attempted to launch the series for North American markets in 2000. There was also an English dub for Singapore in 2004.
20	** ''Ojamajo Doremi'' received two different dubs in Spanish: one for Latin American audiences, and the other for Spanish audiences.
21	** It also received two Chinese dubs: one in Mandarin Chinese for Taiwan, and the other in Cantonese for Hong Kong.
22	** Not to mention it also received two European Portuguese dubs: one made by Santa Claus Audiovisual, aired on Canal Panda, which uses the main characters' names based on the German and Mexican Spanish dubs, and the other made by PSB, aired on 2: (currently known as RTP 2), which uses the original main characters' names in Japanese.
23	* DuelingWorks: ''Majo Minarai wo Sagashite'', the film's 20th anniversary movie, was in a duel with another movie based on a Toei Animation magical girl series, ''Anime/SailorMoonEternal''. However, that film had a relatively weak performance compared to that of ''Majo Minarai wo Sagashite'' (''Sailor Moon'' opened at #9, while ''Majo Minarai'' opened at #4). In addition, ''Majo Minarai wo Sagashite'' won the Best Animation Film Award at the 75th Mainichi Film Awards.
24	* GodCreatedCanonForeigner: Majo Rhythm, who only appears in the [[VisualNovel PC game]] ''Naisho no Mahou''.
25	* HeAlsoDid:
26	** Yoshihiko Umakoshi, the series character designer, also did the character designs for ''Anime/CasshernSins'', a show that is largely different in terms of storytelling and genre with ''Ojamajo Doremi''. He would later go on to work on two more Toei Animation shows, ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'' (which seems to take several cues from ''Doremi'', especially when it comes to stylistic choices and inspirations for certain characters) and ''Anime/SaintSeiyaOmega'', before working as character designer for the anime adaptation of Manga/MyHeroAcademia.
27	** Singer/songwriter Music/BreeSharp worked as a writer for the English dub.
28	** The sound engineer, Creator/SuzanneGoldish, would also go on to direct a few anime dubs with the L.A-based Creator/{{Studiopolis}}, including ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' (episodes 268-366), ''Anime/{{K}}'', ''Anime/KabaneriOfTheIronFortress'', ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'', and ''Manga/SailorMoon'' (2014 re-dub).
29	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes:
30	** 4Kids has not released anything past the first series. In addition, up until the late 2010s when Toei Animation re-released the series on Blu-ray, it was hard to access the show through buying the official home releases, especially when the majority of the original Japanese DVD sets are out of print.
31	*** The Singaporean English dub by Voiceovers Unlimited from 2004 is completely lost. It aired on Channel i before [[ScrewedByTheNetwork being taken off the schedule]] just a few months later, only for Channel i itself to [[NetworkDeath shut down]] a few months after that. No footage exists on the internet, and not much is known about the dub. One can only hope that someone recorded the episodes as they aired.
32	** There was once a Portuguese dub in Canal Panda. If you didn't see it while it was being shown on TV, you have lost it forever. Even finding the show from people who did record it is nigh-impossible on the internet. Only some random episodes can be found from this dub.
33	* MissingEpisode: Episode 30 ("I Want to See a Ghost!") from the first season was cut in the English dub for unknown reasons.
34	* NoExportForYou: Only the first series made it to the US, and it doesn't seem like the other series, films, and other parts of the franchise will make it (and on the off-chance they do, it's an almost certain fact that 4Kids won't be handling them since Toei cut off all ties with them due to ''Manga/OnePiece'').
35	* NonSingingVoice: The Italian dub does it in Season 2; creepily so, having four little girls singing with the same, adult voice. Averted in later seasons, and it's better like that since Creator/EmanuelaPacotto, Onpu's Italian VA, is an ''amazing'' singer (she also did [[Manga/ShugoChara Utau Hoshina]] and [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Twilight Sparkle]], always singing in her voice).
36	* TheOtherDarrin:
37	** Yuka Shino filled in for Creator/SawaIshige in episode 27 of the first series.
38	** Oyajide was originally voiced by Ginzo Matsuo until his death in the middle of ''Motto'', causing him to be replaced by Nobuaki Kanemitsu.
39	** Creator/AiOrikasa voices Ms. Yuki in the ''Traful x Ojamajo Doremi Web Movie'' due to Creator/YukaImai having retired from voice acting.
40	* PopCultureUrbanLegends: Even though ''Ojamajo Doremi'' hasn't been released past the first season in the United States, many websites (through user submissions) reported Momoko's dub name as Anna Robinson, even though nothing has been said.
41	** Prior to information on the Ocean pilot dub of the anime being revealed, there were rumors of a dub of the anime by Cloverway that dubbed and aired two seasons (even more episodes dubbed than the 4Kids dub) in Australia before being banned for the sexual situations that occured in later seasons.
42	* PostScriptSeason: Every series after ''S1'' could be considered this. ''Sharp'' especially since it [[RecycledScript reuses a few plot elements and points]].
43	* RealLifeRelative: In the Mexican Spanish dub, Doremi and her mother Haruka (voiced in Spanish by Vanessa Acosta and Dulce Maria Romay respectively) are daughter and mother in RealLife.
44	* RecycledScript: The {{Post Script Season}}s all recycle the same formula set up by the first season. In every season, the main characters have to pass a series of tests to stay as witch apprentices -- in ''Sharp'', they had to help Hana pass her baby exams as a condition to being witches; in ''Motto'', they had to pass Patissier exams to earn their apprenticeship back; in ''Dokkan'', they have to help Hana pass her witch exams.
45	** In the first episode, Doremi envisioned herself as a Witch Frog; during an early episode of ''Dokkan'', Hana did the same thing.
46	** Doremi's actions caused Dodo to fly away in tears during ''S1''; in ''Sharp'', Doremi's actions caused her to leave again, albeit this time in a huff.
47	* ReferencedBy: [[ReferencedBy/OjamajoDoremi Has its own page]].
48	* ScrewedByTheMerchandise: Another reason why ''Magical [=DoReMi=]'' failed in the United States was because the toys (important for a MerchandiseDriven franchise!) were met with disappointing sales, especially when compared to the millions made in Japan during the original run. It was to the point where a planned [[http://web.archive.org/web/20060209082127/http://www.toywiz.com/magicaldoremi.html second wave of toys]] was ultimately cancelled.
49	* TranslationCorrection: In episode 35, the sign on the women's restroom originally read "Lady's." The English dub corrects it to its grammatically correct term, "Ladies."
50	* TroubledProduction: As if it was not enough that the European Spanish dub of the third season had a tight work schedule, their dub studio burned down in midst of the project, with its inevitable budget cuts and delays. This is the reason why a couple of in-universe songs by Momoko and Onpu from that season were left in the original Japanese, instead of being re-recorded in Spanish as in the rest of the series.
51	* UnfinishedDub:
52	** In the United States, only the first season was dubbed. Some of the countries that received dubs up to season 4 didn't get season 5, ''Na-i-sho''. Many countries only received dubs for the first two seasons.
53	** The European Portuguese dub made by PSB only covered the first season.
54	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
55	** Main character Doremi was originally going to be called Onpu, with the name Doremi initially planned to be given to her younger sister Pop. But a trademark dispute led to a change of plan, which resulted in the characters' final names and Onpu becoming a rival character.
56	** Doremi was originally designed with double ponytails before ending up with her double chignon hairstyle. Hana went through several revisions, including outfits that sported a dress instead of shorts, and different hairstyles.
57	** In the United States, there was supposed to be a second wave of toy releases to accompany the second half of the first season. Some of them leaked {{Dub Name Change}}s for Onpu and Oyajide before they were officially revealed. However, because the series flopped, the toy sets were never released.
58	** ''Ojamajo Doremi Na-i-sho'' was originally going to be a direct-to-DVD OriginalVideoAnimation. However, it was turned into a fifth television series that aired on [=Sky PerfecTV=] instead of its usual spot on TV Asahi, which was then occupied by ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure''.
59	** ''Looking for Magical Doremi'', the 20th anniversary film, was originally going to be about Doremi as an adult experiencing a "miracle" through a time paradox. Midori Kuriyama himself stated that it was going to be about Doremi as a 20-year-old trying to look for the time capsule she and her friends buried during their elementary school graduation. However, when Junichi Sato pitched the idea to Yoshihiko Umakoshi, Umakoshi voiced concerns that since Doremi and her classmates would be the same age, this would alienate some viewers who were not in their generation or weren't the same age. The staff also decided that they wanted to appeal to a more general audience than just ''Ojamajo Doremi'' fans and avoid a ContinuityLockout. This led the staff to create Sora, Mire, and Reika, while treating ''Ojamajo Doremi'' as a ShowWithinAShow.
60	* Creator/ChiemiChiba, Tomoko Akiya, Naomi Nagasawa, and Megumi Takamura originally auditioned for the role of Pop. Along with Creator/SawaIshige and Creator/RumiShishido, Nagasawa and Takamura also auditioned for Doremi as well.

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