Referenced By / Doraemon

Anime and Manga

• The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: Upon meeting Kusuri for the first time, Rentarou compares her "human magnetization" drug to something out of Doraemon.
  • Kusuri compares the Imagine Spot of a giant Shizuka in Chapter 76 as something out of "Nobita's Little Star Wars".
  • In Momiji's introductory chapter, she compares her full name to that of Nobi Nobita. Upon meeting her, the crew also asks if her father's name is Momisuke, mirroring Nobita's father Nobisuke.
• Carnival Phantasm: Grail-kun is a parody of Doraemon.
• Great Teacher Onizuka have one episode where Onizuka dresses up as Doraemon, complete with covering his hands in spheres. While commenting that "his only best friend is Nobita now."
• Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories: Sora mentions the Dokodemo Door when the party enters a door in Castle Oblivion and exits in Traverse Town.
• Chibi Maruko-chan has Doraemon comics in her bookshelf.
• Chobits have the protagonist Hideki trying to purchase one of the titular Chobits before realizing their price, and then lamenting aloud that "This never happened in Doraemon!"
• Kochikame have a Doraemon wind-up toy appearing at one point, Which takes up a whole panel in said manga.
• As revealed on the back cover, the main character of the series appears alongside the Dr. Slump and Kinnikuman characters in the 1989 doujinshi novel The Sun Fell in Penguin Village (ペンギン村に陽は落ちて).
• Time Stop Hero: In Chapter 18, Kuzuno Sekai references the treasure hunt from Doraemon Chapter 234 by saying, "Dig under the lone cedar gazed upon by a skull."
• Ultraman Kids, a Spinoff Babies anime based on the Ultra Series, have Alien Baltan and Alien Guts as a pair of school bullies and blatant Captain Ersatzes to Gian and Suneo — the former being a huge brute who pushes everyone, including his sidekick, around, and the latter being the oft-abused sidekick who keeps tagging behind his boss. Meanwhile, there's also a whole new character, a Nice Girl named Piko who is based on Shizuka, right down to her personality, attitude, hairstyle, and being One of the Boys.

Asian Animation

• In Season 7 episode 15 of the Chinese animated series Happy Heroes, a few cats meant to be Garfield, Hello Kitty, and Doraemon are all turned down a potential job as Cat Planet recruits. The Doraemon lookalike in particular is asked "How can you hear orders without ears?" by the recruiter Fat Tiger, a spoof on how Doraemon doesn't have ears because a mouse ate them.
• In Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: The Great Rescue episode 36, Er Bao draws a picture in the dirt that looks like Doraemon.

Comic Strips / 4-panel

• Doraemon series was often referenced in Malaysian comics, unsurprisingly considering the series' popularity in that country.
  • Doraemon was seen in a panel as an cameo in the sixth chapter of volume 77 of the Malaysian comic series Profession (Chinese: 职业人气王 Zhíyè rénqì wáng).
  • In the Malaysian comic Little Monitor (Chinese: 小班长 Xiǎo bānzhǎng) volume 4 chapter "Jealous Pluton", the main character is watching Doraemon and Nobita on television in an panel at the beginning of the chapter.◊ They are shown attacking something with the Air Cannon gadget.
  • One Lawak Kampus strip have the one of the main characters, Aditas, getting punished to listening a music record CD. The singer in the CD? Gian.
• Outside of Japan, in Asian countries, bootlegs of the series were made, unsuprisingly considering the series' popularity in the region, through some of the bootlegs were criticized by internet users as being a ripoff of the Doraemon series. One of the bootlegs including the Vietnamese comic Dếrôbốt nhân tài ảo thuật.

Film — Live Action

• Demon of the Lute: Anachronisms aside due to Rule of Funny (the movie is a wuxia Affectionate Parody set in the Ming Dynasty), the film's Tag Along Kid is nicknamed Doraemon, and is seen carrying a Doraemon toy with him at all times.

Live-Action Series

• At the beginning of a episode of the Malaysian series Fairy Tale Sky (童话的天空), you can see a big Doraemon plushie doll in a girl's bedroom alongside some Garfield plushies. In a part of the episode, she also reads an old Hong Kong Chinese translation of the Doraemon manga (as revealed in the cover if one can looks closely), where the main character is named Ding Dang (叮当).

Webcomics

• Square Root of Minus Garfield: "June 19, 2014 strip but something happens" has Garfield change the year on the calendar, only to be replaced with two robots who looks like Doraemon from the chapter "The 100 Years Later Appendix". As for Garfield, he turned into a unknown dot outside the panel.

Web Videos

• CLW Entertainment, Thomas Blue, and Rawlou Films have fandubs.
• MoniRobo: In this story, the protagonist and antagonist strongly resemble Shizuka and Suneo.

Video Games

• One of the mons in Robopon, Doraepon, is based on Doraemon.
• Troublemaker is set in a school where you beat up plenty of bullies. One of them just happens to be named Gian, and he claims himself to be an anime enthusiast.
• Touhou Yumejikuu ~ Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream has the winner of the tournament getting their wish granted after defeating the Final Boss, with one note that the wish is not beyond her power as a human. One character in this particular game calls the Final Boss as "Dora_mon" after receiving a robot maid from her as a prize for beating her and showing that magic really exist.