History Manga / Doraemon

[[caption-width-right:350:Front and center: Doraemon; counterclockwise from top left: Nobita, Dorami, Shizuka, Suneo, and Gian.]]

For a list of ''Doraemon'' episodes, see its recap page [[Recap/{{Doraemon}} here]]. For a list of movies and other adaptations, see the Anime/DoraemonFilmSeries page.

** Sumire Hoshino, an artist that often appears in the series, is the grown-up version of Perman 3, one of ''Manga/{{Perman}}'''s protagonists. There's even an episode dealing with Sumire telling Doraemon and Nobita about her faraway lover. Sumire never tells the name of his lover, but there is a picture of Mitsuo Suwa, the original Perman and its main protagonist, on her pendant. Mitsuo was sent to Birdman's headquarter to be a full-fledged member of the galactic peacekeeping organization at the end of ''Perman''.

* AdaptationalKarma: In ''The Truthbeaker'', Nobita lies to his friends about his dad being able to perform amazing feats, such as smashing a boulder with his bare hands, so Doraemon him gives a gadget that turns all of his lies into truths. In the manga and 1979 anime, Nobita suffers no consequences from this, and even makes his dad buy a telescope and bike for him ([[BrickJoke this is a callback to the beginning of the story.]] When Nobita is about to ask his dad to smash a boulder, his dad assumes that he's going to ask him for a bike or telescope). In the 2005 anime, after saying that his dad is a super hero, Nobita says that his his dad has [[ExactWords zero tolerance for those who deceive others.]] His dad then [[HoistByHisOwnPetard flies towards him and punches him in the face, ending the episode.]]

** In the 2005 series' episode''Shizuka-chan Disappeared!?'', Nora's grudge against humans is because his owner abandoned him in a box in the park when he was young.

* {{CharacterCatchphrase}}:

** In the 2005 series' episode "Shizuka-chan Disappeared!?", Nora's grudge against humans is because his owner abandoned him in a box in the park when he was young.

* AdBreakDoubleTake: There are two in the American English episode "Experimental Dream Schemes". The first is during Noby's pirate dream when Big G appears as a pirate to attack Noby's pirate ship, and the second is when Doraemon warns Noby that he's broken the Dreamplayer and can't wake up from his dream because of it. Ironically, neither instance actually has a commercial break placed in-between them.
* AdaptationExpansion: Many episodes from the anime that are adapted from the manga are extended to reach a conclusion or give good moral to the story. A notable one is "Mind Reading Helmet" which never reached conclusion in the original manga.

* AdaptationalKarma: In "The Truthbeaker", Nobita lies to his friends about his dad being able to perform amazing feats, such as smashing a boulder with his bare hands, so Doraemon him gives a gadget that turns all of his lies into truths. In the manga and 1979 anime, Nobita suffers no consequences from this, and even makes his dad buy a telescope and bike for him ([[BrickJoke this is a callback to the beginning of the story.]] When Nobita is about to ask his dad to smash a boulder, his dad assumes that he's going to ask him for a bike or telescope). In the 2005 anime, after saying that his dad is a super hero, Nobita says that his his dad has [[ExactWords zero tolerance for those who deceive others.]] His dad then [[HoistByHisOwnPetard flies towards him and punches him in the face, ending the episode.]]

* AgelessBirthdayEpisode: Sue's age is never given in "Worst Birthday Ever".

* AnimationAgeGhetto: In "Defender of Justice: Masked Me!", Noby is a fan of the superhero Masked Me, and Doraemon thinks that he's too old to watch kids' shows. [[invoked]]
* AnimationBump: Many late 1979 anime episodes saw a huge bump in animations after switching to digital animation in the early 2000s. The episode 490 of the 2005 anime ("The Old Man and the Elephant" in particular) also saw a nice increase in animation quality. Along with updated art direction that starts with this episode.

** Invoked in "Fossil Fools", which is about Noby and Doraemon making impossible fossils and pretending they really found them.
** Sewashi plans at the start of the series about changing Nobita's life and "Transportation Logic" clearly is not possible. To elaborate; by changing the past and having Nobita marries Shizuka, Sewashi will cease to exist due to the fact that the Sewashi who is Jaiko's great-grandson and the one who is Shizuka's great-grandson is '''not''' the same person due to genetic differences. Unless of course, [[EpilepticTrees Nobita never married Jaiko in the first place]].
* AttackReflector: In the episode "The Human Piggy Bank", when Nobita wants to get his money out of the Hypnotizing Bank, which hypnotizes anyone who comes near it, he uses a mirror to make it hypnotize itself.
* AudibleGleam: In "Experimental Dream Schemes", at the beginning of Noby's "Chase the Sun" dream, when Sue, Big G, and Sneech find Noby, his mouth [[TwinkleSmile twinkles]] and has an audible gleam.

* AuthorAvatar: "Funyako Funyao" from the episode "Ayushi! Lion Mask" although subverted that the kind of manga he authored is totally different (see The Chris Carter effect below) compared to Doraemon itself.

* BaitAndSwitch: In "Sequence Spray", Noby uses the Sequence Spray on a photo of Sue and Ace. The resulting scene shown in the picture makes it look like they're about to kiss, until Noby uses the Sequence Spray again to reveal that Ace just noticed a leaf in Sue's hair.
* BalloonBelly: In the reboot's take on the classic "Memory Bread" story, Noby uses the Bread slices to copy the notes taken for homework. This backfires when he decides to have a snack in-between while studying with Shizuka, which makes him feel sick when he tries to eat another slice of Memory Bread. It doesn't help that Noby's mom made a special dinner with a lot of shrimp, which Noby eats anyway, and he ends up so stuffed that he's ready to explode.

* BananaPeel: At the end of the episode "The Not So Lucky, Lucky Cards!", the person who winds up with the deck of cards, which now consists of only the joker card, ends up slipping on a banana peel and falling into a sewer.

* BigBallOfViolence: In "The Action Planner", the Action Planner kicks up a big cloud of dust when he attacks Doraemon while trying to get him to stick to Noby's schedule.

* ABirthdayNotABreak: The episode "Shizuka-chan Disappeared?!" is about Shizuka celebrating a birthday that gets cut short when she drinks one of the Transformation Drinks that Nobita gave her by accident, gets turned into a cat, is mistaken for a stray, and is kicked out of the house, forcing Doraemon and friends to go find her.

* BlushSticker: The cloud creatures from the episode "My Own Golden Cloud" have permanent blush stickers.

* {{Catchphrase}}:
** Shizuka has "Nobita-san no ecchi!" for whenever Nobita sees her in the bath or flips her skirt.

* ChickMagnet: Doraemon, who managed to capture many cats' hearts, Dekisugi, Nobita, Suneo during his (VERY) brief stint as a pop star (episode "The Rich Kid Mambo"), Miyoko and possibly Riruru. Doranichov and Wang Dora are also this, with the latter tending to get beat up by Mimiko.

* ClassicalAntihero: Nobita is a total loser, a crybaby, and a lazy bum who prefers using tools to cheat than trying to improve himself, but he is naturally a kid with a gentle heart who can be brave and reliable when he needs to.

** One of the 2005 anime's notable features. An example is that Nobita starts off as plain (when he compared himself to Dekisugi). In 2005? [[http://doraemon.wikia.com/wiki/File:Nobitaeyes.png He's revealed to have]] [[WhatBeautifulEyes quite nice eyes]] under that glass.
** Shizuka [[https://gabriel-gabdiel.tumblr.com/post/129208022373/doraemons-shizuka-minamoto-through-the-years starts off]] as kinda cute in the original series, but later becomes much prettier (even more so in the 2005 anime).
** To make his ChickMagnet status more justified, Dekisugi is more handsome in the 2005 anime (he has a better haircut) compared to his character design in the 1979 anime where he was just as plain-looking as Nobita.

* ChickMagnet: Doraemon who managed to capture many cats' hearts, Dekisugi, Nobita in the movie for Creme, Suneo during his (VERY) brief stint as a pop star (episode "The Rich Kid Mambo"), Miyoko and possibly Riruru. Doranichov and finally Wang Dora who tends to get beat up by Mimiko.

->''"as long as you're here, you bring us happiness!"''

* EdutainmentGame: Several for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor, and several for the Sega Pico and Advanced Pico Beena.

* FearIsNormal: The titular robot tend to go RummageFail on his 4-dimensional Pocket whenever he's panicking when the situation suddenly becomes tense or dangerous.

* TheKiddieRide: Unavoidable. All made by [[Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment Namco Bandai]] under the Banpresto brand, there's a Doraemon time machine ride with an interactive screen and buttons (actually, there are two versions of the time machine ride- the one with the interactive screen mentioned, and an older, smaller version of the ride that lacks the screen), a Giant Doraemon that fits two kids and move in a spinning motion (also having an interactive screen and buttons), a Doraemon pirate ship (again, with an interactive screen and buttons), one with Doraemon sitting on a cloud with the rider, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and a fire engine with Doraemon on it]]. Again, sadly, officially they're NoExportForYou and can only be found in Japan, although like other Japanese arcade machines they've been unofficially exported to other Asian countries via grey-market imports. Aside from that, however, there are also dozens of Chinese-made unlicensed knockoffs which are sadly, much more prevalent.

->''"This is nice, I wish I could do that too,''"
->''"I have many dreams like this, but''"
->''"Every single one of them,''"
->''"He'll make them all come true''"
->''"With the help of his mysterious pocket.''"
->''"I want to fly freely in the sky!''"
->''"(Here! The Takecopter!)''"
->''"Ah! Ah! Ah! I love you so, Doraemon!''"
-->-- The opening theme of the series in 1979 and from 1981-2005

->''"Hey there! My name is Doraemon! I'm a super-sized, gizmo-ized, gadget cat from the future! I get sent back in time to take care of this guy, Noby, but he's a mess! And that's where I come in! To save the day with an amazing invention from my fourth-dimensional secret gadget pocket! But things never turn out as planned! Get ready, 'cause here we go again!"''
-->-- '''Doraemon''' explains the premise in the ''Doraemon: Gadget Cat from the Future'' opening

After a brief and unpopular animated series in 1973 by Creator/NipponTelevision, Doraemon remained fairly exclusive in manga form until 1979 when a newly formed animation studio, Creator/ShinEiAnimation (which was eventually purchased by Creator/TVAsahi) produced an anime series of Doraemon. This series became incredibly popular and ended with 1,787 episodes on March 25, 2005. Celebrating the anniversary of the franchise, a new Doraemon series began airing on TV Asahi on April 15, 2005, with new voice actors and staff, and updated character designs.

Even though it's not really popular in certain western countries (such as the United States of America and Canada, which is significant as far as American-dominated websites like Website/TVTropes are concerned), ''Doraemon'' is a very influential series, particularly in the east and the non-English speaking west. For example, in 2002, Doraemon was featured along with Aung San Suu Kyi and Hamid Karzai as one of the 22 heroes featured in a special edition of Time Magazine on Asian Heroes. In a truly surreal moment, ''Doraemon'' has been designated by the RealLife Prime Minister of Japan as the Ambassador between the cartoon world and Japan, with the ceremony including a to-scale model of Doraemon.

The first attempt at an English dub of the anime came in the mid-1980s with an adaptation titled ''The Adventures of Albert and Sidney''[[note]]Doraemon and Nobita, respectively[[/note]], produced in Montreal by [[Creator/CookieJarEntertainment Cinar Films]]; this dub never aired in the U.S. but became quite popular in Barbados. The gadget cat would have to wait nearly three decades more for his American TV premiere. In 2014, it was announced that Creator/DisneyXD would air an English dub, licensed by Creator/VizMedia and produced by Creator/BangZoomEntertainment, of Doraemon five days a week in the USA market as part of a block for elementary-aged children. And thus, ''Doraemon'' made a premiere on American television[[note]]His first appearance ''at all'' was a limited screening of ''[[Manga/DoraemonNobitasDinosaur Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006]]''[[/note]] after three decades of trying so. Despite achieving cult status, the dub's ratings massively declined and were put on indefinite hiatus after two seasons. Nevertheless, while this dub went more or less unnoticed in the U.S., it was big news in Japan - so much so that the edited American episodes were actually dubbed ''back'' into Japanese "as is" and aired on Japan's Disney Channel. A different English dub commissioned by LUK Internacional S.A. (who license Doraemon in Spain and Europe) - still using the American names for the characters, but with different voice actors from the US version, the original music intact and scripts closer to the originals - aired on Disney XD UK. In 2019, Disney Channel India began airing their own English dub that unfortunately wound up being short-lived.

** 'Go! Go! Nobitaman' is a {{Homage}} to Franchise/{{Superman}}, in which Nobita and co. fight off a powerful CrimeSyndicate on another planet inhabited with HumanAliens with their newly gained SuperStrength, NighInvulnerability, and [[InASingleBound jumping ability]] that [[NotQuiteFlight looks almost like]] {{Flight}}. These abilities emerge as the planet has much less gravity than Earth. Nobita even wears a blue-and-red costume with a cape and a big 'N' on the chest and calls himself Nobitaman during the final fight.

* WhatIf: Used with the gadget, the "What if? Box". It's a telephone booth which user can say a "what if" scenario and it will change the world to matches their description. (Do [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]] and Film/BillAndTed know about this?)