Magical DoReMi

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Magical DoReMi
Doremi (Dorie), Aiko (Mirabelle), and Hazuki (Reanne)
おジャ魔女どれみ
(Magical Doremi)
Genre Magical girl
TV anime
Directed by Takuya Igarashi, Junichi Sato
Studio Toei Animation
Network Japan TV Asahi
Chile Etc...TV, TVN
Original run February 7, 1999 – January 30, 2000
No. of episodes 51
Television ratings for Magical DoReMi
Australia Australia G 7NET
United States United States TV-Y 4KIDSTV (E/I)

Magical DoReMi (おジャ魔女どれみ Ojamajo Doremi (Bothersome Witch Doremi)?) is an anime series produced by Toei Animation. Magical DoReMi is the first of the Ojamajo Doremi series to be licensed and distributed in the United States. The series is the longest running "Magical girl" genre anime in Japan. 4Kids Entertainment has licensed the original show under the title Magical DoReMi and aired on 4Kids TV from September 10, 2005. Other licensed titles that do not have confirmed U.S. English names are Ojamajo Doremi ♯, Mōtto! Ojamajo Doremi and Ojamajo Doremi Dokkān. Toei Animation's website refers to them as Magical Doremi #, Mo-tto Magical Doremi, and Magical Doremi Dokka-n in English.

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[edit] Story

Dorie Goodwyn (Doremi Harukaze in the Japanese version) is a young schoolgirl who has a crush on Robbie (Igarashi, Grade 6 student in Football club), a fact that her younger sister Caitlyn (Poppu) likes to tease her about. She also has some kind of rivalry with her classmate, Todd (Tetsuya Kotake). Having no luck and clumsy, Dorie complains often that she is "the unluckiest pretty girl in the whole world." One day, she visits the mysterious old shop The Rusty Broom (Makihatayama no Maho-do). At the shop, she meets an old woman who looks like a storybook witch, and she instinctively shouts that she is a witch. When witches are discovered they are punished because of the Curse of Majogaeru. To Dorie's surprise, the old woman transforms into a small green blob. The old woman's name is Patina (Majorika), and because of Dorie she is now a witch blob (majogaeru), who is not powerful enough to return to her human form after transforming.

Dorie must now become a powerful witch herself in order to help return Patina to her human form. Dorie is granted a Dream Spinner (magical tap in the Japanese version) which is used to transform her into her witch costume. The tap is installed in the chest of the clothes after the transformation and it produces her witch's wand when tapped again. Her training as a witch's apprentice is much more demanding than she had expected and her wand (named Wandaler in English version and "Poron" in Japanese version) requires the use of many spell drops (magic spheres in the Japanese version) to use magic. On top of this, Dorie has to keep her identity as an apprentice a secret or she will suffer the same blobby fate as Patina. However, her friends, Reanne Griffith (Hazuki Fujiwara) and Mirabelle Haywood (Aiko Senoo) quickly discover this secret. Because of this, they are able to become apprentices themselves. Through their training, they become much closer and co-operate by redecorating and managing The Dusty Broom successfully to buy magical spheres so that they may train and take exams to become witches and dispel Patina's cursed fate. When an individual girl does not have enough power, they also co-operate by using Perfect Harmony to cast stronger magic.

Later in the series, they meet another girl, Ellie Craft (Onpu Segawa), a famous actress and singer in Japan, who is also a witch. Ellie is the witch apprentice of Patina's arch-rival, Petunia (Majoruka). Though at first they do not get along very well, at the end of the series they become friends.

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[edit] English adaptions

In Magical DoReMi there have been many adaptions made to suit the English speaking audience. Among the changes are the changing of characters' names, music changes, editing of the animation in the episodes, and the removal of certain scenes in episodes. This dub has been mostly marketed towards small children and has gained fans from various age groups.

[edit] Cast

Main article List of characters from Ojamajo Doremi
Cast of Magical DoReMi [1]
Dorie Goodwin Reanne Griffith Mirabelle Haywood

[edit] Japanese seiyu

Japanese
Doremi Harukaze Chiemi Chiba
Hazuki Fujiwara Tomoko Akiya
Aiko Senoo Yuki Matsuoka
Onpu Segawa Rumi Shishido
Poppu Harukaze Sawa Ishige[2]
Majorika Naomi Nagasawa
Lala Megumi Takamura
Majoruka Mayumi Shou


[edit] English voice actors

The newest main character in the English adaption is Ellie Craft
The newest main character in the English adaption is Ellie Craft

[edit] Others credited

[edit] References

  1. ^ The Uniforms in the picture are from Ojamajo Doremi Dokkan.
  2. ^ Poppu's voice was performed by Sawa Ishige except one episode. In episode 27, Yuka Shino voiced this role.

[edit] External links

English
Japanese



Ojamajo Doremi series
- 1st Story arc -

Magical DoReMi
- 2nd Story arc -

Ojamajo Doremi # - Ojamajo Doremi # Movie
- 3rd Story arc -

  Mo~tto! Ojamajo Doremi - Mo~tto! Ojamajo Doremi Movie  
Ojamajo Doremi Na-i-sho
- 4th Story arc -

Ojamajo Doremi DOKKA~N
List of characters from Ojamajo Doremi
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