Ojamajo Doremi

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Ojamajo Doremi

Cover of the first DVD video volume
おジャ魔女どれみ
(Ojamajo Doremi)
Genre Magical girl, Comedy, Tragedy, Slice of Life
Anime television series
Directed by Junichi Sato
Takuya Igarashi
Written by Takashi Yamada
Studio Toei Animation
Licensed by 4Kids Entertainment (2005-2008)
Network TV Asahi (1999-2000)
Animax
English network
4Kids TV (2005-2008)
Original run February 7, 1999 – January 30, 2000
Episodes 51
Anime television series
Ojamajo Doremi #
Directed by Shigeyasu Yamauchi
Takuya Igarashi
Written by Takashi Yamada
Studio Toei Animation
Network TV Asahi (2000-2001)
Animax
Original run February 6, 2000 – January 28, 2001
Episodes 49
Anime film
Ojamajo Doremi #: The Movie
Directed by Takuya Igarashi
Written by Takashi Yamada
Music by Keiichi Oku
Studio Toei Animation
Released July 8, 2000
Runtime 30 minutes
Manga
Written by Izumi Todo
Illustrated by Shizue Takanashi
Published by Kodansha
Demographic Shōjo
Magazine Nakayoshi
Original run October 2000 – December 2000
Volumes 3
Anime television series
Mo~tto! Ojamajo Doremi
Directed by Takuya Igarashi
Written by Takashi Yamada
Studio Toei Animation
Network TV Asahi (2001-2002)
Animax
Original run February 4, 2001 – January 27, 2002
Episodes 50
Anime film
Motto! Ojamajo Doremi: Secret of the Frog Stone
Directed by Shigeyasu Yamauchi
Written by Midori Kuriyama
Music by Keichi Oku
Studio Toei Animation
Released July 14, 2001
Runtime 30 minutes
Manga
Mo~tto! Ojamajo Doremi
Written by Izumi Todo
Illustrated by Shizue Takanashi
Published by Kodansha
Demographic Shōjo
Magazine Nakayoshi
Published December 2001
Anime television series
Ojamajo Doremi Dokka~n!
Directed by Takuya Igarashi
Written by Takashi Yamada
Studio Toei Animation
Network TV Asahi (2001-2002)
Animax
Original run February 3, 2002 – January 26, 2003
Episodes 51
Original video animation
Ojamajo Doremi Na-i-sho
Written by Takashi Yamada
Music by Keiichi Oku
Studio Toei Animation
Released June 26, 2004 – December 11, 2004
Episodes 13
Light novel
Ojamajo Doremi 16
Written by Midori Kiriyama
Illustrated by Yoshihiko Umakoshi
Published by Kodansha
Demographic Male
Imprint Kodansha Light Novel
Published December 2, 2011
Light novel
Ojamajo Doremi 16 Naive
Written by Midori Kiriyama
Illustrated by Yoshihiko Umakoshi
Published by Kodansha
Demographic Male
Imprint Kodansha Light Novel
Published May 2, 2012
Light novel
Ojamajo Doremi 16 Turning Point
Written by Midori Kiriyama
Illustrated by Yoshihiko Umakoshi
Published by Kodansha
Demographic Male
Imprint Kodansha Light Novel
Published November 30, 2012
Light novel
Ojamajo Doremi 17
Written by Midori Kiriyama
Illustrated by Yoshihiko Umakoshi
Published by Kodansha
Demographic Male
Imprint Kodansha Light Novel
Published July 2, 2013
Light novel
Ojamajo Doremi 17 2nd - Kizashi
Written by Midori Kiriyama
Illustrated by Yoshihiko Umakoshi
Published by Kodansha
Demographic Male
Imprint Kodansha Light Novel
Published October 2, 2013

Ojamajo Doremi (おジャ魔女どれみ Ojamajo Doremi, lit. "Troublesome Witch Doremi"), also known as Magical DoReMi in some countries, is a magical girl anime television series created by Toei Animation in 1999. It focuses on elementary school students who become witch apprentices. Led by Doremi Harukaze, the girls must maintain their double lives in secret.

Ojamajo Doremi has been followed up by three direct sequels, lasting until its end in 2003. During the television series' runtime, two companion films were released in theaters. The English dub, produced by 4Kids Entertainment, released a preview episode in the US airing on August 13, 2005, and the first episode on September 10, 2005.

Plot

See also: List of Ojamajo Doremi characters

Ojamajo Doremi

Eight-year-old Doremi Harukaze aspires to be a user of magic, as she believes it would solve all her problems and help her confess to a boy she liked. One afternoon, she comes upon a magic shop and correctly suspects that the shop owner is a witch. The shop owner becomes a "witch frog" (魔女ガエル majogaeru), as this happens to witches when their true identities are discovered. In order to retain her original form, the shop owner, Majo Rika, takes Doremi as her apprentice to turn her into a witch. Doremi must take nine witch exams at night to become an official witch; however, she must never let her own identity as a witch be found out or the same fate that befell Majo Rika will happen to her.[1] Because of Doremi's constant mishaps in magic, Majo Rika refers to her as an "ojamajo" (おジャ魔女 ojamajo, lit. troublesome witch), a portmanteau of the words "ojama" (お邪魔 ojama, lit. "troublesome") and ("majo" (魔女 lit. "witch").

On her way, Doremi is joined by her two best friends,[2] Hazuki Fujiwara and Aiko Senō, as well as her younger sister, Pop.[3] While taking tests to become better witches, at the same time, Doremi and her friends help out their classmates and friends with their own problems via magic, as well as battle Majo Rika's rival, Majo Ruka.[4] All is going well until they meet Onpu Segawa, a child idol, who does not share the same morals in using magic as them.[5] Eventually, Onpu allies with Doremi and the girls and even saves them from turning into witch frogs at the cost of her own consciousness.[6]

Ojamajo Doremi # (Sharp)

Not long after Doremi and the girls finish the 3rd grade, they go into the Witch World to see Majo Rika. While taking a shortcut through the garden, the girls witness the birth of a baby, whom Doremi later names Hana. According to the witch law, they have to take care of the baby for a year since they witnessed Hana's birth.[7] While Doremi and the girls learn to take care of Hana and help her take baby tests, at the same time, the wizards in the Wizard World are afraid of the tremendous magical power Hana has.[8] Oyajide, a wizard, plans to capture Hana at all costs and even hires four boy wizard prodigies, the FLAT4, to help.[9]

Mōtto! Ojamajo Doremi

After losing their witch apprenticeship to ensure Hana's growth,[10] Doremi and the girls are given another chance to get their apprenticeship back by appealing to the Witch Senate with sweets. As none of the girls know how to bake well, the Queen introduces Momoko Asuka, who was denied the apprenticeship herself for trying to revive her mentor Majo Monroe, into their group to aid their quest.[11] In Doremi's daily life, Momoko also becomes her classmate, but due to living in New York for most of her life, she is unable to speak Japanese well in her normal form and is unfamiliar with Japanese culture, and the only thing remaining that makes her Japanese is the way she looks and her face and her race. Thankfully the young witches new costumes have a microphone which lets them speak in any language so they can understand each other, the [12] While Doremi and the girls patiently teach her, they are also given temporary custody of Hana-chan, who was cursed with the former witch queen's magic to hate vegetables, which are crucial to her health.[13]

Ojamajo Doremi Na-i-sho

Ojamajo Doremi Dokka~n!

Doremi and the girls are made into full witches by the senate,[14] but the former witch queen's curse is about to put all worlds into an eternal sleep. The only way to stop the curse is to awaken her and recreate the gifts she both made and received from her grandchildren.[13] At the same time, Hana, who has become bored of the Witch World, uses magic to age herself into an 11-year-old to be able to attend Doremi's school.[15]

Media

Anime

Main article: List of Ojamajo Doremi episodes

Ojamajo Doremi is produced by Toei Animation and ABC. In Japan, the show aired on each of the ANN TV stations (Asahi Broadcasting Corporation (ABC, Japan), TV Asahi, Nagoya TV (Metele), and others) and Broadcasting System of San-in Inc.. The show replaced the time slot for Yume no Crayon Oukoku after its end and lasted from February 7, 1999 to January 30, 2000, with a new episode airing every week.[16] The series soon followed with direct sequels, Ojamajo Doremi #, Mōtto! Ojamajo Doremi, and Ojamajo Doremi Dokkān! until January 26, 2003. Each series lasted from 49 to 51 episodes. In North America, 4Kids Entertainment licensed the show under the title Magical DoReMi, which aired on 4Kids TV for the 2005-2006 broadcasting season.[17] Unlike the international dubs and like many broadcast anime in the USA, Magical DoReMi was heavily edited and localized for US audiences and a lower TV-Y rating. One of the changes that the US version made to the TV anime is interpreting the frog Majorika (Patina in the US dub) as a greenling. Episode 30 was never released in English due to it being too inappropriate for US audiences because of its extreme religious references. The ending credits in the English dub closing sequence have all traces of the Japanese production teams removed and only the American production crew and teams of 4Kids credited.

Starting with a sneak preview episode on August 13, 2005, 4Kids TV followed with new episodes airing every week since September 2005. The show was put on hiatus in mid-2006, but resumed progress with new episodes have been posted every Tuesday on their streaming video website from 2007 to 2008. On April 24, 2010, Magical DoReMi returned on US television on The CW4Kids[18] and ended its re-runs on July 24, 2010. Starting on May 27, 2010, 4Kids Entertainment also started uploading the entire show onto their YouTube channel.[19]

Manga

From 2000 to early 2003, the manga magazine Nakayoshi ran a manga-adaptation of Ojamajo Doremi. The story was based on the events of the original anime and was drawn by Shizue Takanashi. The chapters were compiled into tankōbon volumes by Kodansha. Four volumes were released in total — the first three were under the title Ojamajo Doremi, covering the events of the original series and Ojamajo Doremi #. The last volume was adapted from the Mo~tto! Ojamajo Doremi story arc and was titled eponymously to it.

Films

Ojamajo Doremi #: The Movie

Ojamajo Doremi #: The Movie (映画おジャ魔女どれみ# Eiga Ojamajo Doremi Shāpu)[20] was the first theatrical release for the series and was directed by Shigeyasu Yamauchi. Roughly twenty-seven minutes long, it was released on July 8, 2000 (along with Digimon Hurricane Touchdown!! / Supreme Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals) for the 2000 Summer Toei Anime Fair.[21] The Digimon movie was split into two parts and Ojamajo Doremi #: The Movie was screened in between.

In the movie, Pop has just passed one of her witch exams, but gets into a heated argument with Doremi because Hana followed her into the Witch World. Initially unbeknownst to everyone, the flower Pop brought home from the Witch World is really the Witch Queen Heart, the Queen's favorite flower, which grants any wish it hears regardless of any possible dangers until it begins to bear seeds. One of the wishes it had granted involves turning Doremi into a mouse, unknowingly made by Pop over her anger towards Doremi. While Pop goes to search for her sister, the other girls track down the runaway flower before it starts to reproduce.

Though the movie bears little relevance to the series it's based on, it does mostly take place some time between episodes 16 and 37 and is referenced in both episodes 37 and 40 (the latter coinciding with the post-credits scene).

The Secret of the Frog Stone

Mōtto! Ojamajo Doremi: The Secret of the Frog Stone (も～っと!おジャ魔女どれみ: カエル石のひみつ Mōtto! Ojamajo Doremi: Kaeru Seki no Himitsu)[22] was the series' second theatrical release and hit theaters on July 14, 2001, screened between Digimon Tamers: Battle of Adventurers and Kinnikuman: Second Generations. Similar to the first movie, it was again directed by Shigeyasu Yamauchi.

During Doremi and her friends' summer vacation, they visit her grandparents in the fictional mountains of Fukuyama, where they hear of a mysterious legend of Mayuri and Zenjuro, two star-crossed lovers that died in the Edo period. During the next morning, when they investigate the forest, the girls get lost and face the Curse of the Full Moon, which makes them unable to use magic. Meanwhile, due to a traumatizing memory, Aiko develops a fear of Doremi's grandfather.

Music

Main article: Ojamajo Doremi discography

Throughout the run of the series, multiple singles, albums, and compilations were distributed. The original series' CD's were released under Bandai Music Entertainment, while music from Ojamajo Doremi # was distributed by King Records. However, from Mo~tto! Ojamajo Doremi onwards, the CDs were distributed by Marvelous Entertainment.

Opening themes
  1. "Ojamajo Carnival!!" (おジャ魔女カーニバル!! Ojamajo Kanibaru!!) by MAHO-Do (1-51)
  2. "The Ojamajos are Here" (おジャ魔女はココにいる Ojamajo wa Koko ni Iru) by MAHO-Do (#) (52-100)
  3. "Ojamajo de BAN2" (おジャ魔女でBAN2) by MAHO-Do (101-150)
  4. "DANCE! Ojamajo" (DANCE! おジャ魔女) by MAHO-Do (151-201)
  5. "It's. A. Se. Cret! Ojamajo (ナ・イ・ショ・Yo! おジャ魔女 Na-I-Sho-Yo! Ojamajo) by MAHO-Do (OVA)
Ending themes
  1. "Surely Tomorrow Will" (きっと明日は Kitto Ashita wa) by Saeko Shuu (1-51)
  2. "Let Me Hear Your Voice" (声をきかせて Koe wo Kikasete) by MAHO-Do (#) (52-100)
  3. "Precious Treasure" (たからもの Takaramono) by Yui Komuro (101-150, OVA Episode 12)
  4. "My Wings" (わたしのつばさ Watashi no Tsubasa) by Masami Nakatsukasa (151-163, 181-201)
  5. "A Happippy Ojamajo March" (おジャ魔女音頭でハッピッピ!! Ojamajo Ondo de Happippi) by MAHO-Do (164-180)
  6. "Infinite Wonder" (ステキ∞ Suteki Mugendai) by MAHO-Do (OVA Episodes 1-11 & 13)

Light Novel

On September 5, 2011, Kodansha Limited announced the coming of the light novel Ojamajo Doremi 16 (おジャ魔女どれみ16 Ojamajo Doremi Jūroku), featuring the original work of Izumi Todo, story written by Midori Kuriyama, and illustrations by Yoshihiko Umakoshi, that was released on December 2, 2011.[23] Chiba Chiemi, the voice of Doremi Harukaze, posted via Twitter that she had received a copy and that it focuses on the characters' lives in high school.[24]

Drama CD

Ojamajo Kids

During the run of Ojamajo Doremi Dokka~n!, Toei hosted live events with dance performances by select actresses who portrayed the girls, titled "Ojamajo Kids". These girls were selected via auditions.[26]

References

  1. ↑ "Toei's summary of Ojamajo Doremi episode 1". Toei Animation. Retrieved 2012-08-25. 
  2. ↑ "Toei's summary of Ojamajo Doremi episode 4". Toei Animation. Retrieved 2012-08-25. 
  3. ↑ "Toei's summary of Ojamajo Doremi episode 25". Toei Animation. Retrieved 2012-08-25. 
  4. ↑ "Toei's summary of Ojamajo Doremi episode 20". Toei Animation. Retrieved 2012-08-25. 
  5. ↑ "Toei's summary of Ojamajo Doremi episode 35". Toei Animation. Retrieved 2012-08-25. 
  6. ↑ "Toei's summary of Ojamajo Doremi episode 51". Toei Animation. Retrieved 2012-08-25. 
  7. ↑ "Toei's summary of Ojamajo Doremi # episode 1". Toei Animation. Retrieved 2012-08-25. 
  8. ↑ "Toei's summary of Ojamajo Doremi # episode 22". Toei Animation. Retrieved 2012-08-25. 
  9. ↑ "Toei's summary of Ojamajo Doremi # episode 31". Toei Animation. Retrieved 2012-08-25. 
  10. ↑ "Toei's summary of Ojamajo Doremi # episode 49". Toei Animation. Retrieved 2012-08-25. 
  11. ↑ "Toei's summary of Mōtto! Ojamajo Doremi episode 1". Toei Animation. Retrieved 2012-08-25. 
  12. ↑ "Toei's summary of Mōtto! Ojamajo Doremi episode 3". Toei Animation. Retrieved 2012-08-25. 
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Toei's summary of Mōtto! Ojamajo Doremi episode 31". Toei Animation. Retrieved 2012-08-25. 
  14. ↑ "Toei's summary of Mōtto! Ojamajo Doremi episode 50". Toei Animation. Retrieved 2012-08-25. 
  15. ↑ "Toei's summary of Ojamajo Doremi Dokka~n! episode 1". Toei Animation. Retrieved 2012-08-25. 
  16. ↑ "Toei's list of Ojamajo Doremi episodes". Toei Animation. Retrieved 2012-08-25. 
  17. ↑ "4Kids Plans to Release Magical Doremi in 2005". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2008-09-24. 
  18. ↑ "Magical DoReMi to Re-air on The CW4Kids on Saturdays". Anime News Network. 2010-04-18. Retrieved 2010-06-09. 
  19. ↑ "YouTube - Magical DoReMi". YouTube. Retrieved 2010-06-09. 
  20. ↑ work=Toei Animation "Magical DoReMi #". Retrieved 2010-06-04. 
  21. ↑ "2000年夏アニメフェアTOP". Toei Animation (in Japanese). Retrieved 2010-06-04. 
  22. ↑ "Magical DoReMi 3: The Secret of the Frog Stone". Toei Animation. Retrieved 2010-06-04. 
  23. ↑ "ラノベ文庫 TOP 講談社コミックプラス". Retrieved September 10, 2011. 
  24. ↑ "Twitter / @ChiemiChiba: おジャ魔女達が高校生になって登場！小説『おジャ魔女ど ...". Retrieved September 10, 2011. 
  25. ↑ "Twitter / @ChiemiChiba: おジャ魔女どれみ ドラマCD ２０１３年初夏発売予定！！ ...". Retrieved March 22, 2013. 
  26. ↑ "おジャ魔女キッズ (Ojamajo Kids)". Toei Animation. Retrieved 2012-08-25. 
  27. ↑ "春風どれみ (Harukaze Doremi)". Toei Animation. Retrieved 2012-08-25. 
  28. ↑ "ハナちゃん (Hana-chan)". Toei Animation. Retrieved 2012-08-25. 
  29. ↑ "藤原はづき (Fujiwara Hazuki)". Toei Animation. Retrieved 2012-08-25. 
  30. ↑ "妹尾あいこ (Senō Aiko)". Toei Animation. Retrieved 2012-08-25. 
  31. ↑ "瀬川おんぷ (Segawa Onpu)". Toei Animation. Retrieved 2012-08-25. 
  32. ↑ "飛鳥ももこ (Asuka Momoko)". Toei Animation. Retrieved 2012-08-25. 

External links

Magical DoReMi series
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