Doraemon (1973 anime)

Doraemon
Country of origin	Japan
Original language(s)	Japanese
No. of episodes	26 episodes (2 segments per episode) (list of episodes)
Release
Original network	Nippon TV
Original release	Pilot: 1972 Official: April 1 (1973-04-01) – September 30, 1973 (1973-09-30) (rebroadcast throughout the 1970s, last aired in 1979)
Chronology
Followed by	Doraemon (1979 anime)

Doraemon (ドラえもん, Doraemon) was the first anime series based on Fujiko Fujio's manga of the same name. It was produced by Nippon TV Video (previously known as Japan Broadcast Film, and Tokyo TV Movie). It aired from April 1, 1973 to September 30 of the same year. After the anime ended, Doraemon remained exclusively a manga until 1979 when Shin-Ei Animation produced a second anime adaptation, which officially ended in 2005.

Voice cast

The voice cast was determined in cooperation with Aoni Production and Theatre Echo

• Doraemon– Kōsei Tomita (Ep. 1–13)→Masako Nozawa (Ep. 14–26)
• Nobita Nobi – Yoshiko Ōta
• Shizuka Minamoto – Masako Ebisu
• Suneo Honekawa – Shun Yashiro
• Takeshi "Gian" Gōda – Kaneta Kimotsuki
• Mrs. Nobi – Noriko Ohara
• Mr. Nobi – Ichirō Murakoshi
• Sewashi Nobi – Keiko Yamamoto
• Mrs. Honekawa – Kazue Takahashi
• Mr. Honekawa – Sanji Hase→Osamu Kato
• Sensei – Osamu Kato→Masashi Amenomori
• Gachako – Junko Hori
• Botako – Masako Nozawa
• Debuko – Noriko Tsukase
• Jamako – Rihoko Yoshida

Production and Broadcast

The series was broadcast between April 1st and September 30th, 1973 on Nippon Television. 26 episodes, divided into 52 individual segments were produced. A pilot film was produced in 1972 and shown to test audiences in January of 1973. Audience included Doraemon creator Fujiko Fujio. They initially approved of the show, but when they were shown the progress, they apparently were angered by the fact that they changed Nobita and Doraemon's personalities. The show was frequently rebroadcast throughout the 1970's. The station, Toyama Television, was the last to air the show, airing from July 3rd to July 24th, 1979, and briefly again in August of that year. The station aired the show in individual segments. On August 3rd, the publisher of the Doraemon manga requested the station to cease airing the show, to make sure the reputation of the more famous and longer running 1979 series isn't harmed. The animation crew of the show, Nippon TeleMovie Productions, went bankrupt in 1981. Before they went defunct, they tried covering debt by selling off the masters of the 1973 series, and destroying cels and storyboards in a keroscene fire. In 1995, the Japanese animation studio IMAGICA, discovered episodes 18 and 20 through 26 in their archive, as well as segments 5A, 10B and 12B.

In 2003, the production chief of the show, Hiroshi Shimozaki, now going under the name Masumi Jun or "mcsammy", came forward with several episodes and rush reels (raw footage). He later uploaded low quality versions of the intro and credits to his site on a members only and password protected page, however, a few minutes after the upload, he was told that the intro and credits were uploaded to Japanese anonymous board site 2channel. He immediately removed the video files from his site, but it was already too late. Many images of his episodes were uploaded to GeoCities. In the late 1990's, a person came forward with a VHS recording of the episode "Crazy Stomach Clock", dated from 1978. Audio clips were uploaded, but the site they were hosted on was removed. In 2015, a YouTube user discovered a clip playing on a television set in a Japanese pornographic film from the 70's. ^[1] It is what seems like impossible to find info on this version of Doraemon. No episodes exist online, or on home media. The only footage currently available is Jun's uploads of the opening and ending. However these are very low quality [240p 193kbps video, 128kbps audio]

Episodes

References

External links

• Doraemon (1973 anime) (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia