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#Dubtopia #DoraemonDubtopia

Help make the possibility of an official English dub of the Doraemon movie "Nobita's Sky Utopia" a reality and to have it released in plenty of English speaking territories.

With the recent announcement of Cake Entertainment's plans to release a brand new English dub of the Doraemon series, I personally believe that it would be even better if any of the anime movies got the English dubbing treatment as well (except Stand by me Doraemon, as it already as a dub along with the sequel.)

I'm talking about "The Ghost Story Lamp" from the 2005 series (S1, E15a).

SPOILER WARNING!

The episode begins with Nobita entering a ghost story contest that is being held at Gian's house that evening. Wanting to prepare a scary story, Nobita asks his mother to tell him one. However, she initially refuses, and after Nobita keeps insisting, she finally tells him a story...

Except it isn't scary at all.

It's actually hilarious.

Nobita gets frustrated and decides that he needs Doraemon's help. But Doraemon admits that he isn't good at telling ghost stories either. So instead, he takes out the "Ghost Story Lamp."

The gadget is basically designed to make ghost stories feel real.

When the contest begins, everyone starts telling their stories.

Gian tells "The Chrysanthemum's Plate," Shizuka tells "The Ghost Granny with a Kitchen Knife," and Suneo tells "The Faceless Monster."

The three stories are familiar enough to them, but Nobita is already absolutely terrified just listening to everyone else.

Eventually, Gian, Suneo and Shizuka get bored and ask Nobita to tell them a scary story.

Nobita is frightened and doesn't even know what to say, so he takes out the Ghost Story Lamp and starts his story.

He begins telling the story of Okiku, which he had heard from Gian.

But then...

CRASH!

A plate suddenly breaks.

Everyone gets startled, but Gian quickly explains that it was probably just a mouse.

He continues explaining the story, including how, after Okiku's death, candles would supposedly go out whenever the wind blew.

Everyone gets scared again.

Gian then tells Nobita not to simply repeat the same story he already told.

Then it's Suneo's turn to add to the horror.

He tells the story of the faceless monster, claiming that it supposedly happened to a friend's friend's uncle.

The episode even shows the supposed "faceless monsters" in a modern street scene, with one resembling a woman and another resembling a barbecue vendor.

Finally, Nobita starts telling the story of the ghost woman with the kitchen knife.

But just as he's telling it, a door suddenly opens.

Everyone freaks out.

What they don't know is that there's actually a thief breaking into Gian's house.

The thief has a banana with him, which everyone mistakes for a kitchen knife in the darkness, making the whole situation even scarier.

The thief searches around the house for valuables, but all he manages to find is nine ten-yen coins.

He gets extremely annoyed at his terrible luck and goes into another room looking for something valuable.

But after seeing everything happening around the house, he gets scared and runs away!

A police officer happens to spot him and arrests him.

Meanwhile, Nobita and the others have absolutely no idea what was really happening.

They genuinely believe that all the strange events were caused by Nobita's ghost story.

Everyone agrees that Nobita's story was the scariest one of the night.

And somehow...

NOBITA WINS FIRST PLACE.

Later, Nobita returns home and casually tells Doraemon about everything that happened.

Doraemon then notices something concerning.

The Ghost Story Lamp is still switched on.

He realizes that the gadget may still be affecting things.

Then Nobita's mother suddenly appears wearing a face mask.

Nobita sees her and immediately mistakes her for the faceless monster.

He completely panics and runs away.

And that's basically where the episode leaves us.

Unlike many other Doraemon episodes involving ghosts or supernatural stuff, which usually feel more like comedy to me, this one genuinely scared the absolute shit out of me as a kid.

I watched this when I was younger and some of those scenes actually felt creepy rather than funny.

Looking back at it now, it's obviously much more comedic because we know what was actually happening...

This was an actual Doraemon horror episode to me.

Did any Doraemon episode genuinely scare you when you were a kid?

It's from S21 Ep15

Suneo playing with fire.

CREDIT: https://x.com/Cutieart55reda1/status/2002452176489378068

He's so cute, I adore him dearly! He IS unfortunately missing his bell and tail, but I've never seen one like this before and I knew I had to have him.

My first ever Doraemon episode... huh.

I think I was REALLY lucky with my first one.

It was "The Day When I Was Born" from the 2005 series.

I first watched it when I was around 6 years old, so this episode carries a LOT of nostalgia for me.

It doesn't need any introduction — it's just a pure nostalgic treasure for me.

I'll give a small synopsis so I don't spoil it for anyone who hasn't watched it.

The gang compares their baby photos, but Nobita discovers that there isn't a single photo of him as a baby, making him question whether he really belongs to his family.

After getting upset and running away, Doraemon eventually finds him and suggests using the Time Machine to find out the truth.

They travel 10 years into the past and follow Nobisuke to the hospital, where they discover that Nobita has just been born.

Nobita gets to see his newborn self and even hilariously thinks he looks like a baby monkey.

Seeing his parents celebrating his birth finally proves to Nobita that he really is their son.

And THAT was my first-ever Doraemon episode.

I couldn't have asked for a more memorable introduction to the series.

What was YOUR first-ever Doraemon episode?

And by any chance if you haven't watched it yet, PLEASE watch it! It's such a memorable episode.

English title: Running Away to the Cretaceous Period

Broadcast date: February 18, 2011 (TV Asahi)

⚠️SPOILER WARNING⚠️

So for anyone who hasn't watched this one or doesn’t remember it much, Suneo gets the idea to run away from home after watching a TV drama.

He picks the Cretaceous period, and travels back in time, which drags Doraemon and everyone else along to bring him back. Things go sideways because Gian brought a T. rex egg, it hatches into a baby, and the mother T. rex goes on the warpath to protect her kid. Then a massive Spinosaurus shows up and goes after the mother too, leaving everyone dealing with two threats.

Suneo gets mistaken for the mother's baby at one point, so instead of just being prey, she actually protects him. (That's a good twist that turns a straightforward run-from-the-dinosaur plot into something with actual emotional stakes. She's a parent, not just a monster.)

The baby T. rex separated from its mother and the mother's protective behaviour mirrors the plot of The Lost World: Jurassic Park a bit.

Meanwhile, the Spinosaurus showing up as a bigger threat to go toe-to-toe with the T. rex comes straight out of Jurassic Park III, where it was introduced to dethrone the T. rex as the franchise's scariest creature. And this one is kinda intentional as in reality Spinosaurus and Tyrannosaurus neither shared the same period nor the same geographical place.

Even the egg element lines up, since JP3 features a character stealing eggs and dealing with the fallout, much like Gian grabbing the T. rex egg.

(It's Doraemon, so everything's gentler with no gore or genuine terror.)

It might not be a confirmed intentional reference, and could just be shared dinosaur-movie tropes.

But the specific combo of beats feels too on the nose to be a total coincidence.

I think fans should watch it cause its one of those episodes where Suneo shows a surprising adventurous spirit unlike in most adventures where he starts crying and calling for his mom.

Just look at him with those cat ears! He already looks adorable normally, but somehow the cat ears make him look even more like an actual little cat.

JUST LOOK AT HIM AWW—

What do you guys think? Do you like Doraemon with cat ears?