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I'm talking specifically about academic performance, not overall intelligence or who is the smarter person.

Between Nobita, Gian, and Suneo, who do you think is the better student overall?

You can consider things like:

- Exam and test scores

- Homework

- Classroom performance

- Study habits

- General school knowledge

I'm curious because we often see Nobita getting terrible marks, Gian struggling in class, and Suneo acting confident, but the series doesn't always make it clear how they compare academically.

How would you rank the three from best to worst, and why? Feel free to use examples from any series, movie, or manga if you can remember them!

Those people who say Gian and Suneo are "Friends" of Nobita explain this episode to me.Those two did such an inhuman act in this episode (told everyone to ignore nobita).Nobita went into great depression if doraemon didn't take any step I wonder what would have happened to nobita.This episode literally made my blood boil after seeing them do such an inhuman act.One of the most depressing episode I have watched in doraemon.

In Internet there is theory that may be Nobita has ADHD , because lots of symptoms match

My favourite is Dr./General Godart from Chronicle of the Moon Exploration. He's such a handsome man. I love him.

This series reminded me of eizouken

So everyone probably knows about the Dictator Switch. There are actually four different versions of the story: 1979 (S1 E101), 1995 (S17 E1345), 2005 (S1 E3), and 2013 (S9 E328b). In this post, I'm specifically referring to the 2005 version.

Nobita gets fed up with Gian and Suneo constantly bullying and annoying him, so Doraemon gives him a gadget called the Dictator Switch. Doraemon explains that it works like a dictator's power – by pressing the button while thinking of someone, that person is erased from existence.

Nobita goes outside, and when Gian starts bothering him as usual, he presses the switch and Gian disappears. The same thing eventually happens to Suneo and a few other people as well. Later, after returning home, Nobita remembers all the times his teacher, his mother, Gian, Suneo, and others scolded or troubled him. In frustration, he accidentally presses the Dictator Switch until, eventually, everyone has been erased.

At first, Nobita is shocked, but then he enjoys having the entire world to himself. However, as time passes, the excitement turns into loneliness. With nobody left to talk to or spend time with, he begins to regret his actions. Eventually, Doraemon appears, and by the end of the episode everyone is back, with Doraemon explaining that Nobita has learned an important lesson.

That raises a number of interesting questions:

- What exactly happened to everyone after they were erased?

- Where did they go?

- Were they truly erased from existence, or were they simply sent somewhere else?

- How did everyone return at the end?

- Did Doraemon help bring everyone back? If so, how?

- Some people describe the Dictator Switch as a kind of "moral gadget." What does that actually mean, and how does it work?

I feel like these questions have probably crossed many of your minds at some point, and they're likely among the most common discussions about this episode. I'm not sure if this has been posted before, but I wanted to start a proper discussion myself and hear what everyone thinks.

I'd love to hear your thoughts, interpretations, and theories!

This isn't intended as a review of the movie or an argument about whether one version is better than the other. It's simply my attempt to analyze Riruru's character arc and explain why my perspective on her changed after revisiting the films. (This is a broad character discussion, not a detailed comparison of every scene in both films.)

Riruru was introduced as an undercover scout from Mechatopia. She apparently tricked Nobita, built the invasion base, and truly believed humanity should be conquered. She wasn't simply evil; she was the product of an unemotional empire centered entirely on interstellar conquest and enslaving organic life.

Then her perspective started to shift.

Nobita helped her without expecting anything in return. Shizuka cared for her despite Riruru's attempts to kill her. Pippo's changed view of humans and the kindness shown by the humans gradually challenged everything she believed about humanity.

Her transformation didn't come from just one person; it resulted from experiencing compassion from those she had been taught to hate.

For me, the moment that defined Riruru was when she pleaded with the General to stop the invasion, knowing she could be executed for betraying Mechatopia. Even after surviving that, she chose to travel to the past with Shizuka and help complete the scientist's reprogramming, fully aware that doing so would erase her own existence.

She willingly sacrificed herself for a world she had only just begun to understand.

To me, what defined Riruru most was that transformation: from an undercover Mechatopian spy into someone who willingly gave up her own existence for the very world she had once been sent to conquer. That is why now I see her as a spy who became a saint through self-sacrifice.

After reflecting on Riruru and comparing her with other Doraemon movie characters, I reached another personal conclusion.

I don't think there has been a greater act of unconditional self-sacrifice in the Doraemon movies. There are other memorable sacrifices, like Buggy's and perhaps Fuko's, but they feel different to me. Fuko had formed a deep bond with Nobita and his friends and had essentially been created and raised by Nobita.

Riruru, in contrast, chose to give up her existence for a world she had only just started to understand. She had every reason to stay loyal to Mechatopia, yet she rejected everything she had been taught because she recognized the value of the lives she had once been sent to conquer.

If Riruru never returns in a future Doraemon story and she very well might not I think this sacrifice will remain the defining moment of her character.

One last clarification: this isn't meant to start a "Riruru vs. Shizuka" debate or suggest that one character is simply "better" than another. My point is only about this specific act of self-sacrifice, not about ranking one character above another. I posted a while back about how I wasn't totally sold on Winged Angels being the absolute best Doraemon movie.Now rewatching both versions more carefully, made me appreciate the story as a whole much more. Earlier, both films were already within my personal top ten Doraemon movie rankings. As I revisited the series, some of my earlier favourites, such as Three Visionary Swordsmen and Diary on the Creation of the World, naturally dropped a few places. As a result, both Steel Troops films—the 1986 original and the 2011 remake—have moved up in my personal rankings.

Aside from the dubbing and nostalgia of Shounenki song, the story execution was better than the original.

I re-watched it today. Might be my comfort Doraemon movie. I lov lov loovv Luca and Nobita's friendship. Their parting hug here is jus chef's kiss.