Hugely popular kiddy anime Doraemon will finally receive its US TV debut this summer, by way of no less than Disney themselves – an announcement that has left many to wonder as to what took so long, considering the anime had aired in 35 other countries outside of Japan since Doraemon’s conception 45 years ago, long enjoying no small popularity in the rest of Asia in particular.
Disney intends to broadcast 26 episodes on a daily basis, quite a generous schedule considering TV broadcast cartoons are usually limited to single days.
To spare impressionable young minds the harmful impact of Asian culture, the show is to be thoroughly localised – forks safely replace chopsticks, dollars yen, the scenes of overeating which do so much more to induce childhood obesity than fast-food commercials are cut to less American portion sizes, and even Sue (Shizuka) is to get a more “boyish” character.
Disney and Asahi apparently even plan to make the US version the global standard, finally delivering Doraemon’s dated antics to the children of the rest of the world – if they are well received by US audiences, at least.
Did you miss 4kids? Don’t worry! Disney is here!
4 dimension pocket is kind of superpower
it can produce machine that print legal money
Japan’s doraemon loves “Dorayaki”,not Pizza.
this is not Doraemon.
Inb4 Disney includes some Star Wars innuendo.
Hm… Doesn’t doraemon feature little girl nudity now and then? Not gonna happen in the US of A.
Guess those undergarments will be surprisingly resistant to tuned vacuum cleaners and similar… gadgets.
I really should read the whole message – “a more boyish character” will mean they will switch her into a him like they did in some versions of digimon frontier with that yellow thing woman.
Will be really awkward for those romantic scenes just as is the transformation into that female priest was….
Or is it a secret plot to make the growing generations more tolerant to homosexuality? Hmmm…
Well, if a ‘him’ is supposed to be named Sue, they got something else coming.
No, read even more carefully; Shizuka stays as a girl; it’s just that they want to cut n trim the series, leaving enough for the bare accepted minimum for US broadcasting legislations. And Yeah, they want to localize it too, apparently by neutralization.
f♥♥k Disney, it’s full of Jews with marvel and the star wars franchises
In Turkey they pixelated Nobita’s shoes.
I wonder why foreign show coming into US must be filtered right to the level of core culture?
Doraemon almost circled around the globe already at this point and not even once, a country filtered it to this stage. Most of them only removed scenes with nudity and a number of Japanese terms are still retained; my country’s dub called Dorayaki as Dorayaki and the characters kept their original names.