| Magical DoReMi | |
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 English language Magical DoReMi title card |
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| おジャ魔女どれみ (Ojamajo Doremi) |
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| Genre | Magical girl |
| TV anime | |
| Director | Takuya Igarashi |
| Studio |  Toei Animation 4Kids Entertainment |
| Licensor | Pony Canyon 4Kids Entertainment (TV), Funimation Entertainment (DVD) |
| Network | TV Asahi, Animax |
| Original run | February 7, 1999 – January 30, 2000 |
| Episodes | 51 |
| Manga | |
| Author | Izumi Todo |
| Illustrator | Shizue Takanashi |
| Publisher | Kodansha |
| Demographic | Shōjo |
| Magazine | Nakayoshi |
| Original run | October 6, 2000 – December 6, 2000 |
| Volumes | 3 |
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Magical girl stories feature young girls with superhuman abilities who are forced to fight evil and protect 4Kids Entertainment licensed the original show under the title Magical DoReMi and aired a sneek peek on August 13, 2005, but officially began on 4Kids TV from September 10, 2005 to March 11, 2006. 4Kids Entertainment ( (commonly known as 4Kids) is an American Film and Television Production company specializing in the acquisition Events 3114 BC - According to the Lounsbury correlation the start of the Maya calendar. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. 4Kids TV (formerly FoxBox) is an American Saturday morning television Programming block. Events 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. 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Plot
In the first episode of the series, Dorie Goodwyn (Doremi Harukaze in the Japanese version), a third grader, has a crush on Robbie (Igarashi), a sixth grade student on the soccer team). Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered Being both unlucky and clumsy, for which Todd (Tetsuya Kotake), a classmate, likes to tease her, Dorie complains often that she is "The Most Misunderstood Girl in the Whole World. " She dreams of acquiring magic in order to solve her problems. She visits a mysterious old shop, The Rusty Broom (Makihatayama no Maho-do). At the shop, she meets an old woman who looks like a storybook witch, and Doremi instinctively shouts that this woman is a witch. When witches are discovered, they are punished because of they are discovered by humans. Thus, to Dorie's surprise, the old woman transforms into a small green blob (a magic frog, later given the term "greenling" in the English dub). The old woman, Patina (Majorika), now lacks the power to return herself to her normal form, so Dorie must now become a powerful Witch herself in order to help return Patina to her human form.
Dorie is granted a Dream Spinner (Magical Tap), which is used to transform her into her witchling costume. The Tap is installed in the chest of the clothes after the transformation, and it produces her witch's wand when tapped again. Her training as a Witchling (A Witch in training) is much more demanding than she had expected, and her wand (a Wandaler in English version and a Poron in Japanese version) requires the use of many Spell Drops (magic spheres) to use Magic. Moreover, Dorie has to keep her identity as a Witchling (Witch apprentice in the Japanese version) a secret or she will suffer the same fate as Patina.
Nonetheless, in the subsequent episodes, her friends, Reanne Griffith (Hazuki Fujiwara) and Mirabelle Haywood (Aiko Senoo), discover her secret. Because of this, they are able to become Witchlings themselves. Through their training, they become much closer and cooperate by redecorating and managing The Rusty Broom successfully and newly naming it the Maho Shop. Using the improved store as a means of earning money, they will be able to buy Spell Drops so that they can train and take tests to become Witches and dispel Patina's cursed fate. When an individual girl does not have enough power, they also co-operate by using Perfect Harmony (Magical Stage) to cast stronger magic. In the Japanese version, due to the girls' occasional mistakes, Majorika dubs them each an "Ojamajo", a compound word that translates to a "Bothersome Witch. " During the first Witchling test, Dorie and her friends acquire faires, which help them throughout the series. Laralei, Patina's full grown Fairy, tells the girls that if their Faries are seen by humans, then that'll mark their ending as Witchlings.
As the series progresses, more girls become witch apprentices, and new characters debut. At the end of episode 24, Caitlyn (Poppu), Dorie's younger sister, catches the girls performing Perfect Harmony and thus also becomes a witch apprentice in the following episode. Unlike her sister, Caitlyn is able to learn magic quickly and easily. In episode 27, the girls meet Feredagio the Great (Oyajiide) inside the Grobble Grabber that Queen Lumena gives the girls so they can capture the released Grobblings. Now, the girls must also collect them to help Feredagio get out of the Grobble Grabber. In episode 35 (thirty-four in the English dub), the group meets another girl, Ellie Craft (Onpu Segawa). She is a famous Actress and Singer, who is a Witchling of Patina's arch-rival, Patunia (Majoruka). Though at first they do not get along very well, they become friends by the end of the series.
Media
Anime
Like many other properties localized by 4Kids, the English language dub of Magical DoReMi was subject to changes in characters' names and music. There are lots of heavy editing in the dub, including the flipping over of scenes and localizing images and dialog, as well as removing Japanese writing and Japanese culture and re-setting the country to be in the United States, and somewhere in Oregon instead of Japan. Additionally, some scenes were altered, while others removed entirely. The original opening sequence is replaced with a brand new one that takes scenes from the original opening, the original Japanese ending and some of the episodes. The dub was mostly marketed towards young children. Seen most prominent with episode 19: in the original Japanese version, Hazuki (Reanne) is kidnapped, but in the dub, Reanne is going to the museum with her uncle Mick.
See also
References
External links
- Official Toei Animation Ojamajo Doremi website (Japanese)
- Ojamajo Doremi (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
- Ojamajo Doremi (manga) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
- Magical DoReMi at TV.com
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