List of non-Japanese Doraemon versions

This is a list of "Doraemon" releases outside of Japan. "Doraemon" is a popular Japanese manga and anime series created by Fujiko F. Fujio and published by Shogakukan.

Asia

The Doraemon 2005 series will be aired on Nickelodeon in Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia in August 2009.

Europe

* In Italy, there are several popular theme songs, including DORAEMON gatto spaziale (Doraemon the space cat) sung by Oliver Onions and "A me mi piacerebbe un robot che farebbe i compiti miei"(Me would like a robot to do my homework, with intended grammatical mistakes), sung by Nora Orlandi .
* In Spain, Doraemon is translated into five languages including Euskera, Catalan and Galician in addition to Spanish. The first Doraemon film was televised in 2000.

Middle East

The Old 1970s Doraemon TV series was broadcast from 1995 for some years on a few TV channels. However it has no great popularity, except with local "otaku" who have an interest in Japan.

Doraemon in Arabic: ("Abqoor" عبقور, which means a mini Brilliant)
* Algeria
* Libya
* Oman
* Qatar
* Saudi Arabia
* Tunisia
* United Arab Emirates

North America

In North America, Viz Media is the master licensor for the series. There is a Doraemon webpage that can be seen on the "shows" section of their website. Unfortunately, like all other Fujiko Fujio properties, it never had an English release. They also had plans to publish the manga in English in the early 1990s, but it was never released in time, and the license was eventually dropped.

outh America

In some Latin American countries, the show was called "El Gato Cósmico" (The Cosmic Cat) and the cat's name was "Cósmico" (Cosmic), yet sometimes named Doraemon.

Doraemon has been broadcast until the present in
* Argentina,
* Chile,
* Costa Rica,
* Dominican Republic,
* Colombia under the "Gato Cósmico" title and Mexican Spanish dubbing, and
* Ecuador broadcasted by Ecuavisa

Doraemon was broadcast for some years from 1982 in
* Brazil,
* Bolivia,
* Panama,
* Puerto Rico, and
* Venezuela.

References

* [http://www.shogakukan.co.jp/bokudora/09.html#01 小学館：藤子・F・不二雄ワンダーランド ぼくドラえもん] , vol. 9
* [http://www.freewebs.com/doraemontagalog/ Doraemon's tagalog version]