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Which Doraemon Film Sits at the Top
— All 44 Scored on Six Yardsticks

BByline: A Reader of Gadget Design (Gadgets, worlds, and how a parting is closed / ranks disclosed as numbers on six axes)

Most Doraemon movie rankings measure how old you were when you saw them. Anything whose order changes with your year of birth is not an assessment of the films. So this ranking uses no nostalgia, no generational vote, no box office, no admissions, and no name recognition. Instead it scores every film from the first in 1980 to the forty-fourth in 2025 on six yardsticks: the design of the gadget, the remaking of the world, Nobita's proof, fear and loss, the handling of the parting, and invention for the series. The overall No. 1 is Nobita and the Steel Troops (1986). Older films did end up clustered at the top. This article does not read that as proof that the old days were better. The bibliographic records of the National Diet Library show that from 1998 a second creator appears alongside the author in the credits for the manga originals. The seven films from 1998 to 2004 average 6.08 — below the 6.68 averaged by the twenty films with no manga original at all. What mattered was not whether a manga original existed, but whether Fujiko F. Fujio drew it himself. Change the yardstick and the king changes (try the lenses below). This is not a declaration of a single masterpiece; it is an ordering under six disclosed axes.

How This Ranking Is Built (Methodology)

Rather than settling "which Doraemon film is best" in one word, the score splits into six independent axes and combines them with weights (total = the sum of axis score times weight, divided by 100). Box office, admissions, name recognition, theme songs, audience polls, and whether you happened to see it as a child are not among the axes. Those measure who saw a film and when, which is a different thing from how it was built. That is the argument of this piece. The design of the gadget and invention for the series carry the heaviest weight (18 each) because this is a series that ran for forty-five years out of a single invention: the gadget. The zero-to-ten score on each axis is the writer's assessment, not a fact, made on top of verified information such as release dates, directors, screenwriters, and whether a manga original existed and who was credited for it. Sources are listed below; limitations are disclosed at the end.

AxisWhat It MeasuresWeight
The Design of the GadgetDoes the gadget work as a constraint on the story, rather than as a convenience that makes problems disappear?18%
The Remaking of the WorldAre the rules of the setting consistent, and do those rules themselves drive the story?16%
Nobita's ProofIs there a moment where Nobita moves the situation through his own nature rather than through a gadget?17%
Fear and LossWithin a film made for children, does it design fear, loss, and irreversibility rather than avoid them?15%
The Handling of the PartingDoes the meeting and the parting close out of the logic of the story rather than out of sentiment?16%
Invention for the SeriesDid it create a form that later films reuse? For a remake, is the reason to remake it inside the film?18%
Normalization Rule
Box office, admissions, name recognition, theme songs, audience polls, and whether the viewer saw a film as a child are excluded from the axes — that exclusion is itself the era adjustment, so that a generation's memory is not read as a film's quality. Invention for the series is measured by influence on later films and therefore needs a few years of distance; the most recent films have that axis held back and carry an era-adjusted flag. A remake is not penalised for telling the same story as an earlier film; it is scored on whether the reason to remake it sits inside the film.
Scope / Unit
The main Doraemon film series, from the first, Nobita's Dinosaur (released 15 March 1980), to the forty-fourth, Nobita's Art World Tales (released 7 March 2025): 44 films in all. Unit = film; one film, one entry. Nothing is cut, so the population is complete. The forty-fifth film, Nobita and the New Castle of the Undersea Devil (released 27 February 2026), falls outside the period covered here. The two 3DCG Stand by Me Doraemon films are not part of the numbered main series and are excluded. The short films that accompanied every release up to the twenty-fifth are also excluded.
Data Sources
Release dates, directors, and screenwriters were cross-checked between each film's own article and the table in the series overview article. Whether a manga original existed, when it was serialised, which tankobon volume it occupies, and how the creator credit changed over time were taken from the bibliographic records of the National Diet Library Search (the dc:creator field) as a primary source and matched against the film articles. The author's dates, the circumstances of the unfinished final work, and the screenwriters' award records were confirmed in the articles for each person.
Compiled / Subjectivity
Compiled 4 August 2026. Gadget design and invention carry more weight, an editorial judgement that this is a series that ran for forty-five years out of a single invention. There are no exact ties; No. 1, Nobita and the Steel Troops (8.99), leads No. 2, Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds (8.65), by 0.34.
Switch the scoring lens ― changing the weights moves the ranking (recalculated on the same evidence, same scores)

Overall Ranking

★ First Edition

Findings Against Conventional Wisdom

1. The overall No. 1, Nobita and the Steel Troops (8.99), is not first under any of the four lenses. It is 2nd on the design of the gadget, 2nd on the remaking of the world, 3rd on Nobita's proof, and 2nd on fear and loss. Where it does come first is on the two axes that carry no lens: the handling of the parting (10) and invention for the series (9). It stands not by standing out, but by having no holes.
2. Taking nostalgia out still left the older films at the top. But the reason is not generational. The Record of Nobita's Parallel Visit to the West (1988) sits 24th overall, and it is the only one of the ten films of the 1980s to fall below 20th. It is also the only film between 1980 and 1997 with no manga original by Fujiko F. Fujio (what the National Diet Library holds for it is a comic made from the film's own frames, not an original). Same era, same director, same production regime. The only difference is whether an original existed.
3. And yet it is not the existence of a manga original that matters either. The seven films from 1998 to 2004 do have manga originals, but drawn by Fujiko Pro, and the library's records list a second creator alongside the author. Those seven average 6.08, below the 6.68 averaged by the twenty films with no manga original at all. What mattered was not whether an original existed but whether Fujiko F. Fujio drew it himself — those seventeen films average 7.73.
4. Remakes are not pushed to the bottom as a class. Nobita's Dinosaur 2006 is 8th overall, above all seventeen films that do have a manga original (ten of them drawn by Fujiko F. Fujio himself). The seven remakes average 7.20, higher than the 6.36 of the twelve original screenplays made in the same period from 2006 onward. The group most consistently punished in a ranking built on nostalgia comes out above, once only design is measured. It does not, however, beat the 1980 original, which is 6th. Remakes are not being lifted as a class either.
5. The unfinished final work is 21st. The manga original for Nobita and the Spiral City (1997) is the one Fujiko F. Fujio never finished. Hiroshi Fujimoto died on 23 September 1996, during work on the third instalment, and the only inking he did himself was the title page and the colour pages of the first. That 21st place is not a failure of the film; it is that fact taking a form.

How the Landscape Changes When You Change the Weights (Sub-Views)

LensNo. 1Biggest MoversWhat It Measures
Balance of all six axes (default)Nobita and the Steel Troops 8.990.34 ahead of Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds (2nd, 8.65); Nobita and the Birth of Japan (3rd, 8.53), Nobita's Great Adventure into the Underworld (4th, 8.52), and Nobita's Little Star Wars (5th, 8.37) followDesign measured across six balanced axes
Weighted to gadget designNobita's Great Adventure into the Underworld 9.28Nobita and the Steel Troops (2nd, 9.00), Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds (3rd, 8.84), and Nobita's Diary on the Creation of the World (4th, 8.80) follow; Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum climbs from 26th to 10th; Nobita's Dinosaur falls to 14thDoes the gadget constrain the story?
Weighted to world-buildingNobita and the Kingdom of Clouds 9.36Nobita and the Steel Troops (2nd, 9.00) and Nobita and the Birth of Japan (3rd, 8.76) follow; Nobita and the Knights on Dinosaurs climbs from 16th to 8th; Nobita's Dinosaur falls to 15th and Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum to 30thDo the rules of the setting drive the story?
Weighted to Nobita's proofNobita's Little Star Wars 9.20Nobita's Dinosaur (2nd, 8.68), Nobita and the Steel Troops (3rd, 8.48), and Nobita's Dinosaur 2006 (4th, 8.44) follow; Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil falls to 19th, Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi to 33rd, and Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas to 44thDoes Nobita move things through his own nature?
Weighted to fear and lossNobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil 9.20Nobita and the Steel Troops (2nd, 9.00) and Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds (3rd, 8.84) follow; The Record of Nobita's Parallel Visit to the West climbs from 24th to 6th; Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum falls to 35th and Nobita's Space Heroes to 44thDoes it avoid irreversibility, or design it?

Debate and Limitations

The zero-to-ten score on each axis is the writer's assessment, not a fact. What could be verified stops at release dates, directors, screenwriters, whether a manga original existed and when it was serialised, the creator credits, and the screenwriters' awards. Everything past that — whether the gadget design is good, whether the parting lands — is editorial judgement. The source list carries references for facts only; there is no source for the scores, because none exists.

On the structural bias of the axes: because fear and loss carries 15 percent, films that did not choose fear or loss as a subject are structurally pushed down. That is less a flaw than a choice by the makers, and this ranking's yardstick penalises that choice. Likewise, because the design of the gadget carries 18 percent, projects that do not use the gadget as a constraint on the story — those built on an existing tale or on a short manga — are at a disadvantage. Both are disclosed as biases of the design.

A low rank does not mean a bad film. What is measured here is design, not how much you enjoyed watching. Nothing in this piece calls any film dull or a failure, including the one at the bottom.

On box office and admissions: these are not only excluded from the axes, no figures for them appear anywhere in the text. The sources consulted do carry such numbers, but quoting them would invite the reading that a bigger film is a better one. Audience polls and review scores are left out for the same reason.

Why running times are not used: while checking sources it turned out that running times disagree between references for several films, by one to four minutes. Which figure is correct could not be settled from a primary source, so running times are not mentioned in the text.

On the creator-credit grouping: this piece divides the 44 films into seventeen with a manga original drawn by Fujiko F. Fujio himself, seven with a manga original drawn by Fujiko Pro, and twenty with no manga original. The grouping is not the writer's opinion; it follows the creator field in the National Diet Library's bibliographic records and the notes attached to the individual film articles. Bibliographic records sometimes name an organisation and sometimes an individual, and the two can point at the same reality. For that reason this piece avoids asserting a list of individual artists and deals only with where the boundaries fall.

What was excluded: the forty-fifth film, Nobita and the New Castle of the Undersea Devil (released 27 February 2026), falls outside the period covered here, which runs from 1980 to 2025. It is a remake of the fourth film, which means the film that tops the fear and loss lens here was remade forty-three years later. The two 3DCG Stand by Me Doraemon films are not part of the numbered main series and are excluded, as are the short films that accompanied every release up to the twenty-fifth.

On the narrowness of the sources: release dates, directors, and screenwriters were cross-checked between the series overview article and each film's own article, but both sit inside the same encyclopedia. The only independent line of evidence is the bibliographic data of the National Diet Library. That is why this piece rests its heaviest claim — the change in creator credits — on those records; but for basic information such as release dates and directors, the dependence on a single line of evidence is disclosed as a limitation.

The strongest objection: "A Doraemon film is not something you appraise as design. It is something a child sees with a parent over the spring holiday and remembers as an adult. Nostalgia is therefore the correct yardstick, and taking it out means this ranking has mistaken its subject." That is a coherent objection. The answer here is that the yardstick is not fixed to one setting. Switch the lens and the king changes and the order moves. The position taken is not that one measure is right, but that which measure is in use should be stated in the open.

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Sources

  1. Film 1, Nobita's Dinosaur (the first in the series; released 15 March 1980; directed by Hiroshi Fukutomi; screenplay by Fujiko Fujio and Seiji Matsuoka). The manga original ran in CoroCoro Comic across the January to March 1980 issues, three instalments in all, and is volume 1 of the tankobon series. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E6%81%90%E7%AB%9C
  2. Film 2, The Records of Nobita, Spaceblazer (the second in the series; released 14 March 1981; directed by Hideo Nishimaki; screenplay by Fujiko Fujio). The manga original ran from the September 1980 issue to the February 1981 issue, six instalments, volume 2. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E5%AE%87%E5%AE%99%E9%96%8B%E6%8B%93%E5%8F%B2
  3. Film 3, Nobita and the Haunts of Evil (the third in the series; released 13 March 1982; directed by Hideo Nishimaki; screenplay by Fujiko Fujio). The manga original ran from the September 1981 issue to the February 1982 issue, six instalments, volume 3. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E5%A4%A7%E9%AD%94%E5%A2%83
  4. Film 4, Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil (the fourth in the series; released 12 March 1983; directed by Tsutomu Shibayama; screenplay by Fujiko Fujio). The manga original ran from the August 1982 issue to the February 1983 issue, seven instalments, and carried a different title through the fourth. Volume 4. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E6%B5%B7%E5%BA%95%E9%AC%BC%E5%B2%A9%E5%9F%8E
  5. Film 5, Nobita's Great Adventure into the Underworld (the fifth in the series; released 17 March 1984; directed by Tsutomu Shibayama; screenplay by Fujiko Fujio). The manga original ran from the September 1983 issue to the February 1984 issue, six instalments, volume 5. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E9%AD%94%E7%95%8C%E5%A4%A7%E5%86%92%E9%99%BA
  6. Film 6, Nobita's Little Star Wars (the sixth in the series; released 16 March 1985; directed by Tsutomu Shibayama; screenplay by Fujiko Fujio). The manga original ran from the August 1984 issue to the January 1985 issue, six instalments, volume 6. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E5%AE%87%E5%AE%99%E5%B0%8F%E6%88%A6%E4%BA%89
  7. Film 7, Nobita and the Steel Troops (the seventh in the series; released 15 March 1986; directed by Tsutomu Shibayama; screenplay by Fujiko Fujio). The manga original ran from the August 1985 issue to the January 1986 issue, six instalments, volume 7. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%A8%E9%89%84%E4%BA%BA%E5%85%B5%E5%9B%A3
  8. Film 8, Nobita and the Knights on Dinosaurs (the eighth in the series; released 14 March 1987; directed by Tsutomu Shibayama; screenplay by Fujiko Fujio). The manga original ran from the November 1986 issue to the March 1987 issue, five instalments, volume 8. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%A8%E7%AB%9C%E3%81%AE%E9%A8%8E%E5%A3%AB
  9. Film 9, The Record of Nobita's Parallel Visit to the West (the ninth in the series; released 12 March 1988; directed by Tsutomu Shibayama; screenplay by Ryo Motohira). There is no manga original; the screenplay is original to the film. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E3%83%91%E3%83%A9%E3%83%AC%E3%83%AB%E8%A5%BF%E9%81%8A%E8%A8%98
  10. Film 10, Nobita and the Birth of Japan (the tenth in the series; released 11 March 1989; directed by Tsutomu Shibayama; screenplay by Fujiko F. Fujio). The manga original ran from the October 1988 issue to the March 1989 issue, six instalments; the author's pen name is given in one form through the February issue and in another in the March issue alone. Volume 9. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%95%E7%94%9F
  11. Film 11, Nobita and the Animal Planet (the eleventh in the series; released 10 March 1990; directed by Tsutomu Shibayama; screenplay by Fujiko F. Fujio). The manga original ran from the October 1989 issue to the March 1990 issue, six instalments, volume 10. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%A8%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AB%E6%83%91%E6%98%9F
  12. Film 12, Nobita's Dorabian Nights (the twelfth in the series; released 9 March 1991; directed by Tsutomu Shibayama; screenplay by Fujiko F. Fujio). The manga original ran from the September 1990 issue to the February 1991 issue, six instalments, volume 11. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%83%93%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%8A%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88
  13. Film 13, Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds (the thirteenth in the series; released 7 March 1992; directed by Tsutomu Shibayama; screenplay by Fujiko F. Fujio). The manga original ran from the October 1991 issue and was interrupted at the January 1992 issue because of the author's ill health; the February and March issues took the form of an illustrated story drawn by Fujiko Pro, and the manga ending was drawn later, in 1994. Volume 12. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%A8%E9%9B%B2%E3%81%AE%E7%8E%8B%E5%9B%BD
  14. Film 14, Nobita and the Tin Labyrinth (the fourteenth in the series; released 6 March 1993; directed by Tsutomu Shibayama; screenplay by Fujiko F. Fujio). The manga original ran from the September 1992 issue to the March 1993 issue, six instalments with the January issue skipped, volume 13. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%A8%E3%83%96%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AD%E3%81%AE%E8%BF%B7%E5%AE%AE
  15. Film 15, Nobita's Three Visionary Swordsmen (the fifteenth in the series; released 12 March 1994; directed by Tsutomu Shibayama; screenplay by Fujiko F. Fujio). The manga original ran from the September 1993 issue to the March 1994 issue, six instalments with the January issue skipped, volume 14. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%A8%E5%A4%A2%E5%B9%BB%E4%B8%89%E5%89%A3%E5%A3%AB
  16. Film 16, Nobita's Diary on the Creation of the World (the sixteenth in the series; released 4 March 1995; directed by Tsutomu Shibayama; screenplay by Fujiko F. Fujio). The manga original ran from the September 1994 issue to the March 1995 issue, six instalments with the December issue skipped, volume 15. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E5%89%B5%E4%B8%96%E6%97%A5%E8%A8%98
  17. Film 17, Nobita and the Galaxy Super-express (the seventeenth in the series; released 2 March 1996; directed by Tsutomu Shibayama; screenplay by Fujiko F. Fujio). The manga original ran from the September 1995 issue to the February 1996 issue, six instalments, volume 16. It is the last long manga Fujiko F. Fujio drew through to completion. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%A8%E9%8A%80%E6%B2%B3%E8%B6%85%E7%89%B9%E6%80%A5
  18. Film 18, Nobita and the Spiral City (the eighteenth in the series; released 8 March 1997; directed by Tsutomu Shibayama; screenplay by Fujiko F. Fujio). The manga original is the work Fujiko F. Fujio left unfinished; volume 17. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E3%81%AD%E3%81%98%E5%B7%BB%E3%81%8D%E9%83%BD%E5%B8%82%E5%86%92%E9%99%BA%E8%A8%98
  19. Film 19, Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas (the nineteenth in the series; released 7 March 1998; directed by Tsutomu Shibayama; screenplay by Nobuaki Kishima). The manga original was drawn by Shinichi Hagiwara; volume 18. It is the first film made after the death of Fujiko F. Fujio. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E5%8D%97%E6%B5%B7%E5%A4%A7%E5%86%92%E9%99%BA
  20. Film 20, Nobita Drifts in the Universe (the twentieth in the series; released 6 March 1999; directed by Tsutomu Shibayama; screenplay by Nobuaki Kishima). The manga original was drawn by Fujiko Pro; volume 19. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E5%AE%87%E5%AE%99%E6%BC%82%E6%B5%81%E8%A8%98
  21. Film 21, Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King (the twenty-first in the series; released 11 March 2000; directed by Tsutomu Shibayama; screenplay by Nobuaki Kishima). The manga original was drawn by Fujiko Pro; volume 20. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E5%A4%AA%E9%99%BD%E7%8E%8B%E4%BC%9D%E8%AA%AC
  22. Film 22, Nobita and the Winged Braves (the twenty-second in the series; released 10 March 2001; directed by Tsutomu Shibayama; screenplay by Nobuaki Kishima). The manga original ran across the February and March 2001 issues, two instalments, drawn by Fujiko Pro; volume 21. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%A8%E7%BF%BC%E3%81%AE%E5%8B%87%E8%80%85%E3%81%9F%E3%81%A1
  23. Film 23, Nobita in the Robot Kingdom (the twenty-third in the series; released 9 March 2002; directed by Tsutomu Shibayama; screenplay by Nobuaki Kishima). The manga original ran across the February and March 2002 issues, two instalments, drawn by Fujiko Pro; volume 22. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%A8%E3%83%AD%E3%83%9C%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E7%8E%8B%E5%9B%BD
  24. Film 24, Nobita and the Windmasters (the twenty-fourth in the series; released 8 March 2003; directed by Tsutomu Shibayama; screenplay by Nobuaki Kishima). The manga original ran across the February and March 2003 issues, two instalments, drawn by Fujiko Pro; volume 23. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%A8%E3%81%B5%E3%81%97%E3%81%8E%E9%A2%A8%E4%BD%BF%E3%81%84
  25. Film 25, Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey (the twenty-fifth in the series; released 6 March 2004; directed by Tsutomu Shibayama; screenplay by Nobuaki Kishima). The manga original was drawn by Fujiko Pro; volume 24. The article states that this is the last film with Nobuyo Oyama and the first-generation voice cast, and the last film directed by Tsutomu Shibayama. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E3%83%AF%E3%83%B3%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E6%99%82%E7%A9%BA%E4%BC%9D
  26. Film 26, Nobita's Dinosaur 2006 (the twenty-sixth in the series; released 4 March 2006; directed by Ayumu Watanabe; screenplay by Ayumu Watanabe and Kozo Kusuba). A remake of the first film, and the first film after the change of the regular voice cast. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E6%81%90%E7%AB%9C2006
  27. Film 27, Nobita's New Great Adventure into the Underworld (the twenty-seventh in the series; released 10 March 2007; directed by Yukiyo Teramoto; screenplay by Yuichi Shimpo). A remake of the fifth film. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E6%96%B0%E9%AD%94%E7%95%8C%E5%A4%A7%E5%86%92%E9%99%BA_%E3%80%9C7%E4%BA%BA%E3%81%AE%E9%AD%94%E6%B3%95%E4%BD%BF%E3%81%84%E3%80%9C
  28. Film 28, Nobita and the Green Giant Legend (the twenty-eighth in the series; released 8 March 2008; directed by Ayumu Watanabe; screenplay by Hiroshi Onogi). An original built on short manga by Fujiko F. Fujio. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%A8%E7%B7%91%E3%81%AE%E5%B7%A8%E4%BA%BA%E4%BC%9D
  29. Film 29, The New Record of Nobita's Spaceblazer (the twenty-ninth in the series; released 7 March 2009; directed by Shigeo Koshi; screenplay by Yuichi Shimpo). A remake of the second film. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E6%96%B0%E3%83%BB%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E5%AE%87%E5%AE%99%E9%96%8B%E6%8B%93%E5%8F%B2
  30. Film 30, Nobita's Great Battle of the Mermaid King (the thirtieth in the series; released 6 March 2010; directed by Kozo Kusuba; screenplay by Yuichi Shimpo). An original built on a short manga by Fujiko F. Fujio. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E4%BA%BA%E9%AD%9A%E5%A4%A7%E6%B5%B7%E6%88%A6
  31. Film 31, Nobita and the New Steel Troops (the thirty-first in the series; released 5 March 2011; directed by Yukiyo Teramoto; screenplay by Higashi Shimizu). A remake of the seventh film. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E6%96%B0%E3%83%BB%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%A8%E9%89%84%E4%BA%BA%E5%85%B5%E5%9B%A3_%E3%80%9C%E3%81%AF%E3%81%B0%E3%81%9F%E3%81%91_%E5%A4%A9%E4%BD%BF%E3%81%9F%E3%81%A1%E3%80%9C
  32. Film 32, Nobita and the Island of Miracles (the thirty-second in the series; released 3 March 2012; directed by Kozo Kusuba; screenplay by Higashi Shimizu). Mugiwara Shintaro is credited for the story concept and production cooperation, not as the original author. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%A8%E5%A5%87%E8%B7%A1%E3%81%AE%E5%B3%B6_%E3%80%9C%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AB_%E3%82%A2%E3%83%89%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%80%9C
  33. Film 33, Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum (the thirty-third in the series; released 9 March 2013; directed by Yukiyo Teramoto; screenplay by Higashi Shimizu). The article states that this is the first film in the series that does not take a manga as its basis. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B2%E3%81%BF%E3%81%A4%E9%81%93%E5%85%B7%E5%8D%9A%E7%89%A9%E9%A4%A8
  34. Film 34, Nobita in the New Haunts of Evil (the thirty-fourth in the series; released 8 March 2014; directed by Shinnosuke Yakuwa; screenplay by Higashi Shimizu). A remake of the third film. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E6%96%B0%E3%83%BB%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E5%A4%A7%E9%AD%94%E5%A2%83_%E3%80%9C%E3%83%9A%E3%82%B3%E3%81%A85%E4%BA%BA%E3%81%AE%E6%8E%A2%E6%A4%9C%E9%9A%8A%E3%80%9C
  35. Film 35, Nobita's Space Heroes (the thirty-fifth in the series; released 7 March 2015; directed by Yoshihiro Osugi; screenplay by Higashi Shimizu). An original. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E5%AE%87%E5%AE%99%E8%8B%B1%E9%9B%84%E8%A8%98
  36. Film 36, Nobita and the Birth of Japan 2016 (the thirty-sixth in the series; released 5 March 2016; directed by Shinnosuke Yakuwa; screenplay by Shinnosuke Yakuwa). A remake of the tenth film. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E6%96%B0%E3%83%BB%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%95%E7%94%9F
  37. Film 37, Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi (the thirty-seventh in the series; released 4 March 2017; directed by Atsushi Takahashi; screenplay by Atsushi Takahashi). An original built on a short manga by Fujiko F. Fujio. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E5%8D%97%E6%A5%B5%E3%82%AB%E3%83%81%E3%82%B3%E3%83%81%E5%A4%A7%E5%86%92%E9%99%BA
  38. Film 38, Nobita's Treasure Island (the thirty-eighth in the series; released 3 March 2018; directed by Kazuaki Imai; screenplay by Genki Kawamura). An original. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E5%AE%9D%E5%B3%B6
  39. Film 39, Nobita's Chronicle of the Moon Exploration (the thirty-ninth in the series; released 1 March 2019; directed by Shinnosuke Yakuwa; screenplay by Mizuki Tsujimura). An original built on a short manga by Fujiko F. Fujio. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E6%9C%88%E9%9D%A2%E6%8E%A2%E6%9F%BB%E8%A8%98
  40. Film 40, Nobita's New Dinosaur (the fortieth in the series; released 7 August 2020; directed by Kazuaki Imai; screenplay by Genki Kawamura). The original release date was 6 March 2020. The article states that it is an original that takes in elements of the first film and is not a remake. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E6%96%B0%E6%81%90%E7%AB%9C
  41. Film 41, Nobita's Little Star Wars 2021 (the forty-first in the series; released 4 March 2022; directed by Susumu Yamaguchi; screenplay by Dai Sato). The original release date was 5 March 2021. A remake of the sixth film. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E5%AE%87%E5%AE%99%E5%B0%8F%E6%88%A6%E4%BA%89_2021
  42. Film 42, Nobita's Sky Utopia (the forty-second in the series; released 3 March 2023; directed by Takumi Doyama; screenplay by Ryota Kosawa). An original. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%A8%E7%A9%BA%E3%81%AE%E7%90%86%E6%83%B3%E9%83%B7
  43. Film 43, Nobita's Earth Symphony (the forty-third in the series; released 1 March 2024; directed by Kazuaki Imai; screenplay by Teruko Utsumi). An original. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E5%9C%B0%E7%90%83%E4%BA%A4%E9%9F%BF%E6%A5%BD
  44. Film 44, Nobita's Art World Tales (the forty-fourth in the series; released 7 March 2025; directed by Yukiyo Teramoto; screenplay by Koshi Ito). An original, and the last film in the period covered here. — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E7%B5%B5%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E7%89%A9%E8%AA%9E
  45. The birth date of Fujiko F. Fujio (real name Hiroshi Fujimoto), 1 December 1933, and his death on 23 September 1996 — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%97%A4%E5%AD%90%E3%83%BBF%E3%83%BB%E4%B8%8D%E4%BA%8C%E9%9B%84
  46. The serialisation dates in CoroCoro Comic and the tankobon volume numbers for each long manga, and the account of Nobita and the Spiral City as the work left unfinished: Hiroshi Fujimoto died during work on the third instalment, the only inking he did himself was the title page and the colour pages of the first, Fujiko Pro finished his remaining pencils through the third instalment, and the rest was made from the storyboards and outlines he left. Also that Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds was interrupted at the January 1992 issue because of his ill health and that the February and March issues took the form of an illustrated story — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E9%95%B7%E7%B7%A8%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93
  47. That the creator credit on the Doraemon's Long Tales tankobon differs by volume: volumes 1 to 17 record Fujiko F. Fujio alone, while volume 18, Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas, adds Shinichi Hagiwara, and volume 21, Nobita and the Winged Braves, and Nobita in the Robot Kingdom add Yasunori Okada, so that a second creator appears alongside the author. The authority record gives the author's dates as 1933-1996 — National Diet Library Search, opensearch API https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/api/opensearch?title=%E5%A4%A7%E9%95%B7%E7%B7%A8%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93&cnt=100
  48. That the deluxe edition published by Shogakukan in 2022 bundles the long manga under the name of Fujiko F. Fujio as seventeen works (Doraemon's Long Tales, 17 Scene Art Posters: DORAEMON'S LONG TALES BY FUJIKO.F.FUJIO 17 POSTERS, 2022, Shogakukan) — National Diet Library Search, opensearch API https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/api/opensearch?title=%E5%A4%A7%E9%95%B7%E7%B7%A8%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93&cnt=100&idx=101
  49. That what the National Diet Library holds for The Record of Nobita's Parallel Visit to the West is the two-volume Anime Edition tankobon of the film rather than anything in the Doraemon's Long Tales series, which is to say a comic made from the film's own frames and not a manga original — National Diet Library Search, opensearch API https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/api/opensearch?title=%E3%83%91%E3%83%A9%E3%83%AC%E3%83%AB%E8%A5%BF%E9%81%8A%E8%A8%98&cnt=50
  50. That the articles for the nineteenth film onward carry a note to the effect that the name of Fujiko F. Fujio credited as original author is used in the sense of the author of the Doraemon manga as a whole, and that he was not involved in building the story of that film — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E5%8D%97%E6%B5%B7%E5%A4%A7%E5%86%92%E9%99%BA
  51. That the change of the regular voice cast was first made public in a newspaper report dated 22 November 2004, that the television series with Nobuyo Oyama and the first cast ended with the broadcast of 18 March 2005, and that broadcasts with the new cast began on 15 April 2005 — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_(1979%E5%B9%B4%E3%81%AE%E3%83%86%E3%83%AC%E3%83%93%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A1)
  52. That the films, released every year without a break for twenty-five years from 1980 to 2004, had no release at all in 2005 for the first time — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93_%E3%81%AE%E3%81%B3%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%AE%E3%83%AF%E3%83%B3%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E6%99%82%E7%A9%BA%E4%BC%9D
  53. That the fortieth film moved from 6 March 2020 to 7 August 2020 and the forty-first from 5 March 2021 to 4 March 2022, with the result that no film was released in 2021 — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB%E4%BD%9C%E5%93%81
  54. That Yuichi Shimpo, who wrote the twenty-seventh, twenty-ninth and thirtieth films, is a novelist who won the Edogawa Rampo Prize in 1991 for Rensa, and that he had earlier sat the entrance examination at Shin-Ei Animation hoping to make animation like Doraemon, was turned down, came in by way of a subcontractor and was assigned to the literary department rather than to drawing. He has been a Naoki Prize finalist four times without winning — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9C%9F%E4%BF%9D%E8%A3%95%E4%B8%80
  55. That Mizuki Tsujimura, who wrote the thirty-ninth film, is a novelist who won the Naoki Prize in 2012 for Kagi no Nai Yume o Miru, and that Fujiko F. Fujio is listed among her influences — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%BE%BB%E6%9D%91%E6%B7%B1%E6%9C%88
  56. That the novel Koori no Kujira by Mizuki Tsujimura (2005, Kodansha Novels) takes Doraemon as its subject and that each of its chapters is named after a gadget — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%87%8D%E3%82%8A%E3%81%AE%E3%81%8F%E3%81%98%E3%82%89
  57. That Ryota Kosawa, who wrote the forty-second film, is a screenwriter who has won the Japan Academy Film Prize for best screenplay and the Mukoda Kuniko Award — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%A4%E6%B2%A2%E8%89%AF%E5%A4%AA
  58. That Genki Kawamura, who wrote the thirty-eighth and fortieth films, is a film producer and has won the Fujimoto Award more than once — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B7%9D%E6%9D%91%E5%85%83%E6%B0%97
  59. That Ryo Motohira, who wrote the ninth film, is a former animation director and screenwriter who served as chief director on the Doraemon television series from 1981 to 1984 and is now a Jodo Shinshu priest — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%82%E3%81%A8%E3%81%B2%E3%82%89%E4%BA%86
  60. That Nobuaki Kishima, who wrote the nineteenth through twenty-fifth films, is the screenwriter who handled the Doraemon long-form films after the death of Fujiko F. Fujio — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B2%B8%E9%96%93%E4%BF%A1%E6%98%8E
  61. That the director Tsutomu Shibayama handled twenty-two consecutive films, from the fourth to the twenty-fifth — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8A%9D%E5%B1%B1%E5%8A%AA
  62. That the forty-fifth film, Nobita and the New Castle of the Undersea Devil, was released on 27 February 2026 and is a remake of the fourth film, and that a forty-sixth film, Nobita's Steam Time Machine, is planned for spring 2027 (the basis for placing both outside the period covered here) — Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB%E4%BD%9C%E5%93%81