Magical DoReMi, known as Ojamajo Doremi ( おジャ魔女どれみ Ojamajo Doremi?) in Japan , is a
magical girl anime television series created by Toei Animation in 1999. It
focuses on elementary school students who become witch apprentices. Led by
Doremi Harukaze, the girls must maintain their double lives in secret.
Magical DoReMi has been followed up by three direct sequels,
lasting until its end in 2003. During the television series' runtime, two
companion films were released in theaters. The English dub, produced by 4Kids
Entertainment, debuted in the US
on September 10, 2005, with a preview episode airing on August 13, 2005.
Plot
Ojamajo Doremi
Eight-year-old Doremi Harukaze aspires to be a user of
magic, as she believes it would solve all her problems and help her confess to
a boy she liked. One afternoon, she comes upon a magic shop and correctly
suspects that the shop owner is a witch. The shop owner becomes a witch frog,
grenoulle, as this happens to witches when their true identities are
discovered. In order to retain her original form, the shop owner, Majo Rika,
takes Doremi as her apprentice to turn her into a witch. Doremi must take nine
witch exams at night to become an official witch; however, she must never let
her own identity as a witch be found out or the same fate that befell Majo Rika
will happen to her. Because of Doremi's constant mishaps in magic, Majo Rika
refers to her as an "ojamajo" (おジャ魔女?),
a portmanteau of the words "ojama" (お邪魔 lit. "troublesome"?) and
("majo" (魔女 lit.
"witch"?).
On her way, Doremi is joined by her two best friends,Hazuki
Fujiwara and Aiko Senō, as well as her younger sister, Pop. While taking tests
to become better witches, at the same time, Doremi and her friends help out
their classmates and friends with their own problems via magic, as well as
battle Majo Rika's rival, Majo Ruka. All is going well until they meet Onpu
Segawa, a child idol, who does not share the same morals in using magic as
them. Eventually, Onpu allies with Doremi and the girls and even saves them
from turning into witch frogs at the cost of her own consciousness.
Ojamajo Doremi # (Sharp)
Not long after Doremi and the girls finish the 3rd grade,
they go into the Witch World to see Majo Rika. While taking a shortcut through
the garden, the girls witness the birth of a baby, whom Doremi later names
Hana. According to the witch law, they have to take care of the baby for a year
since they witnessed Hana's birth.While Doremi and the girls learn to take care
of Hana and help her take baby tests, at the same time, the wizards in the
Wizard World are afraid of the tremendous magical power Hana has.Oyajide, a
former ally of Doremi's, plans to capture Hana at all costs and even hires four
boy wizard prodigies, the FLAT4, to help.
Mōtto! Ojamajo Doremi
After losing their witch apprenticeship to ensure Hana's
growth,[10] Doremi and the girls are given another chance to get their
apprenticeship back by appealing to the Witch Senate with sweets. As none of
the girls know how to bake well, the Queen introduces Momoko Asuka, who was
denied the aprenticeship herself for trying to revive her mentor Majo Monroe,
into their group to aid their quest.In Doremi's daily life, Momoko also becomes
her classmate, but due to living in New York for most of her life, she is
unable to speak Japanese well in her normal form and is unfamiliar with
Japanese culture, and the only thing remaining that makes her Japanese is the
way she looks and her face and her race. While Doremi and the girls patiently
teach her, they are also given temporary custody of Hana-chan, who was cursed
with the former witch queen's magic to hate vegetables, which are crucial to
her health. (Ojamajo Doremi Naisho is a part of Motto Ojamajo Doremi.)
Ojamajo Doremi Dokka~n!
Doremi and the girls are made into full witches by the senate,but the former witch queen's curse is about to put all worlds into an eternal sleep. The only way to stop the curse is to awaken her and recreate the gifts she both made and received from her grandchildren. At the same time, Hana, who has become bored of the Witch World, uses magic to age herself into an 11-year-old to be able to attend Doremi's school.[15]Media
Anime
Ojamajo Doremi is produced by Toei Animation and ABC. In
Japan, the show aired on each of the ANN TV stations (Asahi Broadcasting
Corporation (ABC, Japan), TV Asahi, Nagoya TV (Metele), and others) and
Broadcasting System of San-in Inc.. The show replaced the time slot for Yume no
Crayon Oukoku after its end and lasted from February 7, 1999 to January 30,
2000, with a new episode airing every week. The series soon followed with
direct sequels, Ojamajo Doremi #, Mōtto! Ojamajo Doremi, and Ojamajo Doremi
Dokkān! until January 26, 2003. Each series lasted from 49 to 51 episodes. In North America , 4Kids Entertainment licensed the show
under the title Magical DoReMi, which aired on 4Kids TV for the 2005-2006
broadcasting season. Unlike the international dubs and like many broadcast
anime in the USA ,
Magical DoReMi was heavily edited and localized for US audiences and a lower
TV-Y rating. Episode 30 was never released in English.
Starting with a sneak preview episode on August 13, 2005,
4Kids TV followed with new episodes airing every week since September 2005. The
show was put on hiatus in mid-2006, but resumed progress with new episodes have
been posted every Tuesday on their streaming video website from 2007 to 2008.
On April 24, 2010, Magical DoReMi returned on US television on The CW4Kids[18]
and ended its re-runs on July 24, 2010. Starting on May 27, 2010, 4Kids
Entertainment also started uploading the entire show onto their YouTube channel.
Ratings
- Despite the frequent violence, it is rated TV-Y.
- When it was shown on the American Cartoon Network, it is rated TV-Y7-FV.
Manga
From 1999 to early 2003, the manga magazine Nakayoshi ran a
manga-adaptation of Ojamajo Doremi. The story was based on the events of the
original anime and was drawn by Shizue Takanashi. The chapters were compiled
into tankōbon volumes by Kodansha. Four volumes were released in total — the
first three were under the title Ojamajo Doremi, covering the events of the
original series and Ojamajo Doremi #. The last volume was adapted from the
Mo~tto! Ojamajo Doremi story arc and was titled eponymously to it.
Film
Ojamajo Doremi #: The Movie
Ojamajo Doremi #: The Movie (映画おジャ魔女どれみ# Eiga Ojamajo Doremi Shāpu?) was the first
theatrical release for the series and was directed by Shigeyasu Yamauchi.
Roughly twenty-seven minutes long, it was released on July 8, 2000 (along with
Digimon Hurricane Touchdown!! / Supreme Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals) for
the 2000 Summer Toei Anime Fair. The Digimon movie was split into two parts and
Ojamajo Doremi #: The Movie was screened in between.
In the movie, Pop has just passed one of her witch exams,
but gets into a heated argument with Doremi because Hana followed her into the
Witch World. Initially unbeknownst to everyone, the flower Pop brought home from the Witch World is really the Witch
Queen Heart, the Queen's favorite flower, which grants any wish it hears
regardless of any possible dangers until it begins to bear seeds. One of the
wishes it had granted involves turning Doremi into a mouse, unknowingly made by
Pop over her anger towards Doremi. While Pop goes to search for her sister, the
other girls track down the runaway flower before it starts to reproduce.
Though the movie bears little relevance to the series it's
based on, it does mostly take place some time between episodes 16 and 37 and is
referenced in both episodes 37 and 40 (the latter coinciding with the
post-credits scene).
The Secret of the Frog Stone
Mōtto! Ojamajo Doremi: The Secret of the Frog Stone ( も～っと!おジャ魔女どれみ: カエル石のひみつ Mōtto! Ojamajo Doremi: Kaeru Seki no Himitsu?) was the series' second theatrical release and hit theaters on July 14, 2001, screened between Digimon Tamers: Battle of Adventurers and Kinnikuman: Second Generations. Similar to the first movie, it was again directed by Shigeyasu Yamauchi.
During Doremi and her friends' summer vacation, they visit
her grandparents in the fictional mountains of Fukuyama ,
where they hear of a mysterious legend of Mayuri and Zenjuro, two star-crossed
lovers that died in the Edo period. During the
next morning, when they investigate the forest, the girls get lost and face the
Curse of the Full Moon, which makes them unable to use magic. Meanwhile, due to
a traumatizing memory, Aiko develops a fear of Doremi's grandfather.
CDs
Throughout the run of the series, multiple singles, albums,
and compilations were distributed. The original series' CDs were released under
Bandai Music Entertainment, while music from Ojamajo Doremi # was distributed
by King Records. However, from Mo~tto! Ojamajo Doremi onwards, the CDs were
distributed by Marvelous Entertainment.
Light Novel
On September 5, 2011, Kodansha Limited announced the coming
of the light novel Ojamajo Doremi 16 (おジャ魔女どれみ16
Ojamajo Doremi 16?), featuring the original work of Izumi Todo, story written
by Midori Kuriyama, and illustrations by Yoshihiko Umakoshi, that was released
on December 2, 2011.. Chiba Chiemi, the voice of Doremi Harukaze, posted via
Twitter that she had received a copy and that it focuses on the characters'
lives in high school.
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