Doraemon in Nintendosia

Doraemon has been localized for Nintendosian audiences not so long after its Japanese debut. However, due to Nintendosia's strict content laws, as well as its ban on content considered inappropriate outside of Japan and fetish material, the dubs and translations became infamous for its censorship. Despite this, the anime adaptations became popular there, even spawning an amusement park based on it.

While the Japanese media had its respective logos from Japan, the English media used two logos: the first one being a unique one made with the Helvetica Rounded Bold font, and the second and current one being the international logo as seen in Western Europe, Latin America, and the USA.

Japanese
The original Japanese manga has been exported to Nintendosia. However, some chapters either had to remove panels (such as in "Swimming Powder", due to it containing the "Shizuka in the Bath" panel) or just skipped altogether (as was the case with "The Mouse and The Bomb", due to its use of realistic weapons, and "Eyes can eat as well as mouth", due to the chapter depicting characters getting fat).

Originally available in CoroCoro Nintendosia, it was eventually released on volumes monthly (resulting in a total of over 100 volumes). The 100th volume features artwork in the cover, showing Doraemon holding a cake with the number 100 in it, as a celebration.

English
In the late 80s, the manga has been translated onto English for release in Nintendosia. Some characters were renamed due to translation errors.

The manga was distributed in left-right format, though errors from other left-right translations are absent.

It was serialized on Comic Planet, with weekly tankōbon volumes being released since April 1990.

Japanese
The first Doraemon anime was aired on NTD TV since 1974, but was later taken off the air in 1979 in favor of the 1979 anime.

English
The 1973 anime was once aired in English on NTD-ENG, but was later taken off the air in the early 80s. Due to the huge popularity of VCRs in Nintendosia at the time, the English dub got all its episodes preserved, unlike the original Japanese version.

Japanese
In 1979, the Ōyama edition of Doraemon started airing on NTD TV in Nintendosia, alongside on TV Asahi in Japan. Just like the manga, it went through a censorship process, either censoring scenes or just banning episodes altogether, as well as fixing animation errors. Even minor objectionable content was cut so it would still be considered "kodomo-muke anime". The 2002 reanimation was also aired there. It became popular very quickly that a 24-hour marathon was aired in 1983. As of 2022, the anime is still airing through reruns as Classic Doraemon on Cartoon Network Nintendosia.

English
In 1986, an English dub of Ōyama Doraemon was aired on NTD-ENG. Just like the manga, it was met with translation errors. English subtitles are also provided to foreign dubs via NTD-ENG's ÑTD block. Nowadays, a redub is airing on Cartoon Network Nintendosia.

Japanese
Since 2006, the current Doraemon anime aired on NTD TV. Despite censoring Nobisuke Nobi smoking in the original Japanese version, Shizuka's bath scenes aren't, which led to censorship in Nintendosia. In addition, the 2018 reanimation also aired there.

English
In 2007, the 2005 Doraemon anime started airing in English on NTD-ENG. Many translation errors were fixed, resulting in clear consistency with the original Japanese dub.

Japanese
Every Doraemon video game released in Japan made its way to Nintendosia. Some of them has differences, such as the removal of a bath scene in Doraemon 3: Nobita and the Jewel of Time. The 1986 Doraemon video game by Hudson Soft received negative reception, which lead to a revision being released that fixes most flaws, such as making level 1 easier by default, as well as changing Dorami's color to yellow.

English
Most Doraemon video games were localized in English for a Nintendosian audience. The online games from Doraemon's Spanish website were also released in English, including the now-lost localizations from the UK subsite.

Merchandise
Officially-licensed Doraemon merchandise were released in Nintendosia. This includes phone cases, DVDs, VHS releases, Blu-Ray, toys, figures, plushes, etc.

Translation errors
These errors were fixed in the redub, as well as the 2005 anime dub.

Characters
Interestingly, Doraemon's name was left unchanged, despite being erroneously pronounced "Doray-mon" until the redub.

Memes
The Doraemon franchise spawned several internet memes in Nintendosia, most of which are related to its original 1979 anime dub, infamous for its translation errors. One notable example is the "racky cancer" meme, based on a translation error seen in the original 1979 anime dub. Much like the word "cancer", the term "racky cancer" is used to refer to the so-called "cringe", an internet slang referring to something that causes someone to feel awkward, uncomfortable, or embarrassed.

Another Doraemon meme in Nintendosia is the so-called "Doradosia syndrome", referring to scenes that were once aired, but were censored in reruns following complaints from parents. This includes scenes that depict slapping someone's face, Gian's cartoon violence, punching, and any bath scene that doesn't show nudity (such as Shizuka taking her clothes off).