Doraemon

Doraemon
Details
Countries	Spain Basque Country
Language	European Spanish
Recording studio	DOMusic TV (early episodes) FX-Media (rest of the series)
Channels	Canal Sur 2 (La banda block; formerly) Cartoon Network (formerly) Boing Canal Panda (Portuguese subtitles; first 4 episodes; formerly) Panda Biggs (Portuguese subtitles; formerly)
Services	Max (KIDS section) YouTube Boing App
Release	2009 - present

Doraemon is the European Spanish dub of ドラえもん (2005), licensed by Luk Internacional.
Although it was licensed in 2009, back then, its availability was somewhat scarce; Canal Sur 2 aired it on said year through its La banda block but stopped airing it in 2011 when Boing picked up the rights to both the 1979 anime redub and this dub of the 2005 anime, with said channel still airing the latter to this day. That same year, on June 14, it aired on Cartoon Network's Spanish feed alongside the 1979 anime until its closure.
Canal Panda aired the first four episodes with Portuguese subtitles in 2009, but was later moved to Panda Biggs that same year and was kept on the air until 2010, and a European Portuguese dub wasn't made until 2015, which aired on Cartoon Network Portugal.

The first episodes were done in Biscay by DOMusic TV, but after the studio closed in 2009, the rest of the series was dubbed by FX-Media in Bilbao.

The dub became a success in its native Spain, although it has been often criticised for censoring scenes in recent years, which is a very infamous part of anime localization for years.

Broadcast

Spain

In general

Boing began airing the series in 2011 alongside the 1979 anime, although the 2005 anime didn't air frequently until the mid 2010s.

That same year, on June 14, Cartoon Network aired the dub but was later shut down in Spain alongside Cartoonito on June 30, 2013 due to the economic crisis that is happening at the time.

Andalusia

Autonomic TV channel Canal Sur 2 aired the series between 2009 and 2011 on its La banda block.

Andorra

Most of the channels in which this dub aired were also available in Andorra, despite its only official language being Catalan, which also led to Catalan-language channels being available there (including Super3, who aired the Catalan dub back in the 2010s).

Portugal

Canal Panda aired the first four episodes with Portuguese subtitles in 2009, but was later moved to Panda Biggs that same year and was kept on the air until 2010.

Africa

Canal Panda and Panda Biggs were also broadcast in Angola and Mozambique as a result of the countries' Portuguese colonies.

Streaming

Episodes of the dub are often uploaded to the official Spanish Doraemon YouTube channel. Usually, these episodes were only accesible through Spanish IP addresses, although new episodes are also temporarily available outside of Spain.

The series is also available on the KIDS section of HBO España, as well as its replacement HBO Max.

Cast

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Character		Actor
The gang
	Doraemon	Estíbaliz Lizárraga
	Nobita	Nuria Marín Picó
	Shizuka	Sonia Torrecilla
	Suneo	Antón Palomar
	Gigante	Alberto Escobal García
The Nobi family
	Tamako	Pilar Ferrero
Nobisuke		Víctor Prieto
Minor characters
Dorami		Rosa Romay

Songs

Title		Composed by	Sung by		Episode		Audio
Opening themes
夢をかなえてドラえもん	Doraemon | Canción de inicio actual	Katsuhiko Kurosu 黒須克彦	MAO まお	Nuria Marín Picó	87-555	All

Changes

• Several characters' names were kept, albeit having different pronunciations:
  • Doraemon's name is pronounced as "Dora-ee-mon" (Doráimon), rather than "Dora-eh-mon" (Dora-emon) like the Japanese original. This is also carried over from other Spanish Doraemon media as far back as Sonygraf's European Spanish dub of the 1979 anime.
• Some characters also have their pronunciation tones changed:
  • Nobita has an accent in "bi" (Nobíta), rather than "no" (Nóbita) like the Japanese original.
  • Shizuka has an accent in "zu" (Shizúka), rather than "shi" (Shízuka) like the Japanese original.
• The intro and ending are not sung by a singer who didn't voice any characters; it was instead sung by Nobita's voice actress.
• Dekisugi was renamed to "Dekigusu" for easier pronunciaton.
• On some recent Boing airings, the footage has been slightly slowed down, most likely either to accomodate for deleted scenes or to fill up time.
  • A similar thing occurred with some NES launch titles in Europe, though that's because they aren't optimized for the PAL standard.
  • In rare occasions, the episode might also air in PAL pitch, most likely due to time constraints.
• On Boing, the ending is cut-off.
  • Said ending in the dub is also the first intro of the 2005 anime in Japan, which includes an instrumental of Doraemon no Uta.

Censorship

On recent Boing airings, several episodes are censored, cutting some scenes such as Gian punching on Suneo's head. A few bath scenes are also cut, though some manage to get past the radar.
Some dialogue was also toned down. In "La escalera de los sueños", Shizuka says "のび太さんのエッチ！" ("Nobita's a pervert!"), which is usually translated as "¡Eres un pervertido!" ("You're a pervert!"), but in the aforementioned episode, it's translated as "¡Nobita, vete de aquí ya!" ("Nobita, get out of here already!").

The same censorship is found in official YouTube uploads, especially after the COPPA update came into light, which resulted in the addition of the (now-infamous) "made for kids" audience setting.

As typical for anime censorship, the censorship resulted in outrage from fans. The censorship is absent on HBO Max, therefore leading to more positive reception.

Notes

• Some of the episodes aren't dubbed in the correct order.
  • In addition, a few episodes are also skipped, hence the inaccurate order.
• A lot of the voice actors/actresses reprise their roles from the 1979 anime redub.