US English dub

A US English dub of the 2005 series produced by Fujiko F. Fujio Pro, TV Asahi, Bang Zoom! Entertainment, and distributed by Viz Media began airing on Disney XD on July 7, 2014 under the name Doraemon: Gadget Cat from the Future. In Australia, it started airing on 26 January 2015 on Network Ten. Later it moved in Australia to Cartoon Network and Boomerang.^[7] In Canada, it briefly aired on Disney XD's Canadian feed before being re-branded as Family CHRGD. The dub features veteran anime voice actress Mona Marshall in the title role of Doraemon and Johnny Yong Bosch as Nobita (known in the dub as "Noby").

The English dub has been heavily modified to meet American broadcasting guidelines, censoring content deemed inappropriate for American children, as well as replacing many Japanese cultural elements with American cultural elements. Some modifications include Americanized character and gadget name changes from the English version of the manga, an episode order completely different from the Japanese episode order, nudity being heavily censored by adding steam, cloud effects, or clothing,^[8][9] and some episodes having several minutes of footage cut. However, certain uniquely Japanese characteristics - such as house structure, kneeling on the floor to eat, the side where cars drive, and Nobisuke Nobi (Toby Nobi)'s kimono - remain. Japanese food featured throughout the series were also localized: while Doraemon's favorite food, dorayaki, was kept in but referred as "yummy buns", others were edited out and replaced with Western equivalents, such as omurice becoming pancakes. All the background music and sound effects were replaced with new background music and sound effects deemed "easier for American children to emphasize with".^[4]

At least one character's personality was also partially rewritten. Shizuka (renamed Sue in the English dub) is portrayed as more tomboyish and athletic than the Japanese version, although her sweet nature and kind personality were not changed. This is reportedly because her traditionally Japanese habits were perceived as being difficult for American children to understand in test viewings of the Japanese version.^{[citation needed]}

It was announced that reruns of the American version would be re-imported to Japan and aired on Disney Channel Japan starting on February 1, 2016. The network also provides a Japanese dub of the version as a secondary audio feed.^[10]

UK/HK English dub

Doraemon began broadcasting in the United Kingdom on August 17, 2015 on Boomerang, ^[11] but finished its run sometime in January 2016 and has never been broadcast since.

Despite this dub being made for and to be broadcast in the UK only, it was produced in Hong Kong. The dub is also more faithful to the original Japanese dub than the US English dub, with lack of censorships. The names of the characters are borrowed from the US English dub. It is thought that only 26 episodes are dubbed, with some of these episodes being lost.

Original cast

• Wasabi Mizuta - Doraemon^[12]
• Megumi Ōhara - Nobita Nobi^[13]
• Yumi Kakazu - Shizuka Minamoto
• Subaru Kimura - Takeshi "Gian" Goda
• Tomokazu Seki - Suneo Honekawa
• Chiaki Fujimoto - Dorami
• Mari Maruta - Mii-chan
• Kotono Mitsuishi - Tamako Nobi
• Yasunori Matsumoto - Nobisuke Nobi
• Shihoko Hagino - Hidetoshi Dekisugi
• Wataru Takagi - Sensei
• Sachi Matsumoto - Sewashi Nobi
• Ai Orikasa - Mrs. Minamoto
• Mahito Oba - Mr. Minamoto
• Aruno Tahara - Mr. Minamoto
• Minami Takayama - Mrs. Honekawa
• Hideyuki Tanaka - Mr. Honekawa
• Miyako Takeuchi - Mrs. Goda
• Vanilla Yamazaki - Jaiko Goda
• Tomato Akai - Mini-Doras
• Rie Kugimiya - Lulli (ep 228)
• Yukari Tamura - Lapis Espinela
• Koki Miyata - Goro

English cast

Opening themes

The series features new opening themes, except for the first one. Most of the international versions of the series only use the third opening theme and their own endings.

The American dub uses its own unique opening sequence that compiles footage from the Japanese version. To explain the premise of the story, a narration by Doraemon about "why he came from the future" is utilized rather than an actual opening theme.^[4] The ending theme is an instrumental played over scenes from the third Japanese opening theme.

Ending themes

Since the series incorporates all the credits into the opening theme, an ending theme is primarily absent. However, some episodes use an ending theme.