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Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey (ドラえもん のび太のワンニャン時空伝 Doraemon: Nobita no Wan-Nyan Jikūden) is the twenty-fifth installment of the Doraemon feature films and the last in the 1979 era.

After creating a haven for abandoned cats and dogs 300 million years in the past, Nobita returns to find that the land is on the verge of destruction!

An elderly dog goes to a time machine, which he plans to use to drive to the future so he can meet with "someone" who gives him a kendama. However, the machine goes haywire and the dog is regressed back to his infant state, eventually found by a researcher cat.

Plot

An elderly dog goes to a time machine, which he plans to use to drive to the future so he can meet with "someone" who gives him a kendama. However, the machine encounters "temporal turbulence" and goes haywire and the dog is regressed back to his infant state, eventually found by a researcher cat.

In the present day, Nobita finds a stray dog drowning in a river while playing with Gian and Suneo by the river side. Feeling sorry for the dog, he decides to take it home by hiding it in a "kennel on the wall" and names it Ichi (originated from "One", which is a homophone of the sound of a barking dog in Japanese), and secretly feeds it and plays with Ichi with his kendama to find. Soon after, he also adopts a stray cat named Zubu (or wet in Japanese, due to the discovery of it in a rainstorm). Eventually, Nobita's mother gets suspicious and checks in on Nobita's room. To avoid being caught with Ichi and Zubu, he and Doraemon travel through The Anywhere Door to the Mountains, but accidentally finds more stray dogs and cats endangered by deforestation. With so many pets, Nobita and his friends decide to send them back in time, 300 million years ago, where there was no other living beings around. After using the Ray of Evolution to allow them to operate a food-making machine, they depart, with Nobita promising Ichi that he will return later.

However, when they try to visit them the next day (from their point of view), they encountered a time-space anomaly, sending them crash landing 1,000 years after their original time-destination; to their surprise, they found out the dogs and cats have overused the Ray of Evolution which makes them evolved enough to form a civilized society that rivaled those of Future Society. As the time machine is broken, they have to wait until it can be fixed. In the meantime, they explore the society, where they meet with a group of teenage thieves: Bulltaro, Duk, Chiko, and the leader, Hachi. Nobita is certain that Hachi is really bow bow Ichi in disguise, despite the difference in time. Nobita and his friends accompany the thieves in infiltrating an amusement park, where they believe is the location where the thieves' parents are held prisoner. Using a drill, the group arrives at a room containing a time machine, but the group are attacked by the guards and separated; Doraemon is stunned and taken by the guards while the rest are taken prisoner.

Meanwhile, the government predict a cluster of asteroids that will collide with Earth and to evacuate the citizens, they order chunks of Noradium, materials capable of building spacecrafts to be sent to the government, but they are stolen by Nekojara, a treacherous high-ranking official. Doraemon awakes to meet with Nekojara, who explains that he plans to use a Noradium-powered time machine to travel to the future so he can take revenge against humans for abandoning unwanted animals using the "devolve" function on the Ray of Evolution as written in a prophecy book written by his ancestor, Zubu. He manages to trick Doraemon to fix the ray after threatening to kill Shami, an idol cat who Doraemon falls in love with, who is actually his underling. After being freed from prison, the others stage a mission to rescue Doraemon and take the Noradium back. Doraemon manages to break the Ray of Evolution and escapes from the machine with Shami (whom Nekojara abandons) while Nobita and Hachi successfully stop the time machine from functioning. However, a meteor hits the machine and sinks it, rendering the Noradium unusable. Hachi is also sent underwater and as Nobita rescues Hachi from drowning, Hachi learns that he is in fact Ichi and is the elderly dog shown in the beginning of the film. He remembers that he had stored a Nobita-shaped statue built purely by Noradium. The group takes the statue and delivers it to the government, destroying Nekojara's time machine and captures him and his underling along the way.

The government successfully build several spacecrafts and quickly evacuate the citizens right before the asteroids fall. As Nobita departs along with his friends in the repaired time machine, he bids Ichi farewell.

Characters

Gadgets used

Cast

Voice Actor Role(s)
Nobuyo Ōyama Doraemon
Noriko Ohara Nobita Nobi
Michiko Nomura Shizuka Minamoto
Kazuya Tatekabe Takeshi Gouda
Kaneta Kimotsuki Suneo Honekawa
Megumi Hayashibara Ichi
Osamu Saka Old Ichi
Hitomi Shimatani Chiko
Tomokazu Seki Duk
Hisao Egawa Bulltaro
Mika Kanai Sharmee
Shigeru Izumiya Nekojara
Toshio Furukawa Nyago
Tōru Ōhira President of Wan-nyan City
Yūko Mizutani Zubu


Music

Theme songs
Opening
Doraemon no Uta
Ending
YUME Biyori

Gallery

Trivia

  • Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Doraemon television series on the TV Asahi as well as the twenty-fifth feature movie of Doraemon. It aired again in March 25, 2005, marking the end mark of the 1979 anime series.
  • This is the last Doraemon film to star the original cast from the 1979 anime and last Doraemon film to have a original look based on 1979 anime before new look introduced next year in 2005, which has no feature film.
  • This movie was based on a Doraemon episode when Nobita found a dog and named it Ichi.

Navigation

Nobita's DinosaurThe Records of Nobita, SpaceblazerNobita and the Haunts of EvilNobita's Monstrous Underwater CastleNobita's Great Adventure into the UnderworldNobita's Little Star WarsNobita and the Steel TroopsNobita and the Knights on DinosaursThe Record of Nobita's Parallel Visit to the WestNobita and the Birth of JapanNobita and the Animal PlanetNobita's Dorabian NightsNobita and the Kingdom of CloudsNobita and the Tin LabyrinthNobita's Three Visionary SwordsmenNobita's Diary on the Creation of the WorldNobita and the Galaxy Super-expressNobita and the Spiral CityNobita's Great Adventure in the South SeasNobita Drifts in the UniverseNobita's Legend of the Sun KingNobita and the Winged BravesNobita in the Robot KingdomNobita and the WindmastersNobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey
Nobita's Dinosaur 2006Nobita's New Great Adventure into the Underworld ~The 7 Magic Users~Nobita and the Green Giant LegendThe Record of Nobita's SpaceblazerNobita's Great Battle of the Mermaid KingNobita and the New Steel Troops ~Winged Angels~Nobita and the Island of Miracles ~Animal Adventure~Nobita's Secret Gadget MuseumNew Nobita's Great Demon ~Peko and the Exploration Party of 5~Stand by Me DoraemonNobita's Space HeroesNobita and the Birth of Japan 2016Nobita's Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi KochiNobita's Treasure IslandNobita's Chronicle of the Moon ExplorationNobita's New DinosaurStand by Me Doraemon 2Nobita's Little Space Wars 2021Nobita's Sky Utopia
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