The national flag of Singapore
This Doraemon picture uses Singapore as the backdrop, with the Merlion (before it was moved to Merlion Park) and Anderson Bridge visible
Doraemon in Singapore refers to the Chinese and English adaptation of the Doraemon series in Singapore.
Mentions within Doraemon[]
- One episode of Doraemon 2005 anime series have Nobita mentions that he want go work on Singapore once he grow up, and was never bring up again since the episode.
Manga[]
- In 1970s, Singapore began publishing pirated Doraemon manga series in several small bookstores.
- Since 1994, the manga series was officially licensed by Singapore Press.
- In the 2000s, the manga series was published by Chuang Yi, and was available mainly in Simplified Chinese, but an English bilingual version (English-Simplified Chinese) was also released in ten volumes. After ceasing operations in late 2013 and entering voluntary liquidation in early 2014, their manga publishing business had ended, and Shogakukan Asia appeared, and purchased the company's intellectual properties and acts as its successor in that capacity. At the time of the company's closure, all 45 volumes of Doraemon were published in Simplified Chinese, as well as all 24 volumes of Doraemon Long Stories and the first 5 volumes of Doraemon Plus, both also in Simplified Chinese.
- The Doraemon manga has been published in American English in print by Shogakukan Asia, using the same translation as the manga in United States.
Anime[]
Channel 8 aired the 1979 anime between 1992 and 2001, and between 2005 and 2016, in Mandarin dubbing, and has remained airing at the same time slot. The 2005 anime began airing from 14 February 2016, and repeat telecasts aired from 27 July 2016, like Malay dub, which was repeat telecasts on NTV7 in early 2018 until 2019/2020, and Indonesian which was repeat telecasts on RCTI between early 2019 and 2020.
There are no options of dual sound (Japanese and Standard Chinese) available and only dubbed in Mandarin Chinese (Taiwanese Mandarin dubbed) with Traditional Chinese subtitles. The Singapore English dub were confirmed has been already exist in 2000s. Although if Singapore has gotten the rights to air the Taiwanese dub is unknown as of today.
It was aired on the Channel 8's Sunday morning kids block on 9:30a.m.-10:00a.m., and also aired on 2PM at Wednesday.
Changes[]
Singapore aired the Taiwanese Chinese dub since 2005, with Traditional Chinese subtitles remained as they are since Singapore never practices the replacement of subtitles into simplified Chinese.
Flims[]
Previously, Singapore sometimes broadcast Doraemon films in Mediacorp Channel 8 sometimes in morning.
Merchandises[]
The 2021 Singaporean promotion poster of the Doraemon McDonalds Kids Meal space toy sets.
In September 2 of 2021, it is announced that McDonalds will sell Kids' Meal including an Doraemon space toys on Singapore. However, the space-themed toys were similar to Japan, except that toys were modified to remove references to Doraemon: Nobita's Little Space Wars 2021. Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia and South Korea has also announced that they'll sell the same set of merchandises on their McDonalds restaurant too.[1]
Here's the list of the weekly 2021 McDonalds Happy Meal space-themed Doraemon toys:
- September 2 to 8: Space Radar, Zero Gravity Dancer
- September 9 to 15: Anywhere Door Surprise, Space Capsule Spinner
- September 16 to 22: Rocket Ship Launcher, Planet Walker
- September 23 to 29: Space Tunnel Slide, Orbit Balancer