— Hidetoshi Dekisugi, Nobita and the Green Giant Legend
Hidetoshi Dekisugi (
Dekisugi is highly esteemed by people around him. His good behavior and academic + athletic excellence, earns him the title of "honor student" from the teachers. A wide range of skills plus his good looks, have charmed a lot of girls in his class, and one of them is Shizuka. This seemingly "perfect" image of a prince makes him to be the subject of envy of his classmates, especially Nobita.
His name literally means "brilliant over-achiever", and his last name is a pun on dekisugiru, which means "over achieving". Unfortunately for Nobita, Shizuka tends to prefer the company of him; who is more of her intellectual equal. This stimulates Nobita to concoct bizarre schemes, with the help of Doraemon's gadgets, to keep them apart. In the future; he becomes an astronaut, gets married, and has a son named Hideo.
Relationships
Shizuka Minamoto
Both of them are close friends. Dekisugi often spends time with her, mostly for homework or casual activities (e.g. reading, playing board games, telling jokes, outdoor painting, hanging out, etc). He also cooks with her in the kitchen sometimes.
Nobita Nobi
Nobita is the polar opposite, or antithesis, of Dekisugi. He's often found to be jealous of Dekisugi because of his relationship with Shizuka Minamoto, and surpasses him in every aspect. It's not rare for Nobita to damage his stationery, bothering him with menial tasks, or interfering his conversations with Shizuka. Occasionally, Nobita would abuse Doraemon's gadgets to try and defeat Dekisugi, but usually fails. For example, Nobita used the Fear-Creation Machine to make Dekisugi look bad, but ends up making him look even better than ever before, including getting 100 on his test that he is unable to complete due to fear. Despite this fact, Dekisugi still considers him a friend; even going as far as secretly baking a cake for Nobita's birthday. He even once stood up for Nobita when Gian and Suneo bullied Nobita for always failing in class and getting 0's on all of his tests. He is basically the only other boy in Nobita's class to genuinely express compassion for Nobita.
Gariben
In It's Solved! The Dekisugi Case, Gariben started giving Dekisugi a hard time by pulling prank calls at midnight in order for him to get low test scores. However, Doraemon and Nobita used the Object Electrical Transmission Adapter to capture the mysterious suspect. Gariben admits that he hated being the second best student in class and tried to ruin Dekisugi's reputation. But due to Dekisugi's forgiving nature, Dekisugi is willing to help Gariben study so that he can be as good as him.
Skills and Talents
Dekisugi was remarkably intelligent; proven by scoring 100% on every exam, which enables him to finish his homework without any obstacle. He is deemed to be very athletic; as he shown prowess in Baseball (batting), Soccer (dribbling), and Tracks (agility and endurance). Artistic talents also seems to be one of his forte, especially realism. He once was able to depict the scene of a lake and portrait of Shizuka perfectly, which were highly praised by his peers. He also seems to be good at cooking.
He is an all-rounder for a boy of his age; for being adept at doing chores like crafting and cooking.
He also possesses several unique skills such as sleight of hand and magic tricks.
Personality
Despite his vast skills and talents; he shows modesty and gentleman-like behavior to his friends and never shows off. Dekisugi is also an incredibly intelligent and responsible child whom always finds time do revision and chores all the time. He has a lot of common sense and is very coordinated. He also seems to always encourage other people to do their best and never speak ill of them.
Dekisugi has shown tendency to thinking through reasoning and rationality. In short; he didn't believe in superstitions and regards them to be "scientifically explainable". He also doesn't seem to be mesmerized (much) by Doraemon's gadgets, but still intrigued by their whimsicality.
Trivia
- Dekisugi never appeared in the 1973 anime, this was possibly because the Fujiko duo were still working on the manga at that time and Dekisugi wasn't added until later in the manga.
- In the American English dub of the anime, Dekisugi's name is changed to Ace Goody, his first name means a skilled person (similar to his Japanese name) and goody means a good or favoured person.
- Dekisugi shares the same shape of facial features, including irises, nose and lips, with Shizuka or her friend. Because of this physical trait, Dekisugi is considered the most handsome boy in class.
- While Nobita is constantly requested and/or ordered to do impossible taks he doesn't want to as well as being picked on his entire life, Dekisugi is the only one that nobody ever bullies, even Gian never once hit him nor Suneo disrespects him.
- However, when Gian asked Dekisugi to play baseball with him and his team, Dekisugi is eager enough to want to play. Due to his great athletic skills, he is praised by The Giants.
- In the mirror world, Dekisugi's counterpart is unintelligent and scores zeros on his tests.
- In the earlier Malay adaptation for the manga, Dekisugi's name was 'Sumuzan', 'Chong Meng' and the infamously mistranslated 'Tekisugi'.
- In the Spanish dub, Dekisugi's name was changed to Dekigusu to ease its pronunciation, while in the Latin America dub, it remained as Dekisugi.
Names in different languages
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
Korean Korean
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박영민 Bak Yeong-min "Bak" means bright, referring to his quick and intelligent behavior |