Sumire Hoshino (星野スミレ Hoshino Sumire) is a famous teen celebrity in the time of Nobita. She is also known as her Perman identity Perko (パー子 Pāko) in Perman and is the only female member in Perman's team.
Appearance[]
As a teen, Sumire has brown hair, black eyes and wears an orange headband like in Perman; although her hair lenght reaches to her shoulders instead of very short in this version. She wears different clothing depending on the episode. In Stand by Me Doraemon, she has black hair instead of brown.
Appearances in Doraemon[]
The Almighty Pass[]
Sumire was visited by Nobita and Shizuka, who used Almighty Pass to enter her house and spent time chatting with her. However, the gadget's effect wore off at 6pm and the angry Sumire chased them out of her house.
The Anything Airport[]
Booby, Perko and Perman in The Anything Airport
In both 1979 and 2005 anime adaptation of The Anything Airport, Sumire made a brief cameo appearances under her identity as "Perko" alongside with Perman and Booby.
The Pitch-Black Pop Star[]
What a Scoop! Nobita and the Secret Date[]
Nobita & Sumire
We don't know what is the meaning of naming this episode as a secret date because Sumire speaks about Mitsuo to Nobita not mentioning his name and Nobita and Sumire don't have any type of such relationship and they have Shizuka and Mitsuo as their crushes respectively in their minds. As Nobita flash himself with the Noticeable Light, he was famous around Japan. Nobita runs fast as he almost got a car accident. The one who rides the car is Sumire, since famous already she was ineffective with the Fame Light and help Nobita escape by inviting him in her car. Both the two have some snacks with their disguise on. As soon Sumire removes her glasses, she was spotted with 2 girls and both Nobita & Sumire get back on the car and move away. They went to the beach where no people will disturb them.
Doraemon: Nobita and the New Steel Troops ~Winged Angels~[]
In the light novel adaptation of the movie remake, Sumire learned the existence of the Steel Troops through Doraemon's gadgets by coincidence and discovered that Nobita and his friends has been fighting against the Steel Troops for a while. Sumire originally wanted to help the children but she realized that she couldn't do anything for them, referring to the fact that she's no longer have her superpower as Perko in her childhood days. She is the only character beside Nobita's friends who is aware at the Steel Troops' invasion of the Earth.
In order to confort their parents who has been worrying them due to their sudden disappearance, Sumire lied to them that she meet their children during her filming and they're currently going on a trip with Doraemon's help.
It's not known if the light novel adaptation of the events is considered canon or not.
Stand by Me Doraemon[]
Sumire (on the poster) as she appears as a cameo.
First, she appeared in one of the posters of Doraemon in Nobita's closet, although her hair is black instead of brown. Then later her name showed in one of the ads in the venue of Nobita & Shizuka's wedding.
Personality[]
She's nice, kind-hearted, and helpful. As Pako, she used to be mean and bossy.
Relationships[]
Nobita Nobi[]
Sumire helped Nobita in the episode What a Scoop! Nobita and the Secret Date!.
Mitsuo Suwa[]
She used to fight with him but started falling in love with him not because he is Perman, but as Mitsuo his heart is pure, and he loves everybody and can do anything by sacrificing his life. This quality inspired her a lot.
Etymology[]
- The name Sumire is written in katakana (スミレ), which has no special meaning. However, when written in kanji (菫), it could possibly mean "violet".
- Sumire's surname Hoshino means "star" (星) (hoshi) and "field, wilderness" (野) (no), which literally means "field of stars" altogether. The first kanji may be possibly referencing her being a celebrity.
Trivia[]
- Sumire is one of the Permen in the manga series Perman (which was also created by Fujiko F. Fujio), but her age in this series is older than her age in Perman. It may happen due to the age difference in the releasing of their manga, as the Perman manga was released in 1966 whereas Doraemon was in 1969, and so she is 14 now.
- In the episode, What a Scoop! Nobita and the Secret Date, when Nobita asks her who her favourite person is, she opens her necklace locket and shows him a picture of Mitsuo Suwa, the main character and one of the Permen in Perman.
- In the Brazilian dub she is called Jacqueline Sato, the same name of the daughter of the owner of the anime distributor, who is also an actress.
External Links[]
- Sumire Hoshino on Perman Wiki