Proposal War

The episode begins with Nobita's mother preparing a fine meal in celebration of the twelfth anniversary of Nobita's father and hers wedding. At dinner, Nobita's mother and father have conflicting memories on who proposed first. They fight, and Doraemon takes Nobita back in time to find out just what happened. On the day of the proposal, they see Nobita's future father running late. To teach him a lesson, Nobita's future mother pretends to walk off, but decides to go back to him once it appears he has suffered long enough. It seems, however, that she has very poor eyesight and she picked another man who happens to be similarly built and dressed. Nobita's father stalks off. Once Nobita's mother puts on her eyeglasses and realizes she has the wrong man, she goes after him, but sees him embracing his sister and misinterprets this to be his quick recovery from their break-up. To rectify the situation, Doraemon uses a robot that transforms into each of their parents and tells the other the thing they remembered at dinner. They marry, but Nobita realizes they didn't solve the problem of who proposed first. Once returned to his own time, Nobita expects his parents to have divorced, but surprisingly, they have decided who proposed first doesn't matter and made up on their own.

Nobita Nobi, Doraemon, Shizuka Minamoto, Takeshi "Gian" Goda, Suneo Honekawa, Dorami, Nobisuke Nobi, Tamako Nobi

Originally a 26-episode TV series in 1973, this second series ran over 1000 episodes.

Although this series often has been credited to the Fujiko-Fujio design duo, it actually was created solely by Hiroshi "Fujiko" Fujimoto.

An ongoing series, "Doraemon" is expected to have more than 2,000 episodes by the end of 2004.

Other series included 617 10-minute episodes and more than 900 25-minute episodes.

"Doraemon" movies, lasting about 90 minutes each, have been issued regularly during the Japanese spring break. These started with "Nobita's Dinosaur" (1980) and were followed by "Nobita the Space Colonist," "Nobita's Magic Tower," "Nobita's Undersea Fortress," "Nobita Goes to Hell," "Nobita's Little Star Wars" and "Nobita and the Iron Warrior" (1986).

Later movies included "Nobita's Parrallel Journey to the West" (1988), "Nobita at the Birth of Japan," "Nobita's Animal Planet," "Nobita's Anmal Arabian Nights," "Nobita in Snow Country," "Nobita's Tin-Plate Labyrinth" and "Nobita's Fantastic Three Musketeers."

A 1995 film, "The Birth of Doraemon," traced the series' origins. A new series of films followed: "Nobita's Galctic Express, "Nobita's Clockwork City," "Nobita's South Sea Adventure" (which set a Japanese box-office record for animated films), "Nobita Gets Lost in Space," "Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King" and "Nobita's Winged Heroes."

Dozens of Doraemon TV specials have appeared through the years. Many have been combined with other specials to create additional "movies": "It's New Year!", "It's Summer!", "It's Autumn!", "It's Winter!", "It's Spring!", "Summer Holiday," "Doraemon Meets Hattori the Ninja," "Featherplane," "What Am I for Momotaro?", "Come Back Doraemon," "Doraemon and Itchy the Stray," "Doraemon's Time Capsula for 2001" and "Treasure of Shinugami Mountain."

Doraemon's "little sister" from the future, Dorami-chan, was featured in several short films, starting with "Dorami-chan: Mini-Dora SOS" (1981).