Season 5 • Episode 13
LatestDoremi meets a mysterious girl named Fami, who shares similar traits with her.
Ojamajo Doremi, known as Magical DoReMi internationally, is a magical girl anime television series created by Toei Animation in 1999. It focuses on elementary school students who become witch apprentices. Led by Doremi Harukaze, the girls must maintain their double lives in secret. Ojamajo Doremi has been followed up by three direct sequels, lasting until its end in 2003. During the television series' runtime, two companion films were released in theaters. The English dub, produced by 4Kids Entertainment, released a preview episode in the US airing on August 13, 2005, and the first episode on September 10, 2005.
Direction
Toei's surprisingly ambitious visual storytelling for kids
Writing
Character arcs spanning 214 episodes of genuine growth
Score
Catchy transformation songs that live rent-free in your head
Chiemi Chiba
Doremi Harukaze
Tomoko Akiya
Hazuki Fujiwara
Yuki Matsuoka
Aiko Senō
Rumi Shishido
Onpu Segawa
Nami Miyahara
Masaru Yada
Naomi Nagasawa
Majorika
Sawa Ishige
Pop Harukaze
Ai Nagano
Reika Tamaki
Chigusa Ikeda
Shino Hanada
Mari Adachi
Onpu's Mom
Kyoko Donowaki
Nobuko Yokokawa
Yuka Imai
Joou-sama
Nanaho Katsuragi
Seki-sensei (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Magical DoReMi helped define the 'unconventional magical girl' trope, influencing later subversive series like Madoka Magica.
The 4Kids dub notoriously replaced onigiri with donuts and stripped most Japanese cultural references, making it a case study in localization failures.
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