Cancellation of Doraemon (1973)
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Doraemon (Particularly known as Doraemon 1973 or ドラえもん 73) was a 1973 series based of the popular Manga/Anime series Doraemon made by Fujio F. Fujiko spanning a ton of movies and a reboot in 2005. It sold about 100 million copies in 30 countries and won the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1982 and the Osamu Award in 2008. A lot of the Doraemon movies sold 100 million tickets.
However, before Doraemon became Japan's best anime of all time, it started off as a manga series in 1969 and got a 1973 series made by the now defunct Nippon TV Moving Picture in which today is considered lost media, it was originally an attempt however it did a little success to get reruns until 1979 when Doraemon got another series.
Background
Note: This page only applies to the cancellation of the series do not flaw as a whole.
Originally Nippon TV Moving Picture [Not to be confused with Nippon TV] were licensed to make a pilot of Doraemon in 1972 and was test screened including The Creator of Doraemon, Fujio F. Fujiko, and it did well which led to the creation of the '73 series. It had 26 episodes and 26 segments and 2-episode parts, an A segment & a B segment, 1 episode called The Dullness is Frustrating was rejected and no one knows how long it took for production. Doraemon's Voice Actor Kosei Tomita was Doraemon's first & only Male Voice Actor, however he got into a car incident so instead Masako Nozawa took the lead and was Doraemon's First Female Voice Actress ever. In total of 26 episodes and 52 segments, the studio ran from April 1 to September 30, 1973.
Cancelation of A Second Season
Doraemon '73 did super well when it aired and was planned to have a second season, however, Both the show and the studio ran into some issues, firstly the changes between Nobita & Doraemon have changed, this led to Fujio F. Fujiko hating the series despite liking the pilot episode of Doraemon. Another issue was the Nippon TV Studio's President, Kiyoshi Watanabe, during the TV show's run, he disappeared during the airtime, this led to the studio run into some issues. While in bankruptcy, the studio felt unpaid and have to sell of studio assets including Film reels in order to pay off their debts, this led to the controversial topic of if the film reels were either kept, thrown away [for unknown reasons] or burned in a Kerosene Fire [A Trash bin full of Fire] and were included with the unsold production materials, however Doraemon 73's production chief named Hiroshi Shimozaki debunked this theory and it was nothing but a rumor and was only for production reasons, and then the studio dissolved, The last channel to air the 73 series was Toyama Television, in which the publisher told the makers to stop airing that series so that the now occurring 1979 series won't be harmed.
Aftermath
Despite some of the episodes being lost, most of the episodes were found but were not released online, a studio name Studio Rush [Now known as IMAGICA] found episode 18 & 20 through 26 in their archives and segments like 12B, 5A, and 10B, Hiroshi Shimozaki changed his name to Masumi Jun & found a few episodes and some with raw footage, he then released the show's intro and credits on his website, unfortunately he was told that the intro and credits come from an anonymous Japanese website called 2channel, it was a bit too late to delete them. One person had a recording of Crazy Stomach Clock on a VHS, many pictures of the episodes were taken by Masumi Jun and uploaded onto his said website. While on the discussion of the found episodes of Doraemon 1973, Kiyoshi Watanabe a.k.a. Masami Niikura, the president of Nippon TV Moving Picture was never heard of again in 1986 after getting arrested of illegal use of weapons into the Philippines.
Video
The Opening & Ending Credits.
Reviews
References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doraemon_(1973_TV_series)
https://doraemon.fandom.com/wiki/Doraemon_(1973_anime)
https://lostmediawiki.com/Doraemon_(partially_found_first-adaptation_anime_series;_1973)
Trivia
- This is the only Doraemon anime to only be released in Japan.
- Originally Gatchako was Doraemon's helper in her appearance in this series, however Fujio F. Fujiko hated her, so she was replaced with Doraemon's Sister Dorami.
- There was a Japanese adult film called Dokyumento poruno: Zoku chikan that had a lost Doraemon 1973 episode playing on the TV while a woman was unclothed and was reading a newspaper while watching the show, the episode was called "Love Love This Camera".