Season 22

Doraemon Season 22 arrived in 2000 — forty episodes of Japanese family animation, all easy to watch online on iFILM. The little robot cat from the future is still digging careless schoolboy Nobita out of trouble.

Doraemon shares Nobita's house and keeps reaching into his pocket for another device — a time machine, the Anywhere Door, the bamboo-copter. This season runs on the same spring: the boy wants a shortcut, the gadget misfires, and the whole gang ends up cleaning up after it. Gian belts out his dreadful songs, Suneo brags about his toys, Shizuka stays the level head. There's no real drama here — just warm humor and a short lesson at the close of nearly every episode.

The series comes from manga artist Fujiko F. Fujio; by 2000 it had already run for more than twenty years without losing its charm. These forty episodes work fine even if you're meeting Doraemon for the first time. Stream Season 22 online on iFILM.