Nobita Nobi is a normal fourth grade student. This all changes, however, when a blue robotic cat appears from his desk drawer. Calling himself Doraemon, this robot tells Nobita that his future descendants from the 22nd century live in poverty because of all the mistakes he made. Therefore, they have sent Doraemon to serve as a guide and mentor to Nobita, so that their future may change for the better. What Doraemon comes to learn, though, is that Nobita is the weakest and laziest student in the whole school.

There is no such thing as an uneventful day in the life of kindergartener Shinnosuke “Shin-chan” Nohara. The five-year-old is a cut above the most troublesome, perverted, and shameless kid one can imagine. Shin-chan is almost always engaged in questionable activities such as forgetting about a friend during hide and seek, sumo wrestling for love, performing various gags including the notorious “elephant” in public, and flirting with college girls. The exemplary troublemaker has done it all and has no plans to stop anytime soon.

Hailing from the mountains of Iga, Kanzo Hattori moves in with elementary school student Kenichi Mitsuba and his family to hone his skills as a ninja. Remake of the Ninja Hattori (1981) series.

The everyday Sanyo family gets an unexpected surprise in the shape of a new lodger-Hattori is a ninja boy who has come down from the Iga mountains to attend normal school. Befriending Kenichi Sanyo, who is the same age as he, Hattori starts attending school undercover, occasionally accompanied by his brother, Shinzo, Shishimaru the ninja dog, and Kenichi’s friend, Yumeko. The gang is also threatened by the rival Koga ninja, Amara, and his evil sidekick, Keo the Shadow-cat.

Noby’s life is changed forever the day Doraemon, a cat-like robot from the future, pops out of a time portal in his top desk drawer. Doraemon has been sent back in time by Noby’s great great grandson, Soby, to change Noby’s legendarily tragic life for the better – thereby improving the life of all of his descendants. Unfortuantely, underachiever Noby seems to cause a great deal of his own misfortune, and the addition of an endless supply of futuristic gadgets from Doraemon’s 4th dimensional pocket usually creates even more trouble.