I've always wanted to watch this anime for a long time now and finally it's in the UK on TV so lets see if Doraemon lives up to being the treasure of Japanese Anime.

Doraemon is a blue robot cat created in future Japan and sent back in time by inventor Nobita Nobi to help his younger self achieve a more successful life as his child self is a complete utter loser. As this is an extremely long running anime, a typical episode centers around some issue involving Nobi that gets solved by a gadget from Doraemon's hammer space pockets, he also has a time machine, however not much really changes between episodes, that's pretty much the plot for the most famous anime in Japan. Pity it's just a Japanese Charlie Brown which I despise.
I'm going to speak seriously for a minute, I don't like Charlie Brown because Charlie Brown is a total loser and nothing about him is even remotely likable much in the same way I don't like anything about Nobita Nobi for the same reasons, so you look at the two animal characters that do make the show bearable which are Snoopy and Doraemon respectively; the show should really be them on their own because they can make a good show solo. I would take a hundred episodes of Doraemon the Blue Robot Cat on his own helping random people over Nobita Nobi any day.
Now I know some people grew up on Charlie Brown and Doraemon but I'm not one of those people, being from the UK I didn't have either shows, Charlie Brown was strictly limited to cable channels and Doraemon I only got today, yeah you heard me, Doraemon only premiered in the UK today at time of writing.
I understand that something that's such a key part of growing up should be considered memorable and close to one's heart but on the opposite end of the scale Doraemon doesn't really do anything new or really encourage me to sit through hundreds of episodes, the blue robot cat is still fun on his own and if he did everything on his own it would be something amazing but having such a complete loser as the main character and whole point of the plot, all I'm watching is a Japanese Charlie Brown which I already hate.
The dub I watch is British and borrows from the same cast as Inazuma Eleven so is surprisingly well done. The American dub I've been told is pretty decent as well.
Final Verdict: I understand it's significance to Japanese youth but being a British youth I don't really rate it that highly because I didn't have the luxury of growing up with it, much in the same way as Charlie Brown. I realize that's a weak argument but I really can't make myself like Doraemon.