Doraemon in the Big City (TV Series)

Doraemon in the Big City is an upcoming 2022 American-Japanese live action/animated jukebox musical romantic comedy adventure television series created, written, co-produced, and directed by Tim Federle and co-produced by Disney Television Animation with visual effects and animation provided by Mercury Filmworks, Lighthouse Studios, Industrial Light & Magic and DNEG set to be released in mid-2022. The series will take place after Doraemon the Movie: Noby’s Under-the-Sea Rescue where Noby accidentally blow up Tammy's house with a bounce cannon and now escape the wrath of their enraged mother. On the run, he, Sue and Doraemon travel to America and found themselves ended up in a place called New York City of which Sue must take them on various adventures there of which where she'll risk her life to protect them from her deadly wrath while she and Noby discover romance in the most unexpected places.

There was an one-hour episode finale titled Mom-apocalypse: The Final Showdown! where Tammy transforms into a 50-foot (then 200-foot) demon kaiju and drags Noby down into the Underworld, Doraemon and Sue must rescue him before his soul is destroyed and Doraemon and Sue heroically defeating Tammy and bravely doing so in the end and everything is reversed back to normal before Big G destroyed Mr. S's house.

This will include Disney characters similar in the manner of Scooby-Doo! and Guess Who and many versions of hit songs old and new also similar in the vein of the 2019 biopic Rocketman, the Disney musical On the Record and the jukebox broadway musical that inspired the 2012 film adaptation Rock of Ages.

The series will have more slapstick comedy, romance and adventure unlike The Cuphead Show! even with the designs of the characters made in the tradition of the 2013 Mickey Mouse cartoons, but still stay true to the anime.

The designs of the characters will stay true to the 2005 anime series.

Characters

 * Jim Parsons (replacing Martin Short and Mona Marshall) as Doraemon, a blue cat from the 22nd century. His singing voice is provided by Brendon Urie.
 * Johnny Yong Bosch as Noby Nobi, a clueless and lazy, but kind-hearted kid. His singing voice is provided by Nicholas Galitzine.
 * Cassandra Lee Morris as Sue, a beautiful, cute, adventurous and kind-hearted girl and Noby's best friend and love interest. Her singing voice is provided by Camila Cabello.
 * Mari Devon as Tammy Nobi, Noby's hot-tempered mother who's out to get her son and his pals after her house being destroyed. In Mom-apocalypse: The Final Showdown!, she transforms into a 50-foot (then 200-foot) demon kaiju to "ground Noby to death" out of existence. Her singing voice is provided by Sutton Foster.
 * Tony Oliver as Toby Nobi, Noby's father. His singing voice is provided by Josh Groban.
 * Chiwetel Ejiofor (replacing Idris Elba) as Merlock, the evil merman. His singing voice is provided by Leslie Odom Jr.
 * Ed Helms as Stan the Devil, an evil demon in the Underworld who plots to steal Noby's soul, but fails furiously. His singing voice is provided by Bryan D'Arcy James, In Mom-apocalypse: The Final Showdown!, he made a deal with Tammy to turn her into a giant demon kaiju to have his soul destroyed. His voice is similar to Mr. Krupp from Captain Underpants.
 * Evan Rachel Wood as Rebecca, leader of the biker gang The Dust Biters who wanted to beat up Noby for accidentally wreck their motorcycles. Wood also provided the singing vocals.

Supporting Characters

 * Bonkers D. Bobcat (voiced by Jack McBrayer, singing voice by Michael Buble, both replacing Jim Cummings)
 * Fall Apart Rabbit (voiced by Michael Cera, singing voice by Zayn Malik, both replacing Frank Welker)
 * Fawn Deer (voiced by Addison Rae, singing voice by Zhavia Ward, both replacing Nancy Cartwright)
 * Scrooge McDuck (voiced by David Tennant, singing voice by Adam Pascal)
 * Chip and Dale (voiced by John Mulaney and Andy Samberg respectively, singing voices by Patrick Stump and Adam Lambert, replacing Tress MacNeille and Corey Burton)
 * Randall, Stan's wise-cracking demon minion (speaking and singing voiced by Jeff Bennett, replacing Gilbert Gottfried)
 * Roger Rabbit (speaking and singing voiced by Josh Gad, replacing Charles Fleischer)
 * Slash and Lash, two goofball owners of Slash n' Lash's Cash n' Dash store (voiced by Keegan Michael-Key and Jorden Peele, singing voices by Nate Arthur and Roman GianArthur respectively)

One-time characters

 * Adam Sandler as Buck Wiley, an narcissistic TV host who plots to trick Noby into winning, but Noby ends up acting like an idiot in front of him, which got him fired from his own show. His singing voice is provided by Elton John, who also serves as one of the executive producers for the show.
 * Kelsey Grammer as the Network CEO who fired Buck Wiley because of Noby's stupidity. Grammer also provided the singing vocals.
 * Selena Gomez as Rebecca, the Network CEO's daughter who is Buck's replacement on his show. Gomez also provided the singing vocals.
 * Caleb Hyles as The Silly Gilly Gumble, a sweet and kind, weird-looking rabbit-like creature who wants to make friends, but they're too afraid of him because of his appearance. His nickname is "Silly Gilly".
 * Corey Burton as Grimly, a demon instructor who works for Stan the Devil. His singing voice is provided by Raul Esparaza. His voice is based off Deems Taylor.
 * Dwayne Johnson as James "The Obliterator" Monroe, a wrestler who inspired Noby to be a hero. His singing voice is provided by James Monroe Iglehart.
 * Pain and Panic, Hade's comic relief imp henchmen (speaking and singing voiced by Bobcat Goldthwait and Matt Frewer)
 * Stan's demon henchmen (voiced by Canadian voice actors Lee Tockar, Scott McNeil, Ian James Corlett, Matt Hill and Maurice LaMarche respectively with singing voices by AHMIR)
 * Genie (voiced by Will Smith, replacing Dan Castellaneta, Jim Meskimen, and the late Robin Williams)
 * Lennon, a helpful and goofy teenage wizard who gave Noby the magical underwear to protect him from Stan the Devil (voiced by Matt Smith with Gary Barlow doing the singing vocals)
 * Debbie, a middle-age wise-cracking woman who is Lennon's mother (voiced by Rita Moreno, who also provided the singing vocals)
 * Makiko Ohmoto as Kirby (from Kirby's Dream Land), a pink round creature who appears in "The Pink Warrior!". He can talk and is smart, mature, helpful and kind, but has a huge appetite like in the games. His speaking and singing voices are respectively provided by Lin-Manuel Miranda, who also serves as one of the executive producers on the show.

Trivia

 * Bonkers will be voiced by Jack McBrayer instead of Jim Cummings, who originally voiced Bonkers in the 1993 series of the same name and Raw Toonage.
 * Mona Marshall, the voice of Doraemon, reveals why she can't voice Doraemon in the series. Robert Zemeckis, one of the executive producers of the show chose Jim Parsons to join as one of the executive producers on the show and provide the new voice of Doraemon because of his performance as Sheldon Cooper on The Big Bang Theory.
 * Marsupilami was originally going to appear on the show as a supporting character voiced by Tru Valentino (who voiced Cuphead in The Cuphead Show!), but was rejected in fear of being sued by André Franquin. So he was replaced with Bonkers. There was even a planned episode called "Houba Trouble" and is about Doraemon spotted a Marsupilami and befriends and adopts him as a pet while Noby and Sue tried to show him what it means to be a civilized individual human being, but it got cancelled.
 * Randall was originally going to be voiced by Gilbert Gottfried, but was replaced by Jeff Bennett due to his death on April 12, 2022. According to both Lin-Manuel Miranda and Joe Iconis, two of the executive producers, Gilbert Gottfried never recorded any of his lines for Randall due to his death.
 * Cuphead and Mugman (in their Cuphead Show! style) were originally going to make a cameo in the final episode "Mom-apocalypse: The Final Showdown!", but Disney rejected it due to copyright issues with Netflix. So they were replaced with Pain and Panic from Hercules. Despite this, Casey Nicholaw, one of the producers of the show wanted to put Cuphead, Mugman and Ms. Chalice in the episode because he thought they could be comic reliefs for Noby, Doraemon and Sue, but the Disney executives rejected this as well.
 * Steven Spielberg, one of the executive producers confirmed that Big G will not be in the show, although he is mentioned in one episode.
 * Michael Tavera, Adam Berry and Ego Plum, Guy Moon and Danny Jacob as well as Ari Posner and Ian LeFeurve were all considered to compose the score for the show before John Paesano was eventually chosen to do so. Some of Ego Plum's music from The Cuphead Show! is used in the show while Moon, Jacob, Posner and LeFeurve were later on to eventually served respectively as executive music and soundtrack producers for the show alongside Harvey Mason Jr. and Mark Ronson and Giles Martin and Matt Sullivan with Plum, Tavera and Berry serving as executive score producers alongside Bear McCreary.

Episode Guide