Nobita Nobi

Nobita Nobi is the main protagonist of the Doraemon franchise. He is a 10-year-old fourth grader in Tokyo's Nerima Ward who was born on August 7, and an only child. Due to his bad records about almost everything, his great-great-grandson from the future, Sewashi, sends him the robot Doraemon to help him to get a better life. He was voiced by the late Yoshiko Ōta in original 1973 anime, Noriko Ohara and Hiroko Maruyama in the 1979 anime, Megumi Ōhara in the 2005 anime, Steven Bednarski in the Canadian 1979 English dub, Denise Tan in the Singaporean 1979 English dub, Johnny Yong Bosch in the 2005 English dub, and Muriel Hoffman in the 2005 UK dub. Julius FIGUEROA in the 1979 Filipino dub

Appearance
Nobita is a kid with black hair who wears round glasses, a red or yellow polo shirt with white collar, and dark blue shorts. He also wears white socks that cover his feet, and blue shoes.

Personality
Nobita's character flaws are nearly endless: he is lazy, uncoordinated, dim-witted, frail, plain-looking, unlucky and bad at sports, not to mention liking to sleep all day. His typical day consists of arriving late on classes, scoring zeros in his tests, getting lectured by his teacher, being bullied by his classmates Gian and Suneo, falling into curbside rain gutters, being chased by dogs and getting scolded by his mother for his sloth and poor academic results. Nobita has a crush on Shizuka and always tries to impress her, including by Doraemon's gadgets. Whether or not he succeeds depend on the episode. He is jealous whenever he sees her hanging out with another boy, especially Dekisugi. In fact, Nobita cares for Shizuka so much that he would do anything for her, even willingly distancing himself from her if he sees himself as a bad influence for her life, best demonstrated in the episode "Goodbye, Shizuka". And despite knowing from Doraemon that he will eventually marry her in the future no matter what, he still feels unsure about their relationship many times.

For all his flaws, Nobita possesses some unique talents such as his unrivaled marksmanship, ability to weave intricate string figures, and creativity. Although Nobita is usually portrayed as being cowardly, he has often risked his life to help save others or even entire civilizations (best shown in long stories), and can be very serious and responsible at times despite normally being lazy and unmotivated. Nobita also has a talent for finding unusual applications for Doraemon's gadgets, and to abuse them, which usually gets him into trouble. In those times, Nobita plans to use the gadgets to get back at his bullies, or even for criminal activities to become richer or gain more power, even backstabbing Doraemon at times. Although he often suffers karma from those times and there are occasions that he realizes his mistakes, Nobita always repeats them all over again, much to Doraemon's worry. Regardless, Nobita sees Doraemon as irreplaceable, as shown whenever Sewashi proposes Doraemon's younger sister, Dorami, to take his place as Nobita's caretaker.

Despite everything, Doraemon succeeds in his mission, as seen in several episodes where they travel to the future and the short film Nobita's Night before a Wedding. Nobita eventually marries Shizuka and has a son who, in a generational role reversal, bullies Gian's son.

Trivia

 * His English voice actor, Johnny Yong Bosch, is best known for voicing Yukimura Sanada from Samurai Warriors and Sengoku BASARA, Nathan Adams and Hovernyan from Yo-kai Watch, T.K. Takaishi from Digimon Adventure tri., Kiba from Wolf's Rain, Zhang Bao from the Dynasty Warriors series, Hajime Hinata from Danganronpa, Ichigo Kurosaki from Bleach, and Yukio Okumura from Blue Exorcist.
 * "Nobita" means "strong" or "big bear" in Japanese, which is ironic as Nobita is not physically strong.