# Doraemon: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend

Doraemon the Movie: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend, also known as Doraemon, Nobita and the Green Planet, is a 2008 Japanese animated science fantasy film that was released in Japan on 8 March 2008. It's the 28th Doraemon film.
The plot is based on the story in Doraemon manga volume 26 "Forest is living" and in volume 33 "Goodbye Ki-bō". This movie is not a remake, however, Ki-bō has appeared already in the 1992 film, Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds.
The film was illustrated as manga in the February and March edition of CoroCoro Comic. Then it was released as the 25th film tankōbon. An action-adventure game was also released on March 6, 2008, two days before the release of the film, entitled, Nobita and the Green Giant Legend DS. This movie was ranked the 8th highest grossing Japanese animated movie.

## Plot

Nobita's troubled about what to do with his zero test marks once again. A gust of wind scatters his test papers, and he falls into a garbage dump trying to gather them together again. There he finds a young withered tree that caught one of his papers and he decides to take it home. He tries to plant it in his garden but gets caught by his mother, who doesn't allow him to grow it.
Still wanting to keep it but not being allowed to grow, Doraemon comes up with the idea of making it come alive with a gadget he uses. Nobita names the little tree "Kibō" because all it can say is "ki". As the days pass, Nobita's parents also accept Kibō because he was a very smart boy who helped Nobita's mother whenever he was away. However, aliens from the Planet of Green decides to pass judgement claiming humans were destroying all the green on Earth. Nobita and his friends manage to escape by coincident and arrive at their planet. They are warmly welcomed to their city of Green Pier but also learn of what they are doing to their planet.
Unfortunately, with all his gadgets borrowed by Dorami, there was little Doraemon could do. They manage to escape and come across Princess Rire who tricks them into thinking she was leading them home but along the way, learns that what her adviser was about to do was wrong. Eventually with the help of the alien planet's Elder they manage to return to Earth which was already invaded. Fortunately the time watch Doraemon had dropped had frozen life on Earth giving them a chance to save everyone. The aliens try to summon their giant using Kibō to wipe out all humans despite the Elder's warnings and the plan backfires on them.
But with Nobita's persistence, he wakes up Kibō and everything is restored as the Elder sacrifices himself. Princess Rire announces to her people that they will watch Earth for the time being while Kibō decides to travel around space to learn more and become like the Elder. Nobita and his friends say goodbye to Kibō and go home. Back at Nobita's home, Nobita's mother calls to him and Doraemon to come down for dinner, and one can see Kibo's shoe beside Nobita's shoe.

## Music

* Opening song: "Yume o Kanaete Doraemon" (夢をかなえてドラえもん), sung by MAO.
* Theme song: "Te o Tsunagō" (手をつなごう), sung by ayaka.

## Cast

| Character | Japanese voice actor |
| Doraemon | Wasabi Mizuta |
| Nobita Nobi | Megumi Ōhara |
| Suneo Honekawa | Tomokazu Seki |
| Shizuka Minamoto | Yumi Kakazu |
| Takeshi Goda | Subaru Kimura |
| Dorami | Chiaki |
| Princess Lire | Maki Horikita |
| Ki-Bo | Takuya Yoshikoshi |
| Queen Remu | Maki Horikita |
| Shiraa | Chikao Ōtsuka |
| Jii | Yuji Miyake |
| Paruna | Teppei Arita |
| Roku-chan | Yoko Tsuchiya |
| Moya-kun | Jinbei Watanabe |
| Nobita's Mom | Kotono Mitsuishi |
| Nobita's Dad | Yasunori Matsumoto |
| Dekisugi | Shihoko Hagino |
| Mountain | Kotomi Ishida |
| Seedling | Ueno Ibuki |
| Mountain's Father | Junichi Sugawara |
| Mountain's Mother | Maru Tamari |
| Announcer | Hidenari Ugaki |
| Soldiers | Naomi Kusumi Yasuhiro Takato Fumihiko Goto |
| Lady–in–Waiting | Tomoe Sakuragawa |
| Girl watering cans | Tamaki Matsumoto |
| Congressmen | Akira Chiba Daihare Kawashima Masaya Matsuzaki Nodera Niki Yutaro Kobayashi Kana Yamaguchi Masashi Watanabe |
| Children | Yuki Mizuguchi Yuma Maruyama Luke Namiki Kei Okawa Yuta Ueno Nao Nakamura |

## Reception

Doraemon the Movie: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend grossed $31,684,949 at the box office.

### Nominations

In 2009, this film was nominated as the Animation of the Year.