Ojamajo Doremi

*Ojamajo Doremi*, aka *Magical DoReMi*, is a magical girl franchise by Toei Animation that ran from 1999 to 2004.

It all starts when Doremi Harukaze accidentally calls Majorika a "witch" and turns her into a Witch Frog. In order to reverse the spell, Majorika makes Doremi a witch apprentice.

Doremi's friends later outright think Doremi's acting suspicious and find out what Doremi was up to, so Majorika makes them witch apprentices as well.

## Tropes

* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Like most other dubs by 4Kids, the anime aired on Fox's Saturday morning block in America. Later switched to The CW, though that was more due to Fox and 4Kids' dispute over the Saturday morning block, leaving Fox to bail out and replace children's shows with infomercials entirely.
* Obscurity, much?: It went about as well as you'd think in America- only 50 episodes out of over 200 were released in the US. Of those, only around no more than *three* are on DVD (in fact, some claim that all DVDs only contain the fourth episode- Tropes Fanon cannot confirm it for certain). Blame 4Kids' fallout with Funimation for no further DVD releases. The fact it was a magical girl show, which rarely get released on physical media if at all nowadays, came into play too.
	+ The 4Kids dub was in turn never exported outside of the US due to its failure to attract its targets- 4KidsTV continued to be more popular with boys. This means if you live in Canada, the only legal way to see even a *tiny* shred of the show (on physical media or otherwise) was to, of course, import the dolls from the US (or have had a Fox or CW affiliate near you).
* Dubless Series: Only 50 episodes (all from the first series) got a North American English dub. Episode 30 was skipped due to being about a graveyard, and 4Kids didn't want to deal with frightened children. The German dub (previously thought by Tropes Fanon to be nonexistent until the power of YouTube proved otherwise) is also hard to find outside of some clips- and even *that* dub stopped two seasons in.
	+ In fact, France is the only country outside of Japan to get all four televised seasons... before they stopped after *Dokkan!*, meaning the fifth and final season was never dubbed or released outside of Asia.
* I Have Failed to Keep a Secret: How Doremi and later her friends became witch apprentices in the first place.
* Size Changing: "Make me look like a butterfly" will often shrink the user of the spell. They also shrunk themselves to the size of mice during Doremi's re-take of her exam.
* You Are Fired: Elements of this trope happen when Majorika temporarily loses the shop.
* Confined to Your Room: Dub-exclusive example in episode 34, and possibly one of the few times where 4Kids used this trope in any of their shows, anime or otherwise. And it doesn't even take effect.
* Loads and Loads of Irony: One that also counts as a loophole. Since Witchlings can't become Witch Frogs unless it happens twice (and they won't if they get called out before they become full-fledged witches in the English dub), when Doremi's called a witch she doesn't turn into a Witch Frog.
	+ As for the audience, the original audience was girls; starting with *Ojamajo Doremi 16*, the audience somehow became *shonen* (granted, the light novels focused on the Witchlings in their teens and 20s).
* Shoujo Jump/Shonen Beat: Despite being created as a girls' franchise, *Ojamajo Doremi* was no less girly than *Pretty Cure* was. The light novels became a case of Shoujo Jump, however, since they were written, ironically, for the *shonen* audience (as well as the original target cohorts).
* No Home Release for You: Like most other 4Kids licenses save for *Sonic X*, this anime didn't get a complete DVD release in the US while 4Kids was still around. In fact, it's speculated that the *only* episode released to DVD was the fourth episode.
	+ The fact that *Ojamajo Doremi* was dropped by 4Kids a year before 4Kids declared bankruptcy did not help.