Nobita Nobi and Shizuka Minamoto

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Nobita Nobi has a huge crush on his best friend and far Neighbor Shizuka Minamoto. Nobita has a romantic daydream about her, usually when he planning something on Shizuka, and hopes one day he would marry her. He tried his best to impress her with Doraemon gadget though, but usually his efforts was either dwarfed by Dekisugi just being close to Shizuka, or Gian and Suneo ‘sabotaging’ his plans. If he did managed to get Shizuka to be impressed, it didn’t last long because of Suneo’s and/or Gian’s interferences or accidents he got, resulting in Shizuka fuming, or Doraemon scolding Nobita for going too far. Despite his chaotic efforts, he still somehow manages to marry Shizuka and have a son named Nobisuke Nobi Jr.

Shizuka on the other hand, secretly has a crush on Nobita. She starts off with a regular friendship, but eventually drew closer to him, and slowly developed a crush on him. This was seen in a movie “Doraemon: Nobita’s Three Visionary Swordsmen”, where Shizuka dreamed she was Princess Shizuka, married Nobita, and the person whom she dreamed of turned out was Silver Knight Nobitania. Nobita never tells his feelings to Shizuka and neither did Shizuka was shown doing the same to him.

Nobita’s Opinion Of Shizuka

“

She’s everything to me. But if I really care about Shizuka, she’s better off without me.

”
— Nobita Nobi was so demoralized by the teacher’s scolding that he decides to cut ties with Shizuka in an attempt to make her happy.

Shizuka is Nobita’s childhood friend whom he’s had a crush on for a very long time. He often uses Doraemon’s gadgets to impress or help Shizuka but is trumped by Hidetoshi Dekisugi. Despite this, Nobita will eventually marry Shizuka and have a child named Nobisuke. Shizuka starts off as a friend to him, but eventually develops a secret crush on him (in Doraemon: Nobita’s Three Visionary Swordsmen, Shizuka dreamed she was Princess Shizuka, married Nobita, whom she dreamed he was Silver Knight Nobitania). Sometimes Nobita is seen walking through the Anywhere Door (Doko Demo Doa in Japanese) and inadvertenly witnesses Shizuka taking a bath. Whenever Nobita doesn’t stop looking at Shizuka while bathing and continues blabbing or something else, she literally smacks him, splashes him with water, and/or throws a lot of things at him until he leaves.

Whenever Nobita says something rude either purposely or accidentally, Shizuka would take offense to the point of snubbing and leaving him for his bluntness and rudeness, which leaves Nobita feeling stupid and guilty for driving her away. While they quarrel very rarely, by the end of the episode they usually makeup and become friends again.

Shizuka’s Opinion Of Nobita

“

You really haven’t changed at all. I worry about you. You need someone to look after you. Yeah… all right. The answer to your question is… yes.

”
— Shizuka Minamoto Shizuka accepting the proposal of Nobita

Shizuka loves Nobita more than any of her friends. However, she gets angry when he behaves rudely or witnesses her taking a bath even if it wasn’t intentional. Despite all of this she usually makes up with him. As seen in many episodes she really cares for him and helps him when he gets into a rough situation like being bullied by Gian and Suneo, getting hurt by falling down or by other means. She also helps him with his studies sometimes and even invites him over to her house to try the cakes and cookies she makes. Despite him not having many talents, and messing up a lot, Shizuka admires and likes his kind heart and even kisses him on the cheek or hugs him.

Shizuka was Nobita’s biggest ally alongside Doraemon. Helping him to defend Gian and Suneo attacks, even though she sometimes laugh off Nobita suffering, ending with Nobita wanted to retaliate to Gian and Suneo.

“

Nobita understands the pain and sorrow of others…
And can give people company and support….

I like this Nobita

”
— Shizuka consoling Nobita when he was sad that his pet dinosaur couldn’t fly

The Best or Romantic Moments

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Nobita’s Bride

• Nobita wants to hold hands with Shizuka while walking outside in the afternoon, Doraemon watches them happily as the episode ends with a shape of a heart for the closing transition. It is possibly where the ship of Nobita and Shizuka started at, then it keeps growing and growing.

Hakoiwa Ski Resort

• Nobita brings Shizuka to a miniature ski resort made by Doraemon (making her believe it is a true place), thus making her desire come true. During a storm that was simulated by Doraemon, Shizuka loses energy to walk, therefore Nobita carries shizuka on his shoulders to bring her home. Shizuka is very proud of Nobita, she holds his hands while describing him as a true hero. The episode ends with small hearts coming out Nobita and Shizuka.
• This romantic ending is no longer present in the subsequent remakes of this episode, Shizuka does not refer to Nobita as a hero.

The Two Shizuka Chan

• Shizuka and Nobita went shopping together and Nobita bought a gadget that could create a clone of any person but an aggressive one. He gave it to Shizuka, who created a clone of herself because Nobita was bad at shopping and was easily bored. Long story short, Nobita was sitting on a bench in the mall and he saw Shizuka and her clone fighting. Shizuka’s clone was grabbing Shizuka’s arm and forcing her to buy an inappropriate t-shirt. Nobita saw this and told Shizuka to make her clone disappear with the gadget he gave her to borrow for some time. Shizuka took out the gadget and her clone snatched it but it fell on the ground and Nobita retrieved it. When he looked at Shizuka he noticed that there were two of her. He got confused and started asking them questions about his test and the food that he likes a lot. Both Shizukas answered the questions correctly. He then asked if Shizuka liked him and both of them started blushing. One of them was blushing and stammering and said ‘I-like’ and the other said ‘Oh God, Shizuka! Don’t tell me that you like a dumb boy like him!’ The other Shizuka was blushing and smiling. Nobita discovers the clone and made her disappear. This is one of the many pieces of evidence that Shizuka really likes Nobita.

The Seeking Hand

• Nobita uses Doraemon gagets to find a brooch that Shizuka had lost. Then She gives a kiss to his cheek and says to Nobita that he is too cute.

Sucking Mosquito

• Shizuka gives a kiss to Nobita as a way to say thank you because he had used a gadget from Doraemon to relieve her tension before her violin exam.

Desire Mirror

• Nobita becomes much more good-looking thanks to a magic mirror from Doraemon, and he tries to impress Shizuka with his new look. However she does not recognizes him, she rather believes that he is a cousin of Nobita. Here she reveals that Nobita is the sweetest boy she has ever met.

Dream Boat

• Nobita enters into Shizuka’s dream to fight against a monster that causes nightmares to her. Initially Nobita is afraid but after Shizuka encourages him to fight he manages to sand the monster away. At this point Shizuka hugs Nobita and tells that he is her prince and that she will always be his.

Goodbye, Shizuka (both original and remake)

• After Nobita visits her house only to return her books and tell her goodbye, she rushes to go find him. Nobita tells her to leave but she refuses to until he gives her a reason to. Instead of doing so, Nobita decides that the only way to get her off his back is that she hates him and he does this by flipping her skirt, resulting her to slap him and walk away angrily.
• When Nobita took the pills by which Doraemon and Tamako Nobi felt the aura of disgust and ran away from him as Nobita soon suffocates, Shizuka saved him by taking him down the stairs and pushing him in the bathtub so that the aura gets removed and he feels good and reprimands him for letting the teacher’s scolding get him down as well as making her worry.

Home-Ec Apron

• Nobita was stunned at what he had seen in the Time TV left by Doraemon in his room. He saw Hideyo Dekisugi got treated by Shizuka. He was utterly shocked, and decided to go to Minamoto’s residence. Turns out Shizuka had left her house and headed towards Dekisugi’s Residence. Nobita passed off and gets ‘dragged’ to Dekisugi’s residence. Nobita was all out jealous with Dekisugi before passed out yet again after Shizuka said a line that has the word wife. At the end, Shizuka was worried about Nobita’s wellbeing and decided to visit him.

Nobita’s Bride (Remake)

• Shizuka was seen blushing after Suneo told Nobita that Shizuka was a bit late because she was making him a cake. Her blush is one of the signs of her that proves that fact that she might actually have feelings towards Nobita.

Dramatic Gas

• Under the influence of the Dramatic Gas, Shizuka was seen kneeling down after Nobita told him that ‘he was on a big mission’. Shizuka was worried about his wellbeing and she was seen kneeling before him and they both confessed their feelings for each other before Nobita eventually ran off. However, those memories were erased after the Dramatic Gas effect wore off.

Exploring the Earth

• After Nobita saves Shizuka from getting sacrificed by returning the Jade statue to the tribe, she rushes to give him a big hug.

Robinson Crusoe Set (Remake)

• Nobita and Shizuka were stuck on an island. Shizuka was scared and cried while Nobita was looking for a way to get out from the island. While he managed to build a house, Shizuka that was exploring the jungle for food, got caught on a rainstorm. She manages to get back to Nobita and changed to temporary clothes made by Nobita. Both couple then went to the jungle and was looking for food, using an eye glasses that could identify edible food. After Nobita finished catching fishes, he and Shizuka ate fishes happily together and later interrupted by the group of large angry foxes. After Nobita chased them away, Shizuka cried and gave him a hug for saving her. On the late night, both couple were sitting together under starry night sky. Shizuka was not hesitant to rest her head in Nobita. She was seen comfortable resting her head on Nobita, one of the signs that she might actually have feelings for him.

The Conclusion Yarn

• After Shizuka and Nobita had a heated argument and he insulted her resulting Shizuka to run off crying, Doraemon pulls out a Conclusion Yarn, which allows the user to tie any person or object and the gadget will trigger when two yarns are each other as they get closer. However, his plan ultimately failed as Nobita going up on top of the tree mountain thinking it was Shizuka, he saw the book is on Gian’s hand (due to Shizuka tripping by a rock, causing the book (possibly Suneo’s) to land on Gian’s hand) and beats Nobita up offscreen. Hours passed by, Shizuka saw Nobita who is badly injured and runs to him to aid his wounds throughout the ending scene, causing Nobita to cry with happiness. The two are sitting on the bench, the yarn is tied to each other’s pinky, meaning they’ve regained their friendship.

Goodbye to you

• Nobita used the Telephone Booth gadget to make him leave Japan for America to see his friends’ reactions, including Shizuka. Nobita told her just that, and Shizuka broke down crying for him. Nobita regretted his decision to use it, and wanted to recall his request. But the phone booth was broken. At the end of the Episode, Shizuka broke down crying again, but Nobita comforted her.

Catch the Wind

• Nobita and Shizuka were holding hands while riding on a typhoon created by a Banana Leaf Fan at the sandlot.

I Don’t Like Shizuka Being Like This!

• Shizuka give a big hug to Nobita after he saves her as she was being tied by her clone. While she hug Nobita, both of Gian, Suneo and Doraemon along with Dekisugi blushed in front of them.

Shizuka-chan In My Pocket

• Nobita was seen helping Shizuka that was accidentally turned into a small person because of Doraemon’s gadget. He was eager to help her, and Shizuka was thankful to him for helping. Nobita ate some strawberries, and the both couple went to the market to buy some strawberries. On their way home, Shizuka’s little girl friend was seen crying because her coin fell under the vending machine, Shizuka offered to help taking the coin, but an insect came in which she then threw the coin and the coin flung towards the manhole. Nobita gave his only 500 yen that was supposed to be used to buy present for Shizuka. Shizuka thanked him, and said “You did it for me, right?” with she leaned towards Nobita.

Halloween and Nobi the Frog

• When Shizuka attempted to kiss Nobita (who was turned into a frog) so he can become human again, she doesn’t seem hesitant and blushed.

Goodbye, Shizuka (both original and remake)

• Nobita became so devastated that he felt that he wasn’t a good guy for her after getting scolded by the teacher, he then proceeds to tell Doraemon that for the sake of Shizuka’s happiness, he would not want to interract with her. However, Shizuka rushed to ask Nobita what was wrong but he refuses to answer and flips her skirt (but not actually looking) just to drive her away. Meanwhile, Nobita notices Shizuka (who worries that he might commit suicide after learning from Gian and Suneo that he was harshly scolded by the teacher) rushed to his house to see him and he insisted he wouldn’t want to be close to her, Doraemon gave him a potion that make people hate him. He pours the entire bottle on himself by which Doraemon and Tamako Nobi felt the aura of disgust and ran away from him and Nobita felt suffocated and started choking. Shizuka nearly ran away until Nobita’s cry for help urges her to resist the aura in order to save Nobita by taking him down the stairs and spraying water with the shower on him so that the aura gets removed. Then she lectures Nobita for letting the teacher’s scolding get him down and stating how worried she was about him, which causes him to bounce back.

Doraemon: Nobita’s Three Visionary Swordsmen

• The story is set in a shared dream, which is made possible by a new gadget from Doraemon. Nobita, Giant and Suneo play the roles of The Three Swordsmen, while Shizuka is the princess who escaped from her palace to avoid a forced marriage with one of the swordsmen. She joins them pretending to be the swordman Shizukaria. In several occasions, Nobita (Nobitarian) proves his kindness and good heart, for instance when he refuse to kill an innocent dragon after winning a fight with him. Shizuka notices this, as well as other good qualities of Nobitarian, thus changing her mind: when they are back to the castle, she is happy to marry Nobitarian. Once the dream is over, Shizuka meets Nobita going to school, she tells him she has had a good dream, in which Nobita was smart. She does not reveal the details to him, thus making him curious and inducing him to run over herself.

Stand by Me Doraemon

• Nobita became so demoralized that he felt that he wasn’t a good guy for her after recently scoring a zero on his test and was told that his future is a disaster, he then proceeds to tell Doraemon that for the sake of Shizuka’s happiness, not only he didn’t not want to interract with her, he is giving up if future marriage with her. However, Shizuka rushed to ask Nobita what was wrong but he refuses to answer and flips her skirt (but not actually looking at her underwear) just to drive her away. She was only angry at him for a few seconds until she flashbacks the incident, realizing that he only wants to be left alone and was concerned why. Meanwhile, Shizuka overhears Gian and Suneo’s conversation about Nobita’s devastation over being told that he’ll have a dull future with Suneo’s reply that he may hate life if he was told the same thing. Shocked by this, she rushes to Nobita’s house to see him. However, Nobita begs Doraemon to give him a gadget to drive her away and he gave him a potion that make people hate him. He drinks the entire bottle which Doraemon and Tamako Nobi felt the aura of disgust and ran away from him and Nobita felt suffocated and started choking. This also affects Shizuka but Nobita’s cry for help urges her to resist the aura in order to save Nobita by taking him down the stairs to barf out the Bug Off. Then not only she lectures Nobita for letting the teacher’s scolding get him down and stating how worried she was about him, she bursts into tears because he placed himself at risk.
  • Note: This part was based on the episode, “Goodbye, Shizuka”.
• Inside the Minamoto residence during the Adult Timeline, Nobita is in one of the photos with Shizuka and her family but Gian, Suneo, or Dekisugi weren’t in any of them, implying that Shizuka has spent more time with Nobita in their adulthood than any of these men.

Stand by Me Doraemon 2

• When Nobita (who was actually an adult inside the body of his 10-year-old self) passes out due to one hour of a sample Substitution Rope, Shizuka was extremely shocked and worried that he might be dying.
• After Nobita wakes up after Doraemon has Present and Future Nobita to return to their bodies, Shizuka hugs Nobita telling him that he is great the way he is and then sobs over the thought that he was almost gone while Gian and Suneo were only shown to be relieved that he was okay. As Future Nobita was watching, he decides to return to his wedding at his timeline, now realizing that she likes him for the person he is and being by her side is enough to make her happy.

Doraemon: Nobita’s New Dinosaur

• Shizuka told that she like Nobita when he was sitting near a river being upset. She told that Nobita understands the sorrow of others and can give others company.

Miscellaneous

Early English with Doraemon

• In the segment “Shizuka Likes Nobita”, Nobita asks why Shizuka was being kind to him, which Shizuka admits that she likes him. Nobita replies that he likes her too.

Trivia

• Nobita has a crush on Shizuka since kindergarten. (Hinted from the 1999 movie version, Night Before Nobita’s Wedding on the ending credits scene)
• Shizuka develops a secret crush on Nobita near the end of the dream. (Doraemon: Nobita’s Three Visionary Swordsmen)
• The Ship of Nobita and Shizuka is the biggest shipping community in the entire Doraemon Community. One huge hint is from Nobita’s Bride 1979 (Original), when Nobita wants to hold hands with Shizuka while walking outside in the afternoon, Doraemon watches them happily as the episode ends with a shape of a heart for the closing transition. It is possibly where the ship of Nobita and Shizuka started at, then it keeps growing and growing.