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* CoversALwaysLie: Despite what the above cover indicates, Nobita is the only character who gets to dress up as Momotaro in the entire story.

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* CoversALwaysLie: CoversAlwaysLie: Despite what the above cover indicates, Nobita is the only character who gets to dress up as Momotaro in the entire story.
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* PitTrap: The villagers would dig pitfalls hidden with straws in their attempts to catch the Oni, one which Doraemon and gang accidentally falls through when they arrive in the feudal Japan.

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* PitTrap: The villagers would dig pitfalls hidden with straws in their attempts to catch the Oni, one which Doraemon and gang accidentally falls through when they arrive in the feudal Japan.
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* AdaptationDistillation: In the original manga story "I'm the Momotaro", the TimeMachine suffers a malfunction when arriving in Meiji-Era Japan, which Doraemon attempts hiding from the others until late into the story, but then they discovered Doraemon's time-traveling probe (sent into the past earlier on) and grabs hold to it in order to return. The OVA have the time machine undamaged all the way, [[spoiler: after uncovering the truth behind the Oni and Momotaro]] the gang just returns home in a perfectly functioning time machine.

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* AdaptationDistillation: In the original manga story "I'm the Momotaro", the TimeMachine suffers a malfunction when arriving in Meiji-Era feudal Japan, which Doraemon attempts hiding from the others until late into the story, but then they discovered Doraemon's time-traveling probe (sent into the past earlier on) and grabs hold to it in order to return. The OVA have the time machine undamaged all the way, [[spoiler: after uncovering the truth behind the Oni and Momotaro]] the gang just returns home in a perfectly functioning time machine.



* BeenThereShapedHistory: The gang's {{Time Travel}}ing adventures into Meiji Era Japan to investigate the Momotaro myth unintentionally ''becomes'' the myth's inspiration, with Nobita as Momotaro and his friends as Momotaro's animals. [[spoiler: Also the "Oni" is a Dutch sailor who's stranded in Meiji-Era Japan after a storm sinks his ship, and have to pretend to be a monster to protect himself from the superstitious village folks]].

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* BeenThereShapedHistory: The gang's {{Time Travel}}ing adventures into Meiji Era feudal Japan to investigate the Momotaro myth unintentionally ''becomes'' the myth's inspiration, with Nobita as Momotaro and his friends as Momotaro's animals. [[spoiler: Also the "Oni" is a Dutch sailor who's stranded in Meiji-Era feudal Japan after a storm sinks his ship, and have to pretend to be a monster to protect himself from the superstitious village folks]].



* PitTrap: The villagers would dig pitfalls hidden with straws in their attempts to catch the Oni, one which Doraemon and gang accidentally falls through when they arrive in the Meiji Era.

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* PitTrap: The villagers would dig pitfalls hidden with straws in their attempts to catch the Oni, one which Doraemon and gang accidentally falls through when they arrive in the Meiji Era.feudal Japan.
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Nobita is in the middle of summer break when he, with the rest of the gang, comes across a Dutch scholar seeking the true backstory of an ancestral photograph his family has been keeping for the past 600 years, with the trails leading the Dutchman into Tokyo. A photo depicting the main characters of the Japanese legend, ''Literature/{{Momotaro}}'', in a weird, mid-jumping pose, for some reason... and out of curiosity, Nobita and Doraemon - alongside Gian, Suneo and Shizuka - decide to leap into the TimeMachine in Nobita's bedroom, travel to Meiji-Era Japan, and find out if the Momotaro myth is fact or fiction.

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Nobita is in the middle of summer break when he, with the rest of the gang, comes across a Dutch scholar seeking the true backstory of an ancestral photograph his family has been keeping for the past 600 years, with the trails leading the Dutchman into Tokyo. A photo depicting the main characters of the Japanese legend, ''Literature/{{Momotaro}}'', in a weird, mid-jumping pose, for some reason... and out of curiosity, Nobita and Doraemon - alongside Gian, Suneo and Shizuka - decide to leap into the TimeMachine in Nobita's bedroom, travel to Meiji-Era feudal Japan, and find out if the Momotaro myth is fact or fiction.
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''What Am I for Momotaro'' is a 1981 ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' Shirt movie, released theatrically as a double-bill with ''Manga/TwentyOneEmon''.

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''What Am I for Momotaro'' is a 1981 ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' Shirt short movie, released theatrically as a double-bill with ''Manga/TwentyOneEmon''.
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''What Am I for Momotaro'' is a 1981 ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' OVA, released theatrically as a double-bill with ''Manga/TwentyOneEmon''.

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''What Am I for Momotaro'' is a 1981 ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' OVA, Shirt movie, released theatrically as a double-bill with ''Manga/TwentyOneEmon''.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: The gang's {{Time Travel}}ing adventures into Meiji Era Japan to investigate the Momotaro myth unintentionally ''becomes'' the myth's inspiration, with Nobita becoming Momotaro and his friends becoming Momotaro's animals. [[spoiler: Also the "Oni" is a Dutch sailor who's stranded in Meiji-Era Japan after a storm sinks his ship, and have to pretend being a monster to protect himself from the superstitious village folks]].

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* BeenThereShapedHistory: The gang's {{Time Travel}}ing adventures into Meiji Era Japan to investigate the Momotaro myth unintentionally ''becomes'' the myth's inspiration, with Nobita becoming as Momotaro and his friends becoming as Momotaro's animals. [[spoiler: Also the "Oni" is a Dutch sailor who's stranded in Meiji-Era Japan after a storm sinks his ship, and have to pretend being to be a monster to protect himself from the superstitious village folks]].
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This short was notably adapted from the manga story, "I'm the Momotaro", originally a crossover with the older ''Creator/FujikoFujio'' comic, ''Bakeru-kun''. Due to the latter's lack of popularity [[note]] ''Bakeru-kun'' doesn't even have a page on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujiko_Fujio The Other Wiki]] for crying out loud [[/note]], when adapted into an OVA it becomes a Doraemon-centric episode.

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This short was notably adapted from the manga story, "I'm the Momotaro", originally a crossover with the older obscure ''Creator/FujikoFujio'' comic, ''Bakeru-kun''. Due to the latter's lack of popularity [[note]] ''Bakeru-kun'' doesn't even have a page on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujiko_Fujio The Other Wiki]] for crying out loud [[/note]], when adapted into an OVA it becomes a Doraemon-centric episode.
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* AdaptedOut: "I'm the Momotaro", which this OVA is based upon is a {{Crossover}} featuring ''Manga/Bakeru-kun'' with Bakeru finding the cryptic photo of Momotaro from the Dutchman and saying "he knows someone who can help", that someone being Doraemon. The OVA instead is entirely Doraemon-centric, with Gian, Suneo and Shizuka filling in the original roles fulfilled by Bakeru-kun and friends.

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* AdaptedOut: "I'm the Momotaro", which this OVA is based upon is a {{Crossover}} featuring ''Manga/Bakeru-kun'' ''[[Manga/BakeruKun Bakeru-kun]]'' with Bakeru finding the cryptic photo of Momotaro from the Dutchman and saying "he knows someone who can help", that someone being Doraemon. The OVA instead is entirely Doraemon-centric, with Gian, Suneo and Shizuka filling in the original roles fulfilled by Bakeru-kun and friends.
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* CoversALwaysLie: Despite what the above cover indicates, Nobita is the only character who gets to dress up as Momotaro in the entire story.
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* MorphicResonnance: The animal forms of Suneo, Gian and Shizuka (respectively a dog, ape and pheasant) resembles their human forms, mostly in their faces. Suneo as a dog notably have his iconic pointed mouth design, while Shizuka as a pheasant retains her ponytails, but as feathers.

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* MorphicResonnance: MorphicResonance: The animal forms of Suneo, Gian and Shizuka (respectively a dog, ape and pheasant) resembles their human forms, mostly in their faces. Suneo as a dog notably have his iconic pointed mouth design, while Shizuka as a pheasant retains her ponytails, but as feathers.
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This short was notably adapted from the manga story, "I'm the Momotaro", originally a crossover with the older ''Creator/FujikoFujio'' comic, ''Bakeru-kun''. Due to the latter's lack of popularity [[note]] the work doesn't even have a page on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujiko_Fujio The Other Wiki]] for crying out loud [[/note]], when adapted into an OVA it becomes a Doraemon-centric episode.

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This short was notably adapted from the manga story, "I'm the Momotaro", originally a crossover with the older ''Creator/FujikoFujio'' comic, ''Bakeru-kun''. Due to the latter's lack of popularity [[note]] the work ''Bakeru-kun'' doesn't even have a page on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujiko_Fujio The Other Wiki]] for crying out loud [[/note]], when adapted into an OVA it becomes a Doraemon-centric episode.
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--> '''Doraemon''': [''sharp gasp''] '''''Really'''''?... who's Momotaro? [''cue Nobita face-faulting]

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--> '''Doraemon''': [''sharp gasp''] '''''Really'''''?... who's Momotaro? [''cue Nobita face-faulting]face-faulting'']
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''What Am I for Momotaro'' is a 1981 ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' OVA, released theatrically as a double-bill with ''Manga/TwentyOneEmon''.

Nobita is in the middle of summer break when he, with the rest of the gang, comes across a Dutch scholar seeking the true backstory of an ancestral photograph his family has been keeping for the past 600 years, with the trails leading the Dutchman into Tokyo. A photo depicting the main characters of the Japanese legend, ''Literature/{{Momotaro}}'', in a weird, mid-jumping pose, for some reason... and out of curiosity, Nobita and Doraemon - alongside Gian, Suneo and Shizuka - decide to leap into the TimeMachine in Nobita's bedroom, travel to Meiji-Era Japan, and find out if the Momotaro myth is fact or fiction.

This short was notably adapted from the manga story, "I'm the Momotaro", originally a crossover with the older ''Creator/FujikoFujio'' comic, ''Bakeru-kun''. Due to the latter's lack of popularity [[note]] the work doesn't even have a page on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujiko_Fujio The Other Wiki]] for crying out loud [[/note]], when adapted into an OVA it becomes a Doraemon-centric episode.

A level of ''Doraemon 2: SOS! Otogi no Kuni'' is based on this OVA, where Nobita gets to reprise his role as Momotaro.

See also ''Anime/DoraemonTheRecordOfNobitasParallelVisitToTheWest'', a similar entry in the same franchise, with the gang time-traveling into the past to discover the truth behind another work of Asian literature.

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!! ''What Am I for Momotaro'' contain examples of:
* AdaptationDistillation: In the original manga story "I'm the Momotaro", the TimeMachine suffers a malfunction when arriving in Meiji-Era Japan, which Doraemon attempts hiding from the others until late into the story, but then they discovered Doraemon's time-traveling probe (sent into the past earlier on) and grabs hold to it in order to return. The OVA have the time machine undamaged all the way, [[spoiler: after uncovering the truth behind the Oni and Momotaro]] the gang just returns home in a perfectly functioning time machine.
* AdaptedOut: "I'm the Momotaro", which this OVA is based upon is a {{Crossover}} featuring ''Manga/Bakeru-kun'' with Bakeru finding the cryptic photo of Momotaro from the Dutchman and saying "he knows someone who can help", that someone being Doraemon. The OVA instead is entirely Doraemon-centric, with Gian, Suneo and Shizuka filling in the original roles fulfilled by Bakeru-kun and friends.
* AdaptationalSkimpiness: Non-fanservice variety - in the manga short the OVA was based upon, Nobita emerged from the Peach Submarine fully clothed, but here Nobita (being a klutz as usual) unintentionally falls in water while boarding the vessel, and while he's inside, attempts to dry himself by removing his clothes. When the peach submarine crashes and Nobita's get picked up by the elderly couple, he's nude.
* {{Animorphism}}: Doraemon's Animal Transformation Biscuits (from the third manga story, "Transforming Biscuit") shows up in this adventure when the gang arrives in the past and realize they forgot to bring food along. Doraemon tries searching through his Fourth Dimensional Pocket for food, finds the Transformation Biscuits, and a hungry Suneo takes a bite before Doraemon could warn him. Cue Suneo spending the rest of the day as a dog. Later when the gang tries escaping from the village, Suneo, Gian and Shizuka each took the biscuits to disguise as animals, respectively a dog, ape and pheasant, and when the trio rendezvous with Nobita-as-Momotaro it turns out they're the animal companions from the original myths.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: The gang's {{Time Travel}}ing adventures into Meiji Era Japan to investigate the Momotaro myth unintentionally ''becomes'' the myth's inspiration, with Nobita becoming Momotaro and his friends becoming Momotaro's animals. [[spoiler: Also the "Oni" is a Dutch sailor who's stranded in Meiji-Era Japan after a storm sinks his ship, and have to pretend being a monster to protect himself from the superstitious village folks]].
* ContinuityNod: When Shizuka, Suneo and Gian all clambers aboard the TimeMachine in Nobita's desk, Nobita enquires if overloading the machine will cause it to malfunction. Doraemon replies he already upgraded the machine after [[Anime/DoraemonNobitasDinosaur the overloading incident from last time]].
* FaceFault: An early scene delivers ''two'' in a row, from Nobita and Doraemon, when they're looking through the various time-period photos and comes across one resembling Momotaro and his gang.
** When Nobita recognizes Momotaro in the photo:
--> '''Nobita''': That's... ''Momotaro''!
--> '''Doraemon''': [''sharp gasp''] '''''Really'''''?... who's Momotaro? [''cue Nobita face-faulting]
** The following scene have Nobita explaining Momotaro's backstory to Doraemon, but he's not exactly good at it.
--> '''Nobita''': [''as Doraemon listens attentively''] Momotaro is the story of a boy born of a peach and... there's a bear with an ax... and something about rice millets... and then, he's sitting in a boat and... actually, I have forgotten what the story's about. [''face-fault redux from Doraemon'']
* GagNose: On the Dutch scholar, and [[spoiler: the Dutch sailor posing as an oni]]. They're the only two foreigners in the OVA.
* IdenticalGrandson: The Dutch scholar encountered by the gang and [[spoiler: the Dutch sailor posing as the feared Oni the superstitious villagers are afraid of after Doraemon and gang uncovered the truth behind the Momotaro legend]]. The former is a descendant of the latter.
* InevitableWaterfall: The gang runs into river rapids while piloting Doraemon's Peach Submarines and inevitably goes down a waterfall. The Peach Submarine keeps them safe despite the steep fall, but the one Nobita was in gets separated from the others and subsequently fished up by an elderly couple mistaking the submarine to be a real, edible giant peach - thereby turning Nobita into Momotaro from the myth.
* LanguageFluencyDenial: When the gang meets the Dutch scholar for the first time, Gian asks Suneo, who took English tuition, to try communicating with the foreigner. It doesn't work, Doraemon resolves the issue by giving the Dutchman a piece of Translation Jelly instead.
--> '''Suneo''': No wonder he can't speak English!
* MorphicResonnance: The animal forms of Suneo, Gian and Shizuka (respectively a dog, ape and pheasant) resembles their human forms, mostly in their faces. Suneo as a dog notably have his iconic pointed mouth design, while Shizuka as a pheasant retains her ponytails, but as feathers.
* {{Oni}}: Subverted, the "oni" of Demon Island [[spoiler: is actually a Dutch sailor whose ship crashed on the Japanese coast, and was mistaken as an oni-like beast due to his huge size (compared to the locals) and language issues. When it's clear that none of the villagers are willing to help, the Dutchman have to keep on pretending to be a demon for his own safety]].
* PitTrap: The villagers would dig pitfalls hidden with straws in their attempts to catch the Oni, one which Doraemon and gang accidentally falls through when they arrive in the Meiji Era.
* ScoobyDooHoax: [[spoiler: How the Dutch sailor keep intruders away from his cave home, masquerading as an Oni by faking giant footprints, painting his skin red and wearing a menacing-looking self-made demon mask to scare villagers near his domain]].
* TorchesAndPitchforks: Doraemon and friends gets chased by angry villagers armed with torches shortly after their arrival when they're mistaken for being allies of the Oni.
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