Tsutomu Shibayama

The title character, Maruko (born May 8, 1965) is a nine-year-old third-grade student raised in a relatively poor family of six. She is lazy, disorganized and usually late for school, in strong contrast with her neat, calm and tidy older sister (sixth-grader) who must share her room with her. (Wikipedia)

Nobita has a strange dream in which he enters an unknown land, where animals can talk.When he wakes up, it turns out that the flower from that location is in his home! He arrives there again,together with Doraemon and meets a new friend -Chippo, a talking puppy!What does it have to do with the pink fog,which is mysteriously appearing? Why the moon is bigger there? Can they help Chippo - with Shizuka, Suneo and Jaiyan - when the time comes? Find out by watching "Doraemon: Nobita's Animal Planet"!

Nobi Nobita is a 4th-grade boy in Tokyo. One day, a round, blue cat-style robot (minus ears) pops up in his desk drawer. Nobita's great-great-grandson (or something) lives in the 22nd Century, but thanks to Nobita's mistakes, the entire family is living in poverty. To rectify this, Nobita's descendent is sent Doraemon back to the past, to help prevent Nobita from making mistakes. Of course this is a difficult task since Nobita is the weakest and least intelligent child in his class. (myanimelist.net)

Sakura Momoko's teacher assigns the third grade to draw an image based on their favorite song to enter a contest. Momoko loves a song she recently learned during her music class and is anxious to make a good drawing based on it. On her way to meet her relatives in Shizuoka, she meets Shouko Kimura, a university student who occasionally draws portraits at the local train station and plans to also participate in an art contest. Fascinated by her illustrations, Sakura meets Kimura once again.

Tarou Yamashita loves baseball, but he was always the worst player. However, through effort and dedication he begins to shine in the Umisora High team.

The Dokutake ninja steal a shipment of saltpeter from Shinbei’s papa. They plan to use it to create medicine that will make them fly and become super-ninjas! Danzou, who’s father was transporting the goods, stows away and is taken to the Dokutake’s secret headquarters. When Shinbei informs the school, Yamada-sensei and Doi-sensei rush to help. But Hagumi decide to take matters into their own hands and try to rescue Danzou themselves. Things don’t …

Based on the real sports team Hanshin Tigers baseball team, and their victory at the national professional championships.