A Doraemon Film Set in 19th-Century London Arrives in 2027. Our Doraemon Shelf Is Empty.
Makoto Ueda has the script and Rushio Moriyama the director's chair. We index a dozen Doraemon entries and not one is free, but 74 episodes of another comedy are.
By June Maravilla · AnimeSphere staff · July 25, 2026
What was actually announced
A Doraemon film scheduled for 2027 is set in 19th-century London. Makoto Ueda is writing the script; Rushio Moriyama is directing. Reported by Anime News Network.
That is the whole of it. No title, no date beyond the year, and no cast.
Twelve Doraemon entries here, zero free episodes
News like this sends people looking for the show. So here is the honest state of our own shelf.
AnimeSphere indexes 12 Doraemon entries, including the 1973 television series, the long-running series catalogued here at 1,787 episodes, and several films and specials. The number of those you can watch free from the United States right now is zero.
The difference matters. An entry in our index is a catalogue record, not a stream. That 1,787 figure describes how much Doraemon exists in the catalogue, not how much of it we can hand a reader at no cost. On the exact question this announcement raises, someone hearing about a 2027 movie and wanting to sample the series before it arrives, we have nothing free to give. Better to say that in one sentence than to bury it under a "check back soon."
The comedy that is free, with a caveat
Here is the part worth staying for. Doraemon and Chibi Maruko-chan are both tagged as comedies in our catalogue, and only one of the two is watchable here.
Chibi Maruko-chan: 74 distinct episodes are free to watch on AnimeSphere, viewable from the United States with no region restriction. They come from the official "CHIBI MARUKO-CHAN English" YouTube channel, which carries Nippon Animation's name and a verified badge.
They are an English dub rather than subtitles, and three separate signals agree on that. The uploads are titled "Chibi Maruko Chan Eng Dub" followed by a number. The channel is named "CHIBI MARUKO-CHAN English." And the auto-generated caption track on a sampled upload came back as English (en, ASR), meaning the speech recogniser heard English audio.
Now the caveat, because it is the useful part. Those 74 are not the first 74. They sit between episodes 793 and 1086 of a very long run, and they are not contiguous, 74 episodes scattered across a 294-episode span. For most series that would be a real problem. For this one it is close to irrelevant: it is a gag comedy about a third-grader's ordinary week, with no ongoing plot to fall out of.
So the shape is 74 free, official, unrestricted, dubbed episodes against zero for the franchise in today's headline. If today's news has you wanting something in that vein, that is where it currently lives on this site, and you can start with whichever episode you like, because the order is not doing any work.