Apparently, ちんどうぐ（珍道具）は the official word for "everyday gadgets" that are actually really ridiculous in usage です. ここは珍道具のえいごの Wikipedia page です。そして、ここはにほんごのきじ（記事; article, news story）です.
The premise is that ドラえもん is a robot cat from the future who goes back in time to help a boy, のびた (I know him as 大雄 from watching it in ちゅごくご), who is good-hearted but does really poorly in school and has very bad luck overall. ドラえもん has many tools from the future that he uses to help out のびた, and essentially each episode is based around one tool.
ドラえもんはアジアでとってもゆうめいな franchise ですよ! たくさんのえいががあります as well:
これは a full episode with ちゅごくごの subtitles if anyone's interested!
I can't describe how important this was to my childhood (which pretty much only consisted of this, Harry Potter, and Pokemon...let's be real here). I HIGHLY recommend it if you have younger siblings/relatives/babysittees/time for yourself.
Trivia: I am an unabashed and slightly compulsive stationery snob. Growing in up in たいわん、I've always had easy access to a lot of にほん, たいわん, and かんこくの stationery (ステーショナリー ). It sounds incredibly nitpicky/obnoxious to those who have never used anything other than regular バールペン, but once you've experienced the miracle of a smooth finetip pen, there's just no going back. You write neater, smaller, faster -- the world is just a better place with Pilot and Uni-ball (if you watch Suits on テレビ, これわかります。). While Staples is nice and big, an Asian stationary store looks very, very different. Here's my favorite stationery outlet from home (タイペイです）:
そして、にほんのほんやです! The two くに are pretty much identical in this regard:
Some of these are now available in アメリカ, and pretty much all of them can be found on this lovely website, でも unfortunately at much higher prices than in Asia... じゃあ、now that I've made myself sufficiently homesick, しゅくだいをします...
My goal is to get the fast-paced parts in speech to be distinct in every consonant. Oftentimes in shadowing I find myself able to read the characters aloud clearly on paper but mumbling them incomprehensibly when I'm listening to the video while speaking.
