Y'know somethin else that fuels my hc that Nobita has self-loathing and feelings of inadequacy? From that one scene where Doraemon was trying to get Nobita to catch a ball in Secret Gadget Museum, Nobita limpens in Doraemon's hold and screams "I can't do anything so I don't want to do anything!" Also doesn't help Sewashi and Doraemon called him useless in that segment as well...
It also seems to show Nobita never had anyone to motivate him to be better after his grandmother passed and before Doraemon came along. So that mindset permeated for around five or so years as his academics and athletics began taking a plunge. Yikes.
Cue this: Doraemon: Oh geez, you never want to study, you never want to play sports! Oh, you never want to want to try harder! And then, you never want to do anythjng! That's why you're useless!
Like, hmmm... I wonder why he never does. No one was there for him.
Like, look how much Doraemon putting that into perspective seemed to really affect him! He almost is on the verge of crying and his face is reddening!
Furthermore: He has such little faith in himself that he immediately defaults to beating himself up and saying he's useless. As seen here:
And then wants to hole himself up in his room at home to wallow because no one was ever there to cheer him up and tell him otherwise.
When Doraemon berates his behavior, he's struggling and pawing at him to just let him go. But when he calls him useless...
He immediately snaps and screams he's useless, and is very hostile. It obviously eats him up inside. He gets much more desparate as if a massive wound has been reopened and it stings him. He tries to just flee, obviously not really wanting to hurt Doraemon, but still fights him because his inner demons are on full display from those comments Doraemon made, and he can't handle it.
And this has been a rhapsody of a children's show character that probably isn't that on the nose as I make it out to be!
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
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