The Girl With the Red Shoes / The Jaws of the Vacant Lot
赤いくつの女の子 / 空き地のジョーズ
Akai Kutsu no Onnanoko / Akichi no Jaws
Air Date
Apr 20, 2007
Synopsis
Fandom WikiNobita sees a red shoe when tidying up the room, and recalls his childhood girlfriend Non-chan in kindergarten. It is described that she has brown hair, so she may have foreign origin (grandfather is in the United States, father does not appear, suspected of being a child of the US military, and may not be accepted by children at that time) . She lives next door to Nobita's house with her mother, and often plays make-believe with Nobita. Later, because he is teased by Gian and Suneo for only playing make-believe, he even whispers that he likes her. Nobita tries to gain convincing by making him bully her while the two watch outside her house—overturning a make-believe toy and taking a shoe away. Nobita, who felt guilty about this incident that day, spends the whole day in a daze, and even dares not go home at night. But in fact she doesn't disclose this to anyone, but since the next day she doesn't show up outside, Nobita judges that she should be sick. One week later, Nobita, who comes home from kindergarten, learns from her mother that her grandfather who lives in the United States takes their family back to immigrate, and leaves Japan by boat from Yokohama . When Nobita arrives at her house, the house is already emptied, so he always feels guilty and doesn't have time to say goodbye, and he still regrets it very much. In the end, Nobita uses "Time Machine" to go back to the past with the reminder and company of Doraemon, and says goodbye to her by shrinking "Time Cloth", and returns the shoes and gives her snacks for her to eat on the boat. She also gives him make-believe toys, so that Nobita can take them back to modern times as souvenirs, which solves the regrets of many years, but Nobita who returns to modern times is judged as "broken" because of taking back old toys Mom criticizes.
