mmmm magic.... what??

Magical Doremi

In the first episode of the series, Dorie Goodwyn (Doremi Harukaze in the Japanese version), a third grader, has a crush on Robbie (Igarashi), a sixth grade student on the soccer team). Being both unlucky and clumsy, for which Todd (Tetsuya Kotake), a classmate, likes to tease her, Dorie complains often that she is "The Most Misunderstood Girl in the Whole World." She dreams of acquiring magic in order to solve her problems. She visits a mysterious old shop, The Rusty Broom (Makihatayama no Maho-do). At the shop, she meets an old woman who looks like a storybook witch, and Doremi instinctively shouts that this woman is a witch. When witches are discovered, they are punished because of they are discovered by humans. Thus, to Dorie's surprise, the old woman transforms into a small green blob (a magic frog, later given the term "greenling" in the English dub). The old woman, Patina (Majorika), now lacks the power to return herself to her normal form, so Dorie must now become a powerful Witch herself in order to help return Patina to her human form.

Dorie is granted a Dream Spinner (Magical Tap), which is used to transform her into her witchling costume. The Tap is installed in the chest of the clothes after the transformation, and it produces her witch's wand when tapped again. Her training as a Witchling (A Witch in training) is much more demanding than she had expected, and her wand (a Wandaler in English version and a Poron in Japanese version) requires the use of many Spell Drops (magic spheres) to use Magic. Moreover, Dorie has to keep her identity as a Witchling (Witch apprentice in the Japanese version) a secret or she will suffer the same fate as Patina.

Nonetheless, in the subsequent episodes, her friends, Reanne Griffith (Hazuki Fujiwara) and Mirabelle Haywood (Aiko Senoo), discover her secret. Because of this, they are able to become Witchlings themselves. Through their training, they become much closer and cooperate by redecorating and managing The Rusty Broom successfully and newly naming it the DoReMi Magic Shop. Using the improved store as a means of earning money, they will be able to buy Spell Drops so that they can train and take tests to become Witches and dispel Patina's cursed fate. When an individual girl does not have enough power, they also co-operate by using Perfect Harmony (Magical Stage) to cast stronger magic. In the Japanese version, due to the girls' occasional mistakes, Majorika dubs them each an "Ojamajo", a compound word that translates to a "Bothersome Witch." During the first Witchling test, Dorie and her friends acquire faires, which help them throughout the series. Laralei, Patina's full grown Fairy, tells the girls that if their Faries are seen by humans, then that'll mark their ending as Witchlings.

As the series progresses, more girls become witch apprentices, and new characters debut. At the end of episode 24, Caitlyn (Poppu), Dorie's younger sister, catches the girls performing Perfect Harmony and thus also becomes a witch apprentice in the following episode. Unlike her sister, Caitlyn is able to learn magic quickly and easily. In episode 27, the girls meet Feredagio the Great (Oyajiide) inside the Grobble Grabber that Queen Lumena gives the girls so they can capture the released Grobblings. Now, the girls must also collect them to help Feredagio get out of the Grobble Grabber. In episode 35 (thirty-four in the English dub), the group meets another girl, Ellie Craft (Onpu Segawa). She is a famous Actress and Singer, who is a Witchling of Patina's arch-rival, Patunia (Majoruka). Though at first they do not get along very well, they become friends by the end of the series.