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Ragazzo Cro-Magnon, whose name is Italian for Cro-Magnon boy, is a minor character who appears in the opening sequence of the 2024 animated film Eiga Doraemon: Nobita no Chikyū Symphony. The original Japanese material identifies him simply as a Cro-Magnon boy, and the Italian dub gives him the name Ragazzo Cro-Magnon. He is a young prehistoric human who lives on Earth approximately forty thousand years before the main story. The film introduces him in a quiet, atmospheric moment: he is listening closely to the beautiful calls of swans when a glowing flying object falls into the forest. Together with the adults of his community, he rushes to the site of the crash, where the group discovers a sleeping baby resting inside a flower-like object. This infant is later revealed to be the twin sister of Mikka, a girl from the planet Mushka, who was sent to Earth together with a special instrument known as the flute of Mushka. The prologue featuring Ragazzo therefore carries significant narrative weight: it establishes the film's central backstory, explains how the Mushka flute came to exist on Earth, and sets up the eventual revelation that the famous singer Mina is a descendant of the baby found long ago. In terms of personality, the film provides little detail. Ragazzo is portrayed as a curious and observant boy who is attentive to the natural sounds around him and is moved to investigate an unusual event rather than simply ignoring it. His motivations in his brief appearance are simple and natural: wonder, concern, and the desire to see what has happened. He does not form a developed relationship with the baby he helps find, as the infant is cared for by the community as a whole, but his witness of the arrival defines how the foundling survives and grows into the lineage that matters to the story. The character undergoes no personal growth over the course of the film, since he appears only in this brief framing scene and is not seen again. He possesses no supernatural abilities, gadgets, or special skills; his importance lies in what he observes rather than what he does. Thematically, his attentive listening to the swans at the start of the film connects to the story's broader celebration of music and hearing as forces that bind people across time, space, and different worlds, and his silent encounter with the visitor from the stars quietly ties the ancient past of Earth to the fate of the Mushka people.