How popular is Doraemon in the world!

Doraemon is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Fujiko F. Fujio. The manga was first serialized in December 1969, with its 1,345 individual chapters compiled into 45 tankōbon volumes and published by Shogakukan from 1970 to 1996. The story revolves around an earless robotic cat named Doraemon, who travels back in time from the 22nd century to aid a boy named Nobita Nobi.

The manga spawned a media franchise. Three anime TV series have been adapted in 1973, 1979, and 2005. Additionally, Shin-Ei Animation has produced over forty animated films, including two 3D computer animated films, all of which are distributed by Toho. Various types of merchandise and media have been developed, including soundtrack albums, video games, and musicals. The manga series was licensed for an English language release in North America, via Amazon Kindle, by a collaboration of Fujiko F. Fujio Pro with Voyager Japan and AltJapan Co., Ltd. The anime series was licensed by Disney for an English-language release in North America in 2014, and LUK International in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. (Source from Wikipedia)

Doraemon is written and illustrated by Fujiko F. Fujio, the pen name of Japanese manga artist Hiroshi Fujimoto. According to Fujio, it was originally conceived following a series of three events: when searching for ideas for a new manga, he wished a machine existed that would come up with ideas for him, he tripped over his daughter’s toy, and heard cats fighting in his neighborhood. To set up the plot and characters, he inspired some elements from his earlier manga series, Obake no Q-Tarō, which involve an obake living with humans, with a similar formula. Fujio said that the idea for Doraemon came after “an accumulation of trial and error”, during which he finally found the most suitable style of manga to him. Initially, the series achieved little success as gekiga was well-known at the time, and only became a hit after its adaptation into an anime TV series and multiple feature films. (Source from Wikipedia)

DORAEMON EVOLUTION

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DORAEMON MISSION

Nobita Nobi is a ten-year-old fifth-grade Japanese school boy, who is kind-hearted and honest, but also lazy, unlucky and physically weak. He is often bullied by Takeshi Goda (nicknamed Gian), an irascible and strong-willed bully, and Suneo Honekawa (Gian’s sidekick), a wealthy and spoiled boy who uses his friendship with Gian to win the respect of other schoolmates. Nobita’s only dream of marrying Shizuka Minamoto (nicknamed Shizuka) His friend and fellow classmate, is hindered by the presence of Hidetoshi Dekisugi, an intelligent student who exerts a strong attraction on her. Doraemon quickly befriends Nobita and is extremely thoughtful towards him: he supports Nobita in times of difficulty, but also tries to avoid his gadgets being used recklessly, making problems worse than they initially were. Nobita, although sometimes makes mistakes, still manages to solve his problems with Doraemon’s help, doing the right thing and learning his lesson, eventually making him be able to marry Shizuka. Doraemon can thus return to the future; Nobita now has grown up and can deal with life’s obstacles on his own.

DORAEMON GADGETs

Gadgets, are Doraemon’s tools from the future, usually used to help the characters. Fujio said that Doraemon has a total of 1,293 gadgets; according to a 2004 analysis by Yasuyuki Yokoyama of Toyama University, there are 1,963 gadgets found in 1,344 sketches. The most important gadgets include “Take-Copter”, a small piece of headgear made out of bamboo that can allow its users to fly; “Time Machine”, a machine used for time travel; “Anywhere Door”, a pink-colored door that allows people to travel according to the thoughts of the person who turns the knob; “Time Kerchief”, a handkerchief which can turn an object new or old or a person young or old; “Translator Tool”, a cuboid jelly that allow one to converse in any language; and “Designer”, a camera used to instantly dress-up the user.

Useful Doraemon gadgets from the future!

June 3, 2022

DORAEMON MUSEUM

The Fujiko F. Fujio Museum, also informally known as the Doraemon Museum, is a fanciful art museum found in the suburbs of Kawasaki. It is based on the work of Fujiko F. Fujio (nom de plume of manga artist Fujimoto Hiroshi) who is the creator of Doraemon, an influential series about a robotic cat from the 22nd century who travels back in time to befriend a group of kids. The museum requires advance reservations.

HELLO KITTY CAFES

Today we are going to talk about one of the trendy coffee shops “Doraemon Official Cafe”, located at Chitose Airport, in Hokkaido, Japan. It is a museum and cafeteria where you can entertain yourself and at the same time have a delicious coffee with a lot of foam or snack on a little thing with a very special theme of the Doraemon cat, did you know the cosmic cat?

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DORAEMON DEPARTMENT STORE

“Doraemon Future Department Store” is the first official Doraemon shop in the world. Doraemon Future Department Store is a place where you can spend time surrounded by a variety of Doraemon goods and enjoy playing secret gadgets. Make a lot of fun memories here.
And these memories should make everyone’s future become a little better.

DORAEMON TIME SQUARE

“Doraemon Time Square” is a clock that uses Doraemon as a motif.
Each the hour arrives, the anime theme song “Doraemon” will play and a fun show of cute secret gadgets will begin. From 19:00, the show will change, and you can enjoy another atmosphere. There are benches on both sides of the clock where you can take pictures with Doraemon, Nobita, and Shizuka, it is a great photo spot that we recommended to you.