Notes

Doraemon

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 Notes

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Notes Fujiko F. Fujio

“ My idea for manga is for myself to enjoy by

illustrating, and as a consequence of my work,
also let the readers enjoy by reading them”
Fujiko F. Fujio

Nom de Plume: Fujiko F. Fujio

Real Name: Hiroshi Fujimoto

Chronology
1933 Fujimoto born on first day of December , in Takaoka-city, Toyama
Prefecture.

1944 Became friends with Motoo Abiko, who was transferred to Fuji
moto's elementary school.

1951 Both were inspired by Osamu Tezuka and started to submit their
work to periodicals. “Tenshi no Tama-chan” was their publishing
debut on “Mainichi Shogakusei Shinbun”.

1954 Moved to Tokyo with Mr. Abiko, so that they could earnestly aim
for professional manga artist.
Resided at Tokiwa-so; i.e., an apartment where many young manga
artists once lived before becoming famous.
Chose Fujiko Fujio as their nom de plume.

1961 Moved to Ikuta, Kawasaki-city, Kanagawa Prefecture. Here after,

they have created many masterpieces such as “Obake no Q-taro”,
“Perman”, “Doraemon”, etc.

1987 They ended their partnership and renamed his nom de plume as
“Fujiko·F·Fujio”.

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 Notes

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Notes Doraemon ...
(ドラえもん) is a Japanese manga series created by Fujiko
F. Fujio (the pen name of Hiroshi Fujimoto) which later became an
anime series and Asian franchise. The series is about a robotic cat
named Doraemon, who travels back in time from the 22nd century
to aid a schoolboy, Nobita Nobi (野比 のび太, Nobi Nobita).

The series first appeared in December 1969, when it was

published simultaneously in six different magazines. In total, 1,344
stories were created in the original series, which are published by
Shogakukan under the Tentōmushi (てんとう虫) manga brand, ex-
tending to forty-five volumes. The volumes are collected in the Ta-
kaoka Central Library in Toyama, Japan. Fujio was born in Toyama.

A majority of Doraemon episodes are comedies with moral

lessons regarding values such as integrity, perseverance, courage,
family and respect for elders. Several noteworthy environmental
issues are often visited, including homeless animals, endangered
species, deforestation, and pollution. Topics such as dinosaurs, the
flat Earth theory, wormhole traveling, Gulliver's Travels, and the
history of Japan are often covered.

Doraemon was awarded the first Shogakukan Manga Award

for children's manga in 1982, and the first Osamu Tezuka Culture
Award in 1997. In March 2008, Japan's Foreign Ministry appointed
Doraemon as the nation's first "anime ambassador." Ministry
spokesman explained the novel decision as an attempt to help people
in other countries to understand Japanese anime better and to
deepen their interest in Japanese culture."The Foreign Ministry
action confirms that Doraemon has come to be considered a Japa-
nese cultural icon.
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Reception...

On 22 April 2002, on the special issue of Asian Hero in

TIME Magazine, Doraemon was selected as one of the 22 Asian He-
roes. Being the only cartoon character selected, Doraemon was de-
scribed as "The Cuddliest Hero in Asia".

In 2005, the Japan Society of New York selected Doraemon

as a culturally significant work of Japanese otaku pop-culture in its
exhibit Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture, cu-
rated by renowned artist Takashi Murakami. In Murakami's analy-
sis, he states that Doraemon's formulaic plotlines typified the
"wish fulfilment" mentality of 1970s Japan, where the electronics
revolution glamorized the idea that one could solve their problems
with machines and gadgets rather than hard work or individual in-
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In many ways, Doraemon was the first of its kind. It has

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 Doraemon History

The name DORAEMON comes from the word, “dora-neko”

which means “the lost cat”, while the ending -emon is a common ends
of name in Japan.

In December 1, 1969, the Doraemon manga appeared simul-

taneously in six different children's monthly magazines. The maga-
zines were titled by the year of children's studies, which included
Yoiko (good children), Yōchien (nursery school), and Shogaku
Ichinensei (first grade of primary school) to Shogaku Yonnensei
(fourth grade of primary school). By 1973, the series began to ap-
pear in two more magazines, Shogaku Gonensei (fifth grade of pri-
mary school) and Shogaku Rokunensei (sixth grade of primary
school). The stories featured in each of the magazines were differ-
ent, meaning the author was originally creating more than six sto-
ries each month. In 1977, CoroCoro Comic was launched as a maga-
zine of Doraemon. Original manga based on the Doraemon movies
were also released in CoroCoro Comic. The stories which are pre-
served under the Tentōmushi brand are the stories found in these
magazines.

Since the debut of Doraemon in 1969, the stories have been

selectively collected into forty-five books published from 1974 to
1996, which had a circulation of over 80 million in 1992. In addition,
Doraemon has appeared in a variety of manga series by Shōgakukan.
In 2005, Shōgakukan published a series of five more manga volumes

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under the title Doraemon+ (Doraemon Plus), which were not found in
the forty-five Tentōmushi pipi volumes. Many other series have
since been produced, some not from official supplies.

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 Summary of the story

The first appearance of Doraemon, who came via the time

machine.

Doraemon is sent back in time by a young boy named Se-

washi Nobi to improve the circumstances of his great grandfather,
Nobita so that his descendants may enjoy a better future. In the
original time-line, Nobita experienced nothing but misery and mis-
fortune manifested in the form of poor marks and grades, physical
disasters, and bullying throughout his life. This culminates in the
burning down of a future business he set up which leaves his family
line beset with financial problems. In order to alter history and
better the Nobi family's fortunes, Sewashi sent him a robot called
Doraemon.

Doraemon has a pocket from which he produces many gadg-

ets, medicines, and tools from the future. The pocket is called yō-
jigen-pocket (lit. fourth-dimensional pocket). Some of the gadgets
(dōgu) are based on real Japanese household devices with fanciful
twists, but most are completely science fiction (although some may
be based on folklore or religious stories). Thousands of dōgu have

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been featured in Doraemon. The number of dōgu has been approxi-
mated at 4,500. It is this constant variety which
makes Doraemon popular even among adult readers/viewers. In the
series, the availability of dōgu depends sometimes on the money
Doraemon has available, and he often says some dōgu are expensive
in the future. The more famous ones include the "bamboo-
copter" (very similar to the ones that appears on the older series
of Beany and Cecil), a small head accessory that allows flight; the
"Anywhere Door", a door that opens up to any place the user
wishes; and the "Time Machine". Some of the recurring dōgu appear
also in Fujiko F. Fujio's other works such as 21-emon, Kaibutsu-
kun, Kiteretsu Daihyakka, Mikio to Mikio or Pāman.

Although he can hear perfectly well, Doraemon has no ears:

his robotic ears were eaten by a mouse, giving him a series-
long phobia of the creatures.

The only main female character is Shizuka Minamoto who

serves as a romantic interest for Nobita, but otherwise her role is
of a minor supporting character. Nobita's main human friends and/
or rivals include Takeshi (nicknamed 'Gian', from the English
word giant), a consummate bully, and Suneo, a cunning, gloating,
spoiled wealthy brat. There are many recurring supporting charac-
ters, such as Dekisugi, Nobita's parents, Gian's mother, his school
teacher, his descendants from the future, and Doraemon's little
sister, Dorami.

The stories are formulaic, usually focused on the everyday

struggles of fifth grader Nobita, the protagonist of the story. In a
typical chapter, Nobita comes home crying about a problem he
faces in school and/or the local neighborhood. After hearing him
out, Doraemon often offers helpful advice to his problem(s), but
that's never enough for Nobita, who is consistently looking for the
"quick, easy" way out (which offers insight to the viewers as to why
Nobita's life turned out the way it did). Finally, after Nobita's
pleading and/or goading, Doraemon produces a futuristic gadget out
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 of his aforementioned pouch to help Nobita fix his problem, enact
revenge, or flaunt to his friends.

Unfortunately when in possession of the gadget, Nobita

usually gets into deeper trouble than before, despite Doraemon's
best intentions and warnings. Sometimes, Nobita's friends (usually
Suneo or Gian) steal Doraemon's gadgets and end up misusing them.
However, by the end of the story, there is usually retribution to
the characters who end up misusing them, and a moral is taught.

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 Doraemon Profile

1. Ear Although Doraemon can hear perfectly well, but he has no

ears. Since his robotic ears were bitten by a mouse.

2. Eye : Infrared eyes which can see at night.

3. Nose : A nose with twenty times the smelling power of the hu-
man nose. Unfortunately, it's often out of order.

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4. Mechanism : It will change all foods that Doraemon eats to be
his energy.

5. Whiskers : Radar whiskers which can track distant objects. Un-

fortunately, they are in need of repair.

6. Mouth : A big mouth that can eat anything and everything.

7. Bell : A cat-calling bell, one ring, and all the cats in the
neighborhood gather round. Out of order at present.

8. Body : Doraemon's body is made of special alloy which can re-

sist the gravity, so the dust cannot touch his body.

9. Pocket : A fourth-dimensional pocket filled with all sorts of

wonderful gadgets.

10. Hand : Vacuum hands which can suck up just about anything.

11. Tail : Doraemon's switch is in his tail. Pull it and he stops.

12. Feet : Flat feet which can walk softly as a cat.

Jumping Height : 129 m Speed : 129m / hr.

Height : 129 cm

Waist : 129 cm Weight : 129 pounds

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 Birth of Doraemon

Doraemon is manufactured on Septem-

ber 3, 2112, at the Matsushiba Robot
Factory.

In the same time, there are two terror-

ists escaping from the police by tele-
porting.

This is caused the electricity of robot

factory got short.

While Doraemon is in the process of

assembling, the electricity beam to
Doraemon and made him fall into the
industrial garbage.

Luckily, Noramyaako, female robotic

cat, can save him from a blast furnace

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 and Doraemon is falling in love Noramya-
ako.

Then Doraemon is in training together

with the same prototype of robot to be
the best robotic cat.

It is so pity, he is not good at a prac-

tice and tests because the accident in
production made his many features is
malfunction.

After that Doraemon is sent to the ro-

bot school, which he meet lovely
Noramyaako again.

Doraemon gets many new friends and be

happy in the Robot Shool.

And then the Robot Audition come and

every robot need to show thier ability in
order to people select to buy him.

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 Doraemon is very exiting and make mis-
take in his presentation.

Although, a child press button by mis-

understanding, Doraemon is selected as
a baby-sister.

The child named Sewashi is brought up

by Doraemon.

One day, Sewashi try to sculpture the

statue of Doraemon to give Doraemon
in Christmas day, but its ears are not
like Doraemon.

Sewashi order the robotic mouse to

gnaw the ears of Doraemon's nominee.

Unfortunately the robotice mouse mis-

understand, Doraemon's ear is gnawed
by robotic mouse while Doraemon is
sleeping.

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 Sewashi bring Doraemon to hospital to
cure his gnawed ears but something is
wrong in treatment. Doraemon's two
ears disappear.

Suddenly Noramyaako which come to

visit Doraemon in hospital see Dorae-
mon's head without ears, she laugh at
Doraemon. That was Doraemon is very
sad and cry.

Later Doraemon slipp into depression

on top of a tower, and he drink a potion
labeled "sadness" by mistake.

As he wept, the yellow color washed

off and his voice changed due to the
potion.

Until Dorami come to comfort Dorae-

mon and tell that Sewashi is finding him
right now.

Doraemon take a wrong drug again, it

make him faster and non stop running.

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 Accidentally, Doraemon can save Se-
washi from terrorists and two terror-
ists has been arrested by the police in
finally.

Doraemon lose his fourth dimension

pocket while he is running to help Se-
washi.

Noramyaako say sorry to Doraemon and

both understand each other.

On Christmas day Sewashi give Dorae-

mon's nominee in blue as a gift to
Doraemon.

The master of Robot Factory give

Doraemon a new fourth dimension
pocket and mini doras.

Sewashi ask Doraemon to travel back in

time from 22nd century to aid Nobita
Nobi's great-great grandfather and
improve Nobi family's financial status.

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 Characters

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A. MAJOR CHARACTERS

Doraemon

Doraemon possesses a fourth-

dimensional pocket from which he can ac-
quire various kinds of futuristic tools,
gadgets, and playthings from a future de-
partment store. Doraemon originally had
ears but they were bitten off by a robotic
mouse in the 22nd century. As a result, he
developed a morbid fear of mice despite
being a robotic cat. He also has the ten-
dency to panic during emergencies, charac-
terized by him frantically trying to pull out
a very much-needed tool from his pocket, only to produce a huge
assortment of unrelated household items.
Doraemon's favorite food is dorayaki, a Japa-
nese treat filled with red bean paste. He hates
getting cold and most of all “RATS”.

Doraemon is considered a substandard

product because many of his robotic features (ie. radar whiskers
and cat-calling bell) malfunctioned after production. One can turn
off Doraemon by pulling his balloon tail.

In the 2007 birthday episode, 'MS-903' is used to call

Doraemon by the factory owner where Doraemon is produced.

Doraemon usually uses the phrase "nanoda".

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 Nobita Nobi

Nobita is the main character of

the series and the center of the story.
He is a fourth grader in Tokyo's Nerima
Ward and an only child. He wears glasses,
a red or yellow polo shirt with a white
collar, and blue shorts. Nobita's charac-
ter flaws are endless: he is lazy, uncoor-
dinated, dim-witted, frail, plain-looking,
unlucky, and bad at sports. Nobita's typi-
cal day consists of arriving late on classes, scoring zeros in his
tests, getting lectured by his teacher, being bullied by his class-
mates Gian and Suneo, falling into curbside rain gutters, being
chased by dogs, and getting scolded by his mom for his sloth and
poor academic results.

Despite his flaws, Nobita possesses some unique talents

such as his unrivaled marksmanship and ability to weave intricate
string figures. Although Nobita is usually portrayed as being cow-
ardly, he has often risked his life to help save others or even entire
civilizations (as seen in full-length stories).

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 Shizuka Minamoto

Shizuka, usually called Shizu-chan or

Shizuka-chan, is the smart, kind, and pretty
neighborhood girl who is the object of No-
bita's affections. She takes baths several
times a day. Somehow, Nobita always seem to
unintentionally walk in on her (via the Doko-
demo Door) while she is still in the bathtub.
She is also known for taking piano lessons
unwillingly, which is sometimes used as an
excuse for declining to hang out with Nobita.
Her true passions are sweet potatoes and
the violin, in which her playing is as atrocious as Gian's singing. Due
to Doraemon's intervention, Shizuka will become Nobita's wife in
the future timeline.

Hidetoshi Dekisugi

Hidetoshi is Nobita's classmate and rival

for Shizuka's affections. He always gets perfect
scores on his tests, but never shows off his abili-
ties. He willingly helps Nobita whenever he has phi-
losophical or scientific questions. His name literally
means "brilliant over-achiever", and his last name is
a pun on dekisugiru, which means "over achieving".
Unfortunately for Nobita, Shizuka tends to prefer
the company of Hidetoshi, who is more of her intel-
lectual equal.

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 Takeshi Goda

Takeshi, usually known by the

nickname "Gian" from English word
"giant", is the big, strong, and quick-
tempered local bully. His nickname may
be derived from giant. He is known for
his confidence in his terrible singing
voice. He regularly subjects the
neighborhood children to horrendous
singing recitals, which is sometimes com-
bined with his equally bad homemade dinner. He also frequently
steals other children's toys and books under the pretext of
"borrowing" them, unless the toy is damaged. This is how most fans
considered Gian to be a major antagonist mostly to Nobita and his
friends. However, he does not hesitate to help them, including No-
bita when they are in real trouble, which often occurs in the movies.

Several of the stories revolve around Nobita and his

friends' efforts to avoid Gian's concerts or in one particular epi-
sode or chapter, which summarize his friends avoid visiting Gian's
house on his birthday because of his selfish nature. After reflect-
ing on one event about his birthday, Gian thought of himself why he
wasn't popular among his peers. After getting a lecture from
Doraemon to see what an unruly character he is, Gian realize that
he should've been a better person and he begs Doraemon to give
him another chance. However, things didn't go exactly as planned
when his friends at school or at the streets mock him to see how
weird Gian was acting and get kicked by Suneo after learning his
attempt to become gentle to his peers. This led him to lose control
of his temper and start attacking his friends again.

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Although he bullies the other children (mostly Nobita), he is terri-
fied of his mother, who runs the local grocery store. He founded
his own baseball team named after himself. Although Nobita is of-
ten blamed for the losses against the baseball team's rival, the
"Tyranos", Gian and Suneo still force Nobita to play because they
Doraemon Costume play
do not have enough players.

Gian has a younger sister named Jaiko, whom he adores.

Suneo Honekawa

Suneo is t he fox-fac ed
(inherited from his mother) rich kid
who loves to flaunt his material wealth
before everyone. He is often seen with
Gian, serving as Gian's lackey while
they bully Nobita together. This is only
because Suneo avoids being suffered
under the wrath of Jian's bullish trait.
Some of the stories start with Suneo
showing off some new video game or
toy which evokes Nobita's envy. He
has an extensive knowledge of science, and is a talented artist and
designer.

In some scenes, Suneo is seen as a narcissist who loves to

stare at himself in the mirror while telling himself that he is the
most handsome guy in the world. He is still a bed-wetter and needs
to wear diapers when he sleeps, despite being in the fourth grade.
He considers this humiliating habit his secret weakness. Suneo is
also very self-conscious about his height, being the shortest kid in
his class.

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 Nobisuke Nobi

Nobita's father and laid-back salary

man. He is very considerate of Nobita, often
seen arriving home from work to placate
Tamako's anger towards Nobita; this habit
may come from Nobisuke's own childhood,
since his father (and Nobita's grandfather)
was very similar to Tamako. He has trouble
quitting smoking and is self-conscious about
his inability to pass the driving test. He also
has a poor memory and sometimes arrives home drunk from nightly
business meetings. He was once an aspiring art student. He also
likes golf, which most Japanese businessmen and employees play.

Tamako Nobi

Nobita's stay-at-home mother. She is

usually seen scolding Nobita or sending him out
of the house (a typical Japanese household pun-
ishment used by parents). She actually loves her
son very much, but is disappointed by his lazy
attitude and academic failures. Several episodes
involve Nobita trying to avoid his mother’s
scolding by using Doraemon’s gadgets. Her
maiden name is revealed to be 'Kataoka'.

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 Nobita and Shizuka was crying gently.

Sensei Doraemon opened his eyes. He looked around, and finally

said, “Nobita-kun, did you finish your homework?”

There was the same white clouds in the sky like the times
Nobita's homeroom teacher. He is a
they used to spend together…
strict taskmaster who often punishes No-
bita for failing to do his homework. The
punishments range from standing in the
-Ends-
hallway to sweeping the classroom after-
school. He often pays unexpected visits to
the Nobi’s in order to inform Mrs. Tamako When the Fujiko Fujio duo broke up in 1987, the very idea
about Nobita’s recent zeroes on exams. He of an official ending to the series was never discussed. Since Fujiko
also usually sees Nobita in streets and of- F. died in 1996 before any decisions were reached, any "endings" of
ten scold him to study hard and for getting Doraemon are fan fiction. However, it is apparent from many epi-
low scores during exams. His real name is unknown and he is only sodes and movies where Nobita travels to the future that in the
referred to as "Sensei", but in the NTV anime his name is given as end he does marry Shizuka, leads a happy life and separates with
Ganari. Doraemon, although Nobita and his friends fondly remember him.

Dorami It’s concluded that there is NO ending to Doraemon. The

Dorami, also known as Dorami-chan, series continue to live in its fans imagination.

is the sister of Doraemon. She happens to

be about 2 years younger than him.
Strangely enough, they are siblings due to
the fact that they shared half of the oil
from a can. She lives in the 22nd-century
Tokyo with Sewashi, Nobita's great-great-
grandson. She is yellow and has ears that
resemble a large red bow. She likes melon-
pan and is afraid of cockroaches. She is also shown to be a more
advanced robot than Doraemon (Dorami is able to produce 10,000
horse power, in comparison to Doraemon's 129.3). She sometimes
visits Nobita with a time machine when Doraemon is "off-duty."

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 Nobita closed his eyes. He cried, but after few minutes, he
stopped crying,and quietly told Dorami-chan, “Dorami-chan, thanks Mini-Doras
for coming here. I will take care of the rest. You have to go back to
your future time now.”

Dorami-chan could not decide what to do, but anyway she

hugged Nobita quietly, and she went back home. After he went
back, Nobita carried Doraemon and placed him into the shelf.

TIME FLIES……….

Year 2010, Nobita grew up. Since that day, he changed. He

Mini-Doras are actually gadgets of Doraemon. They are mini
studied hard, did not cry anymore, and he lived without Doraemon.
versions of Doraemon, each with a different color. They can think
He told Shizuka and other folks that Doraemon had to go back to
and feel for themselves, and communicate with Doraemon through
his future, and could not meet him anymore.
the "Mini-Dora" language. They act as helpers for all sorts of tasks,
Shizuka was impressed to Nobita’s mysterious appearance such as repairing the internal mechanism of Doraemon.
which became completely different from 10 years ago. They fell in
love, and married. Nobita became a scientist. He made a laboratory
in his room, and was studying hard with his job all day. He told Shi- Sewashi
zuka not to come into the room, as it is very dangerous inside.

But one day, he called Shizuka and told her to come in to his Nobita's great-great-grandson, he
room. It was the first time for her to enter his husband’s room. is the one who sends Doraemon back to the
The moment she went in, she lost her words… There was her friend, past to look after Nobita. Sewashi first
Doraemon, who she used to play in her childhood days. Doraemon bought Doraemon in 2112 when Doraemon
was not moving. It seemed as he was sleeping. still had ears and his original factory paint.
“Look, Shizuka, I will plug in from now.” Nobita turned on He is also the owner of Doraemon's sister,
the main switch on Doraemon. Doraemon quietly, very quietly, Dorami.
started to open his eyes.

It was the moment the inventor of Doraemon became clear.

It was Nobita. He studied hard and hard just to meet and talk with
his old friend again. Going back and forth of time, Nobita was the
one who made Doraemon. He discovered all the programs and archi-
tecture of Doraemon-type-robot.
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 play with Shizuka-chan and other folks. After few hours, he re-

Jaiko turned to his home, but Doraemon was still sleeping. Nobita felt
something strange, and tried to wake him up. But there was no re-
ply. He became to feel afraid, and tried to wake him up. But what-
Jaiko is Gian's younger sister, who would ever he does, Doraemon did not wake up. Nobita exactly knew that
have been Nobita's wife in the future had something was different.
Doraemon not intervened. She appears in
This never happened before. He began crying, but though he
the very first chapter of the manga, even
screamed or cried, the famous fat-cat-robot did not make a single
before the introduction of Gian. Her
move at all. He came up to one idea, and jumped into his desk-the
name Jaiko is usually considered a nick-
time machine-and went to the future to meet Dorami-chan, Dorae-
name, but Fujiko never gave her a real
mon’s sister. He begged her for help, and forced her to go with him
name. An aspiring manga artist, Jaiko goes
back to 1998.
by her pen name Christine Goda and some-
times submits her manga to publishing companies for prizes. She After a short trip again back to 1998 by the time machine,
mostly fails in these contest because her storytelling is still rough. Dorami-chan looked all over his brother Doraemon to see what was
After that when she decides to give up writing comic books, Gian's wrong with him. After few minutes, she said “the battery is out”
friends are asked/forced to cheer her up. She has a crush on Mo-
Nobita was relieved, and said, “Battery? So he is not broken
tayo Moto,a seventh grader in the school. She is sometimes re-
right? Please replace or recharge his battery, and put him back like
ferred to as Hana.
before.”

But Dorami-chan shook her head and said,”Nobita-san,

B. MINOR CHARACTERS should I really do that?”

Nobita said, “What? What do you mean?”

Nobi Family
Dorami-chan replied, “His main battery is here, close to his
Nobisuke pocket. And it ran out. But originally, he had a back-up battery in
his ears, but as you know, his ears were eaten by a rat very many
Nobita and Shizuka's son, named after Nobita's father. He
years ago, so he does not have a back-up battery now.”
is a better athlete than Nobita and far more clever. In one of the
stories, he did not hesitate to beat up young Nobita when young “So what do you mean?”
Nobita tried to stop him from running away from home. Also, he is
“I mean, if I replace his battery, every memory of you will
shown as being a bully and brave enough to bully Gian and Suneo's
be eternally lost from his brain program.”
sons.
“WHAT?????”

“Shall I do that?”

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 the weather sure is good, which becomes a lie and it started Nobirou Nobi
to rain heavily before he said it is raining heavily and the rain The older brother of Nobita's father Nobisuke. He is an
stopped. Gian and Suneo was scared away after a few tricks excellent athlete and seems to be successful. He adores his
and when Nobita mentioned what is happening. Nobita was brother very much, and is welcomed the most by his nephew in New
very happy at first but quickly loses interest in the absence year, because of the money he gives him on that date.
of Doraemon. As he walks home, due to his earlier questioning
if Doraemon returned or not, his mother asked him if he could
find Doraemon, he unwittingly said, in great disappointment, Tamao Kataoka

the truth about Doraemon never coming back, just like what Tamako's younger brother and Nobita's uncle.
Doraemon told Nobita before his departure. Since the potion
was still in effect, when he arrives his room he finds Dorae-
Nobita's Grand Mother
mon there, and they have a happy reunion, but due to the ef-
Mother of Nobisuke Nobi. Nobita adored her but she died
fects of the potion, all his greets and joyful words have to be
spoken in the opposite way like I am so unhappy that we can when he was in kindergarten, before the main storyline. When No-
bita travels to the past, she always recognizes him as her grandson
never be together again.. The extended ending from the ani-
even if he has grown up. She appeared in a few episodes.
mated series was eventually adapted to the first story of
Book 7 in the manga series, with a few changes (i.e. Instead of
hearing Doraemon's voice explaining the use of the potion, he Nobirube Nobi
finds a card inside the box describing the use of the potion).
Nobita's Grand Father, he was very strict and very rude to
Nobisuke (Nobita's father). After all he loved him very much. He is
seen only one time in this show where his all nature was identified
But not to think about that, the ending for Doraemon that
have read by the blogger named Marlina that move her tears is this clearly. His grandson only seen him when he travelled to the past.

Minamoto Family
English transcript for the ending:
Yoshio Minamoto

Shizuka's Father. He is rarely seen in the series. His most

One day, a very normal day, Nobita came back from school well-known appearance in the series was in the future when he had a
and went upstairs of his house. Doraemon was there sleeping, just long talk with adult Shizuka over her choice to marry Nobita, and
like the other normal day. giving support for her decision. He appears in an episode titled
“Hey, Doraemon, please wake up, lets play! “, but Doraemon (Jyanpingu Sensuikan) which translates to jumping submarine.
does not wake up.

Nobita thought that Doraemon is tired, so he went out to

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Shizuka's Mother mon tells the truth and Nobita accepts. Doraemon returns to

Shizuka's mother. She's kind, but can also be quite exigent the future.

on Shizuka sometimes. The third ending was actually meant to be the official end-
ing due to low TV ratings and the Fujiko Fujio duo was busy with
other works. But Doraemon did not leave their minds and restarted
Shizuka's Grandpa
from next month's issue. In 1981, this episode was made into anime
Shizuka's grandpa. Never appeared in the anime.
(called "Doraemon Comes Back"), and in 1998, this was released as
an anime movie.
Honekawa Family In the March 1973 issue of the magazine Shogaku 4-nensei,
Suneo's Mother Nobita again returns home after losing a fight against Gian.
She loves Suneo very much and spoils him rotten. She Doraemon then explains that he has to return. Nobita tries to
sports curly hair and is often seen showing off her jewelry or have Doraemon stay but after talking it over with his parents,
branded handbags. he accepts Doraemon's departure. They take a last walk in the
park. After they split up, Nobita encounters Gian and gets
into a fight again. After a long duel with Nobita trying to win
Suneo's Father
at all costs so that Doraemon can leave without worries, Gian
He appears less frequently than Suneo's mother, distin- gave up (which gave Nobita the win) because no matter what,
guishable with straight hair and a mustache. He is often the one Nobita refuses to stay down. Doraemon finds Nobita passed
who initiates holiday tours that Suneo would invite his friends for. out with a bloody mouth and takes him home. Sitting beside
sleeping Nobita and after a moment of thought, Doraemon
returns to the future. (It is also found at the last chapter of
Sunetsugu
the manga Book 6).
Suneo's younger brother who lives in New York with his un-
cle (who is single and raised him like a son). He has a great respect The animated version is completely similar but lengthened.

for his older brother, but only because of Suneo's arrogant brags Nobita finds a box the shape of Doraemon in his drawer. The

and lies in their correspondence. next day, which happens to be April Fool's Day, Nobita is
jeered at by Suneo and Gian, the latter tricking him about
Doraemon's return. He happily runs home and asked his
Sunekichi mother whether Doraemon came back and finds out the truth.
Suneo's college age cousin. He is an expert in radio- Nobita couldn't stand it and opens the box. Inside of it was a
controlled toys. bottle of liquid. He hears Doraemon's voice explaining that
the potion is called Uso 800 (Lies 800) it is used to make all
untruths the drinker says true. Nobita uses it to play a few
tricks on Gian and Suneo, like first taking cover then say that
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 staged a protest outside the headquarters of the publisher of Suneo's grandma
the series after learning about this suggestion. The publisher Suneo's grandmother uses old wives' tales to impart values
had to issue a public statement that this is not true. (This and good habits to Suneo, something which Suneo dislikes.
ending actually correlates to the ending for the series St.
Elsewhere, which ended in 1988.)
Goda Family
The third ending suggests that Nobita fell and hit his head on
Gian's Mother
a rock. He fell into a deep coma, and eventually into a semi-
vegetative state. To raise money for an operation to save No- She's the owner of a small but successful shop, as well as
bita, Doraemon sold all the tools and devices in his four- the only person that Gian is deathly afraid of. Her constant abuse
dimensional pocket. However, the operation failed. Doraemon and cruel punishment suggests that Gian may have inherited his
sold all his tools except for one used as a last resort. He used mother or ancestor's bullish trait.
it to enable Nobita to go wherever he wanted, whichever time
or era he wished to go. In the end, the very place Nobita
Gian's Father
wanted to go was heaven.
Appeared in only one or two stories. Seen with a crew cut
and big-sized moustache.
The plausibility of these issues was discussed here and it
was concluded that there is no ending to Doraemon. Dekisugi Family
There are three official endings to Doraemon that were Akira Dekisugi
made. Doraemon was discontinued in two media because readers
Hidetoshi's mother. She is seen with Tamako while going
were advancing in grades and an ending was believed to be needed.
for shopping and they are best friends.
These two are not reprinted.

In the March 1971 issue of the magazine Shogaku 4-nensei: Hidetoshi's father
Due to the fact that visitors from the future were causing
He is a well mannered person and he meets Nobisuke every
too much trouble, the government in the 22nd Century passed
day in the train.
a bill to ban time-travelling altogether, meaning Doraemon
would have to return to his time era. He leaves Nobita.
Animals
In the March 1972 issue of the magazine Shogaku 4-nensei:
Doraemon, for some reason, had to go back to the future but Nora Neko no Kero
fakes a mechanical problem so that Nobita would let him go. A stray cat regularly appearing in the series. It steals fish
Nobita believes him and promises to wait until Doraemon gets and runs away.
well. Realizing that Nobita can handle his departure, Dorae-

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Nora Inu no Kero

A stray dog which always bites Nobita.

Mii Chan Doraemon Finale ?

A regular female cat from Nobita's timeline, who either
Series finale rumors
hangs out or goes on dates with Doraemon.
There are three current and often quoted urban legends
that started spreading in late 1980s of an ending to the Doraemon
Muku
series.
Gian's pet dog. At first Gian didn't want him around and
tried to get rid of him, but after he saved Gian from being eaten by The first and the most optimistic ending was made public by
Nobuo Sato several years ago. Doraemon's battery power ran
a lion that had at first tried to eat Nobita, Gian warmed up to him.
out, and Nobita was given a choice between replacing the bat-
In 1 or 2 episodes he was known as Buzo. In the series, Muku is
shown as a shy & unintelligent dog. tery inside a frozen Doraemon, which would cause it to reset
and lose all memory, or await a competent robotics technician
who would be able to resurrect the cat-robot one day. Nobita
Peeko swore that very day to work hard in school, graduate with
Shizuka's pet canary. It is yellow in color and sings sweetly. honors, and become that robotics technician. He successfully
Shizuka loves Peeko very much. resurrected Doraemon in the future as a robotics professor,
became successful as an AI developer, and thus lived happily

Other Characters ever after, thus relieving his progeny of the financial burdens
that caused Doraemon to be sent to his space-time in the
Noramyako first place. A dōjin manga for this ending was made by a
Doraemon's former girlfriend from the 22nd Century. She "Tajima T Yasue" in 2005, and it sold 13,000 copies before
later broke him up because they have to part away for their future Shogakukan halted its publication. Tajima apologized to
(Doraemon has to return to the past while she become famous Shogakukan in 2007 and paid an undisclosed amount of money
dancer). for settlement.

The second, more pessimistic ending suggests that Nobita

Yasuo Tanaka Nobi is suffering from autism and that all the characters
(including Doraemon) are simply his delusion. The idea that
One of Nobita's classmates who often appears with Haruo.
Nobita was a sick and dying little boy who imagined the entire
He is distinguishable by always wearing a baseball cap. Although he
series on his sickbed to help him ease his pain and depression
appears fairly often in the series as a background character, his
no doubt angered quite a lot of fans. Many Japanese fans
name is very rarely mentioned. Yasuo is often considered a generic
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 Doraemon: Nobita's New Great Adventure into the Under- representative of Nobita's friends. He is often creditted in the
world - The Seven Magic Users* (Doraemon The Magic 2007) movies as "Boy A."
- Fujiko Movie Studio, 2007. (Remake of the 1984 movie)

Doraemon: Nobita and the Green Gi- Haruo

ant Legend (Doraemon The Future
One of Nobita's classmates who often appears with Yasuo.
2008)* - Fujiko Movie Studio, 2008.
He is a chubby boy, though smaller in size than Gian. Much like Ya-
Doraemon: The New Record of No- suo, he appears fairly often as a generic representative of Nobita's
bita: Spaceblazer (Doraemon The friends, though his name is rarely called on by Nobita and his
Hero 2009)* - Fujiko Movie Studio, friends. He is often creditted in the movies as "Boy B."
2009. Remake of the 1981 movie.

Doraemon: Nobita's Great Merman Gariben-kun

Sea Battle (Doraemon The Legend 2010)* - Fujiko Movie
A rival to Hidetoshi Dekisugi. He lookes foxed faced like
Studio, 2010
Suneo. He appears to be a soft-spoken and decent boy, however
Doraemon: Nobita and the New Steel Troops: ~Angel deep down inside he resents Deskisugi of being better at anything
Wings~ (Doraemon The Big Power 2011)* - Fujiko Movie Stu- than he is. In one chapter, he makes cruel prank calls to his rival,
dio, 2011. Remake of the 1986 movie. telling Dekisugi to go tohell every night. This problem caused Hide-
toshi's grades to drop, and Doraemon decided to use a specific
Doraemon: Nobita and The Island of Miracle ~Animal Adven-
gadget to teach Gariben a lesson. Gariben begged Hidetoshi not to
ture~ (Doraemon The Dream 2012)* - Fujiko Movie Studio,
tell the teacher or the rest of the class about it, and the latter
2012.
forgave him, on the condition that he promise not to do it again.

The old book seller

An owner of bookstore, who often expels anyone who stand

and read comics, magazines, or novels in his bookstore for free
(usually Nobita).

Funyako Funyao

A parody of Fujiko Fujio. He was often being lectured or

complained by other people saying that his comic book idea was
overdue. Nobita occasionally helps him to finish his works.

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Company President Doraemon: Nobita in Dorabian Nights - Fujiko F. Fujio, 1991

Suneo's Dad's Friend. He does not appear in the series, but Doraemon: Nobita and the Kingdom of
his presents to Suneo's Dad allows Suneo to show off. Clouds - Fujiko F. Fujio, 1992

Doraemon: Nobita and Tin-Plate Laby-

Moteo Mote rinth - Fujiko F. Fujio, 1993

Jaiko's boyfriend. Always wears eyeglasses, he is impressed Doraemon: Nobita and Fantastic Three
by Jaiko's manga works. Musketeers - Fujiko F. Fujio, 1994

Doraemon: Nobita's Genesis Diary -

Kaminari Fujiko F. Fujio, 1995

An old man who lives next to the vacant lot where Nobita Doraemon: Nobita and Galactic Express - Fujiko F. Fujio, 1996
and the gang play baseball. They sometimes "accidentally" throw
Doraemon: Nobita's Adventure in Clockwork City - Fujiko F.
baseballs, rocks, or even one of Doraemon's gadgets through his
Fujio and Fujiko Movie Studio, 1997
window, breaking it and sometimes knocking over his prized bonsai.
The children refer to him as Kaminari-oyaji because he shouts so Doraemon: Nobita's South Sea Adventure - Fujiko Movie Stu-
loud that they scatter. Kaminari is his family name. Gian always or- dio, 1998
ders Nobita to apologize to him & take the baseball back if they Doraemon: Nobita's Adventure: Drifts in the Universe - Fu-
broke his windows. jiko Movie Studio, 1999

Doraemon: Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King - Fujiko

Sumire Hoshino Movie Studio, 2000
She is a professional singer and has a necklace with a photo Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged
of her friend. This friend had gone away from Japan, but she is Braves - Fujiko Movie Studio, 2001
certain that he'll return. Nobita saved her once from a paparazzo.
Doraemon: Nobita and the Robot King-
She is one of the Paaman in the Perman anime.
dom - Fujiko Movie Studio, 2002

Doraemon: Nobita and the Wind Wiz-

19 Emon
ard* - Fujiko Movie Studio, 2003
21-emon's grandfather, who was an owner of a nearly dilapi-
Doraemon: Nobita's Wannyan Space-
dated hotel, Tsuzureya .
Time Odyssey* - Fujiko Movie Studio, 2004

Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006* (Doraemon The Movie

Masashi
2006) - Fujiko Movie Studio, 2006. (Remake of the 1980
A fat guy who wears a red T-shirt and he is always seen movie.)
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 with Yamada.

Yamada

A boy who wears a cap and green shirt and is seen with Ma-
sashi.
Films

This list of Doraemon films contains a list of films based on

Kurai
the anime and manga series, Doraemon and released by Toho.
A boy who wears rectangular glasses and has brown hair.
Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur - Fujiko F. Fujio, 1980 Even though he's always seen with Masashi & Yamada, he once
Doraemon: The Record of Nobita: Spaceblazer - Fujiko F. Fu- broke up friends beacase, Masashi who in a few appearances shows
jio, 1981 off the tall buildings he lives in, blocked sunlight to Kurai's house.
They later became friends because Nobita gave him a Sky Frame,
Doraemon: Nobita and the Haunts of Evil - Fujiko F. Fujio,
(Doraemon's Gadget) that gives sunlight by just holding it above
1982
your head.
Doraemon: Nobita's Monstrous Under-
water Castle - Fujiko F. Fujio, 1983
Yutaka
Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure
The only boy who is friendly with Nobita. He helps him in
into the Underworld - Fujiko F. Fujio,
some situations. Rarely seen and is not well known.
1984

Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars -

Fujiko F. Fujio, 1985

Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops - Fujiko F. Fujio,

1986

Doraemon: Nobita and the Knights of Dinosaurs - Fujiko F.

Fujio, 1987

Doraemon: Nobita's Parallel "Journey to the West" - 1988

Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan - Fujiko F. Fujio,

1989

Doraemon: Nobita and the Animal Planet - Fujiko F. Fujio,

1990
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 1979 Anime

Doraemon is an anime created

by Fujiko F. Fujio with 1,787 epi-
sodes. This anime is the much more
successful successor of the 1973
anime.

2005 Anime

Shin-Ei Animation (Now owned

by TV Asahi) produced an anime se-
ries of Doraemon. This series be-
came incredibly popular, and ended
with 1,787 episodes including the
278 new episodes on March 25, 2005.

Celebrating Doraemon's anniversary, a new Doraemon series

began airing on TV Asahi on April 15, 2005 with new voice ac-
tors and staff, and updated character designs.

Video Games

There are a total of 61 Chinese-only video games ranging

from platformer games to RPG games, that began with the Emer-
son's Arcadia 2001system. For a complete list of these games
see List of Doraemon media. Doraemon can also be seen in Namco's
popular Taiko no Tatsujinrhythm game series like Taiko no Tatsujin
(11 - 14 only), Meccha! Taiko no Tatsujin DS: 7tsu no Shima no Dai-
bouken, Taiko no Tatsujin Wii,Taiko no Tatsujin Plus, and Taiko no
Tatsujin DS: Dororon! Yokai Daikessen!!. The Chinese version of Mi-
crosoft's 3D Movie Maker contained a Doraemon-themed expansion
pack.

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 Wow, The Kid Gang of Bandits
Hello, Dynosis Kids!!
A Blue Straw Hat
Dorami-chan and Doraemons Films Doraemon Japanese Theme Song
Robot School's Seven Mysteries
Space Land's Critical Event konna koto ii na (sore! tototsugeki!)
dekitara ii na
anna yume konna yume ippai aru AN AN AN
Musicals kedo tottemo daisuki
Doraemon the Musical: Nobita and the Animal Planet Utaiba
Doraemon: Nobita to Animaru Puranetto was a 2008 musical based minna minna minna DORAEMON
on the 1990 anime film of the same name. kanaete kureru
The musical debuted at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space on fushigina POKKE de kanaete anna toko ii na
kureru
September 4, 2008 running through September 14.[3] Wasabi Mi-
sora wo jiyuu ni tobitai na
zuta voiced Doraemon. iketara ii na
kono kuni ano shima takusan aru
The story was the same as in the original film: Nobita saw (hai! takekoputaa!) kedo
magic dust in his house and it teleports him to the Animal Planet.

AN AN AN minna minna minna

tottemo daisuki ikasete kureru
Television Series
DORAEMON mirai no kikai de kanaete kureru
1973 Anime
sekai ryokou ni ikitai na
The Nippon TV-Dōga- shukudai touban shiken ni otsukai (ufufufu... doko demo DOA!)
produced Doraemon anime series anna koto konna koto taihen
dakedo
was a brief and unsuccessful at- AN AN AN
tempt at adaptating the origi- tottemo daisuki
minna minna minna
nal manga series into anime. It was DORAEMON
launched in 1973 with 52 episodes on the Nippon TV network and
tasukete kureru
only lasted 6 months. The character designs in this anime adapta- AN AN AN
benrina dougu de tasukete
tion appear more stylized than the character designs used in the tottemo daisuki
kureru
TV Asahi anime adaption, which were more true to the original DORAEMON
manga. It also used a different theme tune, which was possibly in- omocha no heitai da
fluenced partly by the theme tune and music to the original Pink
Panther cartoons .
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 Doraemon's Time Capsule for 2001

Doraemon: Come back Doraemon

Doraemon: Featherplace

Doraemon: It's Autumn!

Doraemon: It's Spring!

Doraemon: It's Summer!

Doraemon: It's Winter!

Doraemon: Summer Holiday

Doraemon: It's New Year!

X'mas da yo! Doraemon & Doraemons Chō Special

Doraemon: Treasure of the Shinugumi Mountain

Short Films
These short films were usually shown alongside the feature-
length movies above.
What Am I for Momotaro*
Tokimeki Solar Kurumaniyon
The Sun Is Our Friend: Hold Out, the Soraemon!
2112: The Birth of Doraemon - 1995
Doraemon Comes Back*
The Night Before Nobita's Wedding
A Grandmother's Recollections
Gambare! Gian!!
The Day When I Was Born*
Doraemon's 25th Anniversary
Dorami-chan Films
Mini-Dora SOS

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Doraemon is also published in three bilingual editions.

The first version is bilingual in English and Japanese

(Shogakukan English comics; 2002- ).

Title: Doraemon: Gadget Cat from the Future Doraemon English Theme Song
Publisher: Shogakukan
this sort of thing is good (Here! Attack!)
Number of volumes: 10 I wish I could do it
The second version is bilingual in English and Yue Chinese. that sort of dream, this sort of ah ah ah
dream, I have many of them but I love you very much,
Title: (Duōlā-A-mèng xué yīngwén, in pinyin; Dorae
Doraemon
mon: Study English)
all of them, all of them,
Publisher: HKcomics all of them that place is nice
he grants my dreams I wish I could go
Number of volumes: 9
he grants my dreams with a this country, that island,
The third version is bilingual in English and Vietnamese mysterious pocket there is many of them, but
I want to fly freely in the sky
Title: Đôrêmon học tiếng Anh
all of them, all of them,
(Doraemon: Study English) (Here! Bamboo-copter!) all of them
Publisher: Kim Dong publisher he makes me able to go to them
ah ah ah he uses a gadget of the future
Number of volumes: 10
I love you very much, to grant my wish
Doraemon I want to go on a world trip
Derivative Manga
homework, school duties, (ehehehe... Anywhere Door!)
The Doraemons exams and errands
Dorabase, a spin-off about robot cats who play on a baseball team. because that sort of thing ah ah ah
and this sort of thing are awful I love you very much,
Doraemon
ANIME all of them, all of them,
all of them ah ah ah
Anime Specials
he helps me I love you very much,
Doraemon and Itchy the Stray he helps me with a convenient Doraemon
Doraemon Meets Hattori the Ninja tool
look! a toy soldier

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 Doraemon Media
MANGA

In December 1969, the Doraemon manga appeared simulta-

neously in six different children's monthly magazines. The maga-
zines were titled by the year of children's studies, which in-
cluded Yoiko (good children), Yōchien (nursery school), and Shogaku
Ichinensei (first grade of primary school) to Shogaku Yonnen-
sei (fourth grade of primary school). By 1973, the series began to
appear in two more magazines,Shogaku Gonensei (fifth grade of
primary school) and Shogaku Rokunensei (sixth grade of primary
school). The stories featured in each of the magazines were differ-
ent, meaning the author was originally creating more than six sto-
ries each month. In 1977, CoroCoro Comic was launched as a maga-
zine of Doraemon. Original manga based on the Doraemon movies
were also released in CoroCoro Comic. The stories which are pre-
served under the Tentōmushi brand are the stories found in these
magazines.

Since the debut of Doraemon in 1969, the stories have been

selectively collected into forty-five books published from 1974 to
1996, which had a circulation of over 80 million in 1992. In addition,
Doraemon has appeared in a variety of manga series by Shōgakukan.
In 2005, Shōgakukan published a series of five more manga volumes
under the title Doraemon+ (Doraemon Plus), which were not found in
the forty-five Tentōmushi pipi volumes. Many other series have
since been produced, some not from official supplies.

Doraemon - Originally published in Japanese, later translated to

other languages.

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Camping Capsule
A complete camping camp with
bedroom and bathroom, gan grow
when stick in the ground. One Cap-
sule for one person. Doraemon Gadgets
Small light
Growth Acceleration Tablet
Small light is a lamp similar to a flashlight
Speeds up the growth process of the person or ani- that will shrink objects and people to minuscule
mal who choke this. sizes. Its opposite is the big light, which enlarges
objects and people. Another tool that is used in a
similar capacity is the Gulliver Tunnel, which
Momotaro Kibidango causes a person to grow or shrink depending on
(Peach boy Millet Dumpling) which entrance he takes; however, its ratio of
shrinking and enlarging is fixed.
To tame wild animals.

Time Cloth
Small Light
The time cloth has the ability to advance
Shrink thing, animal or person and make it small.
or reverse time depending on which of its two
different colored sides are used. When an object
is wrapped around with one face outward, the
Fourth-dimensional pocket / 4D Pocket
flow of time reverses, causing the object to be-
The inside of this pocket connects to the fourth come newer. When wrapped around the other
dimension and acts like a wormhole. It is usually way, time moves forward, causing the object to
shown attached to Doraemon’s abdo- become older.
men. Doraemon has a spare pocket which connects
to the same location. Nobita has used the spare
pocket on occasion, often for mis- Dokodemo Door
chievous purposes but sometimes
One of Doraemon's most commonly used
for helpful purposes (for example,
gadgets is the dokodemo door, a door which allows
he used it to save Doraemon on the
travel to anywhere by simply going through the
movie Nobita and Tin-Plate Laby-
door. In an early story, the door is able to travel
rinth).
to the end of the universe, but in later chapters,
the door is said to only be able to travel a maxi-
mum distance of 100,000 light years and cannot
access other dimensions. Another limitation of the
door is that it can only safely connect two known
locations in its mapping computer, which also has a
limited range of information based on Time.

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 Auto Lightning Unit
Time Machine
It can make surrounding become dark.
The entrance to Doraemon's time ma-
chine is in Nobita's desk drawer. The time ma-
chine looks like a simple platform with a control Mood Orchestra
console, and a clock with five hands overhanging A robot orchestra set that will play a song to turn
the console. Doraemon is often seen piloting the your mood and emotion. Can play various music for all
time machine. Dorami has her own time machine kind of mood.
shaped like a tulip, suggesting a variety of mod-
els available in the future. The time machine can
create an exit in a specific place spatially as well as temporally. An Clothes Changing Camera
alternative to the time machine is the time belt, which does not
change the wearer's location relative to Earth. The presence of A camera that uses a picture of clothing instead of
this machine is not known by Nobita's mother. film, and changes the clothes of the person in the
viewfinder to the clothing in the picture. It may
also be used with no picture or an incomplete pic-
Take-copter ture, with embarrassing results. The story about-
Doraemon’s fourth-dimensional dustbin shows that
One of the main modes of transporta- the damaged camera will make the person naked (ie.
tion for the various characters is the take- when Shizuka used the damaged camera on Nobita, he turned na-
copter, which combines the words taketombo, ked). The camera is often used in the long stories and movies,
and part of the word herikoputā , which means where the gang must disguise themselves in unfamiliar places to
helicopter. The take-copter was also called the avoid attracting undue attention, or to provide with a second change
heri-tombo in early stories. The device is a pro-
of clothes such as bathing suits.
peller attached to a tiny suction cup which can
be attached to enable flight. Ever since the
first few Doraemon stories, the take-copter is seen attached to Super Gloves
the head instead of the waist, similar to a propeller beanie, due to a
mishap with Nobita's shorts. glove that will give you super power, it’s made of
special syntetic rubber with layered particle.

A Luring Food Fish

Mini Stadium
This is a fish food to lured all the fish around to come,
it’ll take half day to do it. Only can be used underwa- A Stadium to play with Mini Baseball Player.
ter.

Clay Race Cart

Buggy Doraemon’s Race Cart.
A transportation with 800km/hour speed. buggy looks
like an ordinary race car, but it’s not just a car, it’s a
rabot, a special car that able to run on any ground, it
can even go underwater. The car died.

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Momotaro Dango Call and order phone
It is a bun or dango to tame wild animal, one of fre- This phone have the ability to force a person to de-
quently used gadget in Daichohen Doraemon. liver something, and they will not able to refuse the
order.
This is based on a Japanese fairytale Momotaro.

Camping Hat
Pass Loop
An adventure hat that can transform into a complete
A loop which creates a passage through a solid ob-
camp with 5 room inside. also known as explorer hat.
ject such as a wall when placed upon it. Nobita has
used this to escape from when his mother locked
him in a storage shed, and to install watching gadg-
Extract plant Production
ets in the movie theater.
Inject this to a plant and it will grow food of se-
lected menu and there’s also another one that will
Life Saving Raft modify a plant to grow and swirl.
A Raft with futuristic feature, complete with com-
plete room.
Floating Water Picnic
A picnic set that can float on water.
Gyro Capsule
It is a vehicle that can transform and camouflage to
Gravitation Paint
look like an ordinary rock .
If painted on wall/surface it’ll have a gravity power
so you can walk on it just like walking on the ground,
Emergency Elevator very usefull if you have small room or to climb on
cliff. This paint is made of liquid component of grav-
It used to climb high cliff, works as elevator.
ity with transparent pigment. It takes 2 minutes to
dry up.
Translation konyaku
A piece of konjac jelly which enables a person to Paper House
understand and speak any known language in the uni-
A drawing of house with a real room inside, just hang
verse. The effect begins after the person ingests
it in the wall if you want to use it. There are a vari-
the jelly, but the duration of the effect is unknown.
ous option.
While the ones Doraemon uses are usually unfla-
vored, in the story Nobita’s Birth of Japan, he used
one labeled to be miso flavored, suggesting the exis-
Robe to call wild animal
tence of various flavors, which are more expensive.
This will attack angered beast around to approach
the user.

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Personal Satellite Air Cannon
Sattelite equipment set with zoom view integrated, A gun barrel worn on the arm used to fire a powerful
you can use it for monitoring device, just launch the burst of air which can knock out the victim when the
satellite with the lanch rocket and with a press of a user says “bang”. Later models, featured in the
bitton it will go to earth orbit. long manga and movies, are fired with a trigger.

Receiving Promise in Advance Captain Hat

You can receive the pleasure of tomorrow in instant. This hat can grow bigger and you’ll be able to move
we promise to do something in the future, but we will inside the ground and camouflage hidden from out-
get the result now, for an example, if we promise to side.
eat in the future we’ll be satisfied now.

Air Pistol
Reverse Flow Boat
Air Gun is basically the same mechanism as Air Can-
A boat in fish shape that can go to the opposite di- non, but less powerful, and the attack range is only
rection of river flow, (based on koinobori ) this boat 10 meters.
can operate as long as there is a flowing river or wa-
terfall underneath it
All Purpose Nest Box
is a comfortable bird house.
Special Purse
It looks like a purse, but you can pick up things from
other places. Cape of Evasion
A mantle/cloak to reverse an attack to backfire/
bounce back to the attacker by waving it in front of
Sword Round Lightning
things coming up.
A powerfull sword with lightning force to attack,
when you use this sword you’ll be able to move by
your self to defence or attack automaticly. (used by Edible Space Suit
minamoto musashi (Doraemon and nobita give it to him Space Wear Food is a food that will create oxygen
in the short story) inside your body, so it will have the same effect as
if wearing a space suit.
Train Rope
Just go inside the rope together, and it’s possible to Drill Machine
move with the speed of a train A mole shaped robot that can drill underground.

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Tulip Time Machine Concentrated Food
This is Dorami’s time mechine, it’s more advance A Canned food, semi fluid, eating it by sucking from
than doraemon time mechine, and price 10 times the tube, easily absorb in body.
more expensive. It has the latest techology, travel 3
time faster and has stabilizer to operate safely. This
is a luxury time mechine that runs by solar energy. Controlling Atmosphere Pressure Light
In the beginning of 22nd Century, human begin to
travel across the solar system, and all the planets
Time TV
have different condition and pressure, so this is a
Television set that can see the past and future light to help humans to adapt to the pressure much
event. It may also reflect the depth. For example, faster, no matter how high or low the pressure is.
if you see the state of the room one hour be- Just light your body with this and you’ll be able to
fore Nobita, the thing to say in front of the TV au- adapt in all condition, the effect only last 24 hours.
dio input, then tune in the past. Received in time and
place recognition element to choose a time and place
reflecting in the monitor screen. Dream Confirmation Hand
A tool that will pinch you to make sure it’s a dream or
reality.
Elastic Tube
Fill your nose with this little thing, you will be able
to breath in the water. Deep Sea Cream
With this cream you will able to swim, no matter how
the pressure and hot or cold the temperature of the
Special Wood
water. You can use it up to 10.000 m deep.
it’s a firewood that can produce fire even under wa-
ter
3D Copy paper
Can create a exact copy of an object, but very light,
Undersea Tent
easily blown by the wind or float on water.
Inflateable tent with pump, with 6 private room and
eqquipped with a hall / livingroom to live underwater,
if you want to use the toilet you have to drain it Mini Baseball Player
first. it also have a coocing device to create any A little doll with technology to create a miniature
food of your choice processed fromplankton, a small version of the person. used with mini stadium.
bacteria living in the sea, not ontil 22nd century
that the scientist figured how to use them for food.
Mini Universal Food Factory

Safe Traffic Observer A mini factory to process raw meat and fish into
canned food with the taste of your choice.
a radar to observe traffic.

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