History of Doraemon

Apparently, Mr. Fujimoto initially came up with Doraemon in 1969 after tripping on his young daughter's toy, hearing a neighborhood cat fight, and wishing he had a machine to generate a new comic concept. Between the toy's shape, the cats' yowling, and the longing for a machine to solve his problems, he came up with a robot cat with a pocket containing all sorts of problem-solving gadgets.

In December 1969, Doraemon comic titles published continuously in six children's monthly magazine. Magazines are magazines Yoiko, Youchien, Shougaku Ichinensei, Shougaku Yonensei, and since 1973 the magazine Shougaku Gonensei and Shougaku Rokunensei. Stories contained in these magazines is different, which means the author of this story should be written more than 6 stories each month.

About television series

After a brief and unpopular animated series in 1973 by Nippon Television, Doraemon remained fairly exclusive in comic from until 1979 when a newly formed animation studio, Shin-Ei Animation (Now owned by TV Asahi) produced an anime series of Doraemon. This series became incredibly popular.

Doraemon is a blue robotic cat from the 22nd century, who weighs 129.3kg and measures at 129.3cm (4'3") tall. He is manufactured on September 3rd in the year 2112, bearing the code MS-903, at the Matsushiba Robot Factory. Doraemon is considered a substandard product because many of his robotic features malfunctioned after production. During his manufacture, he got struck by lightning and lost an important screw that is part of his brain, thus affecting his performance in both his studies and towards society. His favourite food is dorayaki, a Japanese treat consisting of two pancake-like patties wrapped around a filling of sweet red bean paste. Doraemon's original paint colour was yellow. He changed colour after getting his ears gnawed off by a robot mouse, which caused him to slip into depression on top of a tower, where he drank a potion labelled "sadness" and as he wept, the yellow color was washed off and his voice changed due to the potion. These events are what caused Doraemon to have such a huge fear of mice, despite the fact he's actually a robot cat.

Doraemon also has a fourth-dimensional pocket on his body from which he can acquire various colourful, awesome and futuristic gadgets, tools and playthings from a future department store, mostly each one he acquires in each story are to help out Nobi Nobita with anything he has trouble with in the story. He also has the tendency to panic during emergencies, characterized 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, which are quite irritating at times.

Anywhere Door is one of the Doraemon's Gadgets. It is one of the most popular gadgets. One needs to say where they're going, then they can open the door and go through it to reach their destination. In some manga scenes and in some anime episodes, however, it magically knows where the user wants to go. It is limited to places where its informations have already been entered in the door's program.

In the original storyline to the comic, Doraemon is sent back from 22nd century to the present day to aid Nobi Nobita, a highly-unlucky fourth-grader from Nerima in Tokyo, by his great-great-grandson Sewashi. He sent Doraemon to the present day to help out his great-great-grandfather so that Doraemon will help improve Nobita's circumstances so that his descendants, including Sewashi, could enjoy a better future. When Doraemon is "off-duty", his sister Dorami sometimes goes back in time from 2112 to the present day to visit Nobita.

Doraemon arrived in 1969, the Japanese New Year's Day. He came out of Nobita's desk drawer, and since then he lived with Nobita, his mission is to prevent Nobita become a failure. In trouble every time Nobita, Doraemon will be helping with futuristic gadgets.

The story focused on Nobita everyday life, the main character. Doraemon has a four-dimensional pocket which he filled with objects from the future. Often Nobita come whining because of problems at school or in the neighborhood, after begging or forced, Doraemon will issue a tool that helps Nobita resolve the problem, get revenge, or just show off to friends.

However, Nobita usually goes too far, ignoring the advice or command Doraemon, and as a result fell into a deeper problem. Sometimes, Nobita's friends steal the device and ends in chaos due to incorrect use.

Doraemon co-creator Fujimoto Hiroshi (Fujiko F. Fujio) died on Sept. 23, 1996, of liver failure at age 62; he is survived by his wife Masako and three daughters. Co-author Motoo Abiko (Fujiko Fujio A), who split off in 1987, said "We separated because we would go our own ways. But we both wanted to create the same comics."

Abiko Motoo Fujimoto Hiroshi