Doraemon

The all-time hit children's manga classic of Japan, Doraemon.

Please also see my Doraemon Overview at EX MagazineTime Magazine on Doraemon, 2002 (mostly accurate)

Hiroshi Fujimoto, Doraemon Co-Creator, dead at 62

(Because of the sheer number of volumes, and their short-story nature, I will not even attempt to summarize each volume)

Where to start? Doraemon apparently first appeared in 1969 or 1970 (it ran as a manga series starting about 1974), with the infamous something-wonderful-pops-out-of-the-desk-drawer story. Since then, it has gone on to become one of Japan's most popular and well-loved manga series, and Doraemon is now perhaps one of the most recognized faces in all of Japan. The comedy series is still continuing, though it suffers from the defection of one of the two original writers. From my own point of view, Books 1 through 30 are probably the classic Doraemon, and the stories seem to solidify and improve at around book 6 (before that, the drawing style is a little old-fashioned, and the plots are a little thin).

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