Sunday 7 February 2010

WHO IS CREATE DORAEMON


Doraemon was a comic book created in the late 70's in Japan by FujioFujiko (pen-name of two people) which featured the main characters you see above. It's about a bunch of fourth-graders living in a suburban part of Tokyo. The main character, Nobita (hands in the air above), is accompanied by a mechanical cat from the future, Doraemon. No, he's doesn't dance ballet.
If you haven't read this comic, you're missing out! Mickey Mouse and his buddies do not compare to Doraemon! Although intended for elementary-school students, this manga features characters with distinct personalities that anyone can relate to. That's more than could be said about much of the children's material today, and adult material for that matter. Imagination expressed in its themes and entities reaches far beyond that of any other comic or cartoon. While Doraemon is a reflection of Japanese culture in the 70's and 80's, it nonetheless appeals to general human culture, society, and morality.
Fortunately, in recent years they have reprinted Doraemon in 45 volumes, which include some new ones and some old ones. Also reprinted are 17 books of adventures, the first 15 of which were published before. The Hong Kong versions come in better-quality paper and translation (than the original Hong Kong publications), and contain more of the old stories than the Japanese reprints. The adventures are also made into cartoon movies.
I only recently acquired the 45th book of the Doraemon short stories (Hong Kong translation). This one is supposed to have been written only a few years ago. The art is not quite as good as the old ones, but the most dramatic difference is the content. The stories tend to be longer and the plots more confusing. The strong personalities seem to have left the characters, and these new stories seem to lack the universal appeal of classic Doraemon. Perhaps they still appeal to younger children, content-wise, but I have to say, altogether, this latest and last issue is uninteresting at best.
I have gathered some Doraemon pictures from various sites. Some of these pictures are great as wallpaper! If you have others, e-mail them to me, please. My favorite is the one featuring a big, flying Doraemon with others in the bunch riding on him. That's been my desktop wallpaper for 2 years now. Recently a company in Japan has created a 3D Doraemon "screen-mate," which features an excellent 3D modelling of Doraemon walking around on the Windows 95 desktop, performing various cute sequences at your command. It is done very well, and would be great as a screen saver if only it would loosen up on the computer's resources. I am uncertain of its copyright status so I am not keeping it on my server. Go to this page for more information: http://home.hkstar.com/~wanming/doraemon/dsoftware.htm. I have recently added doraemon_hk.ra, which is the original Cantonese theme song used in Hong Kong. It's like sounds from childhood!
The doraeglen.mid in my directory was originally the doraemon.mid that's been floating around. I edited it a little bit to get rid of some things. Surely you'll know what these are. :) Both can be found through the link below.

DORAEMON SAD STORY




This is how Doraemon used to look: he was yellow and had ears
Did you know that Doraemon was once yellow and had ears? He looked just like he does in this photograph. The video clip bellow shows Doraemon being interviewed by Tetuko, a very famous Japanese TV host, on her show, Tetuko no heya (Tetuko’s room), which has aired every weekday for the past 30 years. Tetuko interviews very well known people and, although it’s very odd to have a cartoon character as a guest, this time it’s Doraemon’s turn. And Doraemon has revealed what he originally looked like.Doraemon is actually a robot who travels to the future under Sewashi’s (Nobita’s great-great-great-grandson’s) orders, in order to make changes that affect the present. When Doraemon lived in the future, he was yellow and had ears. But, one day, a mouse robot ate his ears and Doraemon cried so hard that the tears rubbed the yellow off. That’s how he turned blue.Doraemon’s story begins in the 22nd Century. He was a defective robot who was auctioned off and sold to a very poor family. The family- Nobita’s descendants- were living in misery due to the huge debts inherited from their great, great, great grandfather. Sewashi decided this could not go on like that. So, he sent Doraemon back to the past in order to help Nobita become a better person. The idea was that this would change the future and so improve the family’s lot in life. Doraemon arrives in the past, popping up in Nobita’s desk drawer. He lives with Nobita from then on and tries to stop him from becoming a failure. Each time Nobita gets into trouble, Doraemon digs into his fourth dimension

HISTORY OF DORAEMON

In December 1969, the Doraemon manga appeared simultaneously in six different children's monthly magazines. The magazines 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 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 different, meaning the author was originally creating more than six stories each month. In 1977, CoroCoro Comic was launched as a magazine of Doraemon. Original manga based on the Doraemon movies were also released in CoroCoro Comic. The stories which are preserved 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.