Doraemon
is a Japanese manga by Fujiko F. Fujio, aka mangaka duo of Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko, which was later made ??into a anime, which tells the adventures of a robot cat came from the future traveling back in time to help the unfortunate Nobita Nobi. Nobita Nobi, a pun that means "one who take it easy", is one of the protagonists of the manga with the robot cat (from the typical blue color). The series debuted in December 1969, published simultaneously in six magazines. In total, 1,344 stories were created in the original series, published by Shogakukan manga Tent for the label? Mushi, a total of forty-five volumes. The volumes are collected in the Takaoka Central Library in Toyama, Japan, where Fujiko Fujio was born.
Most of the stories of Doraemon are comedies that teach children the values ??of integrity, perseverance, courage, family and respect. In addition, environmentalists are often dealt with issues such as global warming, species of animals threatened with extinction, deforestation and pollution and on some occasions have been addressed educational topics such as dinosaurs, the travels of Gulliver, or the history of Japan.
Doraemon was awarded the Japan Cartoonists Association Award for Excellence in 1973. Doraemon has also won the Shogakukan Manga Award in the category of children's comics in 1982, and the first Osamu Tezuka Culture Award in 1997. In March 2008, Doraemon was appointed "ambassador in the anime world," the Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura to promote the culture and industry of animation outside of Japan.