# Doraemon Doraemon is a Japanese manga and anime series about a blue robot cat sent back from the 22nd century to help a hapless schoolboy named Nobita. Created by Fujiko F. Fujio in 1969, the character became a fixture of Indian meme edits decades later. ## Overview Doraemon is a Japanese manga about a blue robot cat from the 22nd century who lives with a well-meaning but lazy schoolboy named Nobita Nobi[2]. The character is instantly recognizable by his round blue body, bell collar, and the four-dimensional pocket on his belly where he stores futuristic gadgets called dougu, literally meaning tool[2]. Plots follow a repeating loop: Nobita gets into trouble, begs Doraemon for a gadget, misuses it, and makes the situation worse[2]. The character's name is a mashup of dorayaki, the red bean pancake dessert he loves, and mon, taken from the Japanese word for monster[1]. Doraemon is huge across East Asia and holds particular fame in India, where the cat and Nobita show up constantly in local meme edits[2]. ## How It Spread Doraemon jumped to television in 1973 with an anime produced by TMS Entertainment, but it was pulled after six months over weak ratings and fan complaints about how far it strayed from the source[2]. Most of that first series is now lost because the original master tapes were destroyed in a fire[2]. TV Asahi and Shin-Ei Animation launched a much more faithful adaptation on April 2, 1979, and it aired 1,787 episodes before wrapping in 2005[2]. Shin-Ei then debuted a third anime the same year on TV Asahi, this time with character designs pulled closer to Fujimoto's original manga art[2]. Bang Zoom! Entertainment produced an English dub that landed on Disney XD in July 2014, bringing the franchise into US kids TV rotation[2]. ## How to Use Doraemon and Nobita are typically used as recognizable characters in Indian meme edits, often reaction-style clips lifted from the Hindi-dub of the 1979 or 2005 anime, with new captions layered over familiar screenshots of the pair reacting to a school problem or a failed gadget[2]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Doraemon? Doraemon is a Japanese manga and anime about a blue robot cat from the 22nd century who lives with a schoolboy named Nobita Nobi and lends him futuristic gadgets called dougu[2]. ### Where did Doraemon come from? Doraemon was created by Hiroshi Fujimoto under the pen name Fujiko F. Fujio and first published by Shogakukan in 1969[2]. ### What does Doraemon mean? The name combines dorayaki, a red bean pancake dessert the character loves, with mon, from the Japanese word for monster[1]. ### How do you use Doraemon? The characters are most often reused in Indian meme edits, where screenshots of Doraemon and Nobita from the Hindi-dub anime get recaptioned for school or gadget-fail jokes[2]. ### Is Doraemon still popular? Doraemon is still a giant of East Asian pop culture and keeps a strong Indian fanbase, with three anime adaptations and a Disney XD English dub launched in July 2014 extending the reach[2]. ## References 1. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Doraemon]() 2. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/doraemon]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/doraemon Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library