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The very first Manga that i read in my life and I will never forget my happy feeling that i've got when i read every page on the manga..

Doraemon is not just for kids, Doraemon is for everybody..
Many life lesson, friendship, hope for a better future and a family view, all of it is in Doraemon.. ^^

To be honest, I've read this Doraemon series since I was 4-year old. And now I'm 18-year old, and I'm still enjoys this masterpiece. It has been about 14 years now. Fujio.F.Fujiko is the creator of this series. To me, he is the most respectable mangaka to me. I can't say that manga this day are not worth reading, but just few of them can really buried deep inside our heart for long time. Doraemon is the one of the few one. This series deserve more than just 10 marks, if you ask me. This series can really change our ways of thinking in ... adult days if we read it since we are little kids. I don't ask you to believe in my words but it seems this way to me. We will become kinder than other peoples who don't actually read this series. I've compare the personality between the peoples who read or watch this series with the peoples who doesn't. The differences in their personality in absolute. Don't believe in me? Try to compare it yourself. This series does have many morale values in it. It can be comparable to the fairy tales we heard since we are kids. Enough of this, I will starts with the story parts.
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~SToRY~
The story plot is repetitive, if you ask me. So this is why i can't give it a 10 for it. Considering the number of stories story that Fujio.F.Fujiko writes in his manga for 45 volumes, you can't really criticize it. As long that the story is interesting, why we bother about the plots? All of his short stories is amazing, and I can't really get bored of it. The repetitive sides you ask me? This is the examples:
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Another peaceful ordinary day - Nobita gets bullied by Giant and Suneo - Nobita seeks for helps from Doraemon to teach them a lesson - Doraemon agreed and takes out the future equipment - Nobita use the equipment on Giant and Suneo and successfully takes the revenge - Nobita started to get cocky and misused the equipment that Doraemon gave him - After sometimes the equipment's effects backfired on Nobita - At last Nobita regret for his own action.
Morale Value: Don't bully other people. Karma exist in this world!
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The plot is same for MOST of his stories. Nothing can be said but who cares? The stories made me laugh and laugh again! Although the plot is same, but the equipments they use in every stories are different. I've actually envied Fujio-F-Fujiko for his imagination to invented such an interesting future equipment. They have an interesting appearances, so are their function. That is what can I said for his short stories. Other than short stories, Fujio.F.Fujiko also write some long stories version for this series. This is the most interesting parts for this series. Nobita and his friends go on for an adventure, meet a new friend, beat the bad guys... OK. For his long stories, the comedy is no longer the only things that made this series interesting. They also focus on the friendship and the importances of co-operation while do something big. The ending for the stories was always touching and will make you satisfied with it. So the story part deserve 10 for me. For me, the stories in this series was not only meant for children, but also for adults that can really understands the true meaning of this series. Screw the manga+(anime)doraemon=childish theory! But, honestly Doraemon long stories series nowadays are sucks because it is not Fujio.F.Fujiko that writes the scripts. The old series is the best.
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~aRT~
The art is neat, simple and clean. The panels inside the manga also neat and makes you read it easier. This is what makes this series special. The world inside it was almost 2-D, but realistic. Tell you all, I polish my drawing skill by take this series as the reference when I was small because it was simple and understandable. Compared to manga nowadays that focused on 3-D drawing, shadow details and whatever,this manga simply can't compared to them. But as you know, this manga is 70's style and it can be considered beautiful at that time. So without hesitate, I give it 10.
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~CHaRaCTeR~
Simply great. All of the characters have their own uniqueness in their attutude and style. Big hearted Doraemon, kind but slacker Nobita, diligent and kind hearted Shizuka, timid but trickster Suneo and Giant the bully. The characters in this series can be considered as pure because their heart can be easily read by all of the readers comparable to the manga characters nowadays thats are impure and unpredictable, even the main character such as they have demon in their heart. This can be influential to the prematures mind , just because they can't differentiate the good and bad things. Put aside good and bad influential, I've realize that some characters in certain manga or anime that does not special at all --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
~eNJoYMeNT~
I can't say much about this but oh well, full marks to it. I believe that I've already explained that why this series is enjoyable earlier. And nobody will read this manga for 14 years (like me) if this series is not enjoyable. This is all that I can say.
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~oVeRall~
Desrerve more than 10, so I'll give it an 11 for the rating on this masterpiece. It is suitable for all, it is hilarious and it is enjoyable. So, nothing wrong with it. I've spend nearly 2 hours to write this reviews so anyone that read my reviews until the end, I was truly appreciate it. Thanks for reading! :)

This is the first manga i've ever read.
I was 5 years old that time.
This manga makes my childhood amazing.
This is great manga for kids.
The story is easy to understand.
The creativity of this manga is good to kids.
The art is still good even at this era, this kind of manga don't need amazing art or great art detail.
Because what kids need is an inspiring story, creative story and full of imagination.
But don't think this is just for kids, everybody can read this, everybody can enjoy this.

... I couldn't explain it anymore with words.
If you have children, give him/her this manga to read.
They will have an amazing childhood. :')

Doraemon (ドラえもん) is the very first Manga that I ever read in my entire life. It is Fujiko F. Fujio's masterpiece.

Story (10/10):
Nobita Nobi is a young boy who suffers from poor grades and bullying. In the future many years from the present one of Nobi's descendants sends Doraemon, a robotic blue cat back to the past to guard and protect Nobi. Doraemon has a large variety of gadgets that are hidden in his pouch that he uses to help Nobi. Doraemon's goal is to help Nobi now with his problems and struggles so that he has a better future than the one that ... Doraemon sees in the future. Fantastic and very interesting, especially for the younger audiences.

Art (10/10):
Fujiko F. Fujio is a fantastic Mangaka and this is his masterpiece. Doraemon has the best art that he ever drew in a Manga. Perfect art design and quality.

Characters (10/10):
All the characters are extremely likable in their own ways. Nobita is the failure that everyone can relate to with his struggles. Shizuka is the happy and friendly girl that people can relate to in real life. Suneo and Takeshi are the typical bullies that most people can relate either because they have been bullied or are bullies in real life. Fantastic characters that everyone no matter what your age and characteristics are you can still relate with.

Enjoyment (10/10):
Doraemon is the very first Manga that I ever read in my life. It is amazing. I enjoy it every time I read it. I have re- read this series half a dozen times. That is how much I love it.

Overall (10/10):
Doraemon isn't just for kids. It is for everyone. It is loaded with great morals for everyone and I do mean everyone, to learn and to become a better person by such as fixing your mistakes. A masterpiece and one of the greatest Manga of all-time in my opinion. 10/10.

Read then re-read in my native language countless of times as a child and now reading it in English as well just brings back all the nostalgia. Even as an adult, every single chapter remains fresh and hilarious in a heartwarming way. I highly recommend this series for all children and adults. It was truly the first manga that taught me creativity. Each problem that Doraemon faced and solved with his ingenious "futuristic" tools excited and helped develop my childhood curiosity and love for learning. Beyond scientific exposure, Doraemon taught me empathy, how to be a great friend to others and how to uphold my ... ethical responsibilities in society even as a child.

Public doesn’t matter if the show can be fully appreciated to anyone.

Here is one of biggest classics and my first manga I have ever read and completed all volumes, Doraemon. While it's not being known well outside of Asia/Japan, it's a franchise that truly deserves its high popularity and reputation over the years. If Dragon Ball popularized the manga, Doraemon is also one of them and really close to it. Even nowadays, it still lives in as one of the greatest success as a manga franchise with about 50+ volumes, thousands of episodes from 3 anime series and a mass produced merchandise since 1970, ... so more than 50 years ago.

You may first think that Doraemon is a kids show, and it's not good nor interesting, because it isn't made for us. What I can say about that, is sure, demographically, it's a kid show, but you're wrong. The art may look cute, protagonists are children and the story isn't much complex, but it's far more than what you may expect. I will explain it now with details, why this franchise rocks and I would recommend it to anyone.

Story: 8

The story of Doraemon can be easily described without few introduction and can be watched in almost any order, appealing to anyone that can start anytime, anywhere. Each chapter is one story, for about 10 pages, sometimes longer. That's why, it's easy and common to give fillers in this series, which is the reason why the anime is so long! Sadly, since the main author passed away, the manga serialization ended and focused more on the anime side afterwards, which is still running with a lot of chapters remakes and episodes. I will focus this review on the manga side.

The introduction is pretty simple. An elementary schooler, named Nobi Nobita is a lazy kid with almost nothing good, bad luck, bad grades and weak against others, until Doraemon, a Cat Robot(without ears) arrives from the 22th century with a time machine from his desk drawer, in order to fix his mistakes and change him. Although Doraemon isn't really competent than you might think, he has a lot of Sci-Fi gadgets that each have a special effect that will help him for any situation.

You may wonder that, well it's simple as that. However, what is really amazing in this manga is the amount and various degrees of themes, comedy and creativity. You may firstly expect something absolutely normal, but with the help of Doraemon, it turns out to be something completely different and surprisingly entertaining. If you are a fan of any popular known comedy show, such as Saiki K. and especially Gintama, you will definitely understand what I mean and you will find something that is really similar in your tastes, with its terms of episodic, funny, various and imaginative situations and characters. Just like those comedy series, Doraemon has some great classic parodies in the old era such as Star Wars, E.T., Ginga Tetsudou and Uchuu Senkan Yamato. It was rather ahead for its time for those ideas and it should be considered like the ancestors of many of the popular series nowadays.

The situations in Doraemon are diverse, fun and hilarious. Never in any other show I've seen, it will throw simple kids attacked from an extraterrestrial that doesn't exist and ending up contacting the prime minister to help them, sometimes even depositing money to a bank and going 100 years into the future to claim this money with 1000 times more interest, children paying taxes in order to buy a soccer ball, going back during World War II and saying to a Japanese War Officer that the Japan will lost, searching a dictionary for the specific homework questions and answers, or even a manga author that can't figure out to write about the rest of the story, which ends up buying his unwritten volumes in the future and criticizing himself for being a lazy author.

Enough said, those examples should be funny to you, the possibilities is so vast and creative that I can't describe all of them for about 800+ chapters. However, you only need to read a few chapters, if not, about 2-3 volumes to understand its strength and its potential. Some chapters can be unexpectedly emotional and heartwarming, that may make you cry or learn about some important morals and ethics in the society.

On the other side, there are some small flaws in the story. If you judge the story too much in depth, you may find some plot-holes or some inconsistencies, because this story is simplistic and the author forgets sometimes about complex, out-of-range details. However, that was already expected in my case, since it's not a story that you care for details but for fun and mostly as a slice-of-life/comedy. For those who may have concerns with that, just think like after every chapter, the world is back to normal and the characters won't age, even after hundreds of chapters. It's just like you try to think that RPG Games have some high-level of inconsistencies or almost no logic compared to the real world, so that shouldn't be something critical or disturbing.

Some may also find inconsistencies or concerns about the overall narrative of the manga, since it's an old manga. Just read a few volumes, and you will mostly forget about it. Fortunately, I didn’t realized much of a progressive drop in quality in this manga, so there should be no issues about that.

Art: 7

The art itself is pretty simple and works well as this kind of series. However, I faced inconsistencies during some chapters, where the tone didn't match or sometimes it lacked a lot of detail. Knowing that the author serialized a lot of series at the same time, it was also expected. Fortunately, it's rather solid overall and simple designs won't ruin something, it's not a story that need some complex details, after all.

Characters: 9

The characters are really simple, distinguishable and well-defined with their purpose in a slice-of-life, adventure, comedy, Sci-Fi and episodic series. You can find a lot of these stereotypes in recent comedies series, so you should be familiar with them.

Doraemon and Nobita are primarily the main characters of this story. Mostly always together, they explore various situations. Even though sometimes they are not the focus, they are always related to the focused characters and always appear in the story as usual.

Doraemon is the cat robot and his personality is often similar to a human one, or something like robot or even cat one, which is rather funny and absurd. Although he is a robot, he is somewhat of a defect and because of that, he is inferior to other robots, and a bit like Nobita, which is weak against others. There are some surprisingly touching chapters that represents him and most of them explore its gadgets and develop amazing and creative situations.

Nobita, on the other hand, is a weak, lazy and sometimes bad behavior, but in the end of the day, he is a highly likable and relatable character that represents a great impression of a failed guy. Still, he excels his skills in a few areas and he remains really entertaining to me.

The rest of the main characters represents mostly their friends or their family, most notably 3 others, which are Shizuka, Suneo and Gian (Takeshi). Shizuka is the only girl of the 5 and Nobita's classmate and love interest. She appears in most chapters, in a really good, or sometimes accidently bad ways in multiple situations.

Suneo, on the other hand, is what defines a stereotypical rich guy and somewhat tricky behaviour. He is one of the biggest Nobita friends, and also one of his 2 bullies at a time. Since his family is rich and Nobita's family is poor, he represents often the reason why Nobita wants to outstand him.

Gian, is primarily Nobita's biggest bully and sometimes an amazing friend (Watch a movie for fun, you will know what I mean). He is the kind of guy that "Your things are mine, My things are mine." What I find really funny and entertaining in this character is when his behaviour change greatly at times and when he sings or cook something, things get interesting and stressing at the same time.

What is also really funny in the manga, is that no matter where you go in time and place, you can always find someone like Nobita (weak one) against other bullies which looks a lot like his friends/bullies. Also, (almost) every character doesn’t have a perfect personality and they have a lot of strengths and weaknesses, giving them many possibilities during various situations. They may seem linear, but they are more than that.

A bit on the other side now, there are some characters which I see a lot of time, but they aren't much explained, like their name or don't have much some distinctive connections between the main characters. Again, that's not much of a thing, but as a slice-of-life series, expect yourself to see a lot of characters that may appear one or two times in the entire manga.

Enjoyment: 9

I highly enjoyed it most of the time and I was impressed for its comedy, creativity, episodic storytelling, high variety of emotions, likable characters and unique situations. I can definitely agree that as for its genre and demographic, Doraemon is clearly above average in this aspect too. The chapters are really memorable and you will remember them for years to come, sometimes as a morality lesson.

Although not every chapter was a hit for me, since it has various themes that I wasn't interested much, such as romance. Of course, with more than 800 chapters, there can be some weak ones, but also stronger and much more memorable ones.

Overall: 9

A true classic and a must-watch, despite its demographic that may turn off some people. Give it a chance for a few chapters or volumes, you won't regret it.

Recommandations, references!

Gintama (A lot of similar aspects, like its episodic nature, plus a lot of Doraemon references)
Jojo (Stand abilities are similar to Doraemon gadgets and some crazy, funny situations)
Saiki K. (Psychic Powers are the substitute for Doraemon gadgets, likable characters)
Seto no Hanayome (A few gadgets, species jokes and similar kind of humour, really funny. Also some references to Doraemon)
Dragon Ball (Serialized about in the same times, was a bit inspired on Doraemon’s Sci-Fi settings)
Osomatsu-san (Similar artsyle and narrative, even though it's not the same author, lot of Doraemon references and similar comedy situations)

I know this manga was waaaay before my time, but I actually grew up with it and, believe it or not, I didn't know it was manga for the longest time. See, around the time I was in fourth or fifth grade, I went to the library, and one book in particular caught my attention. The first volume of Doraemon. I checked it out, read it, and loved it, and proceeded to check out a bunch of other volumes...that I then proceeded to forget to return and actually ended up keeping until I unfortunately lost them...oops. Anyway, earlier today I started to go back and ... reread it, and...I'm actually fairly surprised at how much I'm enjoying it, lol, it's pretty dang good!

I mean for starters, it takes place in the early 70s! I had NO IDEA it was set in the 70s as a kid! That just goes to show you how timeless this manga is, or at least it does imo. I mean, seriously, other than the fact that a lot of the character's names are pretty outdated, it's pretty timeless. It could take place anytime, really. Well, anytime before 2009, anyway. This might sound negative, but if there were to be a modern day retelling of Doraemon, all the characters would probably be sitting indoors texting or eating Tide Pods or something instead of playing outside and stuff, lol.

The overall premise is a little loose, but it's primarily a comedy series, so I think that's fine. From what I remember, we do get a few glimpses into Nobita's future in later chapters, so it's like it totally lacks in overarching plot. It's just pretty episodic in nature for the most part, which is fine, because again, comedy.

Anyway, I'm pretty much just rambling and going into pointless personal anecdotes at this point, so I'm just gonna wrap it up, here. Is this manga perfect? No. Is it fun? Absolutely, it is! Like I said, I THOROUGHLY enjoyed it as a child, and I wasn't even a fan of anime and manga back then. If you're a fan of light-hearted, slice of life stories with likable characters and a childlike sense of wonder and whimsy, definitely give it a read. While reading it as a child, I found it extremely relatable, and it got me through some hard times. Rereading it now as an adult, it gives me a lot of nostalgia, and not only reminds me of when I was a kid, but it takes me back to the time when I was first reading it, and when life was just simpler. Just read it, okay? You wont regret it. Don't let it's age or the simplicity of the premise stop you, just read it.