Doraemon

Doraemon http://www.k.hosei.ac.jp/~h01d8188/wall0201s.gif (jp: ?????) by Hiroshi Fujimoto, a.k.a. Fujiko F. Fujio (???F????) is a Japanese manga about a robotic cat from the future who has travelled back in time to aid the thoroughly hapless Nobita Nobi http://www.dora-world.com/information/wallpaper/wp_augs.jpg in order that his descendants reap the benefits of Nobita's success one day rather than be burdened by the considerable financial debts which his incompetence has led them to suffer in the original timeline.

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There are 1,344 stories in all. They are collected in the Takaoka Central Library, Toyama, Japan, where Mr Fujimoto was born.

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Doraemon was awarded the grand prize of the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize http://www.asahi.com/tezuka/index.html (???????) of 1997.

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