A cute meow from Japan

Doraemon has been voted as the highest rated movie of the decade in kid's genre in a popular survey. The cartoon series, which first started in December 1969 in Japan, has captured children's imagination all over the world. CS gives you some dope:

>>u00a0The character created by Fujiko F Fujio and Fujiko A Fujio is about a robotic cat named Doraemon who travels back in time from the 22nd century to aid a schoolboy, Nobita Nobi.u00a0

>>u00a0A majority of Doraemon episodes are comedies with moral lessons regarding values like integrity, perseverance, courage, family and respect for elders.

>>u00a0In the original timeline, Nobita experienced nothing but misery and misfortune throughout his life. In order to alter history and better the Nobi family's fortunes, Sewashi sent him a robot called Doraemon.
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>>u00a0Doraemon has a pocket from which he produces many gadgets, medicines, and tools from the future. The pocket is called yojigen-pocket, or fourth-dimensional pocket.u00a0

>>u00a0The name Doraemon translates roughly to stray. Unusually, the name Doraemon is written in a mixture of two Japanese scripts Katakana and Hiragana.

>>u00a0The volumes of the series are collected in the Takaoka Central Library in Toyama, Japan, where both Fujiko F and A Fujio were born.u00a0

>>u00a0Doraemon was awarded the Japan Cartoonists Excellence Award in 1973. In March 2008, Japan's foreign ministry appointed Doraemon as the nation's first anime ambassador.