Doreamon is one of my favorite cartoons when I was a child. It really entertained me with lovely characters Nobi Nobita(野比大雄), Kouta Takeshi(胖虎or技安), Honegawa Suneo)(阿福), Minamoto Shizuka(静香or宜静), Doraemon's pocket in which there are mountains of fantastic things and a world that is full of innocence.
Recently, the long story of Doraemon came to an end. However, it has different endings.
1. 1. All the funny stories are the dreams of Nobi Nobita who suffers from lunacy due to the cruelty of the modern life and he can only remember his life when he was eight years old, which is his happiest memory.
The author expressed his great disappointment about society by this ending while at least 16 people committed suicide resulting from this ending for Doraemon was the only comfort to them.
2. 2. The people from the future come to our times for traveling, which bother people in our times very much. So the law in future times ban the time travel, therefore Doraemon has to go back to the future.
3. 3. The grandson of Nobi Nobita who sends Doraemon to him thinks that Nobita relies too much on Doraemon, which is bad for Nobita, so he calls Doraemon to come back. When Nobita gets to know it, he is determined to study hard so that Doraemon can go back without worrying about him any more.
I think these two endings are not that remarkable. Actually, Doraemon was serialized in a magazine that is designed for students in Grade four, the grade that Nobi Nobita is in. The author just wanted to use these two endings to say goodbye to the students in Grade Four.
4. 4. Doraemon runs out of electricity. The other robots like Doraemon have backup power supply in their ears to maintain their memory but Doraemon doesn’t’ have ears. Nobita chooses to leave Doraemon as it is since he doesn’t want Doraemon to forget about him. Then, Nobita spares no efforts to study in order to give Doraemon new power supply as well as keep Doraemon’s memory. More than ten years past, Nobita become a brilliant scholar whose wife is Minamoto Shizuka. Eventually, Nobita find a way after a long research. He press the button, after a long time of silence come the words “Nobita, I have been waiting for you for so long a time.”
This ending is my favorite ending. It’s related to one small detail in the looking of Doraemon—Doraemon has no ears. And this ending is moving. Sweet memories are very valuable and worth efforts to maintain them.
It is said that the endings of Doraemon are not written by the original author. The author has been dead before gave the ending. And most of the endings are written by Doraemon fans. So endings are so sad that it causes a lot Doraemon fans to suicide. But I think the second ending is just OK. You have not written out all the ending. After Doraemon goes back to the future. He keeps looking at Nobi Nobita's behavor. And Nobi Nobita works very hard then be somebody in the future. I think this ending shows us that even without the help of Doraemon Nobi Nobita can do well with his own ability. While I think it's better for Doraemon not have an ending, for this can give more people hope and imagination of the future.
ReplyDeleteYaxin, I love Doraemon when I was younger. Has quite a collection at home =)
ReplyDeleteDidn't know about the ending though...? Thanks Guo Qiang for sharing with us what you know =)
Doraemon was my favorite comic books when I was in primary school! I really had quite a collection at home, too! But it is a pity that I lost all of them after my family moved our house. I never did read the ending of Doraemon, but I've already heard that it was very sad. All those funny things are just a dream of NOBI NOBITA. Anyway, I still love this comic book very much.
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