Wait for a 'Walk with Me 2'.
On the morning of April 13, 2021, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga held a cabinet meeting and formally decided to discharge wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the sea.
On the morning of April 13, 2021, the topic of soaring popularity appeared on the Internet in Chinese - "Doraemon is a prophet".
According to Weibo's hot search list, the popularity of "Doraemon is a prophet" has climbed to 110 million views and 30,000 people have participated in the discussion.
It's hard to believe that these two seemingly untouchable messages will have any connection, but when we see this screenshot of the content of the Doraemon manga that has become a hot search topic, we will naturally suddenly realize.
Apparently, Doraemon's phrase "dumping garbage into the sea is really uncultured" became a clever "prophecy" in which the Japanese prime minister insisted on discharging nuclear-contaminated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea, despite the objections of his own people and other countries.
This is no coincidence.
In the original author Fujiko · In the 26 years that Mr. F. Fujio has serialized "Doraemon", this children's comic has shown many universal values such as promoting environmental protection, freedom and equality, refusal to war, love of life, etc., regardless of borders, races and genders, and has certain educational significance for children and even adults. The existence of this universal value is also the basis for the 50 years of the "Doraemon" series, which has been translated into multiple languages and has a huge influence around the world.
Screenshot of the "Doraemon is a Prophet" manga that has sparked a conversation on the Internet Chinese, by Fujiko Lee. Mr. Fujio's original work, "The Voyage of the Submarine Catching Bao", was serialized in the September issue of "Three-Year Elementary School Students" in 1981. Basically, Xiaofu decides to invite his friends to go on vacation to the Shijo Peninsula, but Nobita can't participate because of a cold, and falls into the daily "envy Xiaofu please Doraemon help" bridge section.
Of course, if Doraemon takes out the universal medicine kit to directly cure Nobita's cold, the story will fall into the "why don't you come up with the universal arbitrary door" that people often spit on the Internet, so that it cannot continue to develop. Therefore, Doraemon took out the secret prop "Remote Control Submarine Combination" according to the custom, and completed Nobita's request to go to the beach to catch abalone.
Controlling the submarine at home, Nobita sailed all the way from the small river next to the street into the sea, and finally arrived at the Shijo Peninsula where the little man was located. At this time, Nobita discovers that Xiaofu threw the garbage directly into the sea in order to facilitate it, and then the scene in the screenshot occurred, and Doraemon angrily said the sentence "Dump the garbage into the sea, it is really uncultured" (and then fired an octopus juice missile at Xiaofu).
In this short story, Fujiko Mr. Fujio, as always, looked ahead to the conjecture of future technological developments and created a remote-controlled submarine toy that can be controlled at home and equipped with image transmission and global positioning system. In September 1981, when the comic was first serialized, the full-fledged GPS global positioning system would not appear until 13 years later in 1994, which was clearly a successful "prediction".
The "simulated toy" for people to play by simulating the real world through real-time transmission of images will be unveiled under the name "AR Drone" at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas about 30 years later. Today, exactly 40 years later, the "game" that adds a new experience to drone control with real-time image transmission and AR equipment has become a future that DJI's drone head company is chasing.
Although the submarine controlled in the comic is not an aircraft, it is not difficult to guess that as the technology in the relevant field becomes more and more mature, it will only be a matter of time before a remote control submarine positioned as a civilian toy appears.
From "Doraemon" began to be serialized in 1969 to today's 2021, human beings have gone through half a century of development, similar to multi-functional mobile phones, sweeping robots, polarized express-made cameras and automatic electronic typewriters, props have long become strange and even everyday things in modern people's lives.
However, in addition to many "prophecies" that have been or are being fulfilled, as we have said before, the ideological core of universal value contained in the works of Doraemon is more commendable.
For example, the recent "anti-war" that has triggered a topic because of the end of the "Attack on Titan" comics.
If "Attack on Titan" contains some of Isayama's thoughts on war, nationality and even political struggle, then "Doraemon" contains thinking that not only stabilizes the "giant" in terms of content richness, but also the depth is not inferior to that of "giant".
In the history of the development of "Doraemon" so far, there is such an episode that has triggered several discussions among Chinese and Japanese netizens - "Elephant and Uncle".
In Elephants and Uncles, Nobita's uncle tells Nobita and Doraemon a story about an elephant when he was a child. Because they heard from their uncle that the elephant had been killed, Nobita and Doraemon took a time machine to a Japanese zoo where they were often raided by air raids, saved the elephant, and sent the elephant to India through secret props, hoping that it could live freely.
The theme of "Elephant and Uncle" is to arouse the reader's antipathy to war and love for life by depicting the cruelty of war. Obviously, this is not a sufficiently "shocking" subject, or even very common. What made this story a stir, as it is today, was just a sentence.
Nobita and Doraemon told a Japanese officer posed as a fanatical militarist, "Don't worry, the war is almost over and Japan is about to lose." In later animations, the phrase became more "offensive" in the Oyama version, the mizuta version, and the tone of Nobita and Doraemon's "Japan was defeated" gradually changed from plain at the beginning to "cheering".
Looking back from today's perspective, we can certainly understand this apparently intended detailed adjustment. However, this short story was originally published in August 1973 during the Showa period in Japan.
In Japan during the Showa period, there were many Japanese people who believed in extreme militarism. Fujiko · Mr. Fujio F. is not afraid of the public opinion or even the attacks that may be encountered in reality, and in the manga, he confronts the real history, showing that he is not limited to the current social environment, boldly "opens his eyes" to future thinking, and "dares to be the first in the world" courage.
Compared with "Elephant and Uncle", which already has a high spread rate on the Chinese Internet, and "White Lily Girl", which is also a short story of "Doraemon", it has a lower popularity on the Chinese Internet, but it also expresses the theme of "anti-war" equally bluntly.
Originally serialized in June 1970, Nobita and Doraemon also crossed back to wartime Japan, but focused on the plight of students at the time when they had no books to read.
In "The Girl with the White Lily", Nobita and Doraemon travel to wartime Japan on a time machine, and they want to go to school to find their father Nobi Shinsuke, but they are told by monks who are worried about japan's future: "Now where there are people in the school, the students are going to cultivate the fields." ”
Subsequently, Nobita and Doraemon see the teacher who forced elementary school students to perform excessive physical labor, who was full of "annihilating the enemy and serving the country loyally", and the father who fainted due to the high temperature environment and heavy physical labor.
Compared to the bluntness of "The Elephant and the Uncle", "The Girl with the White Lily" is slightly more subtle, but perhaps the effect is better by depicting the "anti-war" theme of "wartime children encountered". After all, the magazine serialized in the manga is "Elementary School Senior", and the main reader is a child who is the same age as Nobita's father in the story.
At this time, to say that the real "anti-war" still has to watch "Doraemon", maybe there is no problem.
Outside of the theme of "anti-war", as we mentioned earlier, Fujiko Mr. F. Fujio also expressed more universal value through "Doraemon".
For example, "environmental protection".
In the "Doraemon" series, there is no shortage of protagonists who are derived from short stories to super long stories, such as tree boys, fengzi and Ah Yi, who appear from short stories and become super long protagonists through adaptation or expansion.
Taking the tree boy as an example, Shubao made his first appearance in the short story "Goodbye Tree Boy", and went to the plant planet at the end of the story to learn more. In the super-long story "Nobita and the Kingdom of the Clouds", the celestial people who live in the sky with far more technology than humans decide to bring humans and all the creatures of the earth to the kingdom of the clouds in order to protect the survival of the earth's animals and plants. Thereafter, they will have the entire planet cleansed by the Great Flood, allowing human civilization to regress to the primitive period of slash-and-burn farming.
In the courtroom of the heavenly man, the animals and plants that can speak accuse the evil deeds of mankind. Humans have carried out uncontrolled exploitation of the earth's resources, humans have dumped pollutants into the sky and the ocean, humans have led to the emergence of the greenhouse effect, the ozone hole and acid rain, humans have cut down tropical rainforests to make animals homeless, and humans have hunted elephants for ivory.
With the advent of many proofs, the celestial beings finally lost faith in human beings, but at this time the tree boy suddenly appeared and began to speak for human beings.
Tree Boy, who has learned knowledge at the Plant Star and has become the ambassador of the Plant Kingdom in the Cloud Kingdom, projects the memories of his childhood raised by Nobita and Doraemon into images, showing the other side of humanity to the celestial people. The kind, gentle, and life-loving side changed the decisions of the heavenly people.
Outside of Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds, Fujiko In the doraemon super long story handled by F. Fujio, there are a large number of deeper ideas that only young readers will understand when they grow up. For example, the metaphor of the Cold War pattern in "Nobita and the Undersea Ghost Rock City", the resistance to authoritarianism in "Nobita and the Cosmic Mini-War", and the reflection on the relationship between intelligent robots and humans in "Nobita and the Iron Man Corps".
During the post-war reflection phase of the last century, Japanese manga artists who created the theme of "anti-war" were not only Fujiko K. F. Fujio Sensei. The works of Shintaro And Keiji Nakazawa both show the idea of "anti-war" rather than "anti-war" regardless of borders.
Today, if the Japanese government really dumps polluted nuclear wastewater into the ocean, including the opinions of its own people and neighboring countries. We can only say that the only lesson that mankind can learn from history is that mankind can never learn from history.
Radioactive element "mascot" that has only lived for 1 day
At the end of the article, we have to praise again Fujiko, who died on September 23, 1996. Mr. Fujio, the "father of Doraemon", Hiroshi Fujimoto.
Because Doraemon's birthday is set on September 3, although this date is derived from the figure of 129.3, which is the average height of Japanese elementary school students at that time 129.3 centimeters.
But in 1969, when Doraemon was created, September 3 already had another, more widely known commemorative significance.
The Anniversary of the Victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in China and the Victory Day of the World Anti-Fascist War.
Not "avoiding suspicion" itself may be an expression.