When "Robot Cat" has been renamed "Doraemon"

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When my cousin after 00 said that she liked to watch "Doraemon", I was very excited to feel that as a post-80s, I finally had a common language with young people, but a second later I reacted sadly, and it turned out that "robot cat" had been "renamed" for many years.

When she went to the cinema to see Doraemon's big movies as entertainment, I was nostalgic, after all, the robot cat in my childhood memories consisted of only a book of comics and an episode of cartoons. The latter was often not fun in the era when there were no video sites, so the Robot Cat comic became one of the best memories of my childhood.

Reading comics, in the eyes of most parents at the time, was not a serious thing, so it was mainly done in school. Every time I have a new book, I can often read it in my spare time. At that time, in the class, the students' entertainment media was not much, there was no social media, no video website, only books; the communication channels were also very primitive, word of mouth, barter.

But this does not prevent us from building a huge communication system, books must be borrowed and read, which is vividly reflected in our reading of "Robot Cat". The reason is simple, there are too many comics, and the pocket money of elementary school students is limited, it is impossible to buy all of them, "shared comics" are circulating in the class, almost everyone will have several copies, but everyone will read dozens of books. Being the first to borrow the latest volume of "Robot Cat" shows that you have a fairly solid mass base in the class.

The "Robot Cat" comic in the style of flat black and white painting, the picture is actually not cool at all, purely relying on the plot to win. So much so that later when I saw the big movie in color stereoscopic, I was still a little unaccustomed to it, and there was a kind of trepidation that I just wanted to play the carousel and you let me ride the mountain car.

The most attractive point of "Robot Cat" is undoubtedly to pull out a new invention from the future, which can instantly solve any unpleasant situation in the present. In a sense, this is a "cool drama", which can be called the originator of the "crossing" drama.

When some little boys argue about dragon ball and saint seiya, I just want to have a robot cat; when some little girls are fascinated by the hairstyles and costumes of Sailor Moon, I only covet the pocket of the robot cat. At an age when I still believe that anything is possible, I don't think it's impossible.

Only gradually, the post-80s discussion of "Robot Cat" began to move towards realism: Nobita is so useless, why can he marry Shizuka? How much money does the little husband's family have? Why doraemon live in a villa... Fujiko, one of the authors of the comic book "Robot Cat", said that the family lived in a villa. F. Fujio died in 1996, and I am afraid that he will not be able to answer these questions.

However, later I found that the dream still has to be: "universal manufacturing machine", is not 3D printing; "badge showing whereabouts", is not the GPS positioning we use every day; and the robot that automatically cleans, today's sweeping robot has long become a common appliance...

Whenever Doraemon's big movie is released, the cinema welcomes a less-young audience. The protagonists on the big screen are still those few, and the story is still a "routine", or a "classic narrative". But the charm of the story that you can guess the end of the story by looking at the beginning is that it makes me believe that some things are eternal, such as love, for example, companionship — whether it's called a robot cat or Doraemon.

From: China Youth Daily

Author: Bai JianJian

Source: China Youth Daily