Hello everyone, I am anime Xiaozhou, I believe that everyone will not feel strange to Doraemon, when I read "Doraemon" when I was a child, the biggest feeling is when, I can also have a robot like Doraemon, can pull out countless magical props, help me realize my dreams! I don't know how many people, like me, have stuck their feet into the drawer of the desk, hoping that it is also the entrance to the time machine. At that time, I was most impressed by the magical props, such as time machines, bamboo dragonflies, zoom lights, computer pencils, and how I hoped to use these props to experience adventures like Nobita's experience and solve various problems, such as homework, exams, insufficient pocket money, and being bullied by others.
More importantly, at that time, I simply felt that Nobita's fate could be changed because of Doraemon's anti-heaven props, such as saying "I will not marry Shizuka" with "Lie 800", or directly using "If Phone Booth" to cross to the world line where he married Shizuka. But now re-reading, a question comes to mind, how did Doraemon help Nobita change his fate? Or another way of asking, what kind of changes does this blue tanuki cat (cross out) cat-type defective (crossed out) robot bring to Nobita? Is it by props? It seems that no, because powerful causal props like "Lie 800" and "If The Phone Booth", Nobita and Doraemon never seem to use them to change their future destiny; using props to force Shizuka to like themselves? But each time the result was the opposite:
This is the story of the 37th volume of the monograph "Shizuka in the Eggshell", Nobita wants Shizuka to like him, so Doraemon takes out the "Mingyin Egg", but in the end, Shizuka falls in love with Izuki.
Not only could Nobita make Shizuka like herself, but even to make her hate herself, Nobita couldn't do anything about it:
This is "Goodbye! Shizuka), Nobita swallowed a large number of "nasty pills" in order to make Shizuka disgusted, because the amount of medicine was too large and almost died. As can be seen from the picture, even so, Shizuka can still resist the powerful medicinal effect of the "Nasty Pill" and rushes into the room to rescue Nobita without hesitation.
In summary, even if the props as powerful as Doraemon cannot influence a little girl's likes and dislikes, let alone use them to change her fate. And many times, these props not only fail to really help him, but often let him learn a lesson:
This is the "Monopoly Written by the Money Pen" in volume 25 of the single book, as the picture says, how big the number is how large the denomination of the banknote, the result is unexpectedly finally played off:
However, this story is a little special, not only Nobita was taught a lesson, but even Doraemon ate "Melon Fall":
However, when I saw this picture, I couldn't help but complain like Nobita, "Why didn't you make it clear at the beginning?" ”
Of course, this is also a classic routine of the daily story of "Doraemon", that is, Xiong encounters Maxiong dafu → Doraemon takes props to help Nobita → trouble to solve (or not solve) → Nobita began to take props to fool around→ play around and get rid of the lessons→ recycling, after all, considering that the readers are mainly children, the work still has to have a certain educational significance. However, from the first volume of the monograph to the 45th volume, the major shortcomings have not been corrected much, love to sleep, love to play pranks, love to get carried away, do not study hard, and sometimes regard wealth as fate. But even so, after the arrival of Doraemon, Nobita's fate was changed, why?
Let's talk about my thinking, that is, how this future robot has changed Nobita. In fact, this change is more ideological than material, I don't know if you have noticed when reading "Doraemon", although Nobita has such and such small shortcomings in daily life, but he has always had his own bottom line, in the treatment of principled issues, he has always been a gentle, kind, and persevering person:
These two pictures are from volume 16, "The Rope of the Set", and Nobita chooses to throw the rope to save people even in the face of the fierce anger of his friends. Although he is often obsessed with the temptation of props, he is never ambiguous on the issue of right and wrong, just like the above story. Every time Doraemon pulls out a prop as the beginning of the story, it is a test for Nobita. In most cases, Nobita has been taught a lesson, but as depicted in the picture, this does not hide his good nature, and when others are in danger, he will do his best to help them:
This is the 23rd volume of the single book, "Homemade Giant Robot Madness", Nobita rescued students who nearly died in a snowstorm on the way out of school, and they had to spend a long detour every day to get off school because the school was blocked by mountains. In the end, Nobita not only sent them home safely, but also used a giant robot to dig through the mountains, giving them a shortcut to school.
This may be the biggest change that Doraemon brought to Nobita, although after the arrival of robots in the 22nd century, Nobita is still:
Indeed, this "inferior robot" did not allow Nobita to overcome those obvious shortcomings in the end; nor did it allow him to marry Bai Fumei and embark on the peak of his life - the future Nobita is at best a well-off "social animal"; powerful props often only allow Nobita to learn lessons, but so what? Isn't this teenager also changing bit by bit? The fire of gentleness and kindness in his heart, after experiencing many daily stories and super long adventures with Doraemon, is like being illuminated by an amplified lamp, like the rising sun, warming the people around him.
That Nobita, there is a particularly outstanding place: he is indeed a useless person, but he will often reflect on himself, which is a must. Even if it's just a little bit, I want to do better than I am now. Anyone, for example, after reading a good novel, finds that 'there was such a wonderful way of life', but he can't think of it, so he can't continue, and gradually becomes an ordinary person. Nobita, on the other hand, reflects at least three or four times a year, no matter how many setbacks he suffers, he still wants to make himself better. With that in mind, I think Nobita is a very good kid. ”
He was a self-aware man, and despite his faults, he knew what was right and what was wrong, and although he often could not correct it, he would also sincerely reflect and try to correct it—even if he could not persist for a day at a time.
Re-reading Doraemon, I can clearly feel Doraemon, this blue tanuki robot, he lived with Nobita with different purposes in the early and late stages. Before Volume 6, his purpose was simple: to follow the wishes of his master, Nobi seishu, and return to the 20th century to "change his life against the heavens" for Nobita, thereby improving his situation in the 22nd century, and the core indicator of which was to let Takazu Nobita marry Shizuka. This mission is completed in the penultimate story of Volume 6 of the monograph, Nobita's Future Bride. That is to say, from this time on, Doraemon's mission in the 20th century has been completed and should return to the 22nd century, but after the separation of Volume 6, he reunites with Nobita in Volume 7 and has been living together ever since, so what purpose did he choose to do this?
I think the purpose is simple, and it can even be said that there is no purpose: he just wants to spend every day with Nobita as Nobita's best friend, his closest partner. After all, by the latest when Nobita graduates from elementary school, Doraemon will return to the future, and, according to Nobita's fourth-grade elementary school student, Doraemon can only accompany Nobita for three years at most, and even later in the manga, Nobita has been set to be a fifth-grader, so Doraemon can accompany him for even less time.
However, in this short period of time, only 3 years at most, I can feel the gradual deepening of the bond between Nobita and Doraemon, from the somewhat unequal guardianship relationship between taking care of and being taken care of, to the equal friends who rely on each other and are inseparable, Nobita has become more cherished and more responsible, and he has not hesitated to go to the soup for his friends:
The super long story "Nobita in the Platinum Labyrinth" can be seen in the depth of his friendship with Doraemon
The super long story "Nobita's Demon World Adventure", even if he knows that his ability is limited, he must fulfill his share of responsibility
This is the 24th volume of the monograph, "Frustrated Doraemon", and when Seishu proposes to replace Doraemon with a more excellent and reliable Doraemon, Nobita does not hesitate to refuse.
So, what exactly did Doraemon change about Nobita? I think the biggest change should be in thinking, he finally made Nobita a person who can be relied on and trusted, and most wanted to say what Shizuka's father said in "Nobita's Wedding Eve":
"The young man will be happy for the happiness of others, and sad for the misfortunes of others. This is the most important thing for a person. This may be the most important reason why Shizuka chose Nobita in Fujiko's eyes.
Although Doraemon was originally created based on children's funny comics, and children have always been its main audience, this does not prevent it from becoming a good all-age comic. Children watch "Doraemon", more to see interesting plots, all kinds of wonderful props; adults can also see the profound connotation and the author's unique insights and thoughts on society from "Doraemon". Of course, the focus below is on the adult-oriented part of the manga, and as for the children-oriented part, I believe you have already experienced it in your own childhood
Instead of a long-winded analysis, I'll use two stories as a starting point to explain why Doraemon is also a good "adult" manga
1. The first story is "The Tax Bird" in volume 22 of the monograph:
At first, Doraemon took out this prop for a very bright purpose in our opinion:
"The rich man tian even has a strange place, the poor have no place to stand", he can't afford to buy a comic, but the little man can buy ten in one go. The huge difference between himself and his friends in pocket money has triggered Nobita's thinking about social fairness, so there is the emergence of tax birds, which can bridge the huge "gap between rich and poor" between friends and provide public welfare with the tax on hand, which is the best of both worlds:
The original intention is good, but the execution becomes a different look:
For a child king like Fat Tiger, it is impossible to collect taxes at all, because all his needs can be fulfilled by "borrowing" things from others.
And the tax bird is another main regulatory object of the husband
Compared with the simple and rough of the fat tiger, the little husband is much smarter: he gives all the property to his mother's custody, and when he needs to buy things, he takes money from her to buy things in the name of helping his mother buy things, and then gives them to his mother, and then his mother gives them to the husband. Since the whole process uses "other people's" money, it is naturally impossible to talk about collecting taxes.
And those ordinary people who simply take pocket money as income, that is, the object of protection of the tax system, have become the absolute main force of taxation:
How absurd, the tax system that should have been "robbing the rich and helping the poor" has finally evolved into a farce of "robbing the poor and helping the rich"; what should be a prop to promote income fairness has finally exacerbated the gap between the rich and the poor and the unfairness of society:
Izuki Sugi works hard to earn money in order to buy a microscope, while Kaneo-kun simply regards saving money as a hobby, and does not use money to buy things like a husband to show off, which is annoying. But in this way, they are still forced to tax taxpayers, hard work to earn money, honest savings and savings, which should be encouraged by the tax system, but because of the absurd tax collection system of tax payers, they have become worthless.
What is even more ironic is that the original vested interests of the biggest beneficiary of this system in the end, that is, the person who should be regulated the most in this tax system, is like the fat tiger in the above figure, and I will take out the box in the above chart separately for everyone to see:
Look at his triumphant, impatient expression. I didn't pay a penny, but I was able to enjoy the public benefits brought by the tax first, and I was probably happier than him.
Although the story is short, the meaning is not shallow. What is even more amazing is that the situation it depicts is no different from that of real society? After reading this story, do you think of the personal income tax system like me? What should have been a means of bridging the gap between the rich and the poor has in the end exacerbated it. In some state-owned enterprises, employee income is distributed through various benefits, although their income is not low, the individual tax can only receive very little money or even no money; some rich people, can diversify their income, stocks, bonds, futures, gifts, etc., they can also pay less tax or even no tax through various means, of course, the tax department can also include these diversified incomes in the scope of taxation, but then the tax cost will not be greatly increased? The end result is that the absolute main force of taxation can only become a wage earner who receives a dead wage every month and pays a very good amount of tax?
In particular, the emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty had such an understanding, and Song Taizong said: "The rich room is even stranger to me, and the country is guarding the treasury." "The more people who have the rich, the better, and because there are more rich people, the state can tax it." You're talking about the United States, where 60 percent of the personal income tax is paid by these big sums of money with an annual income of more than $100,000. China's personal income tax is mainly paid by the working class, you say let the boss of the company pay personal income tax, what does he pay? He set his salary at 1600, which is not enough to pay taxes. Can you afford to pay 1600 a month for first class on that plane? He must have spent anything on the company's account, I earn 1600 a month, do not pay personal income tax. This is illegal abroad, Bill? Gates earns $400 a month, can you believe it? ”
2. The second story is "Nobita's Underground Kingdom" in volume 26 of the single book.
The plot is not complicated, Nobita discovers a huge hollow in the ground and gathers his friends to establish a small town there as a secret base. Because Fat Tiger's stubbornness made everyone intolerable, Doraemon took out the props "Machine Police" and "Administrator Badge" and appointed Nobita as sheriff to punish Fat Tiger while maintaining order in the underworld. But after Nobita fulfilled his goal of punishing the Fat Tiger, the underground world did not usher in the peace and happiness that everyone hoped for:
On the contrary, after gaining the power to "kill and seize", Nobita became worse than the flying fat tiger, and completely became a dictator who was arbitrary and arbitrary—absolute power leads to absolute corruption, and absolute power leads to absolute madness.
After that, the behavior of "Prime Minister" Nobita became more and more bizarre, from simply using "violent organs" to borrow homework from friends to copy and play with toys, to enslaving everyone to do farm work, and even trying to establish a real "Nobita Kingdom" from Japan:
Such a dictatorship naturally caused the people's resentment to boil, and finally Nobita was overthrown by a "coup":
Eventually, with an earthquake, the "Kingdom of Nobita" vanished, and Nobita was also taught a lesson:
After reading this story, I can't help but sigh that the fable of the original dragon slayer warrior finally turning into a dragon has been used by Fujiko Sensei in his works decades ago.
The main characters of both stories are elementary school students, but it is clear that they have gone beyond children's comics and have the same deep thinking about society and human nature as "adult" comics. Both stories begin with nobita's great, glorious, and correct ideals: one is to use taxation to build an equal society, and the other is to build a peaceful and democratic underground kingdom, as the cartoon says, which ultimately backfires. Leaving hell does not mean reaching heaven, it may lead to a deeper hell, and good intentions and anger may not necessarily be exchanged for good results, but may make the situation worse, and this phenomenon has not been repeated in human history? For example, the Arab Spring, the Syrian Civil War. The most distant distance in the world may be the ideal and reality. Of course, this is just a drop in the ocean of many Doraemon adults, and others, such as "Nobita's Wedding Eve" (single book volume 25), "Moving into Ghost City" (single book volume 12), "Boy from the planet Of Calapa " (single book volume 45), and even the "Pencil Writing Monopoly" (criticism of the flood of borrowing and consumption) mentioned earlier in the article, are not introduced in a limited space.
So, what is it like to reread Doraemon as an adult? All I can say is I don't know. Even though I wrote this not a short article, I don't think I've made it clear. It's like the four masterpieces, every time you read it, you will have a new feeling, sometimes you can read its deep connotations; sometimes you just want to enjoy its interesting content and strange imagination; sometimes it is a relaxing prop that is tired of work and study; sometimes it is just another way of entertainment after getting tired of playing games. In short, perhaps the greatness of Doraemon is that you can find reasons to need it anytime, anywhere.
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