Discussion Manga / Doraemon

By western standards, this anime/manga is seriously underrated!

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• No Ending: Quite possibly, which ends up with the fans creating their own endings in doujin comics. One happy ending^note  Doraemon's battery fails, and without his ears, they can't swap it out without wiping his brain. Not only that, the time police have placed an absolute embargo on anyone interfering in any way with Nobita and the now-unconscious Doraemon. Rather than swap his battery, which would effectively kill him, Nobita spends the next 35 years becoming the world's foremost expert in robotics in order to save him, marrying Shizuka on the way. But as his friends figure out, it was all a Stable Time Loop — the technology that Doraemon was bringing back was way, way too advanced unless something remarkable happens to jumpstart the technology — like Dr. Nobita Nobi reverse engineering Doraemon enough to fix him. (which was legendarily Jossed from orbit, with nuclear fire by the publishers due to the art being picture-perfect to the original series and the ending being more or less beloved by the entire fanbase) and two Downer Endings, one of which was lifted from St. Elsewhere.
  • The Fujiko duo did try to end the series when it appeared that the franchise was losing popularity in the early 70s, resulting in the final story in Volume 6 of the manga. When the franchise suddenly picked up in popularity again shortly after the release of the said volume, they were forced to Retcon that particular story in the first story of Volume 7 of the manga.
  • The 1973 anime series did have an ending, where Doraemon returned to the future and Nobita promised him to grow up to be successful.
  • The two Downer Endings have been written into fanfiction here and here. At least the former is not as downing as the other, because Doraemon actually came back.

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• Tyrannosaurus Rex: Noby encounters one in Noby's Dinosaur.