A Japanese manga series called Doraemon () was created by Fujiko F. Fujio. The manga's 1,345 individual chapters were collected into 45 tankbon volumes and published by Shogakukan from 1970 to 1996. It was first serialised in December 1969. The protagonist of the tale is a robotic cat with no ears named Doraemon who goes back in time from the year 2220 to save a young boy by the name of Nobita Nobi.

One media property was born from the comic. In 1973, 1979, and 2005, three anime TV shows were translated into English. Additionally, Toho distributes all forty animated pictures that Shin-Ei Animation has made, including two 3D computer animated films. There have been many different products and media forms created, such as soundtrack CDs, video games, and musicals. It was a manga series.was licenced through a partnership between Fujiko F. Fujio Pro, Voyager Japan, and AltJapan Co., Ltd. for an English language publication via Amazon Kindle in North America. Disney and LUK International each obtained licences to distribute the anime series in North America in English in 2014, as well as in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Doraemon garnered favourable reviews from critics and became popular throughout many Asian nations. It received multiple honors, including the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 1997, the Shogakukan comics Award for children's comics in 1982, and the Japan Cartoonists Association Award in 1973 and 1994. By 2019, it has amassed a global sales total of over 250 million copies, making it one of the most successful manga series ever. It's been said that the Doraemon character is a A ten-year-old Japanese schoolboy named Nobita Nobi is polite and honest, but he's also slow, unfortunate, weak, struggles academically, and isn't very good at sports. In order for Nobita's future grandchildren to live happier lives, Sewashi Nobi, Nobita's future great-grandchild, sends a robot cat from the 22nd century named Doraemon back in time to take care of Nobita. To help Nobita whenever he encounters a challenge, Doraemon possesses a four-dimensional pouch in which he keeps tools, inventions, and technology from the future. Despite being a cat robot, Doraemon fears mice since one time they bit off his ears with a robotic mouse. Because of this, Doraemon's colour changed from his natural yellow to blue. Hiroshi Fujimoto, a Japanese manga artist, uses the pen name Fujiko F. Fujio to write and draw Doraemon.[3][4][5] Fujio claims that the idea for the comic first came to him after a string of three incidents, including tripping over his daughter's toy, hearing cats fighting in his neighborhood, and wishing there was a machine that could generate ideas for him.[6] He borrowed some of the concept from his prior manga series, Obake no Q-Tar, which had an obake coexisting with humans, to establish the plot and characters.[7] According to Fujio, the inspiration for Doraemon came after "an accumulation of trial and error," at which time he finally identified the manga genre that best suited his needs.