My
favourite cartoon character is Doraemon. I
think everybody knows what it is. It
is a blue robot cat with no ears.
I
like the story of Doraemon very much. It
is about the friendship between Doraemon and a naughty boy called
Nobita. Doraemon
comes from the 22nd century. Its
main duty is to help Nobita to get out of trouble. Unfortunately,
that happens to Nobita quite a lot. Every
time, Doraemon uses the amazing tools from its pocket to help Nobita.
There
is the Docodemo-door which can take people anywhere they want to go.
Then
there is the light beam that can make people or things smaller. I
love reading about Doraemon's tools and I am amazed by the imagination
of its creators. Talking
about Doraemon's creators - do you know who they are? They
are two Japanese artists - Mr Fujimoto and Mr Abiko.
The
creation of Doraemon is a funny story. About
30 years ago, the company the two artists worked for announced that
there would be a new cartoon series coming.
Actually,
the two artists were still working on it. They
had not a single idea about the storyline or the characters in it.
The
two artists then spent many sleepless nights trying to think of ideas
for it, but they were not successful. Then
one morning, Mr Fujimoto woke up late. He
rushed downstairs and tripped over a doll. An
idea suddenly came to him. He
put the doll and a picture of a cat he had created earlier together
and drew a cartoon figure. And
that was the first picture of Doraemon.
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