Explaining Doraemon’s perduring popularity: Structural analysis, specious technology and mother’s indulgent affection

R. Marshall

DOI:10.1080/18692729.2018.1522075

Corpus ID: 149748610

Explaining Doraemon’s perduring popularity: Structural analysis, specious technology and mother’s indulgent affection

@article{Marshall2019ExplainingDP,
  title={Explaining Doraemon’s perduring popularity: Structural analysis, specious technology and mother’s indulgent affection},
  author={R. Marshall},
  journal={Contemporary Japan},
  year={2019},
  volume={31},
  pages={79 - 98}
}

R. Marshall
Published 2019
Art
Contemporary Japan

ABSTRACT Structural analysis of the Japanese anime Doraemon reveals the source of the unimaginable popularity of this children’s cartoon in the paradigmatic structure ‘Doraemon’s gadgets : Nobita’s problems :: Doraemon : Nobita.’ The paradigmatic structure’s minor contradiction shows us that neither Nobita’s childish childhood problems nor the hyper-technology of the future Doraemon pulls from its pouch, as funny as they can be made to seem, matter in this world; but the major contradiction… Expand

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