Today is the birthday of Doraemon, one of the most-loved anime characters of all time in Japan. In case you don’t know him, Doraemon is a cute robot cat, the central character of the manga and anime series with the same name.
Of course, calculating the age of Doraemon is a bit paradoxical, because Doraemon comes from the future… And actually it is not a birthday, it’s a… fabrication date. But to summarize, Doraemon was made on September 3rd, 2112, and its birthday, written in the Japanese format 12/9/3, was “encoded” in several of his characteristics.
As I was saying, in Japan Doraemon is one of the most popular anime characters, and on my journeys I found him in a lot of places… Of course, I never missed to chance to photograph him, so here’s my collection of Doraemon statue, figures and arcade machines.
In front of Bandai Headquarters in Asakusa