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

Explaining Doraemon’s perduring popularity: Structural analysis, specious technology and mother’s... 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, that the practices of affectionate indulgence of Japanese mothering both do and do not build children’s characters to succeed in the outside world, presents a relationship that Japanese children and their parents can never rehearse enough. In this long-running myth, the role of Mother is played by Doraemon. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Japan Taylor & Francis

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

Marshall, Robert C.
Contemporary Japan , Volume 31 (1): 20 – Jan 2, 2019
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Explaining Doraemon’s perduring popularity: Structural analysis, specious technology and mother’s indulgent affection

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...
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2018 German Institute for Japanese Studies
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1869-2737
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1869-2729
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10.1080/18692729.2018.1522075
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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, that the practices of affectionate indulgence of Japanese mothering both do and do not build children’s characters to succeed in the outside world, presents a relationship that Japanese children and their parents can never rehearse enough. In this long-running myth, the role of Mother is played by Doraemon.

Journal

Contemporary Japan – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jan 2, 2019

Keywords: Technology; Japan; Doraemon; anime; structuralism; mother

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  • Doraemon no miryoku [Doraemon’s attractiveness]