Doraemon is sad?
Comments(0) I always like reading surveys from the site What Japan Thinks, and this one especially was relevant to my interests. Sort of. It reminds me of my stack of unread manga in the corner of my room, at any rate.
Turns out that out of a sample of 6399 Japanese people, 95 were reduced to tears by Doraemon. By this dude here:
Doraemon promotes public safety, is an ambassador and an Asian hero. We’re not exactly talking Hamlet here.
I don’t get it… I’m not too sure about Slam Dunk either, though I guess I can grant them One Piece. And Barefoot Gen and NANA are wholly unsurprising – both are tremendous tearjerkers in vastly different ways.
On the “Would Recommend” list, I’m kind of surprised at the high placings of older stuff like Tezuka’s Phoenix and the Rose of Versailles, which my mother was reading at high school. Though I saw some pretty kick ass cosplay of it at the last winter Comiket, so obviously it still has a strong following. Though… no Dragon Ball, which I guess correlates to the surprise I see when Japanese people find out how popular it is overseas. Well, that and it’s a bit too popular over here, but I think that’s a whole ‘nother blog entry altogether…