Editing Doraemon (section)

=== Critical response and analysis ===
''Doraemon'' received favorable reviews. [[Mark Schilling]] wrote, "For kids whose lives are often so regulated, Doraemon represents a welcome breath of freedom and a glimpse of a funnier, friendlier world where all dreams, even foolish ones, can come true."<ref>{{Harvnb|Schilling|2004|p=44}}</ref> Italian writer Massimo Nicora wrote that the manga "can be interpreted as a type of book that criticizes, with irony, the omnipotence of science that pretends to solve every problem with its tools", alluding to the fact that Doraemon's gadgets often end up making the problems even worse than they initially were, more than anything else. He added that it represents "the metaphor of the childish imagination, which always manages to find the most bizarre and original solutions, in a continuous game of transformation of reality".<ref name="Nicora-2016">{{Cite book|last=Nicora|first=Massimo|title=C'era una volta&nbsp;... prima di Mazinga e Goldrake. Storia dei robot giapponesi dalle origini agli anni Settanta|publisher=Youcanprint|year=2016|isbn=978-8892635418|pages=161|language=it|trans-title=Once upon a time... before Mazinger and Grendizer. History of Japanese robots from the origins to the seventies}}</ref>

Some critics considered that Nobita's flawed personality and modest background is different from the special or extraordinary characteristics usually seen in other typical anime and manga protagonists; this portrayal has been seen as reasons of its appeal as well as the contrary, especially in the United States.<ref name="Iwamoto-2012" /><ref name="Thomas-2020" /> According to the [[Movimento Italiano Genitori|Italian Parents Movement]] (Moige), in the manga, "the lazy Nobita does not know any kind of appreciable evolution", though there are still good points including "the criticism of bullying, the goodness that transpires from the little Nobita and the positive figure of Shizuka".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Scala|first=Elisabetta|year=2016|title=Un anno di zapping - Guida critica family friendly ai programmi televisivi|trans-title=A year of zapping - Family friendly critical guide to television programs|url=http://www.moige.it/media/2016/06/zapping_2016_6_6-1Ridotto_senza4pg_-ilovepdf-compressed-1.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204104432/https://www.moige.it/media/2016/06/zapping_2016_6_6-1Ridotto_senza4pg_-ilovepdf-compressed-1.pdf|archive-date=2020-12-04|access-date=2021-05-27|publisher=Moige|page=211}}</ref>

In his 2000 article, Leo Ching explained that the success of ''Doraemon'' in Asia was because it had reflected the Asian values such as imagination and responsibility, the same reason that ''[[Oshin]]'', another Japanese cultural export, became well known there.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ching|first=Leo|title=Globalizing the Regional, Regionalizing the Global: Mass Culture and Asianism in the Age of Late Capital|publisher=Duke University Press|year=2000|isbn=0822327236|editor-last=Appadurai|editor-first=Arjun|pages=297}}</ref> On the other hand, according to an analysis by [[Anne Allison]], professor of cultural anthropology at [[Duke University]], the strong point of it was not the variety of the gadgets, but the relationship between Doraemon and Nobita, which was particularly appreciated.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Allison|first=Anne|title=Playing with Power: Morphing Toys and Transforming Heroes in Kids' Mass Culture|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|year=2002|isbn=0521004608|pages=83|author-link=Anne Allison}}</ref> [[Jason Thompson (writer)|Jason Thompson]] praised the "silly situations" and "old fashioned, simple artwork", with Doraemon's expression and comments adding to the "surrounding elementary-school mischief".<ref name="Thompson" /> On the manga's 50th anniversary, an [[op-ed]] published on ''Asahi Shimbun'' stated that the manga "has already become a contemporary classic".<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-03-04|title=Vox Populi: 'Doraemon' manga series at age 50 still proves prescient|url=http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13185143|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200305061600/http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13185143|archive-date=2020-03-05|access-date=2021-05-27|website=Asahi Shimbun}}</ref>