Get your tissues ready! Don’t say we didn’t warn you!
The official website for “Stand By Me Doraemon”– first 3D CG film starring the anime robot cat Doraemon, began streaming a new teaser trailer on Saturday. The narrator in the video states that will be Doraemon’s first and last story. In the video, Doraemon tells Nobita, “I can’t stay here anymore.” The tagline at the end of the video reads, “To everyone who has experienced childhood.”
Stand By Me Doraemon is set to open in Japanese theatres on August 8th and this movie will mark the end of the 45-year-old anime franchise.
Doraemon was created by manga duo Fujiko Fujio — Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko in 1969 and in the story, the robotic cat was sent by a boy in the future to the present day to help the boy’s hapless grandfather, Nobita. Doraemon together with Nobita and other children faced everyday childhood problems, solve and cause problems with the gadgets in Doraemon’s fourth-dimensional pocket, and embark on adventures through time and space.