, also known as Doraemon's Long Stories, is a

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series based on 's ''

Doraemon is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Fujiko F. Fujio. First serialized in 1969, the manga's chapters were collected in 45 volumes published by Shogakukan from 1974 to 1996. The story revolves around an earless robotic ...

''. As the name suggests, ''Doraemon’s Long Tales'' features whole volumes of longer and continuous narratives about Doraemon, Nobita and friends on their adventures into various lands of science fiction and fantasy, unlike the regular ''Doraemon'' series which is merely compilations ("volumes") of various self-contained shorts. The series was published in

CoroCoro Comic is a Japanese children's manga magazine published by Shogakukan. It was established in 1977 and several of its properties, like ''Doraemon'' and the ''Pokémon'' series of games, have gone on to be cultural phenomena in Japan. The name comes fr ...

magazine. The first 16 volumes were originally illustrated by Fujiko F. Fujio himself. After his death in 1996, the remaining volumes were written and illustrated by Shintaro Mugiwara and Yasunori Okada. The last eight volumes have the company's name on their covers instead of his name. The series was adapted to a line of

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and various remakes, released in Japan cinemas between 1980 and 2004, and back into a separate manga series with screenshots taken from the films. The first 17 were released digitally on Amazon Kindle in color, translated in English for the North American market, on December 27, 2017. Doraemon: The Record of Nobita's Parallel Visit to the West is the only movie from the 1979 series to lack its own manga version, due to series creator

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falling ill. Alongside with the above series, a second series called based on the 2005 series movies was also produced, however the majority of movies in the 2005 series lack their own manga versions. Most of the adaptations are original stories from the 2005 series. There is also a manga volume based on the DS version of Nobita's Dinosaur 2006. The manga from both series have at least slight differences from the movies that adapt them.

List of chapters

''Doraemon's Long Tales''

Doraemon's Original Comics

''Doraemon's Movie Stories''

North American Amazon Kindle Color Releases (English)

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