The Doraemon manga series was first published in December 1969 in six different magazines. A total of 1, 345 stories were created in the original series, which are published byShogakukanunderthe Tentomushi( ?????? )manga brand, extending to forty-five volumes. The volumes are collected in the Takaoka Central Library inToyama, Japan, where Fujiko Fujio was born.Turner Broadcasting Systembought the rights to the Doraemon anime series in the mid-1980s for a United States English-language release, [1]but canceled it without explanation before broadcasting any episodes. In July 2013 it was announced that the manga would be released digitally in English via theAmazon Kindlee-bookservice. It isone of the best-selling manga in the world, having sold over 100 million copies.
