Ding-Dong & Friends
This is the first story of Ding-Dong (Doraemon): Nobi Nobita (Nobita being the first name), is a fourth-grade boy who wears glasses and lives in a subsection of Tokyo. One day, a strange being pops up in his desk drawer --- a round, blue cat-style robot (minus ears), who fails to introduce himself and instead eats Nobita's afternoon snack and then goes back into the drawer. The matter is eventually straightened out and explained. Nobita's great-great-grandson (or something like that) lives in the 22nd Century --- except, thanks to Nobita's mistakes, the entire family is living in poverty.
To rectify this, Nobita's descendent is sending his robot Doraemon (not
a very high-quality robot) back to the past, to help prevent Nobita
from making mistakes. Of course, this is a difficult task, since Nobita
is the weakest and least intelligent child in his class. And initially,
Doraemon isn't the smartest of robots, either. He does,
however, have a 4-dimensional pocket on his front, which contains
all manner of cool gadgets from the 22nd Century, and it is
with these toys that Doraemon will try to save Nobita
from a future of poverty and failure.
 
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