Doraemon, an imperfect, talking, cat-shaped robot from the future, imperfectly helps young Nobita through coming-of-age problems. Neither the short-lived 1973 anime series nor the 26-year-long 1979 series made it to English-language TV, but English dubs of the third revival (665 episodes and counting) began airing on the Disney channel in 2014 as Doraemon: Gadget Cat from the Future.

The original manga comic was created by Fujiko F. Fujio.
I wouldn’t get bogged down in the details right now. The thing to focus on is that ’ve come here to save you from a horrible fate.

Variants

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  1. ドラえもん, |pending byline| (1 April 1973).