List of Doraemon chapters
The Japanese children's manga series "Doraemon" was written and illustrated by Fujiko Fujio. It was serialized in various children's manga magazines published by Shogakukan. Total of eight-hundred and fifty chapters were collected in tankōbon by Shogakukan under imprint. The first volume was published on July 31, 1974 and the last forty-fifth volume on April 26, 1996. The series is about a robotic cat named Doraemon, who travels back in time from the 22nd century to aid a pre-teen boy called .
Doraemon in Vietnam
The manga was first published without permissions from the originally published by Kim Đồng Publishing House on December 11, 1992. It was an immediate success, four Doraemon books (each containing 108 pages) had sold 40,000 copies. In 1996, Kim Dong Publisher House was visited by Shogakukan and paid royalties for their publishing of the manga between 1992 and 1996. The money went to the Doraemon Scholarship Fund, a scholarship fund for poor students in Vietnam and later, it was given the Culture Fighter Award. As of 2006, the manga had sold at least 40 to 50 million copies, a record in the comic market in Vietnam.