Goodbye Doraemon!!

My mother used to read us Doraemon story when we were very young... when my younger brother and I were about 2 and 4 years old each... I think...
Therefore, Doraemon was like our bed time story... of course we still got some other bedtime stories from our grandmother...
Whenever we went to our grandmother's (my mother's mother) room, we'll start performing on her bed, during that time, the bed seemed to be a real big stage for us, and em... my grandmother was our only but faithful audience...

Therefore, I grew up with lots of stories in my head, stories about poor son, and bad step-mother, and etc. the rest, I can't really remember, but maybe I remember... it's just hidden in my head somewhere... whenever it's happy, it'll pop up to say 'hi' once in a while...

Therefore, Doraemon is not just Nobita's friend, but also my friend.. and my brother's friend..

The other day, one of my friend sent me an email, telling the story of Doraemon's ending... it's a very touching story... (well, when I said 'touching', you know what I mean!! ,,(_ _),,
Later, I tried so search for the same email, I couldn't find, so, I went to the internet and manage to pull out more information about Doraemon ending...

If you grow up with Doraemon, I believe, you like this ending... apparently there are many versions of endings... of which I have read/seen 2 of them...
the first one to be...

(From some internet source)
One day,a very normal day, Nobita came back from school and went upstairs of his house. Doraemon was there sleeping, just like the other normal day.
"Hey, Doraemon, please wake up, lets play! " but Doraemon does not wake up. Nobita thought that Doraemon is tired, so he went out to play with Shizuka-chan and other folks. After few hours, he returned to his home, but Doraemon was still sleeping. Nobita felt something strange, and tried to wake him up. But there was no reply. He became to feel afraid, and tried to wake him up, but whatever he does, Doraemon did not wake up. Nobita exactly knew that something was different. This never happened before. He began crying, but though he screamed or cried, the famous fat-cat-robot did not make a single move at all. He came up to one idea, and jumped into his desk the time machine-and went to the future to meet Dorami-chan, Doraemon's sister. He begged her for help, and forced her to go with him back to 1998.
After a short trip again back to 1998 by the time machine, Dorami-chan looked all over his brother Doraemon to see what was wrong with him.
After few minutes, she said "the battery is out"
Nobita was relieved, and said, "battery? so he is not broken right? please replace or recharge his battery, and put him back like before"
But Dorami-chan shook her head and said, "Nobita-san, should I really do that?"
Nobita said "what? what do you mean?"
Dorami-chan replied; "His main battery is here, close to his pocket. And it ran out. But originally, he had a back-up battery in his ears, but as you know, his ears were eaten by a rat very many years ago, so he does not have a back-up battery now"
"so what do you mean?" "I mean, if I replace his battery, every memory of you will be eternally lost from his brain program"
"WHAT?????"
"Shall I do that?" Nobita closed his eyes. He cried, but after few minutes, he stopped crying, and quietly told Dorami-chan; "Dorami-chan, thanks for coming here. I will take care of the rest. You have to go back to your future time now" Dorami-chan could not decide what to do, but anyway she hugged Nobiya quietly, and she went back home. After she went back,Nobita carried Doraemon and placed him into the shelf.
.........TIME FLIES..........
Year 2010, Nobita grew up. Since that day, he changed.
He studied hard, did not cry anymore, and he lived without Doraemon.
He told Shizuka and other folks that Doraemon had to go back to his future, and could not meet him anymore. Shizuka was impressed to Nobita's mysterious appearance which became completely different from 10years ago. They fell in love, and married. Nobita became a scientist. He made a laboratory in his room, and was studying hard with his job all day.
He told Shizuka not to come into the room, as it is very dangerous inside. But one day, he called Shizuka and told her to come in to his room. It was the first time for her to enter his husband's room.
The moment she went in, she lost her words ......There was her friend Doraemon, who she used to play in her childhood days. Doraemon was not moving. It seemed as he was sleeping.
"Look, Shizuka, I will plug in from now" Nobita turned on the main switch on Doraemon. Doraemon quietly, very quietly started to open his eyes. It was the moment the inventor of Doraemon became clear. It was Nobita. He studied hard and hard just to meet and talk with his old friend again. Going back and forth of time, Nobita was the one who made Doraemon. He discovered all the programs and archytecture of Doraemon-type-robot.
Nobita and Shizuka was crying gently. Doraemon opened his eyes. He looked around, and finally said, "Nobita-kun, I have waited for you for so long?" There was the same white clouds in the sky like the times they used to spend together.

某天，大雄如往常般，忘了做作業在學校被老師罵，也如往常般
被技安、阿福他們欺負。連未來的老婆宜靜也答應要先嫁給別人。
總之，對大雄來講，生活就是一連串類似事件的反覆。

今天跟昨天沒什麼兩樣。

唯一的變化是，小叮噹突然變成植物機器。無論大雄怎麼踢、 打、
罵，小叮噹都沒有反應。

大雄不知道小叮噹到底發生了什麼事，只傷心得哭了整晚。
可是，無論大雄再傷心透頂，小叮噹也只是紋風不動地坐在柱子前。
大雄也伸手到口袋內試試，但口袋也豪無任何動靜。
然後大雄想起抽屜裡的時光機，就穿著睡衣飛到22世紀去找小叮噹的
妹妹小叮鈴。

小叮鈴還沒完全聽完說明，就被大雄催著坐上飛行機飛回20世紀。
小叮鈴一看哥哥動也不動，馬上知道是電池用完了。
正想換電池時，小叮鈴想起一個非常重大的事。

沒有備用電源

大雄不懂得其中意思，只在一旁催。
小叮鈴只好問大雄：『你願意讓哥哥跟你的回憶都消失嗎？』
原來舊型的貓機器人的耳朵裡，裝有備用電源，以便充電時
能保持至今為止的記憶。可是

小叮噹沒有耳朵！（這是眾所皆知的吧。）

大雄終於理解了事情的困難。種種回憶在大雄的腦海裡奔騰
大雄跟小叮噹曾飛到過去、未來，也曾到恐龍世界，海底世界，
更在宇宙打過仗

小叮鈴拼命解釋給大雄聽。若要裝新電池，小叮噹醒來時會
失去一切與大雄曾有過的回憶。若保持現狀，記憶不會消失。
結果，大雄選擇保持現狀。
此時，大雄還是小學六年級。

數年後

從海外歸國的大雄，已成長為英俊迷人的青年，並就職於
某家尖端科技的企業。他身邊的新娘，正是宜靜。

當年，小叮鈴回到22世紀後，大雄只跟身邊的人們說，
小叮噹回到未來的世界去了。時日一久，也就沒人再提
小叮噹的事。不過，小叮噹其實一直被保管在大雄家的壁櫥裡。
大雄為了修好小叮噹，拼命用功讀書，然後國中、高中、大學，
成績逐年昇騰，而且到國外最好的大學留學。

現在，大雄身在他自己的研究室中。
他叫來平日嚴禁其出入研究室的妻子宜靜。對她說：
『妳看好，我要按開關了。』
說完，大雄頰上情不自禁流下兩串淚珠。
他就是為了這一刻，苦學了十幾年。
為了這一刻，從一個老是忘了做作業、成績從倒數起算比較快
的笨學生，爬到今天的地位。

開關按下後，久久一陣靜寂，靜寂
終於，小叮噹開口了：

『大雄，我等你很久了。』

However... I did read about another type of ending, or rather not the grand finale... even then... I was so 'touched' at that time... ya, comic does not just make one laughs, but also make one cries...

(From wikipedia, and other internet sources)
This ending was actually meant to be the official ending due to low TV ratings and the Fujiko Fujio duo was busy with other works. But Doraemon did not leave their minds and restarted from next month's issue. In 1981, this episode was made into anime (called "Doraemon Comes Back"), and in 1998, this was released as an anime movie.

* In the March 1973 issue of the magazine Shogaku 4-nensei, Nobita again returns home after losing a fight against Jaian. Doraemon then explains that he has to return. Nobita tries to have Doraemon stay but after talking it over with his parents, he accepts Doraemon's departure. They take a last walk in the park. After they split up, Nobita encounters Jaian and gets into a fight again. After a long duel with Nobita trying to win at all costs so that Doraemon can leave without worries, Jaian lets Nobita win for not giving up. Doraemon finds Nobita passed out and takes him home. Sitting beside sleeping Nobita and after a moment of thought, Doraemon returns to the future.

一 開始就是大家所熟知，大雄被技安追著回到家…:P大雄又要吵著要變強，卻發現小叮噹格外的鬱悶好像有心事的樣子。後來小叮噹才說他要回味來世界，當晚，大 雄跟小叮噹都睡不著，所以就說，我們一起聊到清晨吧！小叮噹就拿出"不睡不疲藥"(嘻嘻，自己亂翻的...反正自己揣摩吧)邊散步邊徹夜長談。小叮噹很擔 心大雄，而大雄則和小叮噹約定，什麼事他都一定可以一個人搞定。小叮噹快哭出來了，但是不想讓大雄看他哭的樣子，於是就一個人(貓)去散步，大雄走著走著 走到空地，恰巧技安睡呆了走過空地，然後技安忽然醒了，技安對大雄說：「你居然敢看到我睡呆的樣子，我要揍扁你啊！」，大雄不禁想向小叮噹求救，但是想到 他和小叮噹的約定，於是說：「要打的話，我不用小叮噹幫忙」，技安說：「喔，有種，是男人就該這樣！」，然後技安把大雄打得鼻青臉腫，但是大雄死也不認 輸，打到最後，技安打到受不了，就向大雄認輸，此時小叮噹正好經過，大雄向小叮噹說：「我贏了，你不用擔心我了！」，隔夜大雄醒來的時候，小叮噹已經不在 他身邊了，大雄想：「小叮噹，你回去之後房間變得好空曠，但我馬上就回習慣的，所以，別擔心我。」

小叮噹，你回去之後，房間變得很空曠，但我馬上就會習慣的，不要擔心我！

I liked these 2 endings, as... it's purely about friendship... friendship between Doraemon and Nobita and how this friendship changes Nobita, the useless, lazy, weak Nobita...
and how much a person can do, for friend... in a way, I think, such friend is just like your own family member...

For the first ending, Nobita changed thoroughly just to 'save' Doraemon, just to preserve the memory of the friendship, of the time spent together, between him and Doraemon, however, in the end, when Doraemon said "I have waited you for so long", what I see is, this is all planned by Doraemon, to make Nobita a better person, a responsible and a hardworking person...

For the second ending, even though it's much simpler, but that's also a strong bond between these two. Nobita, for once, acted strong on his own, as simple as, he wants Doraemon to go back to the future without worrying about him

Sometimes... we feel that we're so weak, so powerless, there's not much thing to do, to help our loved ones... but then, the only thing we can think of, is just another stupid way.. like, Nobita choose to fight Jaian by himself... and get all beaten up... as a powerless human as we are... we can only choose the original and stupid way... just like Nobita choose to fight Jaian by himself... it's painful, and it's lonely sometimes... however, it's because we love the other person... we love our family...

So that you don't have to worry about me anymore...

"Doraemon, after you've left, my room looks more spacious now, but I will get used to it soon, don't worry about me!"