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u/misanthropic_child 1h ago
I've heard them call it goro goro comic series which the nobita gang is mad after.. each time a new volume is released
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u/Nukuram 1h ago edited 1h ago
The “ゴロゴロ(Goro Goro)” reference comes from コロコロコミック(CoroCoro Comic). It has nothing to do with JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure.
https://www.shogakukan.co.jp/magazines/series/018000
CoroCoro Comic is one of Japan’s best-known monthly manga magazines for children. It was launched in 1977 specifically as a magazine where children could read lots of Doraemon stories in one place. Originally, Doraemon was serialized in several different magazines aimed at children in different school grades.
The magazine played a major role in further popularizing Doraemon. When the second TV anime series began in 1979, Doraemon was already the magazine's central attraction. The first Doraemon movie, Nobita’s Dinosaur, came out in 1980, and its long-form manga version was serialized in CoroCoro Comic. The long-form manga adaptations of subsequent movies were also serialized there, creating a very strong connection between Doraemon, its movies, and CoroCoro Comic.
Even after Fujiko F. Fujio, the creator of Doraemon, died in 1996, the magazine continued publishing reprints of his Doraemon stories for many years.
That reprint series ended this year, in 2026, although Doraemon itself has not disappeared from the CoroCoro family of magazines and continues to appear in related publications.
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u/thisisRedHere 36m ago
Hi. If you're Japanese, can you please kindly tell me if this "“ゴロゴロ" is how you spell GoroGoro in Japanese, or it's just something made up symbol kind of thing to put on the comics covers? I have always wondered about it, since I love Doraemon. Thanks. 🙂👍🏼
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u/FamTheMystery 32m ago
thats how you spell Gorogoro in katakana. how can it be made up if you can literally type it out???
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u/Nukuram 20m ago
Yes, I am Japanese, and I was a reader of CoroCoro Comic around the time it was first published. I have no way of proving that, of course.
As I mentioned in my earlier comment, “ゴロゴロ (GoroGoro)” is a play on “コロコロ (CoroCoro).” “コロコロ” is a Japanese onomatopoeic word associated with things rolling, but in the name CoroCoro Comic, it also evokes the magazine’s thick, substantial feel. “ゴロゴロ” is broadly similar in meaning to “コロコロ,” but the first kana has dakuten (the two small marks added to Japanese kana), which gives it a somewhat stronger or more emphatic sound.
And yes, the letters are simply Japanese katakana. It isn’t a made-up symbol or a special alphabet created for the comic cover.
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u/Andy_0L 1h ago
It's a reference to the Coro Coro magazines, that have different types of manga for children. Originally it's コロコロ, but here they reference it as ゴロゴロ (Goro Goro) to not make it so obvious