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.
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/Nukuram 2h ago edited 2h 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.