"Me and Roboco," which will be broadcast as a 5-minute anime from January 2023, is a series currently being serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump. It is a challenging work, with character configurations and illustrations that are not typical of Shueisha's Jump, but rather look like legendary works from Shogakukan (or rather, they are clear homages). I would like to introduce what kind of work "Me and Roboco" is!
Overview of "Boku to Roboco" currently being serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump
Boku to Roboco is a work by Shuhei Miyazaki that was serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from issue 31 in 2020, and as of October 2020, 10 volumes have been published. It is a boy's manga and gag manga. It has been decided that it will be broadcast as a 5-minute late-night anime on the TV Tokyo network from 2023. The anime is produced by Gallop, who also produced Kiteretsu Encyclopedia.
Introducing the synopsis of Boku to Roboco!
In the year 20XX, the ultra-high performance maid robot "Custom Made" has become explosively popular and has even spread to ordinary households. However, the protagonist, an ordinary person, cannot afford a custom made robot due to financial circumstances. When Bond sees his friend's custom made robot and is envious of it, he feels pressured by his friends' straightforward sympathy and kindness. He persuades his mother to finally buy him a custom made robot! However, what arrives is a mysterious custom made robot "Roboco" with a unique appearance that is outrageous!
Me and Roboco, pick a fight with Shogakukan's legendary work "Doraemon"! ?
First of all, the artwork is not Jump-like... in fact, it is Shogakukan's CoroCoro Comic-like. Not only that, but the main character is an elementary school student wearing glasses, the robot that lives with the main character, and the mean (or so it seems) classmates, and there are other Doraemon-like elements scattered throughout the work, and these are not coincidences. After all, the first volume of the book is very similar to the first volume of Doraemon. There are many parodies in this work, and Doraemon is the most prominent of them all.
All the characters are saints and good guys! A gag manga that is extremely cheerful!
The characters in this work are basically all good people, from the main character to the Gian frame, Suneo frame, Shizuka frame, Jaiko frame, and original characters. Among them, Roboco, the Doraemon frame, is the only one with many mysteries, a mass of witness desire, does things that will cause a fuss on SNS, and is more human than anyone in the work, but still at a cute level. Everyone is a good person, and it doesn't end with someone getting hurt. In recent years, Jump's hit works have been dark fantasies such as Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen, and Chainsaw Man, and in contrast to them, this bright work is a truly unique Jump work.
Boku to Roboco, which seems to be a parody of the dark attribute, is actually a light attribute work
First of all, the basic premise is that Doraemon is a manga for elementary school students, and the illustrations and content are certainly for elementary school students. However, Nobita is bullied and abused by Giant and Suneo, and he ends up miserable after misusing his secret gadgets, so it is actually a dark work. In contrast to Dora, Boku to Roboco appears to be bullied by Giant and Suneo, but in fact that is not the case at all, and there is no bad ending of karma. It's a bottomlessly cheerful gag manga that doesn't hurt anyone. The other side is darkness, so this side is thoroughly light. In that sense, picking a fight may be an element of darkness.
Me and Roboco, all the female characters are cute!
In Jump, if the characters aren't cute, they won't sell, so all the female characters are cute. In the original work, Nobita marries Gian's sister, and he has a bleak future, with a lot of debt and causing trouble for his grandchildren, but in this work, the sister of Gian is cute and is also liked by Shizuka, so no matter what happens, only a bright future awaits him.
If you're going to use Doraemon as a joke, don't be afraid to use Jump jokes!
This work pays homage to Doraemon, but there are many parodies of Jump and Young Jump in the work, and it even includes jokes that current readers may not understand. For example, Darkness is not allowed, but Ayashiki Triangle is okay, and there are moves from Jujutsu Kaisen in small details, and parodies are incorporated everywhere. Since they are so aggressive about Shogakukan, they may have no qualms about parodying the magazine.
Or rather, a world view in which Jump itself exists
This work contains many stories from Jump, but in fact Jump itself exists normally and is involved in the story. For example, he reads Haikyu!! to understand the rules of volleyball. The main character, whose life is Jump, becomes a total loser only during the week when Jump is not released due to a combined issue, and Jump itself exists as metafiction.
The production company for the anime is Gallop!
The production company for the Boku to Roboko anime has been decided to be Gallop. If it had been Shinei (the company that makes Doraemon), it would have been a little interesting, but that was not the case. However, Gallop is the production company that produced Kiteretsu Encyclopedia, which is also produced by Fujiko Productions. The character Gachi Gorilla is definitely influenced by Butagorilla from Kiteretsu Encyclopedia. Butagorilla is a bully in the Gian frame, but as the anime's broadcast period has gone on for a long time, he has gradually changed into a good friend position. Maybe Gachi Gorilla's roots are not Gian but Butagorilla.
【Me and Roboco】Summary
Here's a summary of what Me and Roboco is! It's a work that pays homage to Doraemon and has a lot of Jump material, but it's also a work that's full of kindness, with no bad people and almost no one getting hurt in the end. Heavy Jump users will enjoy it, of course, but even those who aren't will enjoy it. The anime is also a quick 5-minute watch, so please enjoy it too!
