Doraemon the Movie Story: Nobita's Great Battle of the Mermaid King

Manga adaptation cover.

Doraemon the Movie Story: Nobita's Great Battle of the Mermaid King is a manga adaptation of the 2010 film, Nobita's Great Battle of the Mermaid King. Written and illustrated by Yasunori Okada, it was released in Japan by Shogakukan on February 2010 (a month ahead of the movie version released on March 6, 2010.).

Differences between the anime and manga

• It is summer when the season is a movie version, and it is spring in the cartoon version.
• In the manga version there is a scene recalling Nobita's Dinosaur 2006, "Nobita's New Makai Dai Adventure", "Nobita and Green Giant Den", "Nobita's Nobita Space Pioneering History" in Manga version. This is a self-parody of a scene depicted in the original of Nobita's Underwater Castle . However, there is a contradiction point that the giants remember the Makai big adventure that should be a parallel world.
• In the manga version, it is Doraemon who wore Sophia's clothes, but in the movie version it is Shizuka.
• In the movie version, the monster fish is the same Aqua star as the Mermaids, but in the manga version it is a portrayal like invading from a different star.
• There is a depiction that the time flow of Aqua stars and earthling people is different.
• The position of Aqua stars which was not revealed in the movie version, in the manga version is the oldest civilization of human beings Sumer's "legend that human beings gained knowledge from the gods of half and half fish" and the response of the mermaid sword, Ozaka In addition to being found to be Sirius of the earth, there is a description that implies that the civilization of the earth may have been given by the people of Aqua.
• In the movie version, Sophia inherits the throne from Ondine before going to fight against monster fish, but in comic version it is succeeding to the throne in the final stage.
• In the manga version Haribo, has told out that the sword is a counterfeit, but in the movie version he notices that Boikin is a fake.
• In the movie version, Sophia who came back to the ocean floor, but in the manga version it goes to Aqua stars for each aqua base in the undersea city. In the manga version, I could not completely restore the sea, but in the movie version I can undo it.
• Sophia's favorite color is blue in the manga, instead of pink like in the film.

Where to read this manga

While there has not been an English translation of this manga at all, you can read the Chinese scanlated version online.