The poster for the movie Doraemon: The Magic 2007. (Photo: xinhuanet)

Doraemon, the famous Japanese cartoon series, will bring another of its movie editions to China in 2008, after its first hit Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur, bagged 23 million yuan ($316,000) at the Chinese box office last summer.

The second movie, Doraemon: The Magic 2007, formally known as Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's New Great Adventure into the Underworld, will be screened for Chinese audiences on January 22, 2008, the Beijing Morning Post reported.

The classic cartoon, a similar equivalent of Mickey Mouse in the United States, will be featured in one movie annually, which will be screened in Japan every March before it tours the world.

(CRIENGLISH.com January 6, 2007)