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• What is the Wan-Nyan Kingdom and how did it come to exist?▾

  The Wan-Nyan Kingdom is a civilization built and inhabited entirely by cats and dogs in the prehistoric past, established after Nobita and Doraemon inadvertently help stray cats and dogs travel back in time using the Animal Planet gadget. The animals, freed from human dependency, develop their own society over thousands of years. By the time the children revisit this era, the kingdom has flourished into a complex civilization with its own culture and governance.

• Why does Nobita choose to send the cats and dogs back in time rather than keeping them in the present?▾

  Nobita is motivated by compassion for stray animals that face hardship and possible euthanasia in modern society. Sending them to the prehistoric past gives them a chance to live freely and build their own world without the dangers of the present. His decision is impulsive and emotional rather than calculated, which is consistent with his character throughout the Doraemon films.

• How does the time-travel paradox work in the film — do the children create the Wan-Nyan Kingdom or merely discover it?▾

  The film operates on a bootstrap paradox: the Wan-Nyan Kingdom exists in the prehistoric past because Nobita and Doraemon send the animals there, yet the children only learn of it after it has already existed for thousands of years. Their act of sending the animals back is both the cause and the consequence of the kingdom's existence, creating a self-consistent loop where neither the cause nor the effect comes 'first.' The film does not attempt to resolve this paradox and instead treats it as a sign that the timeline was always meant to unfold this way.

• What happens to the Wan-Nyan Kingdom by the end of the story, and what does this mean for the animals Nobita sent back?▾

  By the film's conclusion, the Wan-Nyan Kingdom has long since passed into history — it existed and thrived in the prehistoric era, then disappeared naturally over millennia before the present day. The animals Nobita helped are long dead, but they lived full lives in a civilization of their own making. This bittersweet resolution reinforces the film's theme that true kindness sometimes means letting go and trusting others to forge their own path.

• What role does the gadget 'Animal Planet' play in the plot, and are there limits to its use?▾

  The Animal Planet gadget allows humans to communicate with and understand animals, serving as the catalyst that enables Nobita to learn about the stray animals' suffering and ultimately decide to help them. Its use is central to forming the emotional bond between Nobita and the animals. Within the film, the gadget appears to have no depicted limit on how long it works, though like most Doraemon gadgets it functions as a plot-enabling device rather than a subject of rigorous rule-setting.