Dr. Slump is a Japanese manga series, written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. It was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from issue No. 5/6 on February 4, 1980 to No. 39 on September 10, 1984.[1][2] It received the 1981 Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen and shōjo category.[3] The series follows the humorous adventures of the little girl robot Arale Norimaki, her creator Senbei Norimaki, and the other residents of the bizarre Penguin Village.
The 236 individual chapters were collected by Shueisha into 18 tankōbon volumes, which were published from August 9, 1980 to May 10, 1985.[4] The series was reassembled into 9 aizōban volumes in 1990, and published as 9 bunkoban volumes from July 18, 1995 to April 18, 1996.[5] Between October 4, 2006 and November 2, 2007, it was re-released as 15 kanzenban volumes.[6] Dr. Slump was adapted into a 243 episodes anime series by Toei Animation titled Dr. Slump - Arale-chan, which aired on Fuji TV from to 1981 to 1986.[7] A second anime, simply titled Doctor Slump, ran from 1997 to 1999 for 74 episodes.[8]
Viz Media began publishing an English adaptation of Dr. Slump in 2005 with translation done by Alexander O. Smith and some censorship. All 18 original volumes have been released in North America as of May 5, 2009.
Volume list
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| 1 | The Birth of Arale Arare Tanjō no Maki (アラレ誕生！の巻) | August 9, 1980 4-08-851181-6 [9] | May 3, 2005 978-1-59116-950-5 [10] | ||
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| Penguin Village's scientist, Senbei Norimaki, finishes creating the perfect humanoid android named Arale. Although she is the perfect robotic girl with super strength, she is near-sighted. Senbei has Arale pose as his 13-year-old younger sister who he sends to Penguin Village Junior High School, where her teacher is Ms. Yamabuki, Senbei's dream girl. Arale makes friends with some of the kids there, most notably Akane, Taro and Peasuke. Senbei creates the See-Thru Glasses so he can see girls naked but ends up breaking when getting hit by a scooter. Arale makes friends with a man who is a giant monster movie fan who tried to kidnap her. Arale and Senbei release a captive bear into the wild and convert it to a cyborg to for it to survive being shot by a hunter. Senbei on the other hand busts out some new inventions as well as his Big-Small Gun that turns things from big to small. Arale finds his old Future Camera that takes pictures of people and shows what they will look like in the future, and travels back in time to ancient Japan on his time traveling machine called the Time Slipper. Senbei, Arale and Peasuke travel back in time to the prehistoric ages and end up bringing back an egg. When back to the present day, the egg hatches to a strange angel like baby which Arale names Gatchan; it joins the Norimaki household. | |||||
| 2 | Arale on the Loose Totsugeki Arare-chan no Maki (とつげきアラレちゃんの巻) | October 9, 1980 4-08-851182-4 [11] | July 5, 2005 978-1-59116-951-2 [12] | ||
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| Arale and Taro ride in Senbei's new plane and crash onto the cloud of the Thunder Ogre Goronbo, who is in a hurry for a date. Arale and Akane get in trouble at school for drinking alcohol in class. Bubibinman, a rival of Suppaman, comes to Earth but then is frightened when he sees that Arale is powerful, making him assume all humans are like that. Akane and Arale are up to no good again when they mess with Senbei's new invention, a Living Rice Cooker named the Reality Machine that can create anything that is in a picture that was put inside of it. Arale and Gatchan are kidnapped by a bank robber who ends up being intimidated by Arale when he sees that bullets don't hurt her and Gatchan eats metal. Senbei hears that Arale's teacher is coming to their house, organizes the house in a hurry, and gets a rushed haircut that looks funny, only to find that Arale meant the principal. Senbei creates the Ponpoko Morph Gun which transforms anyone into anything. Arale and her friends use the Time Slipper to go to a beach in ancient Japan. The bank robber returns and holds Senbei, Arale and her friends hostage in the town barbershop with the police force getting involved. Senbei makes a plan, strategically placing animals to do things that will end up blowing Ms. Yamabuki's skirt up to see her underwear. | |||||
| 3 | Earth S.O.S.! Chikyū EsuŌEsu no Maki (地球SOS！の巻) | December 10, 1980 4-08-851183-2 [13] | September 6, 2005 978-1-59116-991-8 [14] | ||
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| Arale meets a shapeshifting fox named Donbe who tries to scare her and Kinoko, a preschooler who tries to make Arale hip. Senbei turns himself invisible to avoid a female police officer who has been harassing him. King Nikochan and his assistant attempt to destroy the Earth but Gatchan saves the day by eating their ship and stranding them on Earth. Senbei builds them a car, not knowing they are aliens. A Mole-Cricket accidentally gets stuck in Arale, causing her to act like a normal little girl instead of her weird self. Senbei discovers a video message from his father giving him the recipe for a special potion that makes people fall in love with him. He goes to Wonder Island to get the last ingredient to the potion, which was a tear from the Ogre-King Gyaska, but when the potion is finished Arale accidentally spills it on a tree. Senbei's new Fairy Tale machine brings Arale into the story of Momotaro the peach boy, which Arale ends up altering and brings Momotaro into the real world. Akane dresses up like her teacher Miss Yamabuki and plays a trick on Senbei making him do stupid things for her. Arale tries to be a good citizen by returning lost things to the police but then takes it too far and eventually brings everything to Penguin Village to the police station. Suppaman challenges Arale to see who's the better hero and Arale learns what a bra is. | |||||
| 4 | The Happy Doctor Gokigen Sen-chan no Maki (ごきげんセンちゃんの巻) | April 10, 1981 4-08-851184-0 [15] | November 8, 2005 978-1-4215-0165-9 [16] | ||
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| Senbei gets tired of Arale's Super Strength and tries to fix it to give her a normal girl's strength but instead accidentally makes her stronger. Akane plays a prank on her dad, Peasuke's Dad and Senbei by writing a fake letter from the school, causing them to show up the next day dressed "cute". Arale saves Penguin Village from being attacked by the monster Dodongadon when the Ulteeny Force member Kintaman fails to. Gatchan decides to cause mischief around town one morning. Arale and friends go to the zoo and she ends up becoming King of the Zoo. Senbei takes Midori on a date in space. Arale goes on a date with a gang leader from Kanariya high school. Arale meets Parzan who thinks he is the king of the jungle but lacks knowledge of animals. Christmas comes to Penguin Village and Senbei dresses as Santa Claus and sneaks into everybody's house giving them autographs of himself, which enrages the whole town. Akira Toriyama himself appears in Penguin Village and hosts a game of kick the can with the whole town and promises the winner any wish they want. Arale and Gatchan win the game and request to be made into adults but Toriyama doesn't want to do that so he breaks the fourth wall by erasing their sentence and replaces it with them asking for lollipops. | |||||
| 5 | Monsters' Night Monsutāzu Naito no Maki (モンスターズ･ナイトの巻) | August 10, 1981 4-08-851185-9 [17] | January 3, 2006 978-1-4215-0173-4 [18] | ||
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| The chapter "Untouchable Arale" is a short story of the main cast as police officers. Arale ends up having to take a health checkup at school and Senbei must make it so she can pass it without anyone having suspicion of her robotic origin. Trampire makes her debut as she tries to suck blood from Arale and rob the Norimaki house. Senbei has a camera put into Arale's eye and has her go to Midori's house so he can watch Midori in the bath. Kinoko runs away from home to try to be a bad kid but then realizes it is not the life for her. The Norimaki end up adopting a dog which Arale names Poop and returns it to its parents which end up being alien dogs. A smart kid from Metropolis Island named Skop moves into Penguin Village. Senbei creates a new robot called Mr. Handy. The bank robber hires a hitman named the Shiverman to take out Arale but is still no match for her. Peasuke gets a girlfriend named Hiyoko who is taller than he is so Arale ends up shrinking both him and Hiyoko to ant-size; Peasuke must then save Hiyoko from a bug. | |||||
| 6 | Dr. Mashirito's Ambition Dokutā Mashirito no Yabō!! no Maki (Dr.マシリトの野望!!の巻) | December 10, 1981 4-08-851186-7 [19] | March 7, 2006 978-1-4215-0174-1 [20] | ||
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| Arale and Gatchan try to join the local biker gang known as the Fly Milks. "Little Cat Riding Hood" is a parody of the story of Little Red Riding Hood. Senbei tries to have a nice dream about him and Midori together but keeps getting interrupted when other people's dreams end up merging with his. The evil scientist Dr. Mashirito makes his debut where he creates Caramel Man 001 which he believes to be the most powerful robot but then loses to Arale. Arale meets and befriends the little demon Chivil. Arale messes around with Suppaman again. Toriyama makes a deal with Senbei to create a machine that can stop time but unfortunately it stops them as well. Chivil comes back to show a video of Senbei's sins. Senbei gets an invitation to appear on a TV show on Metropolis island about his scientific work. While he uses a robot copy of himself to appear on the show, Arale, Gatchan and Chivil cause havoc in the city of Metropolis Island. Arale and Taro use Mr. Time to go back to the Sengoku period where they meet Miyamoto Musashi. After losing to Arale at several challenges, the famous swordsmen decides to go to the present time with them and attend school at Penguin Village. | |||||
| 7 | My Toilet Paper Boku no Toiretto Peipā no Maki (ぼくのといれっとぺーぱーの巻) | May 10, 1982 4-08-851187-5 [21] | May 2, 2006 978-1-4215-0631-9 [22] | ||
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| 8 | Penguin Grand Prix Pengin Guranpuri no Maki (ペンギン・グランプリの巻) | August 10, 1982 4-08-851188-3 [23] | July 5, 2006 978-1-4215-0632-6 [24] | ||
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| 9 | The Crazy Honeymoon Kureijī Hanemūn no Maki (クレイジー・ハネムーンの巻) | December 23, 1982 4-08-851189-1 [25] | September 5, 2006 978-1-4215-0633-3 [26] | ||
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| 10 | Here Comes the Tsun Tsun-san Ikka ga Yattekita no Maki (摘さん一家がやってきたの巻) | May 10, 1983 4-08-851190-5 [27] | November 7, 2006 978-1-4215-0634-0 [28] | ||
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| 11 | Gatchan - Gatchan Ga-chan Ga-chan no Maki (ガッちゃんガッちゃんの巻) | September 9, 1983 4-08-851191-3 [29] | January 2, 2007 978-14215-0635-7 [30] | ||
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| 12 | Go! Go! Nikochan! Go! Go! Niko-chan Sei no Maki (GO!GO!ニコチャン星の巻) | December 8, 1983 4-08-851192-1 [31] | May 1, 2007 978-1-4215-1056-9 [32] | ||
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| 13 | I am Obotchaman Watakushi Obotchaman Gozaimasu no Maki (わたくしオボッチャマンでございますの巻) | March 9, 1984 4-08-851193-X [33] | September 4, 2007 978-1-4215-1057-6 [34] | ||
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| 14 | The Indestructible Caramel Man 007! Muteki Kyarameru Man 7-gō no Maki (無敵C.M.7号の巻) | June 8, 1984 4-08-851194-8 [35] | January 1, 2008 978-1-4215-1058-3 [36] | ||
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| 15 | Happy Birthday, Turbo! Tābo-kun Otanjō no Maki (ターボくんお誕生の巻) | October 9, 1984 4-08-851195-6 [37] | May 6, 2008 978-1-4215-1059-0 [38] | ||
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| 16 | Who's the Strongest in the World Sekai Hitotsu oi no Dāre da Taikai!! no Maki (世界一つおいのだーれだ大会!!の巻) | January 10, 1985 4-08-851196-4 [39] | September 2, 2008 978-1-4215-1060-6 [40] | ||
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| 17 | God Gets Even! Kamisama no Dai Gyakushū!! no Maki (神様の大逆集!!の巻) | March 8, 1985 4-08-851197-2 [41] | January 6, 2009 978-1-4215-1999-9 [42] | ||
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| 18 | Grand Finale! Invention Explosion! Saishūkai yō Meka Dai Hatsumei! no Maki (最終回用メカ大発明！の巻) | May 10, 1985 4-08-851198-0 [43] | May 5, 2009 978-1-4215-2000-1 [44] | ||
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External links
edit- Dr. Slump (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia