Dr. Slump is a Japanese manga series, written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. It was serialized in Weekly ShÅnen Jump from 1980 to 1984, and received the 1981 Shogakukan Manga Award in the shÅnen and shÅjo category. 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 individual chapters were collected by Shueisha into 18 tankÅbon volumes, which were published from August 9, 1980 to May 10, 1985. The series was reassembled into 9 aizÅban volumes in 1990, and published as 9 bunkoban volumes from July 18, 1995 to April 18, 1996. Between October 4, 2006 and November 2, 2007, it was re-released as 15 kanzenban volumes. 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. A second anime, simply titled Doctor Slump, ran from 1997 to 1999 for 74 episodes.
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.
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References
External links
- Dr. Slump (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
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