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Cover of the first English volume of Dr. Slump, as published by Viz Media on May 3, 2005.. 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.
Dr. Slump (Dr. スランプ, Dokutā Suranpu) 1980–1984 236 chapters in Weekly Shōnen Jump 1980 #5/6 - 1984 #39, assembled into 18 tankōbon, reassembled into 9 aizoban in 1990, 9 bunkoban in 1995, and 15 kanzenban in 2006 [16] Pola & Roid: 1981 One-shot in Weekly Shōnen Jump 1981 #17; Toriyama's winning entry in the 1981 Reader's Choice ...
The Dr. Slump manga has had over 30 million copies in circulation. [65] Only a year after its debut, the series was awarded the 1981 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen and shōjo manga. [66] Viz Media's North American release of the first volume of Dr. Slump was nominated for the 2005 Quill Award in the Graphic Novel category. [67]
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The two made a bet; Toriyama would create a one-shot manga with a female lead and if it took fourth place or lower in the magazine's reader poll, he could get rid of Arale after the single chapter. Torishima won when Tomato the Cutesy Gumshoe (1979) came in third place, but because Toriyama is stubborn, he refused to change the Dr. Slump name. [4]
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The characters of Dr. Slump as seen in the first anime.. The Dr. Slump manga series features an extensive cast of characters created by Akira Toriyama.It follows the humorous adventures of the little girl robot Arale Norimaki, her creator Senbei Norimaki and the other residents of the bizarre Penguin Village.
On June 12, 2013, Discotek Media announced they acquired the first five Dr. Slump films for release in North America. They released all five in a two-disc DVD box set in Japanese with English subtitles on July 29, 2014.