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Dr. スランプ [Dr. Slump] #4
Dr. Slump, Vol. 04
Robot girl hijinks from the creator of Dragon Ball !
When goofy inventor Senbei Norimaki creates a precocious robot named Arale, his masterpiece turns out to be more than he bargained for!
A horrible one-eyed monster attacks Penguin Village, but when Arale comes to the rescue the cops get even more nervous! And the author of Dr. Slump himself pays a visit and challenges the villagers to a game of "kick the can." The prize? Mr. Toriyama will draw whatever the winner wants!
When goofy inventor Senbei Norimaki creates a precocious robot named Arale, his masterpiece turns out to be more than he bargained for!
A horrible one-eyed monster attacks Penguin Village, but when Arale comes to the rescue the cops get even more nervous! And the author of Dr. Slump himself pays a visit and challenges the villagers to a game of "kick the can." The prize? Mr. Toriyama will draw whatever the winner wants!
200 pages, Paperback
First published April 10, 1981
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About the author
Akira Toriyama
1,911 books1,739 followersAkira Toriyama (鳥山明) was a Japanese manga artist and character designer. He first achieved mainstream recognition for creating the popular manga series Dr. Slump, before going on to create Dragon Ball (his most famous work) and acting as a character designer for several popular video games such as the Dragon Quest series, Chrono Trigger, and Blue Dragon. Toriyama came to be regarded as one of the most important authors in the history of manga with his works highly influential and popular, particularly Dragon Ball, which many manga artists cite as a source of inspiration.
He earned the 1981 Shogakukan Manga Award for best shōnen/shōjo manga with Dr. Slump, and it went on to sell over 35 million copies in Japan. It was adapted into a successful anime series, with a second anime created in 1997, 13 years after the manga ended.
His next series, Dragon Ball, would become one of the most popular and successful manga in the world. Having sold 260 million copies worldwide, it is one of the best-selling manga series of all time and is considered a key work in increasing manga circulation to its peak in the mid-1980s and mid-1990s. Overseas, Dragon Ball's anime adaptations have been more successful than the manga and are credited with boosting anime's popularity in the Western world. In 2019, Toriyama was decorated a Chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contributions to the arts.
In October 2024, Toriyama was inducted into the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame.
He earned the 1981 Shogakukan Manga Award for best shōnen/shōjo manga with Dr. Slump, and it went on to sell over 35 million copies in Japan. It was adapted into a successful anime series, with a second anime created in 1997, 13 years after the manga ended.
His next series, Dragon Ball, would become one of the most popular and successful manga in the world. Having sold 260 million copies worldwide, it is one of the best-selling manga series of all time and is considered a key work in increasing manga circulation to its peak in the mid-1980s and mid-1990s. Overseas, Dragon Ball's anime adaptations have been more successful than the manga and are credited with boosting anime's popularity in the Western world. In 2019, Toriyama was decorated a Chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contributions to the arts.
In October 2024, Toriyama was inducted into the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame.
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January 17, 2021
The last two were a little bit less funny, and just as I began to fear that the story was already losing its momentum, this one comes in and makes me smile again. Can't really tell what's the difference, though. It could have just been me.
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April 6, 2010When goofy inventor Senbei Norimaki creates a robot named Arale, his masterpiece turns out to be more than he bargained for!
September 5, 2021
Pobre Senbei por más que lo intenta sus intenciones con la profesora Midori no dan frutos
December 31, 2021
Toriyama keeps dishing out that comedy in heaping ladle-fulls. This was funnier than the previous volumes, and way more entertaining. Still the cutest comic to ever grace our world.
November 19, 2024
Sigue más divertido
March 31, 2025
I want a story. But I guess randomness will do 🤠
September 12, 2025
This is a good volume with ok gags. As always, some hits, some misses, but at least it's funny most of the time.
October 17, 2025
I couldn't find the English version of this manga in the Goodreads database (that's what I read).
February 21, 2016
Bathroom humor opens this particular issue. Dr. Slump tries to redesign Arale so she'd have the strength of a normal girl her age. It turns out Dr. Slump is supposed to visit the school that day.
(There are various extras in the manga as normal.)
The Attack of Dodongadon is next. The adults are scared (that is, the adults that aren't selling snacks to the onlookers), but Arale and Gatchan aren't and are playing with the monster which is beginning to wish it hadn't shown up in the first place.
Things get much worse for the monster. Much worse. After that Gatchan has her own cute story. The next story has Arale at the zoo where she and Gatchan confront a tiger. The tiger is fierce. Arale is fiercer.
Dr. Slump is going on a date with Midori. In outer space. Meanwhile the two space aliens from an earlier issue plan to hijack his spaceship. They hijack a toilet, instead.
Meanwhile, in space, Dr. Slump has to use the restroom so they land on a star (?), encounter a monster that nearly eats Midori, who Dr. Slump changes into an ant and stomps her. Accidentally.
They land back on earth, but fifty years in the future. Supposedly.
A gang boss confronts Arale and then decides he wants to go on a date with her. Big mistake. For the boss.
Parzan, King of the Jungle, makes his appearance. He encounters Arale. He loses.
Dr. Slump tries to pass himself off as Santa Claus. Without much success.
(There are various extras in the manga as normal.)
The Attack of Dodongadon is next. The adults are scared (that is, the adults that aren't selling snacks to the onlookers), but Arale and Gatchan aren't and are playing with the monster which is beginning to wish it hadn't shown up in the first place.
Things get much worse for the monster. Much worse. After that Gatchan has her own cute story. The next story has Arale at the zoo where she and Gatchan confront a tiger. The tiger is fierce. Arale is fiercer.
Dr. Slump is going on a date with Midori. In outer space. Meanwhile the two space aliens from an earlier issue plan to hijack his spaceship. They hijack a toilet, instead.
Meanwhile, in space, Dr. Slump has to use the restroom so they land on a star (?), encounter a monster that nearly eats Midori, who Dr. Slump changes into an ant and stomps her. Accidentally.
They land back on earth, but fifty years in the future. Supposedly.
A gang boss confronts Arale and then decides he wants to go on a date with her. Big mistake. For the boss.
Parzan, King of the Jungle, makes his appearance. He encounters Arale. He loses.
Dr. Slump tries to pass himself off as Santa Claus. Without much success.
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