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Dr. Slump Ultimate Edition, Vol. 02

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248 pages, Paperback

Published December 1, 2009

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Akira Toriyama

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Akira 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.

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December 8, 2020
Colección manga recomendada: ''Dr. Slump'', de Akira Toriyama. PLANETA DeAGOSTINI COMICS. 40 tomos. Cómic japonés, manga, ciencia ficción, varios personajes, villa, animales especiales, robots...
Era yo muy pequeña, cuando salía pitando del cole para ver la serie de televisión que no me perdía de milagro, porque corría casi como la prota de la misma.
Su colorido y sus locuras, hacían que la serie fuera inolvidable. Actores de doblaje incluidos.
Más tarde llegaría el manga, que me compré, y disfruté casi igual que en su momento el anime.
Tenemos una historia en la que un tipo al que no creerías capaz, lo es... a ratos. Y de ahí, sale una robot, muy capaz de cualquier cosa (mejor que no sea seria), sobre todo de hacerte reír a lo bestia.
Los personajes se presentan de formas varias: humanos corrientes descarados, entrañables, personajes de 4 patas que hablan y más, aliens, ¿ángeles?, cacas con personalidad, astros que saludan, máquinas que también saludan: ya sean y sea de una forma u otra... personajes que recuerdan mucho, mucho, a otros ya conocidos... Salen hasta el editor y el autor..., y también otro personaje muy familiar de éste último.
El dibujo es encantador, monísimo... aunque se recurra al SD. Y te puedes imaginar la locura en la que te metes por voluntad propia... y no sabes por dónde saldrás ;)
¿Quién no conoce la Villa del Pingüino?

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