Reviews and Summaries of some of the Dr. Slump/Arale-chan and TV Episodes and Movies



Introduction

This file is a combination of the TV episodes listing and the movie summaries. I don't have enough info at this point to justify making two files. The TV episode data comes from a VERY rare copy of the anime comics. I've only been able to locate book #2 so far. If I can get any other books in the future, I will list those episodes then. Note that the voice credits come from the inside cover flap of this book.

Below is a list of as many of the Dr. Slump movies as I know of. The spelling of names, etc. came from the Jump Anime Comics, and the Toriyama Museum Exhibit book (as included in the Toriyama Bibliography.)

The movies have little to do with the continuity of the manga or the TV series. They are great mind-candy, but can not be assumed to add much new data to the Dr. Slump universe. (Not that the manga ever had any continuity to begin with...)

If anyone can add to this file, feel free to contact me via e-mail.

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TV Episodes (#1)


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TV Episodes (9 - 14)


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TV Voice Actors List

According to the second volume of the JAC TV anime comics.
Note that in the few JACs I have for the movies, the actors are the same for the movies and TV shows.

Arale Norimaki Mami Koyama
Senbee Norimaki Kenji Utsumi
Ga-chan Seiko Nakano
Akane Kimidori Kasuko Sugiyama
Tarou Soramame Toshio Furukawa
Midori Yamabuki Mariko Mukai

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Movies


Dr. Slump/Arale-chan
Movie 1 		Haroo! Wandaa Airando
Hi! Wonder Island 		(July, 1981)

Many of the older movies have been released as Jump Anime Comics in 1995. This is the case with "Hi! Wonder Island." The cover and inside poster artwork were both made by "Toei Artists", which probably means that Katsuoshi Nakatsuru, artist on the New Dr. Slump manga did them (Karte, from the New Slump, appears in one poster).

Hi! Wonder Island is just a remake of the Gascar story, where Senbee goes to Wonder Island to get a tear from the demon Gascar to create the "Horechatta-noyon rararanran" potion. If Senbee mixes the tear with some of his own snot, and gives it to someone to drink, they will fall in love with him. Senbee succeeds at getting the tear, with Arale's and Ga-chan's help, but before the potion can be given to Yamabuki-sensei, Arale spills it on a tree. The tree falls in love with Senbee instead.

The only differences between the manga and the movie are: Suppaman and Paazan fight at the beginning of the film to claim to be the true stars of the flick; and the two cops Gara and Pagos show up in a chariot, working as Gascar's personal police force. Also, to pad out the Jump book, the publishers included a color comic version of the very first Dr. Slump TV episode.

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Dr. Slump/Arale-chan
Movie 2 		Dokutaa Suranpu
Dr. Slump

Hoyoyo Uchuu Daibouken
Hoyoyo Big Space Adventure 		(July, 1982)

The Jump Anime Comic for this movie was printed on March 4, 1995. According to the inside cover flap, JAC publishers decided to reprint the 1982 book, with better pictures and the new name.

The movie starts out with You Chen, Hoi Kuen and Ribbon-chan using the spaceship Ultra Head, and Mobile Suit Ribugigo to wipe out the life on some planet. At the end, they flash the "V" sign for victory, although Hoi Kuen gets it wrong and just holds up his fist. Their Leader is finishing the work on what he claims will be the strongest robot in the galaxy. He holds out his hands, and has fingernail polish and many rings. He points to a picture of young Midori Yamabuki and asks "Mama" if Midori is pretty (supposedly, the answer is "yes".)

On Earth, Midori is standing in front of her class, and announces that there won't be anymore studying to do, because it's the beginning of summer vacation. She pulls out a big box, and hands out goodies to the children. Arale gets a ring (she thinks it is a monocle for a mouse), that was to be Midori's engagement ring. Midori begins crying, and Arale thinks it's because of the heat. Their teacher tells them she is quiting her job and returning to her home. Akane asks if Midori is leaving to get married and she sadly says that she doesn't know. At home, Senbee is in shock at the news. He sees the engagement ring on Arale's finger and thinks that it is Midori's way of proposing to him. He, Arale, and Ga-chan go to Midori's apartment -- Senbee is dressed in a tux and carrying flowers. It takes a long time for Midori to convince Senbee that she is the princess from the planet Takeya Saodake, and had been sent to Earth as a child. Her mother, the Empress, has become very ill, and she has to return home now. Senbee asks where he can buy a galactic spaceliner ticket to go along with her.

Arale goes to the store to buy supplies for the trip, meets Kinoko Sarada, and is told that taking a summer trip to another planet is boring -- SHE is going to have a romantic summer crush on someone like Humphrey Bogart. When Kinoko is done daydreaming, she discovers that Arale has disappeared. Meanwhile, Peske is trying to sign up people to help Midori pack up her belongings. Tarou insults the teacher, making Peske angry, then takes the signup sheet to go out and get more volunteers for his little brother. Later, Akane is bringing in the sign for the Coffee Pot as Senbee drives up in his bus. He claims that he is going with Midori and drives off. He pauses to search for the engagement ring, and Arale takes the chance to run away, trash the police car again (the cops are named Gara and Pagosu ("Galapagos")), and come back. She says that she was just saying "goodbye" to some friends.

Suddenly, a ray of light appears from space, hits the bus, and continues to Midori's apartment. Senbee rushes after the mother ship (from Close Encounters) and gets to the apartment, where Midori is dressed in a regal flowing dress and tiara. Midori rides a magic staircase up to the ship, with Senbee running behind her. Midori enters the ship, the staircase disappears, Senbee falls, and the ship flies away.

Senbee goes into a funk, repeating Midori's name endlessly. Arale decides to build a spaceship to go rescue Midori, and make Senbee feel better again. Senbee discovers this, is overcome with emotion for his robot, and spends countless days building the ship. Then, one day, Tarou and Peske's parents meet up with Akane's older sister as they try to find Tarou, Peske, and Akane. They run to Senbee's house and learn of the spaceship. The house lifts up out of the way, and the Slump Ship floats out of the basement. Inside are Senbee, Arale, Ga-chan, Tarou, Peske, and Akane. Kinoko claims that the ship looks like a stupid potato. Emperor Niko-chan wants to get on the ship to return home. Tarou's parents want him to study on the trip, and Akane is to avoid doing anything stupid. The ship flies off (behaving very erratically, so Niko-chan is happy to not be on it.) Eventually, Senbee realizes that he has stowaways standing right behind him and yells that they weren't supposed to be coming along. Later, they discover that Senbee forgot to put in toilets, so they stop at various planets to relieve themselves. On one planet, Arale meets the Kodomodo dragon, and plays tag with it for a while.

Senbee uses his super space computer to locate the coordinates for Takeya Saodake, and they head for planet TRX 1138. Mashirito is dreaming of Midori's arrival, and Midori is thinking sadly of the people she left behind. When she arrives home, she is met by robot Toriyama and escorted to the main control center. She discovers that her mother is not sick. Instead, her planet has been conquered by Mashirito. The madman is wearing heavy makeup and dressed like a rock star. He saw Midori's picture, decided to marry her, and took her parent's hostage to ensure her compliance. (Mashirito's other minions are all super-deformed stormtroopers from Star Wars. There are other Star Wars references later.) While Midori objects to Mashirito, the statue called "Mama" says that there's no reason for Midori to hate her child. Mashirito gets a message from Ultra Head -- there's a ship from Earth, heading their way. Mashirito gives orders to have the "potato" wiped out.

The Slump Ship lands on another planet, for a toilet break. It looks like it had been populated, but inside the buildings everything is really spooky. The heroes decide to look for a toilet elsewhere just as a sword falls from the ceiling and hits the floor nearby. Up in the ceiling is -- Suppaman. Suppaman tells the heroes that he came back home to visit, only to discover that Ultra Head had destroyed everything. Ultra Head discovers the Slump Ship and sends out a drone. Arale plays with the drone, annoying Ribbon Chan with an unchi. Ga-chan zaps the drone, so You Chen orders Hoi Kuen to use the Mobile Suit to kill everyone. Arale plays with the mobile suit, using pro-wrestling moves on it before throwing it at Ultra Head. Ultra Head and the Suit explode, killing the three villians aboard. Suppaman tells the others that with him around, there's no need to worry anymore. So, they fly off in the Slump Ship and leave him behind.

Toriyama tries to get Midori to wear the wedding veil (a helmet with a veil on it). She refuses, scratches up Toriyama's face, and puts the helmet on him. Toriyama returns to Mashirito, and has to calm his boss down by giving him a lollipop. Toriyama displays the wedding gifts -- stuffed dolls of Mashirito wearing a Nazi outfit; Mashirito rejects them with his editorial trademark comment: Botsu (he thinks the dolls look pervert-like.) The Slump Ship gets closer to the planet, and Mashirito sends out robot fighters shaped like bees. Tarou and Akane defend the ship (same scene as in the Millennium Falcon), before using single-person fighters shaped like ladybugs. Arale and Ga-chan are told to put on spacesuits and go out to play. (Mashirito is trying to get Midori to kiss him; she refuses and says she hates him. Mashirito has to look up "hate" in the dictionary. Mama says that when a woman says she hates someone, she is just playing hard to get. Mashirito is happy.)

The kids are putting on a good performance, with Peske shooting up enemy as well. Ga-chan and Arale enter the enemy mother ship. The mother ship captures the Slump in a tractor beam, and then everything blows up. It looks like the heroes are dead. Midori has climbed up on Mama, with Mashirito in pursuit. With the fight over, Midori gives in and wears the veil as the wedding ceremonies commence. The audience consists of Midori's parents, more stormtroopers, and a bunch of dummy props. Toriyama turns on a tapeplayer for the crowd noises and music. Midori has to be turned around to face Toriyama the priest. Mashirito says that he loves Midori, and that since she can't possibly object to him, he voices her half of the vows as well. Toriyama tells them to kiss to seal the marriage, but the Slump shows up on the screens. Everyone is still alive, as the ship smashes into the wedding room.

Mashirito forces Midori to tell Senbee to leave, and the madman tries to pay Senbee off with lollipops and stuffed dolls. Senbee calls the doll ugly, so Mashirito calls out his ultimate robot -- Caramel-man. Arale is impressed, and Peske wants its autograph. Mashirito gets inside Caramel-man, then asks his magic mirror who the greatest robot is -- Arale appears in the mirror and offers out an unchi. They fight, bouncing planets at each other as expressions of their strength. Midori can't take it anymore and tells Mashirito that she'll kiss him to seal the marriage, just to save Arale. Arale sees Midori's tears, says that she can't forgive Mashirito for making her teacher cry, and then uses "Arale-punch" to blow up the robot.

Midori runs to her parents, and Senbee demands to know who is causing her more problems. They introduce each other, and Midori's parents say that since she has spent so much time there, she is free to return to Earth. They add that Midori is very fortunate that she has such good friends, and Senbee agrees. The rest of the group rough him up saying "that's the spirit." The Slump returns home, as Mashirito is asking Mama how he could have lost. Instead of answering, she starts singing children songs to help him sleep. This isn't what he wants, and he demands an answer. So, Mama blows up to show that she is just another malfunctioning machine. The End.


One-Shot Characters
Saotake (Bamboo pole) Midori's father, and emperor of the planet Takeya Saotake (this planet has space coordinates of TRX 1138, a play of George Lucas' old movie THX 1138). Saotake looks like the Penguin Village police chief. He is being held captive by Mashirito. At the end of the movie, Midori returns to Earth, and her parents stay on their own planet.
Takeya (Another play on bamboo) Midori's mother, and Empress of the planet Takeya Saotake. She is a tall, grey-haired old woman in a greyish-green gown. She is also being held captive by Mashirito.
Kodomodo Dragon A combination of "kodomo" = child" and "komodo dragon". This is a young spikey blue dragon that Arale finds on some planet. Peske, Arale, Ga-chan and the dragon play around for a while before the heroes continue on their quest. Never seen again.
Mashirito In this movie, Mashirito (a play on Torishima, the editor for the Dr. Slump manga) is an obscure space tyrant (obscure in that Senbee and Arale have not heard of him) that is using three villians to conquer various planets across the galaxy. The three villians are parodies of the Krypton criminals that appears in the second Superman movie. They use giant robots that Mashirito had built to wipe out other people. On one of the planets, Mashirito discovered a photo of Midori when she was very young, and he decides to marry her.

By the end of the movie, the three criminals have been killed by Arale, and Mashirito is left behind in his castle with the ruins of Mama.

The villans are:

  • Ribbon Chan:
    A standard-looking woman with short black hair held by a red ribbon. She wears a yellow jacket, diapers, and blue tights. Her job is to handle the communications and weapons panel for Ultra Head.

  • You Chen:
    The group leader. He has a very muscular, solid-looking purplish body, and he wears a Roman gladiator outfit.

  • Hoi Kuen:
    The operator of the Mobile Suit, this is a blue-skinned version of the Frankenstein monster. He wears an elementary school boy's uniform.

The robots are:

  • Ultra Head:
    A space ship in the shape of the head of Ultraman.

  • Mobile Suit Ribugigo:
    This a combined joke. First, it's a reference to Mobile Suit Gundam. Second, Ribugigo is "gokiburi" spelled backwards (cockroach.) The suit looks like a giant cockroach, and its primary weapon is a bug sprayer called "Ginchouru Hyper Bazooka."

  • Caramel-Man:
    This is Mashirito's standard robot from the manga, although in this movie, Caramel-man is Mashirito's ultimate robot.

Mama A giant female version of the buddha statue. She is supposedly Mashiroto's mother, and she comforts him and gives him advice throughout the movie. In fact, she is just another one of Mashirito's robots, which self-destructs at the end.

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Dr. Slump/Arale-chan:
Movie #3 		Hoyoyo! Sekai-ichishuu dai reesu
Hoyoyo! The Great Around the World Race 		(Mar., 1983)

Princess Front, of the Radial Empire, is a look-alike for Yamabuki-sensei. The Emperor (Penguin Village's police chief) has sponsored an around-the-world car race. The winner gets to marry the princess, and receives $1 million. Everyone in Penguin Village enters the race, plus some foreigners. Senbee's car -- Borobo ("broken-down Robot") -- is feeling useless and suicidal. So, Senbee and Arale-chan enter Borobo in the race to help cheer it up. Dr. Mashirito also enters, to marry the princess; he has Hoi, You, and Ribbon working for him again to sabotage the other drivers along the route. The princess meets with Yamabuki-sensei and trades places with her; Yamabuki sits in the stands during the race, while the princess drives in her own car in an attempt to win herself, and avoid marrying anyone.

The race itself is standard fare, with Mashirito, Princess Front, and Borobo trading places, and competing against each other as they go from Radial, to China, the U.S., Europe, and back to the goal. Finally, Borobo is feeling too tired to go any further, until Arale discovers a pile of unchi and tries to give them all to Borobo. Borobo races like mad to avoid Arale, and actually succeeds in crossing the finish line ahead of Princess Front and Mashirito. However, Senbee had stepped out of the car when Arale had found the unchi, and since a driverless car is disqualified, Princess Front wins by default.

Borobo feels better now, and Arale and Ga-chan gather around something. Fearing that it's more unchi, Borobo races away, with the rest of Penguin Village following it in fear. Turns out that Arale had just located some pretty flowers that she wanted to give the car. The End.


One-Shot Characters
Princess Front Daughter of the emperor of Radial country. This empire has a very blatant "car" motif. Front is a skilled swordswoman and race driver. She is a dead-ringer for Midori Yamabuki.
The Emperor Other than looking like the Penguin Village police chief, the emperor has very little going for him. He puts on the car race to find a husband for his daughter.
"The Artist" Robot Toriyama shows up as the Emperor's regent. He spends most of his time laughing that the princess will be getting married soon, and then suffering from the beating that Front gives him.

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Dr. Slump/Arale-chan:
Movie #4 		Hoyoyo! Nanaba-jou no Hihou
Hoyoyo! The Secret Treasure of Nanaba Castle 		(Dec., 1984)

This is a very unusual movie, in that it has a solid storyline, good plotting, and real character development. The time is 1929, during the depression. Senbee is a mountain climber, and while in the "Himayana" mountains, he discovers a mysterious blue gem. Meanwhile, in "New Ojeans", Akane, Arale, and the Ga-chan twins are the "Hoyoyo Cat Burglars" by night, stealing hordes of baked sweet potatos. During the day, the heroes give the potatos to hungry children. Some gangsters try to steal the potatos, but are foiled by Arale (their car explodes, destroying the potatos anyway. Obotchaman-kun is playing a priest, and he throws one of the potatos into the air, rather than give it to the gangsters; the potato goes into orbit.)

The rest of the movie is a mix of the "Hoyoyo Cat Burglars" manga chapter and the story where a foreign princess escapes from some mid-eastern country and switches places with Akane.

Senbee appears on TV to show off the gem, which is called "The Eye of the Rainbow." Thousands of years ago, Akirexander the Great had gone to the land of Nanaba, conquered it, and stole the "Eye". The gem has the ability to grant wishes, and Akirexander had wished for power and fame, which he received. Before he died, he'd sealed up the eye in the Himayana mountains. Senbee announces that he'll have a party at his estate. That night, everyone is looking at the gem, and the Hoyoyo Gang arrives to steal it (Midori is asked what wish she wants to make, and she answers "a pretty pair of strawberry panties.") But, before Hoyoyo can nab the gem, an evil Arab-looking guy named Visuna gets to it first. Visuna gets away in his blimp, with police officer Tarou and Inspector Peske in pursuit. Senbee recognizes the emblem on the blimp as being from Nanaba. Turns out that Visuna is the last survivor of Nanaba, and he wants the Eye back to wish for world domination.

Akane, Arale, and the Ga-chans sneak onto the blimp and cause it to crash into the ocean. Arale has the Eye, but she is distracted by a dragonfly and drops the gem into the ocean. Tarou and Peske arrive in a biplane to attack the blimp, and crash into the ocean as well. Visuna finds the gem in the ocean first, and takes it to his island kingdom. The Hoyoyo Gang, and Peske and Tarou join forces to storm the castle. Visuna puts the Eye in its place in the forehead of a giant statue. The statue comes to life and starts wrecking the island. Visuna doesn't have any control over the evil genie and eventually gets killed. Akane tricks the genie into removing the gem (to provide its claim that it can do ANYTHING it wants); the genie turns back into stone. As Tarou and Akane argue over what wish to make, Arale remembers Obotchaman-kun's speech when facing the gangsters. Arale throws the Eye into the air to wish for good fortune for the next day. The Eye falls into a lava pit.

Almost immediately, rain falls, and the island is covered in humongous vegetables. Senbee arrives in a plane to confront Visuna. So, the Hoyoyo Gang steals Senbee's plane, fills it with food for the starving children, and flies off. Tarou curses at having forgotten to arrest Akane, Arale almost falls out of the plane, and Akane complains that Arale is a useless clutz. The End.


One-Shot Characters
Visuna In the original manga story, Visuna is an evil regent that wants to kill his princess (who looks like Akane) to take over their country. In this movie, Visuna looks and acts the same, but now he is a black magic user, and is the last in the line of Nanaba's royal blood.
The Evil Genie In the original manga, Visuna summoned the genie, only to be killed by it later. In the movie, the genie is a stone statue with a slot in its forehead where the Eye of the Rainbow goes. When the Eye is removed, the genie turns back into a statue.
Everyone Else The regular Penguin Village cast is re-cast for this movie. Obotchaman-kun is a catholic priest; Senbee is a rich adventurer; Akane, Arale, and the Ga-chans are modern-day Robin Hoods; Suppaman is a TV reporter (there's a gag about TV not being invented yet in 1929); Tarou is a well-dressed cop; and Peske is Tarou's boss on the force.

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Dr. Slump/Arale-chan:
Movie #5 		Hoyoyo! Yuke no Miyako Mekaporisu
Hoyoyo! Mecapolis, Dream Capital 		(July., 1985)

Everyone in Penguin Village goes to see a movie entitled "Mecapolis" (a parody of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis".) Supposedly, only children ever get to visit the "Dream Capital", and Senbee says that he'd dreamed of going there as a child. Arale looks forward to visiting the place, and is told that it is a make-believe story; Mecapolis doesn't exist.

That night, the Mother Ship arrives and beams the Village's children aboard. Tsukutsun finds himself cast as Hokuto no Ken, and has a blast killing evil robots. Arale rides around on a roller coaster; Peske turns into a fighter pilot; baby Suzume becomes an idol singer; and Obotchaman-kun finds himself in a city where everyone is very polite. Things are going well, until Kinoko Sarada wakes up. Spoiled Kinoko's dream is to be the Queen of Mecapolis, and she wants everyone else to leave.

Kinoko tries to use a school-teacher robot to out-think the other children, and fails (Kinoko herself doesn't know the answer to "2+4".) Eventually, the children discover Mecapolis' main computer -- a giagantic teapot. Arale and the Ga-chan's put an unchi in the teapot, making the computer mad. All of the buildings and robots try to attack the children, which allows Arale and the Ga-chans to play "pro-wrestling" with them. The buildings are losing. Then, it is sunrise on Earth, and time for the children to be sent home in giant metal unchi spaceships. The adults don't believe that the children had been in Mecapolis, and Senbee tells Arale to get rid of the unchi spaceship (it is sitting on top of the Norimaki house.)

Arale throws the unchi ship into space. It flies inside the mother ship, and crashes on top of the teapot. The End.


One-Shot Characters
Suzume (Sparrow) A small blonde-haired girl, about age 3, still wearing diapers and sucking on a pacifier. Suzume is the little sister of Hiyoko, Peske's girlfriend. (Hiyoko = "chicken".) Suzume's dream is to become an idol singer.
Scope-kun A parody of Star Trek's Spock, Scope is a young transfer student in Arale's class. He is relatively smart, and makes cameo appearances in some of the other movies. In this movie, Scope confronts Kinoko's teaching robot, and easily answers all of the arithmetic questions before asking Kinoko what "2+4" equals.

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Dr. Slump/Arale-chan:
Movie #6 		N-Cha! Pengin mura ha hare nochi hare
Hi! Penguin Village, Clear Skies 		(Mar., 1993)

This is a retelling of the Dr. Slump origins. The movie starts out with an abbreviated version of chapter one, and Senbee's creation of Arale-chan. But, things quickly diverge from there, and several later chapters are interwoven to build a new storyline. This time, the main plot is the appearance of Dodogadon (the parody of Alien), and his attempts to terrorize Penguin Village. This movie introduces Dodo-kun's mother.

Senbee creates Arale-chan late one stormy night. The robot discovers that she can see better while wearing Senbee's glasses, and then tries to fly to fight criminals. The next morning, Arale and Ga-chan play "Heroes and Monsters" (Arale-chan crawls into Senbee's mouth, pleads for help from the monster trying to eat her, and then Ga-chan arrives as a parody of Ultraman and zaps Senbee with its electrical sparks.) Arale smashes through the front door on her way to school. Senbee thinks that his creation will smash up the school as well, and Midori Yamabuki sensei will hate him for that. Further, there will be a meeting at the school on Saturday and Senbee is invited. He hopes to keep Midori impressed with him so he can ask her on a date. To keep an eye on Arale, Senbee creates a robot make-up machine named Bake-rundar. Bake-rundar turns Senbee into an ugly woman with big red lips as a joke, and then self-destructs.

Senbee sneaks into the school, disguised as the cafeteria cook, and watches as Arale resurrects the dead frog used in biology class. Later, during a gym class baseball game, Arale's pitch travels around the world before smashing into Akane's catcher's mitt for a strike. Meanwhile, in the city, little Dodogadon is trying to act like a scary monster and terrorize people. Dodo-kun fails, and gets run over by a truck. Depressed, he sits on a newly painted park bench. Clark Kenta, ace reporter, happens by, sees Dodogadon, realizes that this is a monster that he was sent to Earth to fight, begs Dodo-kun to not walk away, and then runs into a telephone booth to turn into Suppaman. Dodo-kun gets bored from waiting for Suppaman to find some buttons that popped off his suit, and tries to leave the park, only to discover that the paint has dried and stuck him to the bench. Dodo-kun gets pissed, shoots rockets from the mouth in the back of his head, and blows up Suppaman. Suppaman calls the police.

Soon, the entire town turns out to watch the monster. Dodo-kun is pleased with finally being recognized as a scary creature, until Arale-chan comes along, crawls into his mouth, and plays "Heroes and Monsters" again with Ga-chan. Finally, Dodo-kun admits defeat, and yells out for his mother. Mamangadon bursts up from the ground to destroy Penguin Village. During this time, Senbee had run to his lab, and used a parody of the suit-up sequence from Thunderbirds to get ready to enter his flying machine. The machine's attack is: a big hammer that he uses to hit Mamangadon on the head -- this triggers many of the rockets in her body and they explode.

Senbee wants to get Midori-chan to escape with him in the machine, only to discover that the rest of the village has gotten into the machine as well. They make it to the light house, with Mamangadon in close pursuit. Riding on her back are Dodo-kun, Arale and Ga-chan. Arale and Mamangadon get into a pushing contest with the light house. Senbee falls out of the light house, and gets stuck under Maman's eyelid, and she falls into the bay. In anger, Maman yells out, and sears the moon. Arale is impressed, so she shouts out "N-cha" (Hi!) -- the letters "N-cha" fly into space and hit an unsuspecting planet while it is reading the newspaper. Arale throws Maman (with Senbee and Dodo-kun still standing on her) out into space by accident (her grip slipped). Arale-chan saves the village again.

Saturday morning, Senbee drives up to the school, wearing his best tuxedo. As he's about to enter the school, Mamangadon arrives, in her best make-up. They apologize for their children's behavior the day before and laugh in embarrassment. In the school, Arale and Dodogadon wave from the classroom at the "Doctor", and "mom". The End.


One-Shot Characters
Mamangadon Dodongadon's mom. This Mother Alien has three mouths at the back of her head, all capable of launching missiles. She is closer to Godzilla in design, and loves stomping on buildings and cars.

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Dr. Slump/Arale-chan:
Movie #7 		N-cha! Pengin mura yori ai o komete
Hi! With Love from Penguin Village 		(July, 1993)

The movie starts out with a slapstick comedy show. Everyone in the audience (including Pilaf, Shuu, Mai, Oolong, and Gohan from Dragon Ball Z; and Pink) are laughing. All except Princess Purua. The Princess finds this form of humor boring, and she leaves the theater.

So, the Emperor's advisor, Jionre, dresses up like an angel, and goes to Penguin Village. Once there, he begs for "the world's greatest scientist" -- Senbee -- to make a humor-inducing robot. Senbee eats up the attention and agrees. But, Jionre demands total secrecy, because it would be horrible for Purua's betrothed, the young Prince Chap from the kingdom of Totoma, to learn of the Princess' disability. Jionre flies back home in his private jet (with parts of it eaten off by the Ga-chan twins. Arale had also teased the pilots with a turd on a stick. On the dash of the jet are two stuffed dolls -- one is young Gohan, and the other is SSJ Vejiita.) Of course, Senbee has to brag to his wife, Midori. From there, it goes to Arale and then the entire town knows about the plan. Including Dr. Mashirito. Mashirito is upset because he believes that HE is the universe's greatest scientist. (While he is crying over being ignored, the front of his laboratory falls over, revealing that it is just a stage prop set up in front of a small hut.)

Senbee works over night to create his greatest invention, and then sneaks out of the house early in the morning to go to Yapaiya without alerting anyone. Over the ocean, Senbee is consulting a map to locate Yapaiya. Suddenly, Clark Kente peeks into the window of Senbee's craft and asks what the great secret is. Seems that everyone in Penguin Village was told EXCEPT him. Senbee brushes Clark off the ship, and he falls. Fortunately, there is a telephone booth falling nearby, and he enters it to become Suppaman. Unfortunately, Suppaman can't fly, and both he and the phonebooth fall into the ocean. A shark chases Suppaman, and bites off the seat of Suppaman's costume. Senbee locates Yapaiya, and lands in front of a big castle shaped like a giant jello salad. After pulling his robot out of the ship, Senbee discovers that everyone from Penguin Village has arrived ahead of him.

Mashirito is standing in the crowd, and the two scientists trade insults. The crowd gets bored and wanders into the castle ahead of them. So, Senbee and Mashirito rush into the castle, locate the throne room, and pull out their robots: Senbee's nerdish Baka-uke-kun, and Mashirito's smarmy Mechau-ken. The two robots trade really horrible puns. The only ones laughing are the two creators; the Penguin Villagers turn to stone in disbelief, and Purua falls asleep. Jionre tells Senbee and Mashirito that they are both rotten scientists, so they rush back home and work on the next generation robots.

Suppaman locates Yapaiya and gets lost inside the castle. Arale-chan and the Ga-chan twins crawl under a carpet and tunnel around until they surface in the throne room. They, and Obotchaman-kun, introduce themselves to the Princess, and Arale pulls this "great thing she found" from her pocket. The great thing turns out to be a big turd from the castle's elephant. Jionre objects to having such a dirty thing displayed in front of the Princess, and the turd jumps onto his head (it seems to be another Unchi-kun.) Jionre runs around in panic, and bumps into Arale, knocking her head off. Her body locates her head and puts it on backwards. After bumping into a wall, Arale spins her head around like a top. All of this is too much for Purua, and she bursts out laughing.

To celebrate, everyone is given a big supper. The Villagers put on a show, which is pretty stupid. But, because Purua finds it funny, the rest of the Yapaiyans laugh too. Suppaman locates the throne room, thinks that everyone is laughing at him, and bursts in to find out what the big secret is. Purua sees Suppaman's bare butt and laughs harder. Then, her laughter starts taking physical form -- the words "Ho ho ho" smash into Suppaman's back and shoot him into space. The "Ho's" blow through the walls, and threaten to kill people. Arale thinks this is great and wants to use an "N-cha" blast on the Princess. But, Arale is also hit by a string of "Ho's" that knock her into space. (In the middle of this is a short shot of SSJ Gokuu fighting some yellow-skinned monster with very long red hair.) Arale falls back into the castle. The noise is so great that the sun can't sleep, so night can't fall and the moon can't come out.

Arale and the Ga-chan twins join in and help the Princess destroy the castle. Then, Senbee and Mashirito fly back to Yapaiya, competing to be the first to arrive. The two robots jump out of the planes (Mashirito's robot has a rocket engine, Senbee's has a parachute.) Then, the two scientists fight it out, shooting missiles and throwing rocks at each other until Senbee's ship is hit by a "Ho", and Mashirito is blown up with a "N-cha". The two robots land in the throne room and introduce themselves: Senbee's mark 2 robot is called Geragera-kun, and Mashirito's is Mechau-ken #2. The Princess is still laughing, and the people all panic that the robots will make her laugh even harder. They all rush forward to stop the robots, but Mechau-ken makes a very bad wordplay that doesn't translate, and Geragera makes a worse play on "stop that bad joke".

The Princess immediately returns to normal, declares the robots to be boring, and falls asleep. Jionre leads everyone in a cheer, then suddenly tells them to all be quiet for fear of waking the Princess. Senbee and Mashirito enter the room, accuse the other of making a bad robot, and fight it out until being told to be quiet. The sun finally falls asleep, allowing the moon to come out. The moon comments on the night being a peaceful time, except that there is still some laughter coming from the castle. Everyone but the robots has fallen asleep. Arale wants to play with Mechau-ken and Geragera. Mechau looks tired, and makes a joke about hot peanuts being hot (nutsi == atsui). Arale is waiting for the punchline, and Mechau panics. It overheats and falls apart on the floor. Arale thinks this is really funny, and awaits Geragera's turn. Geragera also panics, and self-destructs. So, Arale is satisfied, and she and the Ga-chans fall asleep on the broken robots. Obotchaman-kun gives up and sleeps as well.

The next morning, Chap rides up to the castle to meet his betrothed. He is surprised at the mess. Unchi jumps on his head, and he screams for Purua to wake up and save him. Purua opens her eyes, and Chap introduces himself. Purua bursts into laughter again. Suddenly, the Earth yells out that he's had enough of this noise. The Earth shakes itself and EVERYONE is thrown into space. The End.

Notes: This movie uses cameo appearances by nearly EVERYONE, including a shot with DBZ's Yajiroube running around in a panic. Also, Nitro, Turbo's baby sister was born prior to the period used for this movie.


One-Shot Characters
Princess Purua: (Purua is a pun on "apple".) This small girl looks like little Chi Chi did at the begining of Dragon Ball. She wears a blue and yellow gown with a big red bow. She has never laughed before, and the Emperor and his advisor dispair of her ever laughing at all.
The Emperor of Yapaiya (Papaya) A short, fat, bald guy with a big black moustache. The Emperor dotes on his daughter, and otherwise seems to have no other purpose in life.
The Empress of Yapaiya A very tall, elegant woman, the Empress wears a red and pink gown, and a funny royal bonnet. The Empress' main function is to look regal, and act polite all the time.
Jionre (I don't know the pun.) Jionre is the the grey-haired dignitary that acts as the Emperor's main advisor. He is a very straight-laced man that disapproves of inappropriate behavior on the part of the royal family, making him the perfect target for unchi-kun.
Prince Chap, from Totoma (Tomato Catsup). This is Suppaman's little brother, in a prince outfit, set to become Purua's future husband. He has a cameo shot at the end of the movie.

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Dr. Slump/Arale-chan:
Movie #8 		N-cha! Wakuwaku haato no Natsu-yasumi
Hi! The Exciting Summer Vacation 		(July, 1994)

This movie is loosely based on The Fear of Monsters Night, by Takao Koyama and Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru -- the 5th The New Dr. Slump story to appear in V-Jump magazine.

A whole bunch of very hungry monsters come up with a plan -- they turn their haunted castle into a theme hotel, and send out fliers to 13 people. The fliers state that the first 20 customers will get free accomodations. So, Senbee's family, Tarou's family, Mashirito, and Suppaman all show up to enjoy a free summer vacation. The hotel looks spacious and grand, but people slowly disappear. And, the beautiful, evil vampire Vandra keeps trying to kill Arale for causing havok everywhere.

Eventually, all of the monsters have captured all of the guests. With the exception of Arale, who is still happily running around in the halls. Arale runs into the dungeon and is captured by Vandra. Vandra prefers the blood of healthy children, and tries to bite into Arale's neck. But Arale is an android, and Vandra's teeth shatter. Senbee yells for Arale to pretend to be a monster, and to do her thing. Arale's head goes into a slow 360-degree turn. The monsters freak and panic. Then, Arale lets out a 'N-cha' blast that blows most of the monsters out of the castle and down into the graveyard below. The rest of the monsters leap through the hole in the wall on their own.

Senbee asks Arale to cut the ropes loose from the captives, but the robot asks "is Arale-chan a good child?" in a spooky voice, turns her head around, and lets out a 'N-cha' that blasts Senbee and friends out of the castle. In the graveyard, Vandra demands to know who those weirdos were, while the Frankenstein monster says that humans are scary. Then, Senbee, Suppaman, and Mashirito land head-first on top of Frankenstein, Vandra, and Vandra's hench-zombie. Arale-chan declares herself to be a good child and smiles at the audience. The End.


One-Shot Characters
Vandra A sexy red-head vampire. Vandra is really hungry and short-tempered. In her skimpy costume, she's very attractive, but she loves draining children to death.
Zombie, Mummy, Werewolf, and Franken There's all kinds of monsters in Hotel Monster. The mummy boy is always running away from Arale, because the robot enjoys spinning him like a top to remove his bandages. The Zombie is the one that came up with the monster-hotel theme, but is just another one of Vandra's underlings. The werewolf disappears half-way through the movie in an apparent oversight by the writers. And the Frankenstein monster is a rather dense bellhop.
The onsen fountain As an inside joke, the artists turned the Dragon Ball Shenlon into a giant water fountain in the hotel's hot water spa. The implication is that Shenlon has a part-time job on the side, when he is not out granting wishes.

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The Jump Anime Comics

If you are tempted to buy the Jump Anime Comics, be aware that not all of the Jump Anime Comics are book versions of a movie or TV special. In some cases, the word "Famicom" can be found on the cover in katakana. The Famicom JAC books are half-entertainment for children, and half-promotions for some Nintendo game cartridge. These books are pricey for their content (450 yen/100 pages of reprints, misc. stuff, etc.), and are to be avoided except by collectors and completists.

The true JACs are comicbook versions of the movies, and usually cost about 650 yen. There is a small fold-out poster at the front, and a run-down on the characters that appear in the movie. At the end is a list of movie credits. The JAC's also include a lot of background data from the manga and the TV series (this is padding, to bring the page count up over 140 pages.)

The movie books, or Mooks, are coffee table-sized collections of illustrations from the movie, and supporting data from the TV series. The Mooks are maybe 100 pages, and don't contain much dialog from the film. It's a nice bit of paraphenalia, if you like the movie, but otherwise is not worth the 1000 yen per Mook.

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