Dr. Slump was Akira Toriyama's manga right before Dragon Ball. Dr. Slump ran in the pages of Weekly Shōnen Jump between 1980 and 1984, following the residents of Penguin Village and their ...

This series, which ran for a massive 243 episodes, made Dr. Slump even more popular, cementing Akira Toriyama as a household name and turning Arale into one of Japan's most popular characters.

Akira Toriyama, the Japanese manga artist who created the incredibly popular Dragon Ball and Dr. Slump series, has died.He was 68. Toriyama died March 1 from an acute subdural hematoma, the ...

Created in 1980, Toriyama’s Dr. Slump centered on a little robot girl named Arale Norimaki, who’s created by a man named Senbei in the hopes of creating the perfect little girl robot.