Dr. Slump Arale-chan

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Dr. Slump Arale-chan (Dr.スランプ アラレちゃん) is the original anime adaption to the manga Dr. Slump and ran from 1981 to 1986 and spanned 243 episodes.

Episodes

Main article: List of Dr. Slump Arale-chan Episodes

Release

Main article: Slump Box
The original 1980s series ("Dr. Slump Arale-chan") have been released on Region 2 DVD in Japan in two parts. The "N'cha collection" was released in March 2007. The "Hoyoyo Collection" was released in September 2007. The Series is available on Amazon Prime and Japanese Hulu.

English Distribution

It is unknown if the anime will be dubbed in the English language, even though it was licensed by Harmony Gold, but only had a segment of a single episode dubbed before the company lost the rights shortly after. A Discotek Dub seems possible at the moment since members that work at Discotek expressed interest in dubbing the series but nothing is confirmed as of 2018. After fans did some research, we now know there was an English Dub of both series made by Animax for Cartoon Network Asia with Michael C. Pizzuto voicing Dr. Senbei Norimaki. Pizzuto confirmed that they made at least a little more than 23 episodes of each series. None of the movies were dubbed and the dub was released back in 2005 but had a broadcast again back in 2016 with the premiere of the dub for the 1997 series.

On February 24, 2021, TubiTv has announced a content collaboration with Toei Animation that will allow over 500 episodes of their animated works in their streaming library. This content included the listing of "Dr. Slump". At this time, it is unknown which of the anime will receive English subtitle localization on TubiTv.

Characters & Cast

Names are in the Western order, with the family name after the given name.

Character Name	1980's Voice Actor	1997 Voice Actor	Funimation Dub (Dragon Ball) Voice Actor
Arale Norimaki	Mami Koyama	Taeko Kawata	Meredith McCoy, Brina Palencia and Linda Young
Senbei Norimaki	Kenji Utsumi	Yūsaku Yara	R.Bruce Elliot and Brice Armstrong
Gatchan	Seiko Nakano	Chie Sawaguchi	Mike Mcfarland
Midori Yamabuki/Norimaki	Mariko Mukai	Yuko Minaguchi	Susan Huber
Turbo Norimaki	Yūko Mita	None	Unknown
Obotchaman	Mitsuko Horie	Motoko Kumai	Kent Williams
Akane Kimidori	Kazuko Sugiyama	Hiroko Konishi	Laura Bailey
Aoi Kimidori	Naomi Jinbo	Hiroko Emori	Unknown
Kon Kimidori	Banjō Ginga	Hideyuki Tanaka	None
Murasaki Kimidori	Yūko Mita	Unknown	None
Taro Soramame	Toshio Furukawa	Shinichirō Ōta	Ethan Cole
Peasuke Soramame	Naomi Jinbo	Megumi Urawa	Unknown
Kurikinton Soramame	Kouji Totani	Nobuaki Kanemitsu	None
Mame Soramame	Yumi Nakatani (1-32) Seiko Nakano (33-243)	Taeko Kawata	None
Tsukutsun Tsun	Shigeru Chiba	Ryōtarō Okiayu	Justin Cook
Tsururin Tsun	Yūko Mita	Houko Kuwashima	None
Tsuruten Tsun	Hiroshi Ohtake	Kouji Yada	None
Tsuntsunodanoteiyugo Tsun	Mitsuko Horie	Michie Tomizawa	None
Gyaosu	Kouji Totani	Bin Shimada	Unknown
Gala	Isamu Tanonaka	Nobuhiko Kazama	Unknown
Pagos	Masaharu Satō	Michio Nakao	Unknown
Polly Buckets	Toshiko Fujita	Masako Katsuki	Unknown
Charmy Yamada	Ryou Horikawa	None	Unknown
Dr. Mashirito	Akio Nojima (1-37) Nachi Nozawa (71-164, Movie 3) Keiichi Noda (198-236) Yasuo Yamada (Movie 2)	Ryoutarou Okiayu Akira Kamiya (Movie 7, 9)	Barry Yandell
Suppaman	Tesshō Genda	Toru Furuya	Steve Sanders
King Nikochan	Hiroshi Ōtake	Bin Shimada	Justin Cook
King Nikochan's Servant	Shigeru Chiba	Ryou Horikawa	Dan Gascon
Parzan	Kouji Totani	Minori Matsushima	None
Bubibinman	Mugihito	None	None
Kinoko Sarada	Kazuko Sugiyama	Noriko Uemura	Unknown
Mr. Pig	Masaharu Satō	TBA	Jim Foronda
Daigoro Kurigashira	Tetsuo Mizutori	Nobuo Tobita	None
Donbe	Shigeru Chiba	Kappei Yamaguchi	Unknown
Hiyoko	Saeko Shimazu	Houko Kuwashima	None
Trampire	Keiko Han	Yuko Kobayashi	None
Tori-bot	Isamu Tanonaka Hideyuki Tanaka (human version)	Yuji Ueda	None
Matsuyama	Shigeru Chiba	None	None

Staff

The staff: Toriyama, Maeda, Shichijo, Miss Matsumi, Miss Mariko, Matsuyama, Toriyama's wife, Komatsu (Hakone, October 1983)

• Director: Minoru Okazaki, Akinori Nagaoka, Daisuke Nishio, Mitsuo Hashimoto, Yoshihiro Ueda
• Producers: Tokizō Tsuchiya (eps 1-243), Keizo Shichijo, Seiichi Hiruta
• Script: Masaki Tsuji, Michiru Shimada, Shunichi Yukimuro, Yasushi Hirano, Tomoko Konparu, Takao Koyama, Toshiki Inoue
• Animation Supervisor: Toyoo Ashida
• Animation Director & Character Designs: Sachio Ebisawa, Minoru Maeda, Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru
• Key Animation: Masayuki Uchiyama, Hiromi Matsushita, Mamito Tayama (1983), Yasuhiro Nakura
• Music: Shunsuke Kikuchi

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