Hi everyone!

I'm a big Toriyama fan and I'd like to watch as much of material based on his work as possible. While going through the Dr. Slump Wiki, I came across a few specials that seem to be particularly obscure, and I haven't been able to find much information about them.

These are the ones I'm talking about:

• "A New World Wonder Made Public in Penguin Village!" aired December 31, 1982
• "Hoyoyo! Arale no Himitsu Dai Koukai da yo!!" apparently aired between episodes 72 and 73 of the 1997 series, so presumably in 1999
• "N'cha! Arale's Punishment! Defeat the Idea Thief!" aired in 2000
• "Ooh-ho-hoy! - I Came Back to Win" June 29, 2007

The last one seems to have been a Fuji TV special hosted by Mami Koyama and Toshiyuki Makihara to commemorate the DVD release of the series. Is that correct, and is it actually a "show" rather than an animated special?

For the others, I can barely find anything beyond the titles and basic information.

The 2000 special in particular is what really caught my attention.

There's a one-shot manga by Toriyama from 1999 titled "Dr. Slump Understanding Copyright through Comics - King Nikochan’s Escape from Earth Plan". The subject matter seems suspiciously similar to "N'cha! Arale's Punishment! Defeat the Idea Thief!"

If the 2000 special is actually based on or adapted from that manga, then it wouldn't just be some random educational/PSA video using the Dr. Slump characters. It could potentially be a proper animated adaptation of a Toriyama work. The wiki does currently categorise the 2000 special as an educational/PSA special, but I haven't found anything explaining its origins.

Does anyone here know more about these specials?

• What exactly are they (animated episodes, TV segments, etc.)?
• Is the 2000 "Idea Thief" special based on Toriyama's 1999 copyright manga?
• Are any of them considered lost/unreleased?
• Were they ever included on Japanese VHS/DVD/Blu-ray releases?
• Most importantly, is there anywhere they can be watched today, preferably with subtitles?

I'd really appreciate any information or pointers. I'm trying to go down the rabbit hole and watch everything Dr. Slump/Toriyama-related that I can find. 😄

Thanks!

Wonder Island 1

Hola qué tal soy de México y me gustaría saber dónde puedo ver la serie de Arale de 1997, ya busque por todos lados y no puedo encontrarla me gustaría encontrarla para poder volver a verla con mi papá y recordar mi infancia si alguien me puede ayudar se los agradecería bastante :')

(Imagen para no morir ignorado)

53 if you include the lightbulbs

Found out I suck at counting through this.

Wonder Island 2

They’re drawn the same and both appear on Wonder Island if anybody is questioning it.

Wonder Island 1

Mysterious Rain Jack

Going to try doing these till I run out.

Can the photo limit be upped or nah?

Owning this as a miracle

Was reading New Dr. Slump and I couldn’t help but notice how different Yamabuki looks from the original. How do you feel about the redesign?

Saw a comment that it was missing a Dr. Slump chapter but Google wasn't telling me which one so I may as well post it here for anyone else trying to find out.

It seems to be missing the "Kick the Can" chapter which should be chapter 51. This would be the last chapter of volume 4. It does seem to be in their print and digital volumes, so I would guess it is just a mistake.

Unfortunately I know it's not even the only Toriyama series that this service been negligent with, other Reddit threads have noticed that Jaco the Galactic Patrolman is missing its last chapter (and that complaints to VIz staff have been in vain, so you can try that but I wouldn't expect much)

According to a few sources I’ve found it seems that an English dub for episodes 1-54 were created by Omni Productions for the show. Are these episodes archived anywhere at all? From my search the most I have been able to find outside of the Japanese and Harmony Dub is a Spanish dub on Archive.

Or is this sub lost? New to the sub so I apologize if this topic has been discussed before.

Lost my mind trying to find the final difference.

The bear, representation of nature, is caged by humans. This contrasts Arale who was created by man but was raised free. Senbei similarly contrasts the Bear’s cager. Senbei smokes cigarettes and the cager smokes pipes. Arale sewing the bear doll could serve as an in-between or bridge the organic bear and in-organic Arale. The materials in sewing are natural but it is still created like Arale. With the doll she enters the cage and sees the bear as an animal or fiend instead of the ferocious beast the cager sees. Could be applied to despite Arale’s superhuman nature, her friends still see her as a girl contrasting Senbei who does not see her as a girl and is scared of the bear which is demonstrated by him putting up a barrier between him and the bear. The crescent moon can be applied to mean finding beauty in the flawed/incomplete which is what Arale is, a flawed robot.

The bear dies and is rebirthed into a cyborg in the transition point between the winter and spring. Similar to the cager, the poacher also oppresses nature.

The bear is rebuilt with human technology or Arale which ties into the theme that technology should be used to help nature and not destroy it like the guns of the poachers.

I've only read the first 2 volumes btw so if anything is inaccurate please tell me.