You are correct. Wikis say it's a sequel to the remake anime MOVIES, not the remake show. My mistake. Abale-chan still contradicts its existence, though, so since Toriyama had no involvement with Returns, I still don't think it shares continuity. Either way, the info using Nitro's age is still relevant, though.Darknat wrote: Thanks for all the info.
A few things however. I doubt dr Slump Returns is a manga based on the second anime since for one it was published on VJump on 94 and the new manga was shown on TV around 97. Also, Arale and friends designs and color schemes are the ones from the original anime series.
IIRC, Toriyama flat out stated it was Kenta Kuraku at some point. For Highlight Island, the only ones given names include the doctor (who is the same in Slump, IIRC) and Kanta, but Kanta's shown to be in another classroom in Dr Slump, anyway.Also I have read both Today's Highlight Island and Tomato, and I think the characters are not the same ones as the ones from Dr Slump (they do however share the same design). But on Tomato, the guy with Suppaman's design is a criminal and has no personality traits that link him to his Dr Slump incarnation, and on Today's Highlight Island the characters, if I remember right, have different names.
Alas, I do not. Supposedly, the originals were stolen for those two and Wonder Island, which is why we've never seen a reprint of either of them or of Spot Island. What little I know of Rain Jack is available on an online wiki (Slump's, maybe?). For Awawa World, some Bird Land Press' got reprinted (illegally) a few times and several people got their hands on them. If I'm not mistaken, Julian might have one? Someone on these boards did, but this was about 10 years ago. Anyway, a quick Googling shows P-Man's Girl on the cover of Awawa World. I don't think it's a matter of a re-used design with her since she supposedly introduces herself as P-Man's Girl and the only other time we see her (in the first chapter of Wonder Island) she goes unnamed, but is with P-Man for the first time. That's too much of a coincidence for me to assume a re-used design.Also, do you have Mysterious Rain Jack? (or Awawawa World?). I would like to have access to both those mangas (either physical or scanned) but besides being self published on numbers of Bird Land, I don't think they have ever seen another official publication.
Awawa World is set in Feudal Japan, has jokes like cops giving samurai a parking ticket (for his horse) and has them encountering Superman. The cover and first page (or two?) of Mysterious Rain Jack can be found untranslated online. It's a parody of Dirty Harry and Star Wars, with the Stormtrooper and R2-D2 cops of Penguin Village being stationed there. Thunder Ogre is also in it.
EDIT: Here we go. http://drslump.wikia.com/wiki/Mysterious_Rain_Jack
Like you, I've been trying to get my hands on everything Toriyama has done. There's a lot I don't have, some of which I can get access to, but don't bother since I can't read Japanese. All of my stuff is either English translations, French translations, and a few English scanslations. It annoyed the heck out of me that Tokimecha never got scanslated. One group kept the "scanslations rights" (whatever that is) so other groups respected that and didn't do it themselves. However, the scanslation group's team for that project fell apart, so it was never done. It's also killing me how Glénat (the official French publisher) owns the rights to all of Toriyama's works in French-speaking countries, but never bothered to publish much outside of the big successes. They've got Slump, DB, Kajika, Neko Majin and I think Sandland, as well as the the Manga Theaters. All they ever do is reprint DB and Z these days, though.