Dr. Slump (1997 Manga)

Dr. Slump (1997 Manga)
	Dr. Slump (1997 Manga) Chapter 1 Original V-Jump Title Page
ドクタースランプ; Dokutā Suranpu
ドクタースランプ; Dokutā Suranpu
Author	Takao Koyama, Yoshimi Narita, Tadayoshi Yamamuro
Publisher	Shueisha (JP)
Publication	V-Jump
Demographic	Shōnen
Manga Series
Original Run	V-Jump December 1997 - July 2000; (21 October 1997 - 20 May 2000)
Chapters	30
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The 1997 Dr. Slump manga is a 30-chapter manga series written by Takao Koyama and Yoshimi Narita, illustrated by Tadayoshi Yamamuro, and with editorial supervision from Akira Toriyama.

Running alongside and in conjunction with a corresponding television series reboot that same year, the manga series serves as a reboot of the original Dr. Slump manga series, and originally ran from the December 1997 to July 2000 issues of Shueisha's V-Jump magazine.

Though the series never received a traditional collected volume release, a reprinted version was included as a bonus alongside the 1997 television series reboot's DVD box set in March 2008.

Characters

Main Characters

Arale Norimaki (則巻アラレ Norimaki Arare)
Senbei Norimaki (則巻千兵衛 Norimaki Senbee)
Gazilla Norimaki (則巻ガジラ Norimaki Gajira) / Gatchan (ガッちゃん Gacchan)
Midori Norimaki (則巻みどり Norimaki Midori)

Production

While the Dr. Slump reboot manga is not directly named, the November 1997 issue of V-Jump contains a small splash of text in its next-issue-preview noting that a "super big new series" is set to begin that following issue:^[1]

特報!! 超ビッグ新連載次号よりスタート!
Breaking news!! A super big new series will start in the next issue!

The series debuted in the following issue, running regularly until its final chapter in the July 2000 issue, incidentally the magazine's seventh anniversary issue tracking back to its monthly reboot in 1993.

Picking up only about a year and a half after the conclusion of the sequel series The Brief Return of Dr. Slump (which also ran in Shueisha's V-Jump magazine, wrapping up after 40 chapters in the July 1996 issue), while writing duties remained and began with Toriyama-verse stalwart Takao Koyama before shifting occasionally to Yoshimi Narita, art duties shifted to equally-Toriyama-verse stalwart Tadayoshi Yamamuro.

Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, who provided the artwork for The Brief Return of Dr. Slump before this reboot series, was at this point a handful of chapters in to the Savings Warrior Cashman reboot manga also running in V-Jump, which ran concurrently alongside the Dr. Slump reboot manga for some time.

Based on this production process, and as listed on each chapter title page and collected volume release:

Koyama and Narita received the "Script" (脚本 kyakuhon) credit.
Yamamuro received the "Drawing" or "Painting" (繪 e) credit.
Toriyama received the "Original Author" or "Original Work" (原作 gensaku) credit, indicating his role as the creator of the original Dr. Slump manga series. He additionally received the "Supervisor" or "Editorial Supervisor" (監修 kanshū) credit; as a point of comparison, Toriyama received the same credit many years later for Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock, which was written and illustrated by Naho Ooishi.

The first chapter's title page contains a giant splash promoting the new television series also set to begin that November, as well as a special telephone card with the chapter's title page illustration that 100 winners could receive over the next five issues/chapters.

Chapters

In line with the style established with the original Dr. Slump manga series, each chapter's title is followed by の巻 (no maki), indicating that it is the "volume" (or here "chapter") in which those events take place. This appendix has been ignored in the following chapter title translations.

Title Page	Chapter Number	Chapter Title	Writer	Pages	Publication	Issue	Sale Date	Publication Source(s)
	1	アラレはよいこ···の巻 Arare wa yoi ko no Maki	Takao Koyama	13	V-Jump	December 1997	21 October 1997	^[2]
File:Tbd.png	2	ガッちゃんがほしぃ···の巻 Gatchan ga Hoshii no Maki	Takao Koyama	13	V-Jump	January 1998	21 November 1997	^[3]
File:Tbd.png	3	恐怖のニコちゃん大王···の巻 Kyōfu no Nikochan Daiō no Maki	Takao Koyama	13	V-Jump	February 1998	19 December 1997	^[4]^[a]

Releases

A reprinted version was included as a bonus alongside the 1997 television series reboot's DVD box set in March 2008.

External Links

TBD

Notes

↑ Roughly shares its title with episode 6 of the corresponding television series.

References

↑ "VJ12月号のお知らせ". V-Jump, November 1997. Japan: Shueisha, 22 September 1997. (p. 211)
↑ "ドクタースランプ". V-Jump, December 1997. Japan: Shueisha, 21 October 1997. (pp. 33-45)
↑ "ドクタースランプ". V-Jump, January 1998. Japan: Shueisha, 21 November 1997. (pp. 33-45)
↑ "ドクタースランプ". V-Jump, February 1998. Japan: Shueisha, 19 December 1997. (pp. 33-45)

[5] Roughly shares its title with episode 6 of the corresponding television series.

[1] "VJ12月号のお知らせ". V-Jump, November 1997. Japan: Shueisha, 22 September 1997. (p. 211)

[debutchapter-2] "ドクタースランプ". V-Jump, December 1997. Japan: Shueisha, 21 October 1997. (pp. 33-45)

[chp2publication-3] "ドクタースランプ". V-Jump, January 1998. Japan: Shueisha, 21 November 1997. (pp. 33-45)

[chp3publication-4] "ドクタースランプ". V-Jump, February 1998. Japan: Shueisha, 19 December 1997. (pp. 33-45)

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