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Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: N-cha! From Penguin Village with Love
Dr.スランプ アラレちゃん んちゃ!ペンギン村より愛をこめて Dr. Suranpu Ararechan: n'cha! Pengin-mura yori ai o komete
Premiere Date	10 July 1993
Premiere Event	1993 Toei Anime Fair (Summer)
Running Time	32 minutes
Main Staff Credits
Scenario	Aya Matsui
Art	Nobuto Sakamoto
Director	Mitsuo Hashimoto
Executive Producer	Tomonori Imada, Tomio Anzai (Shueisha)

"Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: N-cha! From Penguin Village with Love" is the seventh theatrical film based on the anime and manga Dr. Slump. It is the second film in the 1990s revival of the anime films as well as the first film to follow the continuity of the sequel manga, The Brief Return of Dr. Slump. The movie premiered as part of the 1993 Summer "Toei Anime Fair" on 10 July 1993, the same event which premiered Dragon Ball Z Movie 9. It is notable for including numerous cameos from Dragon Ball characters. It was written by Aya Matsui and directed by Mitsuo Hashimoto.

Synopsis

TBD

Summary

Prologue

An audience roars with laughter as a man, a penguin on a ball, and a sumo wrestler perform in a comedy theater. As the man gets slapped in the face with a pie, and the penguin gets knocked over by the sumo wrestler swinging on a rope, even the king and queen of Yapaya in their luxury box are laughing! Everyone turns (including Dragon Ball visitors Sno, her mother, and the Jingle Village Chief) to observe the young princess, Puruah's, reaction: she is unmoved. A panel of judges proclaim the failure, revealing more visitors behind them including Lunch, Oolong, Shuu, Mai, and Pilaf. The king dejectedly states that he knew that it wouldn't work as the princess stomps off. "It's boring." she says.

Film

Jionre, the old man with the king and queen at the palace, speaks to Senbei Norimaki at his house, leaving his airplane and two pilots parked outside. He tells the inventor that Princess Puruah has never laughed since she was born. Would he please create the world's greatest "Robotic Comedian" to perform for her and make her laugh? Meanwhile outside, the neighborhood kids pound on the side of the plane until one of the pilots shouts for them to leave. Senbei agrees and asks why Jionre is dressed like he is-- only then does the camera show that he is dressed like an angel, including a halo fastened to the end of a stick. Senbei is initially dismissive of the request, but Jionre flatters him by calling him the world's greatest inventor and even known in his country! Senbei imagines all of the attractive women that must be in awe of his genius as Jionre tells him more and more flattering things about himself and how even his "noticeable belly" is sexy. Meanwhile outside, Arale and the Gatchans discover the airplane in their yard and investigate. Arale pokes at the windshield with a poop-stick, scaring the two pilots awake. The Gatchans begin eating the wing. The pilots freak out! Senbei lights his cigarette using a lighter that opens to reveal a robot striking a match. Outside his window, one of the pilots chases Arale and the Gatchans. Senbei accepts Jionre's invitation and the old man is overjoyed. Suddenly, Jionre is deadly serious: Senbei must keep their conversation an absolute secret. Prince Chappu of Totoma Land is soon going to visit his kingdom to court the young princess. It is implied that he must not know about her inability to laugh. Senbei agrees to keep the secret and Jionre kisses him on the lips! Senbei freaks out and Jionre flies home in his airplane as pieces of chewed wing fall off the plane.

Senbei and Midori (holding an infant Nitro) watch as the plane leaves. Senbei is pleased with himself and his compliments and Midori asks him what the visit was about. Senbei nearly tells her but remembers that it is supposed to be a secret. Midori presses for an answer momentarily, but then accepts it and walks away. Senbei, expecting her to keep asking, collapses in shocks and rushes over to tell her. Senbei tells her that she must not tell anyone else, but Midori immediately tells Arale, who tells the Gatchans, who tell Turbo, who tells baby Nitro. Midori swears them all to secrecy and Arale immediately goes for a run with the Gatchans. En route, she literally runs into Taro Soramame and other members of the Penguin Village Police who are driving a tank to protect themselves from "that girl". She sends the tank flying then, surrounded by the broken remains of the tank, whispers the secret into Taro's ear. She proceeds to tell everyone throughout Penguin Village... everyone except Suppaman who spies her whispering to some townspeople and thinks that something is brewing. He asks a pair of elephants, a mother and son, what is up. While the son immediately recognizes Suppaman in his civilian outfit, his mother scolds him and tells him not to talk to that man because he might "catch stupidity" from him. Meanwhile, Suppaman picks his nose.

Across town, one of Dr. Mashirito's insect spies reports the secret to him. He is incensed that Senbei would be considered the world's greatest inventor! He throws a temper tantrum. When he notices that the camera is still watching him, he swears to travel to Yapaya and prove that HE is the better scientist! That night, the Norimaki family sleeps soundly while Senbei remains in his lab to build his comedy robot. (Turbo hovers while sleeping, a reference his past abilities to fly as an infant.)

The following morning, Senbei sneaks out early to travel secretly to Yapaya. While airborn, he consults a map to figure out where to go and is shocked by Suppaman's appearance on his windshield. Suppaman demands that he be let into the secret, but the aircraft gets tired of him beating on the window and knocks him off. As he falls towards the ocean far below, Suppaman spies a telephone booth which is coincidently also falling through the air. He glides over to it, tosses out a bird who was making a call, and emerges in his Suppaman outfit! He pops a pickled plum into his mouth and the music swells... only for him to remember that he cannot actually fly. He splashes into the water far below and then is chased by a shark!

Senbei lands at Yapaiya Castle, relieved that he made it there without attracting the attention of Arale and others. Suddenly, Arale and the Gatchans run by unnoticed! When he turns around, he discovers that half of Penguin Village are already there! Senbei asks Arale what she and other others are doing there, but Jionre-- still dressed as an angel-- appears and scolds him for not keeping his secret. Suddenly, Senbei hears the voice of Dr. Mashirito taunting him for taking so long to arrive with his robot. Senbai cannot see his evil counterpart until he pushes a hippo out of the way. He has come to prove that HE, not Senbei, is the world's greatest scientist. Everyone else goes into the castle, leaving Senbei and Mashirito outside to leer at each other. They race each other while carrying the suitcases filled with their creations into the castle. As soon as they are out of sight, a very wet Suppaman arrives and marches into the castle. The bottom of his pants have been ripped away, presumably by the shark, revealing his white ass.

Epilogue

TBD

Cast

The following table provides the cast as credited in the original Japanese film. Additional characters/cast members not originally credited, or with speaking roles exclusive to a specific dubbing, have been included at the bottom of the table.

Character	Cast
	Japanese
Arale Norimaki	Mami Koyama
Senbei Norimaki	Kenji Utsumi
Bakauke-kun
Midori Norimaki	Yoko Kawanami
Gatchan	Yoko Tekkozuka
Taro Soramame	Bin Shimada
King Nikochan
King Nikochan's Servant
Akane Kimidori	Mami Matsui
Kudzu Peace Cake	Tomiko Suzuki
Picking	Tanaka Minami
Tsuruten Tsun
Suppaman	Toru Furuya
Sun
Bulure	Yumi Touma
Next	Kazue Komiya
Zionle	Naoki Tatsuta
Boutarebou
King	Masato Hirano
Prince Chap	Chiyoko Kawashima
Obotchaman
Kinoko Sarada
Dr. Mashirito	Akira Kamiya
Mechauken
Month

Main Staff

The following list provides the main staff responsible for the production of this theatrical film as credited in its respective ending credits.

• Production: Tomonori Imada, Tomio Anzai (Shueisha)
• Original: Akira Toriyama (Shueisha's V Jump)
• Planning: Kozo Morishita (Toei Animation), Seiichi Hiruda (Toei Animation), Weekly Shonen Jump
• Screenplay: Aya Matsui
• Music: Shunsuke Kikuchi
• Director of Photography: Takeshi Fukuda
• Editing: Shigeru Nishiyama
• Recording: Nobu Teru Ikegami
• Art director: Nobuto Sakamoto
• Character design and drawing director: Masahiro Naoi
• Production: Yoshihiro Fujimoto
• Director: Mitsuo Hashimoto
• Original drawings: Nobuyoshi Hoshikawa, Hiroshi Shinshina, Toshiyuki Fujisawa, Yoshifumi Miyashi, Toshie Kawamura, Satoshi Horisawa, Akio Ujiie, Tatsuya Abe, Mitsuo Shindo, Yoshio Usuda, Kanae Suwa, Mayumi Fukushi, Mari Tominaga, Yuji Kondo, Tomoyuki Matsumoto, Shinji Takeuchi
• Video Checker: Sanae Nakajima, Yoko Sano
• Art assistant: Kyoko Nakayama
• Background: Big Studio
• Finish: Peacock
• Color specification: Hideko Sakai
• Cellograph: Sachiko Torimoto
• Inspection: Sachiko Gokita
• Special effect: Masayuki Nakajima
• Photography: Sanko Production
• Effect: Yozo Kataoka
• Music selection: Shigeru Miyashita
• Recording assistant: Yoshihiko Takeda
• Negative editing: Masahiro Goto
• Assistant director: Oya Shoji
• Art Progress: Reiko Kitayama
• Finishing progress: Tetsunori Morita
• Record: Yoshiko Ito
• Production progress: Kazuhiro Fushimi
• Recording Studio: Tabak
• Development: Toei Chemical
• Advertising Cooperation: Fuji TV
• Animation Production: Toei Animation
• Production: Shueisha, Toei Animation

Tidbits

• The audience for the comedy performance at the beginning of the film includes Sno, her mother, the mayor of Jingle Village, Oolong, Lunch, Pilaf, Shuu, and Mai. All of the characters look as they did in the Dragon Ball anime, approximately Age 753.
• The airplane pilots have dolls of Son Gohan, Vegeta, and Cell on the dashboard of their plane.
• Jionre is one of a small number of LBGT characters appearing in Dragon Ball-related material. Although played as a "gross" joke, he kisses Senbei after spending some time flattering him and complimenting him on his sex-appeal (ostensibly to women).