Dr. Slump Chapter 1

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Arale Is Born!
アラレ誕生！の巻 Arare Tanjō! no Maki
Premiered	Weekly Shōnen Jump, 1980 #05/06
Sale Date	05 January 1980
Issue Date	04 February 1980
Chapter Data
Pages	Title; Pages 1-14 (Limited Color)
Episodes	Dr. Slump Episode 1
Viz Publication
Title	The Birth of Arale!
Chapter No.	Chapter 1
Release	03 May 2005
Translation	Alexander O. Smith
Editor	Yuki Takagaki
Collected Volumes
Tankōbon	Dr. Slump Tankōbon Volume 1
Kanzenban	Dr. Slump Kanzenban Volume 1
Big Volume	Dr. Slump Big Volume 1

"Arale Is Born!" is the first chapter of the Dr. Slump manga series by Akira Toriyama. It was first published in Japan in the 1980 #05/06 issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump.

Weekly Shōnen Jump

Every chapter of Dr. Slump is accompanied by a comment from Akira Toriyama. Below is the comment accompanying the first chapter in the 1980 #05/06 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump.

初の連載。全力でメチャンコがんばります。あっ“メチャンコ”って名古屋弁で“とっても”の意味よ

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My first serial. I'll work mechanko hard and give it all I've got. Ah—mechanko means "very" in Nagoya dialect.

Toriyama does not begin signing his comments until Dr. Slump Chapter 6 in the 1980 #10 issue.

Availability

This chapter has been released in numerous countries and languages around the world in both print and digital formats.

Japan

• Dr. Slump Volume 1: Arale Is Born! (Tankōbon; 09 August 1980)
• Dr. Slump Kanzenban Volume 1 (Kanzenban; 04 October 2006)
• Dr. Slump Big Volume 1:
  • Bunko paperback (18 July 1995)
  • Aizōban (01 January 1990)
  • Digital (Kanzenban pages; 12 October 2012)

North America

• Dr. Slump Volume 1 (Tankōbon; 03 May 2005)
  • Digital (16 April 2012)