Akira Toriyama's classic manga Slumps onto the DS

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Akira Toriyama's classic manga Slumps onto the DS

Posted Nov 19th 2007 7:40PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Screens, Imports

Before becoming way famous for Dragon Ball, Akira Toriyama created a popular manga series called Dr. Slump, about a failed inventor and his flawed robot daughter Arale. Now Namco Bandai is prepared to bring the incomprehensible (to people trying to learn about it in a hurry, say, for a blog post) series to the DS in the form of Dr. Slump: Arale-chan.

According to the enthusiastic GAF thread, it's going to be a 3D adventure game starring Arale, with, of course, tons of other series characters (like Suppaman). The screens certainly bear that information out. It should be interesting to see if Toriyama/Dragon Ball fandom is enough encouragement for Namco Bandai to localize this, or if they'll do it just to spite all of us waiting for their other new Japanese DS game.

Tags: adventure, dr-slump, manga, namco-bandai, toriyama

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11-19-2007 @ 8:47PM

Ben said...

Hmm ... although as a manga Dr Slump absolutely wipes the floor with Dragonball, I'm not sure how good a game based on it would be. Still, open mind!

11-20-2007 @ 12:21AM

gigi said...

tha's cool.. http://www.paraguaydelivery.com

11-20-2007 @ 9:29AM

Shrieker said...

Yes! Suppaman!!!

11-21-2007 @ 4:51PM

John H; said...

This -could- be awesome. I was always kind of weirdly pleased Arale made it into the Jump Superstars games. Turd-loving precocious robot kid go!

11-21-2007 @ 9:48PM

JC Fletcher said...

She's in DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi 3 as well.

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