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The ''Dr. Slump'' manga series features an extensive cast of characters created by Akira Toriyama. It follows the humorous adventures of the little girl robot Arale Norimaki, her creator Senbei Norimaki and the other residents of the bizarre Penguin Village. While many of the characters are humans, the cast also includes anthropomorphic animals and objects, robots, extraterrestrial lifeforms, and gods. Characters that are parodies of historical figures, fairy tales, popular Western movies, and real people that author Toriyama knows are also common. Many of these characters make a minor appearance in Toriyama's more well-known series, ''Dragon Ball''. ==Creation and conception== Toriyama drew several short omake manga included in the ''Dr. Slump'' ''tankōban'' volumes that supposedly depict the actual events of how he came up with the characters, although, as they are often humorous, the level of truthfulness to them is uncertain. In one he claimed that when he told his editor, Kazuhiko Torishima, that he wanted to make a manga about a doctor, Torishima told him to add a robot. Toriyama originally wanted a very large robot, but as it would not fit in the panels, instead made it small.〔 When Torishima rejected that idea, he made the robot a girl knowing Torishima would find her "cute".〔 Another depicts him, having wanted to give the Norimakis a pet monster and having that rejected by his editor as it was not cute, coming up with the idea of Gatchan after his sister brought her child to see him. Toriyama stated that Torishima enjoys romance and that the relationships of Arale and Obotchaman, Akane and Tsukutsun, and Taro and Tsururin in ''Dr. Slump'' were all his ideas. Toriyama's editor Torishima was the model for the evil character Dr. Mashirito, the name "Mashirito" coming from the reversal of the syllables in "Torishima". The character Nikochan, an alien species with their buttocks on their heads, was hastily created after Toriyama was pressed for time having played too many video games and was initially rejected as "filth", with him given another night to re-work it. Having continued to play games instead, Toriyama sent in the same manuscript the next day with Torishima accepting, apparently having not noticed that it was the same.〔 However, in a later volume Toriyama said that Torishima thought Nikochan was disgusting, but accepted because it was too close to the deadline to change. While thinking that Arale was too strong during a meal, Toriyama was startled by eating an umeboshi and came up with Suppaman.〔 However, because he did not enjoy the sour taste, decided to make Suppaman a weakling instead. A similar scene is given for Bubibinman; when a fly flew into his curry rice, he made him a weak character out of anger.〔 In a later volume, Toriyama revealed he had created Suppaman for a previous manga that was rejected by Torishima, and added him to ''Dr. Slump'' out of pity for the character.〔 Peasuke's habit of asking people for autographs comes from Toriyama himself, who collected those of famous manga artists. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of Dr. Slump characters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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