When goofy inventor Senbei Norimaki creates a precocious robot named Arale, his masterpiece turns out to be more than he bargained for! Basking in the glow of his scientific achievement, Senbei scrambles to get Arale in working order so the rest of Penguin Village won't have reason to suspect she's not really a girl. But first Senbei needs to find her a pair of glasses and some clothes... (Source: VIZ Media)

Dr. Slump won the 27th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen and Shoujo categories in 1981. The series was published in English by VIZ Media from May 3, 2005, to May 5, 2009. This release included some censorship and translation changes. Before this, it had been introduced to the English-speaking readership in the educational publication Mangajin in February 1994, in issues 32 and 33.