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Arale é alguém que não sofre de tédio! Ela recebe a visita de criaturas mágicas e até de alienígenas! E também passa por uma transformação que deixa todos os seus amigos preocupados!

200 pages, Paperback

First published December 10, 1980

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Akira Toriyama

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Akira Toriyama (鳥山明) was a Japanese manga artist and character designer. He first achieved mainstream recognition for creating the popular manga series Dr. Slump, before going on to create Dragon Ball (his most famous work) and acting as a character designer for several popular video games such as the Dragon Quest series, Chrono Trigger, and Blue Dragon. Toriyama came to be regarded as one of the most important authors in the history of manga with his works highly influential and popular, particularly Dragon Ball, which many manga artists cite as a source of inspiration.
He earned the 1981 Shogakukan Manga Award for best shōnen/shōjo manga with Dr. Slump, and it went on to sell over 35 million copies in Japan. It was adapted into a successful anime series, with a second anime created in 1997, 13 years after the manga ended.
His next series, Dragon Ball, would become one of the most popular and successful manga in the world. Having sold 260 million copies worldwide, it is one of the best-selling manga series of all time and is considered a key work in increasing manga circulation to its peak in the mid-1980s and mid-1990s. Overseas, Dragon Ball's anime adaptations have been more successful than the manga and are credited with boosting anime's popularity in the Western world. In 2019, Toriyama was decorated a Chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contributions to the arts.
In October 2024, Toriyama was inducted into the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame.

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623 reviews52 followers
December 31, 2021
This series is so insanely cute, I love Arale so much. Toriyama is good with the laughs, he understands the comedy genius of just being completely stupid. There's shit jokes, boob jokes, fart jokes, and other dumb shit that was somehow super funny. I don't mean to mislead, there's other jokes that rely on funnier stuff. I just think it's cool Toriyama was able to get mileage out of those kinds of humor.
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Author 2 books21 followers
December 8, 2020
Colección manga recomendada: ''Dr. Slump'', de Akira Toriyama. PLANETA DeAGOSTINI COMICS. 40 tomos. Cómic japonés, manga, ciencia ficción, varios personajes, villa, animales especiales, robots...
Era yo muy pequeña, cuando salía pitando del cole para ver la serie de televisión que no me perdía de milagro, porque corría casi como la prota de la misma.
Su colorido y sus locuras, hacían que la serie fuera inolvidable. Actores de doblaje incluidos.
Más tarde llegaría el manga, que me compré, y disfruté casi igual que en su momento el anime.
Tenemos una historia en la que un tipo al que no creerías capaz, lo es... a ratos. Y de ahí, sale una robot, muy capaz de cualquier cosa (mejor que no sea seria), sobre todo de hacerte reír a lo bestia.
Los personajes se presentan de formas varias: humanos corrientes descarados, entrañables, personajes de 4 patas que hablan y más, aliens, ¿ángeles?, cacas con personalidad, astros que saludan, máquinas que también saludan: ya sean y sea de una forma u otra... personajes que recuerdan mucho, mucho, a otros ya conocidos... Salen hasta el editor y el autor..., y también otro personaje muy familiar de éste último.
El dibujo es encantador, monísimo... aunque se recurra al SD. Y te puedes imaginar la locura en la que te metes por voluntad propia... y no sabes por dónde saldrás ;)
¿Quién no conoce la Villa del Pingüino?

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53 reviews1 follower
June 21, 2020
Adegan yg tidak terlupakan yg pertama kali saya baca sekitar 20 tahun lalu l, eh 25 tahun lalu ada di sini... Pertemuan suppaman dan Arale
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1,795 reviews45 followers
August 19, 2021
El Dr es un buen inventor, crea cosas buenas....pero en serio las usa para cosas un poco bobas.

Me gustaron las páginas en las cuales Akira nos narra la forma en la que hace sus bocetos.

6,238 reviews40 followers
February 21, 2016
Donbe is a fox who comes to the village. He can turn into things magically and tries to scare Arale but it doesn't work. She ends up helping him.

Arale and Gatchan run into a young girl. Gatchan disintegrates a tree. They later go to the girl's house and Arale and Gatchan get dressed up. In a way. In a very strange way.

Senei gets in trouble with a lady cop so he makes an invisibility potion to try to get even. He leaves his underwear showing, though, and a bunch of funny things happen.

A couple of aliens are on their way to take over the earth. They capture Arale and Gatchan. They should have known better. Of course, their butts are on the tops of their heads along with their nostrils, and one of them uses a Brooklyn accent, so they aren't your typical space aliens.

They blow up Mars but before they can do anything to the Earth, Gatchan eats their spaceship.Senbei offers to make then new transportation, but it turns out to be a car.

Arale swallows a mole cricket and starts behaving like a normal girl. Everyone is concerned but things return to normal when the cricket escapes.

Senbei finds a videotape from his father that has instructions on how to make a love potion. He needs to go to Wonder Island to get an ingredient. They confront an ogre king, make the potion, Arale spills it, and a tree falls in love with Senbei.

Senbei invents a machine that can put a person into a book and live out the events in the book, so Arale and Gatchan immediately try it out. It's Momotaro, the Peach Boy story.

Akane and Arale plan to play a joke on Senbei by having Akane dress up to look like Midori, the teacher. This is followed by a funny section where Midori has the kids in class do good deeds.

Suppaman makes his appearance. He 'flies' while riding on a skateboard on his belly. He has a terrible personality. Later he encounters Arale and Gatchan and finds he can't do anything better than they can. Then there's a funny section where Arale goes shopping for ramen and returns with a bra.
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Author 3 books34 followers
August 25, 2013
Šílený japonský humor postavený na divnostech. Divné postavy. Divné situace. Vychutnat si to, znamená zapomenout na logiku a svolit ke hrám bourajícím čtvrtou zeď.
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