If youre a fan of Akira Toriyamas art style a fan of wacky gag manga and/or a fan of adorable naive characters then youll love this manga. The story being a gag manga and having more of an episodic story is great almost every time. There are some storylines where it was starting to bore me but only like one or two. Also notice I said starting to bore me because it never bored me... it was just getting there. All the other storylines Im always engaged in and highly enjoy them. There were many times while reading this where I uncontrollably laughed out loud its truly a great manga. Maybe this is just me but Im in love with Toriyamas art style. I love everything about it its so pleasing to me. Maybe its because my favorite show is OG Dragon Ball and Ive just been conditioned to love his art or maybe he truly deserves the credit I give him. Every time at the beginning of a chapter there is a picture of certain characters drawn in a cover art type way and many times Im always taken aback by the art. I truly love it so much and I hope more people feel the same way. Ohhoho if you were to ask me what series out of any series that has ever existed that has the best characters in it I would choose Dr. Slump without hesitation. Most if not all characters are amazing in their own way. Arale Norimaki the main character of this series is amazingly adorable. Her design is adorable her personality is adorable her actions are adorable shes just straight up adorable. Shes my favorite character in this series and shes my second favorite character in all of fiction Kid Goku being the first. Im extremely happy Toriyamas editor told him to make Arale the main character instead of Senbei Norimaki like Toriyama wanted. Senbei is the genius inventor that created Arale in the first place... oh yeah did I not mention Arale is a robot? Well she is and Senbei created her. Senbei is hilarious from his serious face to his perversion hes easily in my top ten characters for this series. Its always hilarious when Senbei tries his best to see girls panties namely Midori Yamabuki the teacher to Arale. Midori is easily best girl in this series one reason is because shes one of the only of age female main characters in this series but even if every character was of age Midori would still be best girl shes adorable in an adult kind of way her design is beautiful and her personality is extremely cute. Besides Arale another one of Midoris students is Akane Kimidori the somewhat edgy cute and kind of Bulmalike character. If you havent seen Dragon Ball and dont know Bulmas character just imagine an overly moody teen that complains a lot but Akane is more a watered down version of Bulma shes a much more fun character but lets not forget about Tsun Tsururin another amazingly adorable character. Her design is cute and almost everything she does is adorable shes an amazing character. Her brother Tsun Tsukutsun has a striking resemblance to Yamcha from Dragon Ball and hes easily one of my favorite characters... probably top five. Hes a martial artist and possibly partly an inspiration for Dragon Ball Since Dr. Slump was created first. This series is truly wonderful and I hope that one day the full sub for the anime will come out on some website I cant find it anywhere. I got this series from the library to read it and once I get some money Im definitely going to buy it to support the series. Its truly wonderful I love just about every bit of it and I highly recommend it. You can tell how much passion Toriyama put into this series compared to Dragon Ball this series is his TRUE baby not Dragon Ball. Sure Dragon Ball is much larger in scale and in popularity but that doesnt take away how much he cares for Dr. Slump. Lets face it Toriyama is just appeasing the fans with Dragon Ball he probably doesnt even care that much about it anymore. He has so much passion in Dr. Slump and I really recommend you guys read it and give it a try.