Anime · SAGA TV
Dr. Slump
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Mami Koyama
Arale Norimaki (voice)
243 eps
Kenji Utsumi
Senbei Norimaki (voice)
243 eps
Mitsuko Horie
Obotchaman (voice)
243 eps
Kazuko Sugiyama
Akane Kimidori (voice)
243 eps
Naomi Jinbo
Aoi Kimidori / Piisuke Soramame (voice)
243 eps
Isamu Tanonaka
Gala (voice)
243 eps
Hiroshi Otake
King Nikochan (voice)
243 eps
Mariko Mukai
Midori Yamabuki (voice)
243 eps
Masaharu Sato
Pagos (voice)
243 eps
Seiko Nakano
Gatchan (voice)
243 eps
Shigeru Chiba
Nikochan's Servant (voice)
243 eps
Tessyo Genda
Suppaman (voice)
243 eps
Toshio Furukawa
Tarou Soramame (voice)
243 eps
Yuko Mita
Turbo-kun (voice)
243 eps
Chika Sakamoto
243 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Dr. Slump actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Dr. Slump reads strongest on World Building, Spectacle and Humour.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The story
What it's about
Senbei Norimaki, known by his nickname Dr. Slump, a genius yet under-respected inventor and roboticist, creates an android by the name of Arale, and poses her as his little sister. What starts as an experiment in robotics turns into an adventure every day for the residents of Penguin Village, a wacky rural community with several colorful characters interacting with Arale and her creator.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- Michiru ShimadaWriter
- Shunichi YukimuroWriter
- Tomoko KonparuWriter
- Masaki TsujiWriter
- Ayuko AnzaiWriter
- Toshiki InoueWriter
Direction
- Yoshihiro UedaDirector
- Kazuhisa TakenouchiDirector
- Hiroyuki IkedaDirector
- Minoru OkazakiDirector
- Akinori NagaokaDirector
- Yutaka SatohDirector
Where to watch
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