| No. |
Japanese |
English |
| Release date |
ISBN |
Release date |
ISBN |
| 1 |
August 9, 1980 |
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May 10, 2005 |
ISBN 978-1-59116-950-5 |
- 001. "The Birth of Arale"
- 002. "Here Comes Arale!"
- 003. "Something's Missing!"
- 004. "Dr. Monster"
- 005. "Which Will It Be?"
- 006. "Bearly Friends!"
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- 007. "Arale Is Akane!?"
- 008. "The Big-Small Gun!"
- 009. "1980: Living For Tomorrow!"
- 010. "The Time Slipper"
- 011. "The Mysterious Egg"
- 012. "Is It A Girl? Is It A Boy?!"
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| Penguin Village's scientist, Senbei Norimaki finishes creating the perfect humanoid android named Arale. Although she is the perfect robotic girl with super strength, she is is near-sighted. Senbei has Arale pose as his 13 year old younger sister who he has go to Penguin Village Junior High School where her teacher is Ms. Yamabuki, Senbei's dream girl. Arale makes friends with some of the kids there most notably Akane, Taro and Peasuke. Senbei creates the See-Thru Glasses so he can see girls naked but end up breaking when getting hit by a scooter, Arale makes friends with a man that is a giant monster movie fan who tried to kidnap her and Arale and Senbei released a captive bear into the wild and coverted to a cyborg to for it to survive being shot by a hunter. Senbei on the other hand busts out some new inventions as well such as his Big-Small Gun that turns things from big to small, Arale finds his old Future Camera that takes pictures of people and shows what they will look like in the future and Arale travels back in time to ancient japan on his Time Traveling machine called the Time Slipper. Senbei, Arale and Peasuke travel back in time to the prehistoric ages and end up bringing back and egg. When back to the present day the egg hatches to a strange angel like baby which Arale names Gatchan and joins the Norimaki household. |
| 2 |
October 9, 1980 |
— |
July 5, 2005 |
ISBN 978-1-59116-951-2 |
- 013. "Arale Flies the Skies!"
- 014. "Arale on the Loose: Part 1"
- 015. "Arale on the Loose: Part 2"
- 016. "The Invader from Space"
- 017. "The Reality Machine"
- 018. "Kidnapped!?"
- 019. "Teacher's Coming!"
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- 020. "The Ponpoko Morph Gun"
- 021. "A Far and Distant Seashore"
- 022. "Barber Shop Panic: Part 1"
- 023. "Barber Shop Panic: Part 2"
- 024. "The Great Strawberry Panties Caper: Part 1"
- 025. "The Great Strawberry Panties Caper: Part 2"
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| Arale and Taro ride in Senbei's new plane and crash onto the cloud of the Thunder Ogre Goronbo who was in a hurry for a date. Arale and Akane get in trouble at school for drinking alcohol in class. Bubibinman a rival of Suppaman comes to Earth but then is frightend when he see's that Arale is powerful making him assume all humans are like that. Akane and Arale are up to no good again when they mess with Senbei's new invention, a Living Rice Cooker named the Reality Machine that can create anything that is in a picture that was put inside of it. Arale and Gatchan are kidnapped by a Bank Robber that ends up being intimidated by Arale when he saw that bullets don't hurt her and Gatchan eats metal. Senbei hears that Arale's teacher is coming to their house and organizes the house in a hurry and gets a rushed haircut that looks funny only to see that Arale meant the principal. Senbei creates the Ponpoko Morph Gun which transforms anyone to anything. Arale and her friends use the Time Slipper to go to a beach in ancient japan. The Bank Robber returns and holds Senbei, Arale and her friends hostage in the town Barber Shop with the Police Force getting involved and Senbei makes a plan strategically placing animals to do things that will end up blowing Ms. Yamabuki's skirt up to see her underwear. |
| 3 |
December 10, 1980 |
— |
September 6, 2005 |
ISBN 978-1-59116-991-8 |
- 026. "The Story of Donbe"
- 027. "Kids Gone Wild"
- 028. "Ladycop Terror"
- 029. "Earth S.O.S.!: Part 1"
- 030. "Earth S.O.S.!: Part 2"
- 031. "Arale's Big Change"
- 032. "Hello, Wonder Island"
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- 033. "The Ogre-King Gyaska"
- 034. "The Fairy Tale Machine"
- Special: "Scoundrel in a Skirt"
- 035. "Citizen Arale"
- 036. "Our Hero, Suppaman"
- 037. "Arale Goes on an Errand"
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| Arale meets a shapeshifting fox named Donbe who tries to scare her and Kinoko a preschooler who tries to make Arale hip. Senbei turns himself invisible to avoid a female police officer that's been harassing him. King Nikochan and his assistant attempt to destroy the Earth but Gatchan saves the day by eating their ship and stranding them on Earth. Senbei builds them a car not knowing they were aliens. A Mole-Cricket accidentally gets stuck in Arale causing her to act like a normal little girl instead of her weird self. Senbei discovers a video message from his father giving him the recipe for a special potion that makes people fall in love with him. He goes to Wonder Island (the setting to Akira Toriyama's first manga of the same name) to get the last ingredient to the potion which was a tear from the Ogre-King Gyaska but when the potion was finished Arale accidentally spills it on a tree. Senbei's new Fairy Tale machine brings Arale into the story of Momotaro the peach boy which Arale ends up altering and bring Momotaro into the real world. Akane dresses up like her teacher Miss Yamabuki and she plays a trick on Senbei making him do stupid things for her. Arale tries to be a good citizen by returning lost things to the police but then takes a too far and eventually brings everything to Penguin Village to the Police Station. Suppaman challenges Arale to see who's the better hero and Arale learns what a bra is. |
| 4 |
April 10, 1981 |
— |
November 8, 2005 |
ISBN 978-1-4215-0165-9 |
- 038. "Bye-Bye Super Power!"
- 039. "The Lovely Trio"
- 040. "Penguin Village S.O.S.: Part 1"
- 041. "Penguin Village S.O.S.: Part 2"
- 042. "Gatchan Goes for a Walk"
- 043. "Yay Yay Wildland"
- 044. "The Happy Doctor"
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- 045. "Zippity-Doo Doctor"
- 046. "The Dumbfounded Doctor"
- 047. "A Bittersweet Ho-yo-yo Date Special!"
- 048. "Parzan, King of the Jungle!"
- 049. "Sad, Sad Santa"
- Special: "Kick the Can"
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| Senbei gets tired of Arale's Super Strength and tries to fix it to give her a normal girls strength but instead accidentally makes her stronger. Akane plays a prank on her dad, Peasuke's Dad and Senbei by writing a fake letter from the school causing them to show up the next day dressed "cute". Arale saves Penguin Village from being attacked by the monster Dodongadon when the Ulteeny Force member Kintaman fails to. Gatchan decides to cause mischief around town one morning. Arale and friends go to the zoo and she ends up becoming King of the Zoo. Senbei takes Midori on a date in space. Arale goes on a date with a gang leader from Kanariya high school. Arale meets Parzan who thinks he is the king of the jungle but lacks knowledge of animals. Christmas comes to Penguin Village and Senbei dresses as Santa Claus and sneaks into everybody's house giving them autographs of himself which enrages the whole town. Akira Toriyama himself appears in Penguin Village and hosts a game of Kick the Can with the whole town and promises the winner any wish they want. Arale and Gatchan win the game of Kick the Can and request to be made into adults but Toriyama doesn't want to do that so he breaks the fourth wall by erasing their sentence and replaces it with them asking for lollipops. |
| 5 |
August 10, 1981 |
— |
January 3, 2006 |
ISBN 978-1-4215-0173-4 |
- 050. "Untouchable Arale"
- 051. "Affairs of the Heart!"
- 052. "Monsters' Night"
- 053. "The Great Arale-Eye Caper: Part 1"
- 054. "The Great Arale-Eye Caper: Part 2"
- 055. "Kinoko on the Loose"
- 056. "Heel, Achilles!"
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- 057. "Good-bye, Gatchan!"
- 058. "The Big-City Student"
- 059. "Mr. Handy!"
- 060. "The Shiverman Cometh"
- 061. "Peasuke's First Love"
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| The chapter "Untouchable Arale" is a short story of the main cast as police officers. Arale ends up having to take a health check up at school and Senbei must make it so she can pass it without anyone having suspicion of her robotic origin. Trampire makes her debut as she tries to suck blood from Arale and rob the Norimaki house. Senbei has a camera put into Arale's eye and has her go to Midori's house so he can watch Midori in the bath. Kinoko runs away from home to try and be a bad kid but then realizes its not the life for her. The Norimaki end up adopting a dog which Arale names Poop and returns it to its parents which end up alien dogs. A smart kid from Metropolis Island named Skop moves into Penguin Village. Senbei creates a new robot called Mr. Handy. The Bank Robber hires a hitman named the Shiverman to take out Arale but is still no match for her. Peasuke gets a girlfriend named Hiyoko who is taller than he is so Arale ends up shrinking both him and Hiyoko to ant-size where Peasuke must then save Hiyoko from a bug. |
| 6 |
December 10, 1981 |
— |
March 7, 2006 |
ISBN 978-1-4215-0174-1 |
- 062. "Riders at Dawn"
- 063. "Little Cat Riding Hood"
- 064. "A Silent Night's Dream"
- 065. "Dr. Mashirito's Ambition: Part 1"
- 066. "Dr. Mashirito's Ambition: Part 2"
- 067. "Heck's Messenger"
- 068. "Suppaman 2"
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- 069. "The Time Stoppers"
- 070. "Chivil's Work"
- 071. "Metropolis Island: Part 1"
- 072. "Metropolis Island: Part 2"
- 073. "Kojiro Is Waiting: Part 1"
- 074. "Kojiro Is Waiting: Part 2"
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| Arale and Gatchan try to join the local biker gang known as the Fly Milks. "Little Cat Riding Hood" is a parody of the story of little red riding hood. Senbei tries to have a nice dream about him and Midori together but keeps getting interrupted when other peoples dreams end up merging with his. The evil scientist Dr. Mashirito makes his debut where he creates Caramel Man 001 which he believes to be the most powerful robot but then loses to Arale. Arale meets and befriends the little demon Chivil. Arale messes around with Suppaman again. Toriyama makes a deal with Senbei to create a machine that can stop time but unfortunately it stops them as well. Chivil comes back to show a video of Senbei's sins. Senbei gets an invitation to appear on a TV show on Metropolis island about his scientific work. While he uses a robot copy of himself to appear on the show, Arale, Gatchan and Chivil cause havoc in the city of Metropolis Island. Arale and Taro use Mr. Time to go back to the Sengoku period where they meet Miyamoto Musashi. After losing to Arale at several challenges, the famous swordsmen decides to go to the present time with them and attend school at Penguin Village.yelah tu |