Dr. Slump (Latin American Spanish, 1981)

Dubbing story
In 1999, the Latin American HQ of Cloverway, Inc. would send the Dr. Slump series to be dubbed at the Intertrack studio, the same one that dubbed the classics Dragon Ball franchise series in Mexico, at the end of the 80s. For unknown reasons, the distributor decided to license the original series just when several channels in the region were about to finish broadcasting Dragon Ball Z, since the original series of Dr. Slump was originally broadcast before Dragon Ball in Japan, not to mention that it was the first success that would give meet Akira Toriyama inside and outside his home country.

Broadcast
The series was broadcast in Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Peru; but outside of Mexico, it is known that the series broadcast very few episodes (specifically, it is known that only 80 episodes were broadcast on Chilean, Argentinian and Peruvian channels). For a long time, it was believed that the series had not been dubbed in its entirety, but this was denied by the translator Brenda Nava, who pointed out that all the episodes were translated, and therefore dubbed. Therefore, this dub is considered lost media.

It is believed that Televisa, the owner of Canal 5 in Mexico, the first channel to broadcast the series, has this dub in its entirety in its archive. Toei Animation Inc., the American subsidiary of Toei Animation, has confirmed that within its programming catalogue, all the chapters are available. Despite the above, the series is currently out of distribution.

Cast

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Adaptation

 * For the dub localisation there were many adaptations of phrases, idioms, accents and improvisations.
 * The Arale's phrases ("N'cha" and "Bye'cha") were adapted into "Qué onda!" and "Bye-bye!"
 * The character of "El Rey Risitas" (King Niko-chan in Japan) speaked with an Argentinian accent, and made references to the late ex-soccer player Diego Armando Maradona. This is because the character in the original version spoke with a strong accent from southern Japan, and the Argentine Spanish accent, very common in Argentina and Uruguay, is very characteristic of these countries in South America.