In 1980, Akira Toriyama's Alare began serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump. The manga work "Alare" perfectly shows the talent of Akira Toriyama, and also makes people surprised to find that it is possible to use the transcendent imagination to create an everyday funny manga.
In "Alare", Akira Toriyama creates a "penguin village" based on the countryside of his childhood, and also creates a group of strange villagers living in it. These distinctive little characters, without exception, have become classic characters that readers talk about.
Sour Plum Superman (also called "Fool Superman") is one of them.
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Sour Plum Superman, with a heroic face and five short figures, wears a bow tie-style cape on his back, and the first word of his Japanese name is printed on his chest. The overall shape of its underwear is basically the same as that of Superman of American DC Comics.
Sour Plum Superman, from another planet in the universe , Acid Plum Star. He graduated from a justice school that specialized in training superheroes, and was assigned to work on Earth after graduation. The main event is the Penguin Village, where he usually hides his superhuman identity by wearing glasses and dressing up as an ordinary office worker.
In the event of an emergency or a potential threat, Sour Plum Superman will run to a nearby phone booth to transform. When transforming, the first thing to do is to take out the replacement Superman uniform from the bag behind it, and then replace the large spectacle frame you usually wear with contact lenses.
When all the preparations were ready, he walked out of the phone booth, pulled out his private salted plum jar, ate one and shouted his classic mantra: "Eat sour plum to become superman!" ”
In this way, even if the real transformation is completed.
However, Sour Plum Superman does not fly, and this guy usually uses skateboarding to experience the feeling of flying on all fours. Sour Plum Superman's personal ability is also "very strong", he can run faster than crickets, his strength is greater than that of locusts, and he can easily cross the green roe.
To put it bluntly, it just won't be anything.
Sour Plum Superman shoulders the heavy responsibility of maintaining peace on the earth every day. If you have nothing to do, hit the "Octopus Martian", rescue the fish that fell into the water, or rescue the old man who was almost hit from under the baby wheel.
For the kind of bad people who dare to defy justice, the sour plum superman generally wants to give them small punishments and big admonitions on behalf of justice. This is the fate of looking down on the messenger of justice!
Sour Plum Superman has always been very confident in his ability to smash the top of three tiles with one punch (it is amazing)! Until one day, he met Alare. Since then, living peacefully with Alare has also become one of his important tasks.
In response to the increasing frequency of sabotage, Sour Plum Superman also established the "Earth Defense Force" organization. He is the captain of the team, and the team members are elites who have been recruited from all over the world. Among the first team members were Alare, Xiao Ji, and a pig.
This defense team played an important role in the face of the evil Dr. Mahilit invading penguin village. As the captain of the team, Sour Plum Superman also showed the "wall head grass" stunt that did not hesitate to surrender when encountering a powerful opponent.
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Sour Plum Superman also has a younger brother named Ham plum Superman (also known as "Strongman"). The two have not seen each other for 320 years, and Xianmei Superman also graduated from the Justice School this year and is about to go to Saturn to maintain peace, so this time he came to Penguin Village to visit his brother and learn from his brother's experience.
As the younger brother, Xianmei Superman learned the secret transformation of the telephone booth from his brother, and his transformation mantra was: "Eat salted cuttlefish is Xianmei Superman!" ”
Finally, with the help of Alare's strength, Sour Plum Superman successfully showed his brother his strength. The younger brother thus learned a lot of valuable experience in maintaining peace and went to Saturn with satisfaction. But what the younger brother doesn't know is that the distance between him and Success is actually one Alare.
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One of the most interesting things about Alare is the creation of a variety of unique and unique characters. And many of these characters in the manga series of that year have the same high popularity as Sour Plum Superman.
In terms of publishing houses, there have also been some strange votes against these popular characters in "Alare". For example, there is a "who is born a big idiot" selection.
After the selection results came out, Sour Plum Superman was successfully elected to the first place in the ranking with the votes of no accident and who gave up on me. The second place on the list is King Nick Zhen, and the third place is Dr. Chihei Ze. It seems that the readers' vision is still relatively consistent.
At the end of the Aralei manga series, Superman also proposed to Akira Toriyama for his next manga work, which was to create a manga in which he would be the protagonist.
Unfortunately, Akira Toriyama did not take his advice. Turn around and set the protagonist of the next work as "Sun Wukong". Then, sour plum superman can only silently behind the stage, continue to guard the peace of the earth.
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