The TV animation "Doctor Strange and the Robot Doll" adapted from Toriyama Akira's original cartoon "Alalei" began to broadcast on April 8 198 1 (every Wednesday, Japanese time, 19: 00- 19: 30), and the author Toriyama Akira became famous overnight.
As of February 1986, the animation ended on February 19, and Doctor Strange and the Robot Doll has been broadcast continuously for five years, with a total of 243 episodes. During this period, the ratings of animation were as high as over 35%, which made the programs of the same period far behind, and also set the peak of the ratings of comic programs (note: the ratings of "Cherry Maruko" are about 18% now).
1983 is the year of robot dolls. Author Toriyama Akira paid 647.45 million yen in taxes and earned more than one billion yen, a record that no one can break so far. In the 1980s, robot dolls set off a wave, authorized as many as 3,000 kinds of goods, and earned 1000 billion yen for Dongying Animation Company, becoming the company's super golden hen.
Dr Juan Qian Bingwei plans to make a mechanical maid. Unexpectedly, she created Norimaki Arare, a robot girl with infinite strength and poor eyesight. Plus a bunch of messy stories, she laughed at almost all the anime characters popular in Japan at that time: Superman who loves plum blossoms, who can never help; The salted egg superman is just a blank in the picture; Japan's famous product-monsters live and play with human beings.
This is Toriyama Akira's unique humor. In this work, he began to try to create a world where all creatures are equal-Penguin Village. This world continued in his later works and reached its peak in Dragon Ball. So, why choose Ala Lei? She was neither a popular fighting type nor a beautiful girl at that time, but a funny robot with no tendons. Speaking of robots, there were indeed sci-fi comics at that time, such as Doraemon by Fujiko Fujio.
However, it is obvious that Alaret's theme is not only to praise scientific inventions, but also to show ridicule and disgust at the industrial age: contrary to Penguin Village, which represents the state of natural existence, the life in metropolis island is like a city in our daily life: gorgeous, busy, full of constraints and rules. However, Ala Lei has just returned to Penguin Island in high spirits after constantly feeling "What the hell is the city" and destroying it. Ala Lei can be said to be the image of a natural person (in fact, Wukong in the Dragon Ball is also, which shows that Toriyama Akira has a soft spot for natural people)-the so-called natural person was put forward by the French philosopher Rousseau in Aesthetic Education Exchange, which refers to a simple person who grew up in the natural environment and interpersonal relationships.
In Ala Lei, only Ala Lei with an all-inorganic heart can be in an invincible position in the world, which probably reflects the author's view that the state of a natural person is the most perfect state.