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Pisuke Soramame, also rendered as Peasuke Soramame, is a supporting character in the Dr. Slump series and the anime Dr. Slump & Arale-chan. His name is a pun on soramame, the Japanese word for fava bean, paired with a common masculine name ending. He is the younger brother of Taro Soramame and a classmate and close friend of Arale Norimaki and Akane Kimidori in Penguin Village. At the start of the series he is about thirteen years old and noticeably short, a trait he keeps even as an adult.
His most recognizable feature is the animal hat he always wears, white in the original anime and grey in the later remake. His older brother Taro frequently criticizes the hat, claiming it spoils his cool image whenever the two are seen together. Despite this, Pisuke looks up to Taro and hopes to become like him when he grows up, which places him in a comic middle ground between his brother's rebellious posturing and the bizarre events that unfold around him.
Personality-wise, Pisuke is an ordinary and relatively mild boy compared with the exaggerated personalities of the village. He sometimes acts as a voice of reason, and he has a habit of asking people for autographs, a trait inspired by the series creator's own hobby. He possesses no special powers or intellect; his reactions to the chaos caused by Arale and the inventions of Senbei Norimaki are those of a normal child caught in strange situations.
His most prominent storyline involves his crush on Hiyoko, a younger girl who is much taller than him. When Arale learns of his feelings, she uses Senbei's Big-Small Gun to shrink Hiyoko to insect size, which leads Pisuke to rescue her from a beetle. The relationship lasts nonetheless, and a look into the future shows that he marries Hiyoko and they have a son named Poosuke, with Pisuke remaining just as short in adulthood.
In the story he functions mainly as a supporting presence, joining Arale and Akane as a schoolmate and appearing throughout village and school adventures. He also makes brief appearances beyond the original series, including a cameo in Dragon Ball that shows him as a young adult leaving Penguin Village High School. His development is modest and centered on his family ties: he grows from a schoolboy into a husband and father while keeping his small stature and his characteristic hat, serving as an unremarkable, relatable figure whose normal reactions highlight the strangeness of the world around him.
His most recognizable feature is the animal hat he always wears, white in the original anime and grey in the later remake. His older brother Taro frequently criticizes the hat, claiming it spoils his cool image whenever the two are seen together. Despite this, Pisuke looks up to Taro and hopes to become like him when he grows up, which places him in a comic middle ground between his brother's rebellious posturing and the bizarre events that unfold around him.
Personality-wise, Pisuke is an ordinary and relatively mild boy compared with the exaggerated personalities of the village. He sometimes acts as a voice of reason, and he has a habit of asking people for autographs, a trait inspired by the series creator's own hobby. He possesses no special powers or intellect; his reactions to the chaos caused by Arale and the inventions of Senbei Norimaki are those of a normal child caught in strange situations.
His most prominent storyline involves his crush on Hiyoko, a younger girl who is much taller than him. When Arale learns of his feelings, she uses Senbei's Big-Small Gun to shrink Hiyoko to insect size, which leads Pisuke to rescue her from a beetle. The relationship lasts nonetheless, and a look into the future shows that he marries Hiyoko and they have a son named Poosuke, with Pisuke remaining just as short in adulthood.
In the story he functions mainly as a supporting presence, joining Arale and Akane as a schoolmate and appearing throughout village and school adventures. He also makes brief appearances beyond the original series, including a cameo in Dragon Ball that shows him as a young adult leaving Penguin Village High School. His development is modest and centered on his family ties: he grows from a schoolboy into a husband and father while keeping his small stature and his characteristic hat, serving as an unremarkable, relatable figure whose normal reactions highlight the strangeness of the world around him.