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Midori Yamabuki teaches at Penguin Village Middle School, first appearing during Arale Norimaki's enrollment through interactions with Arale and her creator Senbei Norimaki. Her striking physical features include voluminous curly blonde hair, deliberately modeled after Marilyn Monroe in the original series. This resemblance extends to character Akane, enabling their collaborative cheating attempt during the Penguin Village Grand Prix race.
Kind yet fiercely dedicated to her students, Midori occasionally displays fiery anger. Post-marriage, her demeanor shifts toward increased scatterbrained and ditzy tendencies. Her unusual childhood background involves becoming lost at an amusement park and accidentally boarding a spaceship from Planet Takeya-Saodake. Adopted by its childless royal couple, she returned to Earth after her biological parents' discovery, though she retained a promise to potentially inherit the throne.
Midori's relationship with Senbei Norimaki blossoms amid comedic and dangerous escapades. After overhearing his muttered marriage proposal near a bathroom, she instantly accepts, leading to their wedding. Adopting the surname Norimaki, she becomes Arale's surrogate mother. She later births Turbo Norimaki, who develops psychic powers following an alien spacecraft encounter, and subsequently a second son, Nitro Norimaki.
In *Dr. Slump & Arale-chan: Hello! Wonder Island*, Senbei's quest to brew a love potion for Midori—requiring his booger and tears from Ogre-King Gyaska—drives the journey to Wonder Island. Though her direct role in the island adventure remains unspecified, her presence motivates Senbei's entire potion scheme.
Midori crosses over into the *Dragon Ball* universe, offering Goku cookies during his Dragon Radar repair visit and witnessing Arale defeat General Blue. Decades later in *Dragon Ball Super*'s "Future" Trunks Saga, she appears ageless while shopping in Penguin Village with Turbo.
Her 1997 remake redesign transitions her hair from Marilyn Monroe-inspired blonde to Jodie Foster-esque brown. Her name pays homage to the Japanese *Romper Room* tradition, where hosts were called "Midori-sensei."
Kind yet fiercely dedicated to her students, Midori occasionally displays fiery anger. Post-marriage, her demeanor shifts toward increased scatterbrained and ditzy tendencies. Her unusual childhood background involves becoming lost at an amusement park and accidentally boarding a spaceship from Planet Takeya-Saodake. Adopted by its childless royal couple, she returned to Earth after her biological parents' discovery, though she retained a promise to potentially inherit the throne.
Midori's relationship with Senbei Norimaki blossoms amid comedic and dangerous escapades. After overhearing his muttered marriage proposal near a bathroom, she instantly accepts, leading to their wedding. Adopting the surname Norimaki, she becomes Arale's surrogate mother. She later births Turbo Norimaki, who develops psychic powers following an alien spacecraft encounter, and subsequently a second son, Nitro Norimaki.
In *Dr. Slump & Arale-chan: Hello! Wonder Island*, Senbei's quest to brew a love potion for Midori—requiring his booger and tears from Ogre-King Gyaska—drives the journey to Wonder Island. Though her direct role in the island adventure remains unspecified, her presence motivates Senbei's entire potion scheme.
Midori crosses over into the *Dragon Ball* universe, offering Goku cookies during his Dragon Radar repair visit and witnessing Arale defeat General Blue. Decades later in *Dragon Ball Super*'s "Future" Trunks Saga, she appears ageless while shopping in Penguin Village with Turbo.
Her 1997 remake redesign transitions her hair from Marilyn Monroe-inspired blonde to Jodie Foster-esque brown. Her name pays homage to the Japanese *Romper Room* tradition, where hosts were called "Midori-sensei."