 If you liked
Dr. Slump
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 ...then you might like
Stop!! Hibari-kun!
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Akira Toriyama and Hisashi Eguchi both influenced each other a lot during the 80's.
The influence of Dr. Slump-style comedy in Stop!! Hibari-kun is glaring. Both manga were published simultaneously on Shounen Jump - Hibari-kun starting a year later - and, on this manga, it's quite clear that Eguchi tried to copy Akira Toriyama's style of writing and drawing. In some pages, it feels you're actually reading Dr. Slump.
However, Hibari-kun, on it's own, is no Dr. Slump copy. Eguchi's manga main theme is Hibari-kun's crossdressing (or transgenderism, on a modern interpretation). Most jokes revolve around Hibari-kun being so pretty that, even though other people know that
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