Kobo, the Li'l Rascal

Japanese manga series

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コボちゃん (Kobo-chan)
Kobo, the Li'l Rascal
Genre	Comedy, Slice of life
Manga
Written by	Masashi Ueda
Published by	Soyosha (strip) Houbunsha (current volumes)
English publisher	NA: Kodansha America
Magazine	Yomiuri Shimbun
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	April 1, 1982 – present
Volumes	60 (Soyosha) 40 (Houbunsha)
Anime television series
Directed by	Hiromitsu Morita
Produced by	Michihiko Suwa, Tatsuo Ono
Studio	Eiken
Licensed by	Crunchyroll
Original network	Nippon Television
Original run	October 19, 1992 – March 21, 1994
Episodes	63

Kobo, the Li'l Rascal, also known as Kobo-chan (コボちゃん), is a manga created by Masashi Ueda.^[1] Kodansha published three volumes of the manga as a bilingual Japanese-English editions, and Kodansha America distributed the book in the United States.^[2]^[3]

Kobo-chan began publication in the newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun on April 1, 1982. Beginning in December of that year, Soyosha published the series in book form.^[4] Nippon Television began airing the Kobo-chan strip on television on September 15, 1990. The weekly anime series ran on that channel from October 19, 1992, to March 21, 1994. Yomiuri had published 6,000 Kobo-chan strips by March 1999.^[5] Soyosha published Volume 60 on October 22, 2003.^[6] Houbunsha began publishing volumes on May 6, 2004.^[7] Its most recently volume, the 40th, was published on February 7, 2018.^[8]

The anime used to be available subtitled on Crunchyroll.^[9]

Characters

Kobo Tabata (田畑小穂, Tabata Kobo, Kobo コボちゃん Kobo-chan) - The namesake of the series.
Sanae Yamakawa (田畑早苗, Yamakawa Sanae) - Kobo's mother.
Koji Tabata (田畑耕二, Tabata Kōji) - Kobo's father, Takeo's cousin-in-law, Iwao and Mine's son-in-law
Miho Tabata (田畑美穂, Tabata Miho) - Kobo's younger sister
Iwao Yamakawa (山川岩夫, Yamakawa Iwao) - Kobo's maternal grandfather, Takeo's maternal uncle, Koji's father-in-law, and Sanae's father
Mine Yamakawa (山川ミネ, Yamakawa Mine) - Kobo's maternal grandmother, Koji's mother-in-law, and Sanae's mother
Takeo Omori (大森竹男, Ōmori Takeo, タケオ Takeo) - Takeo is Iwao's nephew, Sanae's cousin, and Koji's cousin-in-law
Sakiko Omori (大森咲子, Ōmori Sakiko) - Takeo's wife, Iwao's niece-in-law, and Sanae's cousin-in-law
Pochi (ポチ) - family dog
Mi (ミー) - family cat

International broadcast

RCTI (2001-2003), Spacetoon (2010-2018)
Astro Ceria (2004-2005)
(1998-2000)

References

^ "(10) コボちゃんで作文の一歩." Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved on October 1, 2009.
^ Kobo, the Li'l Rascal. Volume 2 Bilingual. August 2001. Kodansha International. ISBN 4-7700-2663-3, ISBN 978-4-7700-2663-7
^ "9784770026644: Kobo, the Li'L Rascal (Kodansha Bilingual Comics) - AbeBooks - Ueda, Masashi: 4770026641". Abebooks.com. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
^ コボちゃん (1) (Soyosha comics) [Kobo-chan (1) (Soyosha comics)] (in Japanese). ASIN 4915579018.
^ Kobo, the Li'l Rascal. Volume 1 Bilingual. August 2001. Kodansha International. ISBN 4-7700-2662-5, ISBN 978-4-7700-2662-0. Book cover inlet.
^ コボちゃん (60) (Soyosha comics) [Kobo-chan (60) (Soyosha comics)] (in Japanese). ASIN 491557962X.
^ "Works" (in Japanese). Houbunsha. Retrieved 2014-02-07.
^ "Works" (in Japanese). Houbunsha. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
^ "Kobo chan". Crunchyroll.com. Retrieved 26 December 2021.