Kobo, the Li'l Rascal

Kobo, the Li'l Rascal
コボちゃん
(Kobo-chan)
GenreComedy, slice of life
Manga
Written byMasashi Ueda
Published bySoyosha (strip)
Houbunsha (current volumes)
English publisher
MagazineYomiuri Shimbun
DemographicSeinen
Original runApril 1, 1982 – present
Volumes60 (Soyosha)
40 (Houbunsha)
Anime television series
Directed byHiromitsu Morita
Produced byMichihiko Suwa, Tatsuo Ono
StudioEiken
Licensed byCrunchyroll
Original networkNNS (YTV, NTV)
Original run October 19, 1992 – March 21, 1994
Episodes63

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] Yomiuri TV began airing the Kobo-chan strip on television on September 15, 1990. The weekly anime series ran on said 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

References

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


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