Kobo, the Li'l Rascal
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Kobo, the Li'l Rascal | |
コボちゃん (Kobo-chan) | |
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Genre | Comedy, Slice of life |
Manga | |
Written by | Masashi Ueda |
Published by | Soyosha (strip) Houbunsha (current volumes) |
English publisher |
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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 | NNS (YTV, NTV) |
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] 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
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.
External links
- Kobo, the Li'l Rascal (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Kobo, the Li'l Rascal (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
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