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Obocchama-kun (おぼっちゃまくん) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshinori Kobayashi. It was serialized in CoroCoro Comic magazine from 1986 to 1994. Shogakukan published 24 compiled book volumes of the manga.[2][3]
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| Obocchama-kun | |
| おぼっちゃまくん | |
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Created by | Yoshinori Kobayashi |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Yoshinori Kobayashi |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| Imprint | Tentomushi Comics |
| Magazine | CoroCoro Comic |
| Original run | May, 1986 – Sep, 1994 |
| Volumes | 24 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Tetsuo Yasumi[1] |
| Written by | Akira Okeya, Saburo Ebinuma, Ayuko Anzai, etc. |
| Music by | Keita Miyahara[1] |
| Studio | Shin-Ei Animation[1] |
| Licensed by |
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| Original network | TV Asahi |
| English network |
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| Original run | Jan 14, 1989 – Sep 26, 1992 |
| Episodes | 164 |
The anime adaptation aired on the TV Asahi network from 1989 to 1992, with 164 episodes.[4] The show has been dubbed in five Indian languages and has aired in India since 2013.
Plot
Denenchofu, Tokyo. A wealthy neighborhood where the richest people in Japan reside. In this neighborhood, Denenchofu Elementary School brings wealthy children up to be academic elites. They do this by adopting a strict Spartan curriculum.
One day, the school receives a new student Chama Obo, also known as Obocchama-kun, who is the heir to the Obo family, one of the richest families in the world.
Characters
Chama Obo（御坊茶魔）
The 999th heir to the Obo family.
Kanemitsu Obo（御坊亀光）
Chama's father. The 998th hear to the Obo family.
Shuhei Kakino（柿野修平）
The first friend Chama made without help of money.
Samayo Ojo（御嬢沙麻代）
Chama's fiancé. A daughter of the president of Ojo Corporation.
Media
Manga
Obocchama-kun, written and illustrated by Yoshinori Kobayashi, debuted in Shogakukan's children's manga magazine CoroCoro Comic with the May 1986 issue.[5][6] It won the 34th Shogakukan Manga Award in the children's category in 1989.[7] The serialization ended with the April 1994 issue.[8]
The chapters were collected into 24 tankōbon volumes, which were published under Shogakukan's Tentomushi Comics imprint, from January 1987 to October 1994. By the time the series went out of print, its total circulation had reached 6.3 million copies.[9][10] The complete eight-volume paperback edition was published by Gentosha between 2001 and 2003.[11]
A new series by Kobayashi, titled New Obocchama-kun (新おぼっちゃまくん), began in Gentosha's literary magazine Shousetsu Gento with the April 2018 issue.[12] It continued until the April 2020 issue.
Anime
The anime television series based on the manga was produced by Shin-Ei Animation and directed by Tetsuo Yasumi.[13] The show premiered on the TV Asahi network on January 14, 1989, and aired on every Saturday from 19:30 to 20:00. The series concluded on September 26, 1992, with its 164th episode.
| Character | Japanese[13] |
|---|---|
| Chama Obo | Chie Kojiro |
| Shuhei Kakino | Nozomu Sasaki |
| Samayo Ojo | Maria Kawamura |
| Taizo Binbo | Rika Matsumoto |
| Kanemitsu Fukurokoji | Kazuyo Aoki |
| Kanemitsu Obo | Banjo Ginga |
| Chuzaemon Jiya | Aruno Tahara |
Broadcast in India
The series first premiered in India on Cartoon Network on February 11, 2013. The show aired in Hindi every weekday at 5:30 PM.[14] It was shifted to its sister channel Pogo TV in 2014.[15][16]
Sony YAY! acquired the license and premiered the series on March 15, 2021, with a new Hindi dub, alongside regional dubs in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Bengal.[17] The program aired every weekday at 7:30 PM[16]. It achieved an average monthly slot share of 14.4% in December 2021.[18]
New sequel
On October 2, 2024, TV Asahi and Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI) announced a collaboration to produce a new sequel to Obocchama-kun.[19] On October 21, they premiered the first episode at MIPCOM 2024 and announced that the sequel was scheduled to include 26 brand new episodes, with the stories and character design created by Shin-Ei Animation in Japan and the animation produced by Green Gold Animation in India.[20]
Sony YAY! premiered the series on August 4, 2025. The show airs every weekday at 3:00 PM, available in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Bangla.[21]
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