Kobo, the Li'l Rascal
Japanese manga series
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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]
Houbunsha (current volumes)
| Kobo, the Li'l Rascal | |
| コボちゃん (Kobo-chan) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Comedy, slice of life |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Masashi Ueda |
| Published by | Soyosha (strip) Houbunsha (current volumes) |
| English publisher | |
| Magazine | Yomiuri Shimbun |
| Original run | April 1, 1982 – present |
| Volumes | 60 (Soyosha) 59 (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-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 59th, was published on November 7, 2025.[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)
