- Kobo, the Li'l Rascal
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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 Kodansha America Magazine Yomiuri Shimbun Original run April 1, 1982 – ongoing Volumes 60 (Soyosha)
21 (Houbunsha)TV anime Directed by Hiromitsu Morita Produced by Michihiko Suwa, Tatsuo Ono Studio Eiken 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 the book in a bilingual Japanese-English edition, and Kodansha America distributed the book in the United States.[2]
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.[3] 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.[4] Soyosha published Volume 60 on October 22, 2003.[5] Houbunsha began publishing volumes on May 6, 2004.[6] It most recently published volume 21 on July 7, 2011.[7]
Characters
- Kobo Tabata (田畑 小穂 Tabata Kobo , Kobo コボちゃん Kobo-chan) - The namesake of the series.
- Sanae Tabata (田畑 早苗 Tabata Sanae ) - Kobo's mother.
- Koji Tabata (田畑 耕二 Tabata Kōji ) - Kobo's father.
- Iwao Yamakawa (山川 岩夫 Yamakawa Iwao ) - Kobo's grandfather and Sanae's father
- Mine Yamakawa (山川 ミネ Yamakawa Mine ) - Kobo's grandmother and Sanae's mother
- Takeo Omori (大森 竹男 Ōmori Takeo , タケオ Takeo) - Takeo is Iwao's nephew
- Sakiko Omori (大森 咲子 Ōmori Sakiko )
- Pochi (ポチ )
- Mi (ミー )
- Miho Tabata (田畑美穂 ) - kobo's younger sister
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 4770026633, ISBN 978-4770026637
- ^ "コボちゃん (1) (Soyosha comics) [Kobo-chan (1) (Soyosha comics)]" (in Japanese). Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4915579018/. Retrieved 2011-07-30.
- ^ Kobo, the Li'l Rascal. Volume 1 Bilingual. August 2001. Kodansha International. ISBN 4770026625, ISBN 978-4770026620. Book cover inlet.
- ^ "コボちゃん (60) (Soyosha comics) [Kobo-chan (60) (Soyosha comics)]" (in Japanese). Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/491557962X/. Retrieved 2011-07-30.
- ^ "Works" (in Japanese). Houbunsha. http://houbunsha.co.jp/comics/detail.php?current=5&p=%BF%B7%A5%B3%A5%DC%A4%C1%A4%E3%A4%F3. Retrieved 2011-07-30.
- ^ "Works" (in Japanese). Houbunsha. http://houbunsha.co.jp/comics/detail.php?p=%BF%B7%A5%B3%A5%DC%A4%C1%A4%E3%A4%F3. Retrieved 2011-07-30.
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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- Anime of 1992
- Manga of 1982
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