| Ja Kanji: | コボちゃん |
| Ja Romaji: | Kobo-chan |
| Genre: | Comedy, Slice of life |
| Type: | manga |
| Author: | Masashi Ueda |
| Publisher: | Soyosha (strip) Houbunsha (current volumes) |
| Demographic: | Seinen |
| Magazine: | Yomiuri Shimbun |
| First: | April 1, 1982 |
| Volumes: | 60 (Soyosha) 40 (Houbunsha) |
| Type: | tv series |
| Director: | Hiromitsu Morita |
| Producer: | Michihiko Suwa, Tatsuo Ono |
| Studio: | Eiken |
| Network: | NNS (YTV, NTV) |
| Licensee: | Crunchyroll |
| First: | October 19, 1992 |
| Last: | March 21, 1994 |
| Episodes: | 63 |
Kobo, the Li'l Rascal, also known as, 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]
RCTI (2001-2003), Spacetoon (2010-2018)
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