Kobo, the Li'l Rascal explained

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]

Characters

International broadcast

Notes and References

  1. "(10) コボちゃんで作文の一歩." Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved on October 1, 2009.
  2. Kobo, the Li'l Rascal. Volume 2 Bilingual. August 2001. Kodansha International.,
  3. Web site: 9784770026644: Kobo, the Li'L Rascal (Kodansha Bilingual Comics) - AbeBooks - Ueda, Masashi: 4770026641. Abebooks.com. 26 December 2021.
  4. Book: コボちゃん (1) (Soyosha comics) . Kobo-chan (1) (Soyosha comics) . Japanese . .
  5. Kobo, the Li'l Rascal. Volume 1 Bilingual. August 2001. Kodansha International., . Book cover inlet.
  6. Book: コボちゃん (60) (Soyosha comics) . Kobo-chan (60) (Soyosha comics) . Japanese . .
  7. Web site: Works . . Japanese . 2014-02-07.
  8. Web site: Works . . Japanese . 2014-12-07.
  9. Web site: Kobo chan. Crunchyroll.com. 26 December 2021.