| Kobo, the Li'l Rascal | |
| コボちゃん (Kobo-chan) |
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|---|---|
| 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]