Written by Masashi Ueda Directed by Hiromitsu Morita | ||
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Original run April 1, 1982 – present Volumes 60 (Soyosha)37 (Houbunsha) Adaptations Kobo, the Li'l Rascal (1992) Similar Ninja Hattori‑kun, Perman, Ironfist Chinmi, Tsurupika Hagemaru, Cyborg Kuro‑chan | ||
Kobo, the Li'l Rascal, also known as Kobo-chan (コボちゃん), is a manga created by Masashi Ueda. Kodansha published the book in a bilingual Japanese-English edition, and Kodansha America distributed the book in the United States.
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. 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. Soyosha published Volume 60 on October 22, 2003. Houbunsha began publishing volumes on May 6, 2004. Its most recently volume, the 37th, was published on February 7, 2017.
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