''Kobo, the Li'l Rascal'', also known as , is a

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created by Masashi Ueda.

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published three volumes of the manga as a bilingual Japanese-English editions, and Kodansha America distributed the book in the

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. ''Kobo-chan'' began publication in the newspaper ''

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'' on April 1, 1982. Beginning in December of that year, Soyosha published the series in book form.

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began airing the ''Kobo-chan'' strip on television on September 15, 1990. The weekly

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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.

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began publishing volumes on May 6, 2004. Its most recently volume, the 40th, was published on February 7, 2018. The anime used to be available subtitled on

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Characters

* - The namesake of the series. * - Kobo's mother. * - Kobo's father, Takeo's cousin-in-law, Iwao and Mine's son-in-law * - Kobo's younger sister * - Kobo's maternal grandfather, Takeo's maternal uncle, Koji's father-in-law, and Sanae's father * - Kobo's maternal grandmother, Koji's mother-in-law, and Sanae's mother * - Takeo is Iwao's nephew, Sanae's cousin, and Koji's cousin-in-law * - Takeo's wife, Iwao's niece-in-law, and Sanae's cousin-in-law * - family dog * - family cat

References

External links

* * 1982 manga 1992 anime television series debuts 1994 Japanese television series endings Japanese children's animated comedy television series Eiken (studio) Houbunsha manga Nippon TV original programming Works originally published in Japanese newspapers {{Manga-stub