Underplayed Gems

Kobo, the Li'l Rascal (1994)

Kobo, the Li'l Rascal poster
Original title
コボちゃん
Genre
comedy anime and manga, Comedy, Slice of Life
Country
Japan
Length
1 season, 63 episodes
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A kid named Kobo gets into everyday mischief and small adventures with his family and friends. Each short episode shows the funny side of daily life for a young boy.

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What happens

Kobo, the Li'l Rascal, also known as Kobo-chan (コボちゃん), is a manga created by Masashi Ueda. Kodansha published three volumes of the manga as a bilingual Japanese-English editions, 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. 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. Soyosha published Volume 60 on October 22, 2003. Houbunsha began publishing volumes on May 6, 2004. Its most recently volume, the 59th, was published on November 7, 2025. The anime used to be available subtitled on Crunchyroll. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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