Kobo, the Li'l Rascal (1994)

Original title

コボちゃん

Genre

comedy anime and manga

Country

Japan

Length

1 season, 63 episodes

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

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.

lightheartedplayfulgentlewhimsicalsimplelow-stakescozychildlike

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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