Kobo, the Li'l Rascal

Kobo, the Li'l Rascal (Kobo-chan (コボちゃん) in Japanese) 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 Yomiuri Shimbun on April 1, 1982. Beginning in November of that year, Soyosha published the series in book form. NTV began airing the Kobo-chan strip on television on September 15, 1990. The weekly anime series ran on that channel from October 1992 to March 1994. Yomiuri had published 6,000 Kobo-chan strips by March 1999. Soyosha published Volume 52 in October 2000.

Characters

 * Kobo Tabata (田畑 小穂) - The namesake of the series.
 * Sanae Tabata (田畑 早苗) - Kobo's mother.
 * Koji Tabata (田畑 耕二) - Kobo's father.
 * Iwao Yamakawa (山川 岩夫) - Kobo's grandfather and Sanae's father
 * Mine Yamakawa (山川 ミネ) - Kobo's grandmother and Sanae's mother
 * Takeo Omori (大森 竹男) - Takeo is Iwao's nephew
 * Sakiko Omori (大森 咲子)
 * Pochi (ポチ)