Kobo, the Li'l Rascal

• Ja Kanji — コボちゃん • Ja Romaji — Kobo-chan • Genre — Comedy, slice of life

• Type — manga • Author — Masashi Ueda • Publisher — Soyosha (strip) Houbunsha (current volumes) • Magazine — Yomiuri Shimbun • First — April 1, 1982 • Volumes — 60 (Soyosha) 59 (Houbunsha)

• Type — tv series • Director — Hiromitsu Morita • Producer — * Michihiko Suwa (Yomiuri TV) • Tatsuo Ono (Senkosha) • Music — * Tōru Fuyuki • Akira Nakajima • Hayato Kanbayashi • Studio — Eiken • Network — NNS (YTV, NTV) • Licensee — Crunchyroll (expired) • First — October 19, 1992 • Last — March 21, 1994 • Episodes — 63 Kobo, the Li'l Rascal, 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.

• Kobo コボちゃん Kobo-chan - The namesake of the series. • Sanae Yamakawa - Kobo's mother. • Koji Tabata - Kobo's father, Takeo's cousin-in-law, Iwao and Mine's son-in-law • Miho Tabata - Kobo's younger sister • Iwao Yamakawa - Kobo's maternal grandfather, Takeo's maternal uncle, Koji's father-in-law, and Sanae's father • Mine Yamakawa - Kobo's maternal grandmother, Koji's mother-in-law, and Sanae's mother • Takeo Omori - Takeo is Iwao's nephew, Sanae's cousin, and Koji's cousin-in-law • Sakiko Omori - Takeo's wife, Iwao's niece-in-law, and Sanae's cousin-in-law • Pochi - family dog • Mi - family cat