UFO Baby

UFO Baby
Cover of the first volume of the manga, published by Kodansha
だぁ!だぁ!だぁ!
(Daa! Daa! Daa!)
Manga
Written byMika Kawamura
Published byKodansha
MagazineNakayoshi
DemographicShōjo
Original runFebruary 1998March 2002
Volumes9
Anime television series
Directed byHiroaki Sakurai
Produced byEizō Kondō
Written byTomoko Konparu
Music byToshio Masuda
StudioJ.C.Staff
Original networkNHK-BS2
Original run March 28, 2000 February 26, 2002
Episodes78 (List of episodes)
Manga
Shin Daa! Daa! Daa!
Written byMika Kawamura
Published byKodansha
MagazineNakayoshi
DemographicShōjo
Original runApril 2, 2002December 28, 2002
Volumes2

UFO Baby (だぁ!だぁ!だぁ!, Dā! Dā! Dā!) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mika Kawamura. The manga was serialized by Kodansha in Nakayoshi from February 1998 to March 2002, and the chapters were collected into nine tankōbon volumes.[1] It was adapted into a 78-episode anime television series produced by NHK, animated by J.C.Staff, and directed by Hiroaki Sakurai, which was broadcast between March 2000 and February 2002 on NHK's BS2 broadcast satellite network.[2] The series was one of the top-rated anime series during its initial broadcast.[3]

The story follows two junior high school students, Miyu and Kanata, who find and care for an abandoned alien baby without discovering that they are living together without adult supervision. The anime adaptation concluded before the manga was completed, resulting in different endings for each series. Kawamura later wrote a sequel to the manga, Shin Dā! Dā! Dā! (新☆だぁ!だぁ!だぁ!).

  1. ^ なかよし[WEB漫画/コミック/CG・イラスト/小説の検索]. comic-r.net (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 23 February 2005. Retrieved 24 April 2008.
  2. ^ "だぁ!だぁ!だぁ!". J.C.Staff. Archived from the original on 20 April 2013. Retrieved 24 April 2008.
  3. ^ "Top Anime in Japan". Anime News Network. 17 December 2001. Archived from the original on 27 January 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2008.