Kobo, the Li'l Rascal

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Kobo, the Li'l Rascal, also known as Kobo-chan (コボちゃん), is a manga created by Masashi Ueda.^[1] Kodansha published three volumes of the manga as a bilingual Japanese-English editions, and Kodansha America distributed the book in the United States.^[2][3]

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.^[4] 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.^[5] Soyosha published Volume 60 on October 22, 2003.^[6] Houbunsha began publishing volumes on May 6, 2004.^[7] Its most recently volume, the 40th, was published on February 7, 2018.^[8]

The anime used to be available subtitled on Crunchyroll.^[9]