UFO Baby

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UFO Baby
Cover of the first volume of the manga, published by Kodansha
だぁ!だぁ!だぁ! (Daa! Daa! Daa!)
Manga
Written by	Mika Kawamura
Published by	Kodansha
Magazine	Nakayoshi
Demographic	Shōjo
Original run	February 1998 – March 2002
Volumes	9
Anime television series
Directed by	Hiroaki Sakurai
Produced by	Eizō Kondō
Written by	Tomoko Konparu
Music by	Toshio Masuda
Studio	J.C.Staff
Original network	NHK-BS2
Original run	March 28, 2000 – February 26, 2002
Episodes	78 (List of episodes)
Manga
Shin Daa! Daa! Daa!
Written by	Mika Kawamura
Published by	Kodansha
Magazine	Nakayoshi
Demographic	Shōjo
Original run	April 2, 2002 – December 28, 2002
Volumes	2

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!).