Kobo, the Li'l Rascal

Kobo, the Li'l Rascal, also known as, is a manga series created by Masashi Ueda. Kodansha published three volumes of the manga as 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 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 recent volume, the 40th, was published on February 7, 2018.

An anime series adaptation produced by Eiken aired on Nippon Television starting with a TV special that aired on September 15, 1990 before the TV series, which aired from October 19, 1992, to March 21, 1994. The anime used to be available subtitled on Crunchyroll.

Plot
The daily adventures of a boy named Kobo Tabata and his family as they get into odd situations that sometimes arise due to Kobo's growing up or simply because of their own habits and misunderstandings.