Kobato.

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Kobato. ( jap. こ ば と。 ) is a manga series by Clamp that has been published in the Japanese magazine Monthly Sunday Gene-X since 2005 and will be continued in November 2006 after an almost one year break in Newtype Magazine . The series was adapted as an anime television series by Studio Madhouse in 2009 .

action

The girl Kobato Hanato enters the earth together with her talking "dog" Ioryogi. From him she first gets the order to pass a probation test as a person. However, Kobato is completely naive and makes one mistake after another when trying to imitate human behavior. However, she has a pure heart and tries to help other people as best she can. She is accompanied by Ioryogi, who observes and evaluates her deeds. He is extremely strict - almost underhanded nasty - and yells at her regularly. In the end, despite many mistakes, she passed the first exam and from now on she was supposed to collect the broken hearts of the people in a bottle and then came to a kindergarten, where she met a young man who yelled at her every little thing. But she falls in love with him.

Origin and publications

The manga is made by the artist group Clamp and was first published in Monthly Sunday Gene-X magazine. Some chapters appeared there under the title Kobato (Kari) ( こ ば と （仮） , German "Kobato (provisional)"). There the series ran from January 2005 for 7 months until it was put on hold. Since November 2006 it has been carried on from scratch in Newtype Magazine , where it is still published. The combined chapters have been published in six tankōbon issues since December 26, 2007 .

Several characters from Clamps Chobits appear within the series , such as Kobato's landlady Chitose Mihara, who was already the landlady of the protagonist in Chobits as Chitose Hibiya; Chitose's two daughters Chiho and Chise, who in Chobits were the androids Freya and Chii / Elda created by Chitose and also referred to as their daughters; as well as Hiroyasu Ueda and Yumi Ōmura from the bakery where Kobato worked temporarily. Characters from the Manga Angelic Layer, Misaki and Tamayo are also represented.

Egmont Manga & Anime has published all six volumes of the Manga in Germany since April 2010.

Adaptations

Anime

Television series
Original title Kobato.
こ ば と。
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
year 2009
Production
company		 Madhouse
length 25 minutes
Episodes 24
idea Clamp
First broadcast October 6, 2009 - March 23, 2010 on NHK-BS2
synchronization

The manga series was adapted as an anime television series in 2009 by the animation studio Madhouse under the direction of Mitsuyuki Masuhara . Nanase Ōkawa from Clamp took over the supervision of the creation process. In addition, Ōkawa wrote the screenplay together with the writer from HOLiC, Michiko Yokote . The first of the anime's 24 episodes was broadcast on October 6, 2009 on the Japanese channel NHK-BS2 .

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
Kobato Hanato Kana Hanazawa
Ioryogi Tetsu Inada
Kiyokazu Fujimoto Tomoaki Maeno
Sayaka Okiura Fumiko Orikasa
Toshihiko Akeno Watanabe
Chitose Mihara Hoko Kuwashima
Chiho / Chise Mihara Megumi Nakajima
Okiura Shin'ichirō Miki
Ginse egg Daisuke Namikawa

music

In the opening credits of the series, the title Magic Number ( マ ジ ッ ク ナ ン バ ー ) by Maaya Sakamoto was used. The end credits were the title Jellyfish no Kokuhaku ( ジ ェ リ ー フ ィ ッ シ ュ の 告白 ) by Megumi Nakajima .

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