Kobato.

Kobato. (Japaneseこばと. ) is a manga series by Clamp, which was published in 2005 in the Japanese magazine Monthly Sunday Gene -X and will continue after almost a year's break in November 2006 Newtype Magazine. The series was adapted in 2009 by the studio Madhouse as a anime television series.

Action

The girl Kobato Hanato enters along with her talking " dog " Ioryogi the earth. From him she first gets the order, a probation exam as a person. However, Kobato is completely naive and makes a mistake after another, as it is to imitate human behavior. However, she has a pure heart and tried other people as much as possible to assist. She is accompanied by Ioryogi who observes their actions and evaluated. He is extremely strict - almost underhanded nasty - and she roars regularly. Ultimately, it is in spite of many mistakes the first test and is in a bottle collect from now on, the broken hearts of the people and then comes to a kindergarten where she meets a young man, but she yells at every little thing. But she falls in love with him ....

Formation and Publications

The manga is made by the artist group Clamp, and was first published in the magazine Monthly Sunday Gene -X. Some chapters appeared there under the title of Kobato ( Kari ) (こばと(仮), dt " Kobato (tentative) "). There, the series ran from January 2005 for 7 months, until it was put on hold. Since November 2006, it was continued by starting anew in Newtype Magazine, where she still appears. The combined chapters were published into six tankōbon editions since 26 December 2007.

• Vol 1: ISBN 978-4-04-713998-5, December 26, 2007
• Vol 2: ISBN 978-4-04-715058-4 26 April, 2008
• Volume 3: ISBN 978-4-04-715146-8 26 December, 2008
• Vol 4: ISBN 978-4-04-715363-9 26 December, 2009
• Vol 5: ISBN 978-4-04-715584-8 25 December, 2010
• Vol 6: ISBN 978-4-04-715741-5 25 August, 2011

Within the series occur several characters from Chobits Clamps on how Kobatos landlady Chitose Mihara, which was already in Chitose Hibiya Chobits as landlady of the local protagonists; Chitoses both daughters Chiho and Chise, the bodies set up by Chitose, and also designated as their daughters, Freya and androids Chii / Elda were in Chobits; and Hiroyasu Ueda and Yumi Omura temporarily worked in the bakery, in the Kobato. Also represented are characters from the manga Angelic Layer, Misaki and Tamayo.

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

Adaptations

Anime

The manga series was adapted in 2009 by the animation studio Madhouse and directed by Mitsuyuki Masuhara as an anime television series. It took Nanase Ōkawa of Clamp overseeing the development process. In addition Ōkawa wrote the screenplay with the author of × × × Holic Michiko Yokote. The first of the 24 episodes of the anime was broadcast on 6 October 2009 on the Japanese broadcaster NHK -BS2.

Synchronization

Music

In the opening credits of the series the title Magic Number (マジック ナンバー) of Maaya Sakamoto was used. The guy made ​​the title Jellyfish no Kokuhaku (ジェリー フィッシュ の 告白) by Megumi Nakajima.