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Also known as Kodomo no Omocha, Kodocha: Sana's Stage

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Miho Obana. The series was adapted as an OVA by J.C. Staff and released on December 16, 1995, by Shueisha under their Ribon Video label. An anime television series was produced by NAS and TV Tokyo, animated by Studio Gallop, and broadcast on TV Tokyo every Friday from April 5, 1996, to March 27, 1998.

Key facts

Animanga/Header.image
Kodomo no Omocha manga v1 cover.jpg
Animanga/Header.caption
Cover of the first manga volume
Animanga/Header.ja_kanji
こどものおもちゃ
Animanga/Header.ja_romaji
Kodomo no Omocha
Animanga/Header.genre
comedy drama
Animanga/Print.type
manga
Animanga/Print.author
Miho Obana
Animanga/Print.publisher
Shueisha
Animanga/Print.imprint
Ribon Mascot Comics
Animanga/Print.magazine
Ribon
Animanga/Print.first
August 1994
Animanga/Print.last
November 1998
Animanga/Print.volumes
10
Animanga/Video.type
tv series
Animanga/Video.director
Ibu Suzuki
Animanga/Video.studio
Studio Gallop
Animanga/Video.released
December 16, 1995
Animanga/Video.runtime
30 minutes

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Wikidata facts

Country of origin
Japan
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Commons category
Kodocha
language of work or name
Japanese
intended public
shōjo
number of parts of this work
10
illustrator
Miho Obana
published in
Ribon
title
こどものおもちゃ
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Encyclopedic overview

19 sections
Contents
  • Plot
  • Characters
  • Main characters
  • Family members
  • School characters
  • Show business colleagues
  • Other characters
  • Production
  • Media
  • Manga
  • Chapter list
  • ''Deep Clear (2010)''
  • ''Days Without Anything (2015)''
  • ''Hot Pepper Beauty (2025)''
  • Anime
  • Stage Production
  • Reception
  • References
  • External links

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Miho Obana. The series was adapted as an OVA by J.C. Staff and released on December 16, 1995, by Shueisha under their Ribon Video label. An anime television series was produced by NAS and TV Tokyo, animated by Studio Gallop, and broadcast on TV Tokyo every Friday from April 5, 1996, to March 27, 1998.

In 2002, the manga was published in North America in English by Tokyopop as '''''Kodocha: Sana's Stage'''''. In 2006, Tokyopop lost the license to the manga, leaving it out of print. In 2005, the first half of the anime series was licensed for North American distribution by Funimation Entertainment and has been released on DVD. In 2012, Funimation announced that their Kodocha DVDs went out of print.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kodocha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.