Kobato: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Kobato is a sweet, perky, cute yet naïve girl who has a contract: to go to a certain place, she must fill a mysterious bottle with people's "healed hearts" to do so. However, the restriction is that she must finish before the four seasons end. As Kobato attempts to fulfill her mission, she is accompanied by Ioryogi, a spirit in the form of a dog plushie. Because Ioryogi is responsible for a punishment that has been applied to him and his friends from the spiritual world, he must guide Kobato and ensure that she succeeds her mission, so that he and his friends might return to their true forms.

Series details

• Title: Kobato
• Format: Animation
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Anime
• Premiere date: 2009-10-06
• Final broadcast date listed: 2010-03-23
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: NHK
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 7066
• IMDb ID: tt1482965
• TVDB ID: 117671

Cast and credited roles

• Kana Hanazawa — Kobato Hanato
• Tomoaki Maeno — Kiyokazu Fujimoto
• Tetsu Inada — Ioryogi
• Misato Fukuen — Yukino Morikawa
• Jun Fukuyama — Watanuki, Kimihiro
• Higuchi, Tomoyuki — Ueda, Hiroyasu
• Tetsu Inada — Kurogane
• Marina Inoue — Tadokoro, Mutsumi
• Miyu Irino — Li, Syaoran
• Hiroshi Kamiya — Doumoto, Takashi
• Ayako Kawasumi — Mizuhashi, Natsuki
• Mika Kikuchi — Modoki, Mokona

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2009-10-06; final listed air date 2010-03-23; episode order: 24.

Source and licence

Adapted from Kobato on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.