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Obocchama-kun Is Coming Home to Japan. Kids in India Brought It Back, and Its 1989 Voice Never Left
A Japanese gag cartoon that ended in 1992 is getting its first new series in 35 years, and Japan isn't where the comeback started. Dubbed reruns made Obocchama-kun a lockdown hit with Indian kids, an Indian studio drew the new episodes, and Chie Kōjiro, who voiced the hero in 1989, is back in the booth.
TV Asahi has announced that Obocchama-kun Reborn will air across its network in Japan in 2027. It's the first new anime from Yoshinori Kobayashi's manga since the original series finished in 1992, and every episode is new: stories the old show never adapted, plus fresh ones written under Kobayashi's supervision.
The hero is Chama, the heir to a ridiculously rich family, who talks in his own pun-stuffed slang. In the late 1980s Japanese kids copied his lines everywhere, from "ohayogurt" (good morning, mashed into yogurt) to "sonna banana" (a play on "no way"). In 2027 the same voice will be saying them.
