Chibi Maruko chan is the nickname of a sweetly obnoxious 9-year-old girl. She tricks her grandfather, ponders for hours over how to spend her allowance, and hates sitting next to ugly boys.

The Chibi Maruko-chan television series is known around the world. Sakura started drawing the original comic book version two years after her debut as a manga artist in 1984. She modeled the ...

The simple, everyday life of Momoko Sakura, a young girl everyone calls Maruko, and her family in suburban Japan in the year 1974.

Japanese publisher Shueisha Inc. announced that the 18th volume of the popular “Chibi Maruko-chan” (Little Maruko) manga series by late author Momoko Sakura will be published on Oct.