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 ... She said she was just 3-and-a-half years old when she started drawing little girl characters similar to her heroine. She said some of little ...