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Japanese: COWA!
English: Cowa!
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 1
Chapters: 14
Status: Finished
Published: Oct 28, 1997 to Mar 10, 1998
Genres: Comedy Comedy, Horror Horror, Supernatural Supernatural
Theme: Vampire Vampire
Demographic: Shounen Shounen
Serialization: Shounen Jump (Weekly)
Authors: Toriyama, Akira (Story & Art)

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Score: 6.871 (scored by 19181,918 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #108132
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #6047
Members: 3,426
Favorites: 30

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Synopsis

After an outbreak of a terminal disease in their town, Paifu, a vampire-hybrid, Jose, a ghost, and Apone and Maruyama set out to find medicine to cure it and save the village.

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Cowa! was published in English by VIZ Media under the Shonen Jump Manga imprint on July 1, 2008, and later digitally on October 22, 2013.

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Characters

Rodriguez, José
Rodriguez, José
Main
Maruyama, Mako
Maruyama, Mako
Main
Paifu
Paifu
Main
Arpon
Arpon
Supporting
Paifu's Mother
Paifu's Mother
Supporting
Witch
Witch
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Baroaba
Baroaba
Supporting
Doctor
Doctor
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Leonardo
Leonardo
Supporting

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6 Recommended
1 Mixed Feelings
1 Not Recommended
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Mar 22, 2022
giffica
Recommended
Cowa! is a cute little gag manga that deviates from much of Toriyama's normal style. Instead of the crude slapstick style comedy found through much of Toriyama's works, Cowa beautiful weaves in moral principals that promote charming moral principals. While the work is not necessarily mature, it is refined in the way it understands itself and the universe. The way the gags are woven into the plot helps to add to the charm of the story, and does a great job at establishing the main characters. Cowa doesn't over stay it's welcome, and it's quite short, but could use another volume to expand the universe ...
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Dec 27, 2021
Animecyupcyake
Mixed Feelings
Well, it's something that your kids should like.

Story:
It starts off pretty simple, I wasn't expecting an overarching story, though I did get one near the end. I really did expect the sumo guy to marry paifu's mom, but that didn't happen.

Art:
Everything looks fine.

Character:
It's pretty basic stuff, paifu is reckless little kid who is a vampire, who has a friend who is kinda shy and not much beyond that. He also has a rival who isn't his friend but is his rival. No one goes beyond that. The wrestler guy is cool, I guess.
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Jun 25, 2021
Silentfan6
Not Recommended
I was very surprised to find that Akira Toriyama did this series after Dragon Ball ended. I'm not saying it's bad, but it's something I would have expected earlier in his career. What we have here is a monster village living with humans. The monsters get sick and they have to team up with a human, who's referred to as a murderer every other page it seems like, to road trip across the country in search of medicine.

I really didn't like this.

What's a shame is that I could totally see myself liking this because Toriyama created a better version of this story early in ...
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