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{{quote|''"What's wrong with being cute ''and'' bossy?"''
|'''Sana'''}}
Despite her fame and her career, eccentric 11-year-old child actress Sana Kurata lives an almost normal life with her even-more-eccentric author mother
Akito holds some secret blackmail on two of the teachers, allowing him to get away with a great deal of misbehavior -- something which enrages Sana, especially when it disrupts the class. She vows to defeat Akito, and restore peace to the school. After several failures, she succeeds in beating Akito at his own game, but her victory over him is just the beginning of a surprising evolution of her relationship with the quiet, angry-seeming boy, as she discovers ''why'' is he so angry and starts trying to fix it...
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An extra note of surrealism is added above and beyond that which normally surrounds Sana by the presence of Babbit -- an albino bat who acts as a [[Narrator]] and [[Greek Chorus]] for the show. In addition to his other schtick, Babbit is quite aware that he and the other characters are in an anime, and sometimes upbraids Sana and her friends for doing things they shouldn't on TV.
As of August 2005, [http://www.funimation.com/ FUNimation] has begun releasing licensed DVDs of ''[[Kodomo no Omocha]]'' in North America under its abbreviated title, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130921061956/http://www.kodocha.tv/ Kodocha]''. The dub of the first DVD had been censored heavily, but it stopped by the next release. Additionally, the original opening credits from the first season have been replaced with the second season credits because of legal pressures exerted by the recording company behind Tokio, the group who recorded the original [[Anime Theme Song|theme song]], ''7 O'clock News''. A cameo appearance by a member of Tokio in the first episode has actually been [[Bowdlerise|bowdlerized]] in both English and Japanese to keep any mention of the group out of the North American release. Any audio relating to Tokio in the Japanese track is completely muted, including the 'next episode' previews in the first 16 episodes, which have Tokio's ''7 O'clock News'' playing in the background. The second half of the series has yet to be released.
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*** {{spoiler|However, it wasn't '''his''' first kiss. That one was with Fuuka.}}
*** {{spoiler|For a BET!}}
* [[Forgot I Couldn't Swim]]:: Early in the series, Sana challenges Akito to a bungee contest, since she knows that he's afraid of heights. Meanwhile, she forgets that although she loves high places, she ''has no idea how she'll react to falling from them'' — as it turns out, with abject screaming horror. This is in character.
* [[Gecko Ending]]: The anime adds an entire "America" Arc, where Sana {{spoiler|goes to America with Naozumi for an acting gig and runs into an American version of Akito}}.
* [[Gene Hunting]]: An early major story arc involves Sana and her mother's hunt for her birth mother.
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* [[Sadist Teacher]]: Mr. Sengoku. He goes so far as to take Akito aside and punch him in the stomach, then getting him suspended when he fought back. In the Manga, {{spoiler|after Akito loses function in his right hand, Sengoku forces Akito to write a sentence on the chalkboard with his left hand. This pisses Sana off so much she goes and yells at Mr. Sengoku after class.}}
* [[Selective Obliviousness]]: Sana becomes ''very'' brokenhearted when she hears that Akito is dating someone else. When someone explains the obvious, she tries to rationalize it away one last time.
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* [[Show Within a Show]]: Also called ''Kodomo no Omocha'', it's actually based on a real Japanese TV show that sits 30 kids in a simulated schoolroom with a standup comedian as the "teacher"/emcee.
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