is a Japanese manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama

Akira Toriyama

is a Japanese manga artist and game artist known mostly for his creation of Dragon Ball in 1984. Toriyama admires Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy and was impressed by Walt Disney's One Hundred and One Dalmatians, which he remembers for the great art...

. It began in late 1997 despite the artist suffering from a hurting arm. The manga was first serialized in Japan by Weekly Shōnen Jump

Weekly Shonen Jump

is a weekly shōnen manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the Jump line of magazines. The first issue was released with a cover date of July 2, 1968, and it is still circulating. One of the longest-running manga magazines in Japan, it has a circulation of 2.8 million copies...

and then made into a tankōbon

Tankobon

, with a literal meaning close to "independently appearing book", is the Japanese term for a book that is complete in itself and is not part of a series , though the manga industry uses it for volumes which may be in a series...

by Jump Comics

Shueisha

is a major publisher in Japan. The company was founded in 1925 as the entertainment-related publishing division of Japanese publisher Shogakukan. The following year, Shueisha became a separate, independent company. Magazines published by Shueisha include Weekly Shōnen Jump, Weekly Young Jump,...

. This was Toriyama's first major project since the Dragon Ball manga.

Storyline and plot

Paifu,a half-vampire and half-werekoala,is always getting trouble with his buddy Jose. When monster flu hit their town its up to them to save the adults

Cowa! is a short manga (1 book, 14 chapters).

Other characters

• Mako "Active Volcano" Maruyama (丸山真虎 Maruyama Mako) (often called "Marumaya" and "Makoleen" by Paifu)
• Arpon
• Natasha
• Elizabeth
• Yamada
• Mr. Croake
• Paco
• Mumry
• Doctor
• Baroaba (the Forest Monster)
• Reonald
• Witch-sama
• Cynthia Watson