UFO Baby

UFO Baby
Cover of the first volume of the manga, published by Kodansha
だぁ!だぁ!だぁ! (Daa! Daa! Daa!)
Genre	Romantic comedy, Science fiction
Manga
Written by	Mika Kawamura
Published by	Kodansha
Demographic	Shōjo
Magazine	Nakayoshi
Original run	February 1998 – March 2002
Volumes	9
Anime television series
Directed by	Hiroaki Sakurai
Studio	J.C.Staff
Original network	NHK-BS2
Original run	March 28, 2000 – February 26, 2002
Episodes	78 (List of episodes)
Manga
Shin Daa! Daa! Daa!
Written by	Mika Kawamura
Published by	Kodansha
Demographic	Shōjo
Magazine	Nakayoshi
Original run	April 2, 2002 – December 28, 2002
Volumes	2

UFO Baby (だぁ!だぁ!だぁ!, Dā! Dā! Dā!^?) is a shōjo comedy manga by Mika Kawamura, serialized by Kodansha in Nakayoshi from February 1998 to March 2002 and collected in nine bound volumes. The series was adapted as a 78-episode anime television series, produced by NHK and animated by J.C.Staff, which was broadcast between March 2000 and February 2002 on NHK's BS2 broadcast satellite network. The series was one of the top-rated anime series during its initial broadcast.

UFO Baby is about two junior high school students, Miyu and Kanata, who find (and take care of) an abandoned alien baby without anyone discovering they are living together. The anime concluded before the manga did, resulting in different endings for each series. Kawamura later wrote a sequel to the manga, Shin Daa! Daa! Daa! (新☆だぁ!だぁ!だぁ!^?).

Miyu Kouzuki is an 8th-grade student whose parents leave for the United States to work for NASA and arrange for her to stay with their long-time family friend, Hōsho Saionji (a monk who lives in an old temple atop a hill). However, the monk leaves soon after for India on a year-long voyage, leaving Miyu to stay in the same house with his son, Kanata.

Suddenly a UFO lands – transporting an alien baby, Ruu, and his cat-like "sitter pet", Wannya. They arrive after being separated from their home planet, Otto, when it falls into an interplanetary worm hole (a time warp which can transport objects across several regions, planets and time planes). They cannot return to their home planet because it is too difficult to reach; Wannyā asks Kanata and Miyu to allow them to stay in their house, and they agree. Miyu and Kanata learn from Wannyā that people from Planet Otto look identical to human beings, and that Wannyā can also transform into human beings, animals and objects.