Danbo first appeared in Chapter 28 of the manga Yotsuba&! by Kiyohiko Azuma, published in April 2006. In the issue, the main character Yotsuba Koiwai
mistakes her friend Miura Hayasaka dressed up as a science project for a
real robot. When Yotsuba asks the robot its name, Miura does not want
to crush her friend’s dreams, naming the costume “Danbo,” a play on the
Japanese word for corrugated cardboard, danboru. While the
robot was originally named “Cardbo” in the first translation, when Yen
Press re-published the manga, they chose “danbo” which senior editor
JuYoun Lee thought sounded cuter.
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