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Hamtaro, known in Japan as Trotting Hamutaro aka Tottoko Hamutaro, is a Japanese children's manga and storybook series created and illustrated by Ritsuko Kawai. The series revolves around an anthropomorphic hamster named Hamtaro, who is owned by a 10-year-old girl named Hiroko Haruna (Laura Haruna in the English dub). Curious by nature, he ventures out each day to make friends and go on adventures with a clan of fellow hamster friends known as The Ham-Hams.