Anime and manga fans may have heard in passing of KochiKame: Tokyo Beat Cops . The anime adaptation of Osamu Akimoto's long-running manga, while popular in Japan, has never had an English-language release—until now! Today, KochiKame makes its North American premiere on the It's Anime Powered by REMOW YouTube channel. The licensor offers a variety of titles, both on their own channel and via Amazon Prime. Other anime in their catalogue include recent series TASOKARE HOTEL , Umamusume: Cinderella Gray and Tonbo! You can watch episode one of KochiKame: Tokyo Beat Cops right now: KochiKame: Tokyo Beat Cops Episode 1 RELATED: Japan Box Office: Detective Conan: One-eyed Flashback Movie Ranks No.1 for 3 Consecutive Weekends The channel has also set up a playlist , where you can watch episodes as they're released. Osamu Akimoto penned KochiKame: Tokyo Beat Cops in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1976 to 2016, filling a total of 201 print volumes. The series was first adapted into an anime film in 1985, with an anime series and two more films following between 1996 and 2004. KochiKame also inspired 27 specials, which aired between 2005 and 2016. The manga returned to Weekly Shonen Jump briefly this year for a crossover with the currently-running Super Psychic Policeman Chojo . REMOW describes the KochiKame anime thus: Ryotsu Kankichi, or Ryo-san for short, is an unconventional cop working at the local police station who loves money. Together with famous celebrities like Nakagawa and Reiko, his strict boss Police Chief Ohara, and other wildly unique characters, he gets everyone caught up in all sorts of hijinks! Source: Press Release
