REMOW announced that it will begin streaming the long-running police comedy TV anime series KochiKame on the It’s Anime YouTube channel in the U.S. and Canada. The series will be available in English for the first time, as it was never previously released in North America. The company also lists it with the English title Tokyo Beat Cops.
The anime series is available to watch for free on the It’s Anime channel, with one episode made available on Friday each week. All 373 episodes of the TV anime series are expected to be released on the YouTube channel.
The first episode of the series is now available to watch and the series playlist can be found here.
The anime is based on Osamu Akimoto’s original manga series that ran in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from September 21, 1976 to September 17, 2016. A total of 201 tankobon volumes were released. Besides the TV anime, the manga also inspired three anime films in 1985, 1999, and 2003.
REMOW describes the main premise of KochiKame as:
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!
Besides KochiKame, REMOW will also release the following anime titles on the It’s Anime YouTube channel in the U.S. and Canada:
- • REBORN!
- ○ New episodes begin streaming daily. Series playlist can be found here.
- • Yakitate!! JAPAN
- ○ New episodes will stream every Monday and Tuesday. Series playlist can be found here.
- • True Cooking Master Boy
- ○ New episodes will stream every Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Series playlist can be found here.
- ○ Crunchyroll is also streaming the first anime season containing 24 episodes.
The company will also release the anime series My Little Monster and High School Kimengumi at a later date.
Source: press release, Anime News Network
