REMOW announced on Friday that it is releasing the Kochikame (Kochira Katsushika-ku Kamearikouen-mae Hashutsujo) television anime with English subtitles in the U.S. and Canada on the It’s Anime YouTube channel. The first episode is available now, and It’s Anime will release new episodes every Friday. Update: REMOW confirmed in a press release on Saturday that the company plans to release all 373 episodes of the anime in the U.S. and Canada.
The announcement did not clarify how many episodes will stream of the series. Kochikame debuted in 1996, and ran for more than 300 episodes until 2004. The anime has previously not had an English release in North America.
Osamu Akimoto’s Kochikame manga ended in September 2016 after 40 years of serialization, although Akimoto has published several extra chapters for the manga since then. The manga series had approximately 150 million copies in print as of June 2016 when the 199th volume shipped. The manga’s 201st volume shipped in October 2021.
The manga has inspired a television anime series, anime films, anime specials, live-action films, a live-action series, and several stage plays.
Additionally, REMOW has also recently begun streaming the following anime in the U.S. and Canada on the It’s Anime YouTube channel:
True Cooking Master Boy is also streaming on Crunchyroll and Tubi TV. REBORN! is available on Crunchyroll and Tubi TV, and Yakitate!! Japan is also streaming on Crunchyroll and RetroCrush.
Sources: E-mail correspondence, It’s Anime’s X/Twitter account (link 2) via @WTK
