KochiKame: Tokyo Beat Cops
| KochiKame: Tokyo Beat Cops | |
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Kankichi Ryotsu | |
| こちら葛飾区亀有公園前派出所 | |
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Osamu Akimoto |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| Imprint | Jump Comics |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Jump |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | September 21, 1976 – September 17, 2016 |
| Volumes | 201 |
| Anime film | |
| Directed by | Hiroshi Sasagawa |
| Written by | Takao Koyama |
| Music by | Tadayoshi Matsui |
| Studio | Tatsunoko Production |
| Released | November 23, 1985 |
| Runtime | 30 minutes |
| Anime television series | |
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| Studio | Studio Gallop |
| Licensed by | Remow |
| Original network | FNS (Fuji TV) |
| Original run | Regular broadcast June 16, 1996 – December 19, 2004 Specials January 3, 2005 – September 18, 2016 |
| Episodes | 373 + 27 specials |
| Anime film | |
| Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo the Movie | |
| Directed by | Shinji Takamatsu |
| Written by | Toshimichi Okawa |
| Studio | Studio Gallop |
| Released | December 23, 1999 |
| Runtime | 95 minutes |
| Anime film | |
| Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo the Movie 2: UFO Shūrai! Tornado Daisakusen!! | |
| Directed by | Shinji Takamatsu |
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| Studio | Studio Gallop |
| Released | December 20, 2003 |
| Runtime | 109 minutes |
Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen Mae Hashutsujo (こちら葛飾区亀有公園前派出所; lit. "This Is a Police Box (kōban) in Front of Kameari Park in Katsushika Ward"), often shortened to KochiKame (こち亀) and known in English as KochiKame: Tokyo Beat Cops, is a Japanese comedy manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Akimoto. It takes place in the present day, in and around a neighborhood police station (kōban) in the downtown part of Tokyo, and revolves around the misadventures of middle-aged cop Kankichi Ryotsu.
It was continuously serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump for 40 years, from September 1976 to September 2016. Its 1,960 chapters were collected into 201 tankōbon volumes, making it the manga with the second-highest number of volumes for a single series. The manga has been adapted into an anime television series, produced by Studio Gallop and broadcast in Japan by Fuji TV, three theatrical animated films (by Tatsunoko and Gallop, respectively), two live-action movies, several stage adaptations, and a live-action television series.
By 2014, the manga had over 157.2 million copies in circulation, making it the eighth best-selling manga series in history. Kochikame won the Special Judges Award at the 50th Shogakukan Manga Award in 2005, and the 48th Seiun Award for Best Comic in 2017.