Kochikame Hindi Episodes 1

[Henrietta Naughton]

Thelong-running Japanese manga series KochiKame by Osamu Akimoto spawned an anime series debuting almost 20 years following the first serialized manga chapter from 1976. The anime series of KochiKame ran from June 16, 1996 up to December 19, 2004 through the Fuji TV television network in Japan.

The anime episodes are largely based on the actual storylines of numerous manga chapters previously published, with occasional differences in plot and character design, plus the inclusion of 'special' episodes and anime-original storylines made exclusively for the anime series.

Episode numbering includes the official production number which is the numbering used on official DVDs and home media releases in Japan, as well as the "overall story count", which is sequential episode numbering that goes in order of the airing dates. The official numbering has separate numbering for the specials, which will be labeled with an "SP".

These are episodes that are unnumbered for some reason. Perhaps they were only aired during broadcast, and not released on home media. Or, in the case of "Ryo Becomes Invisible", it was initially released on VHS as a Special, but was later released on the 28th volume of the DVD set as a regular episode.

Kochikame (short for Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Koen Mae Hashutsujo, which translates to This Is the Police Station in Front of Kameari Park in Katsushika Ward) is a comedy manga that ran in Weekly Shonen Jump, written by Osamu Akimoto. The main character is Kankichi Ryotsu, a lazy, street-wise cop with salaryman tendencies, like playing Pachinko, betting at the horses or trying his luck at custom get-rich-quick schemes. Some times, he even does police work.

Worthy to mention is that the manga does not have numbered chapters and was almost never considered to participate for the regular popularity polls in Shonen Jump note Shonen Jump's popularity polls determine which series are likely to be kept/cancelled, basically meaning Mr. Akimoto could continue the series as long as he wanted. And this series' heavy anti-cancellation armor showed: It ran weekly since it began in 1976, with 1960 chapters. There have been 201 volumes produced (and more than 360 episodes aired on Japanese TV), making Kochikame the longest-running manga series in history note Disregarding Golgo 13 and Doraemon, neither of which are in production currently.

The series owes its longevity (and lack of chapter numbers) to the fact that it hardly ever uses continuing plots. Instead, each chapter is a self-contained comedy tale, usually involving Ryotsu trying to get rich via some sort of scheme, which invariably backfires horribly. The straightforward plots mean that generations of Japanese kids have been able to enjoy the series without prior knowledge of previous stories. The series has remained fresh by taking most of its humor from pop culture and real world events: often Ryo's latest scheme involves capitalizing on some current fad or event in the news.

For its 30th anniversary in 2006, Mr. Akimoto was awarded with many of Shueisha's (and other publishers as well) artists making Crossovers with his series, such a event being legendary since when artists are invited to pay a homage to Long Running series in Jump, said artist will likely draw a character from the series with his own artstyle and not much else; Kochikame got actual crossovers, full self-contained stories and appearing in other Jump series as a cameo, it also made some artists who were working in nothing at all to get off their seats and make a story just for this ongoing legend.

In 2016, after 40 full years in the business and 200 volumes, Kochikame finally came to an end, although it got a 201st volume on October 4, 2021 to compile a bunch of extra one-shot chapters that were published after the manga was done.

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