The play will run from September 9-19 at Tokyo’s AiiA 2.5 Theater Tokyo, and from September 23-25 at Osaka’s Sankei Hall Breeze.
The manga is also getting a new stage play adaptation for the manga’s 40th anniversary.
The original manga inspired an anime special in 1985 and then various other anime specials that aired between 2005-2008.
The official website of Osamu Akimoto’s Kochira Katsushika-ku Kamearikouen-mae Hashutsujo (“Kochikame”) police comedy manga revealed on Monday that the new 40th anniversary television anime will be a one-hour television special that will run on Fuji TV on September 18 at 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. The anime special’s story will center on Sabrina, a princess of the Attakaino Kingdom who looks exactly like Lemon Giboshi.