A television anime adaptation of Shōtarō Ikenami’s Onihei Crime Reports in Edo (Onihei Hankachō or Onihei, the Devilish Bureau Chief) novel series has been green-lit.
The serialized novels inspired the first live-action television adaptation in 1969, as well as three subsequent series and a 1995 live-action film.
The anime will be titled Onihei, and will premiere in 2017.
The historical novel series depicts Heizō Hasegawa, who metes justice on wrongdoers and supervises the crackdown on arsonists and robbers in Japan’s Edo period (1603-1868).