The official website of LEED Publishing Co., Ltd. released a note on July 26 that explained that Sentarō Kubota and Takao Saito’s manga adaptation of Shōtarō Ikenami’s Onihei Crime Reports in Edo (Onihei Hankachō) novel series did not have a new chapter in Comic Ran magazine’s latest issue due to the story in the planned new chapter resembling an older story of the manga.
Kubota and Saito launched the manga in Comic Ran in 1993.
Upon further investigation, the editorial department acknowledged that the story resembled chapter 275 of the manga, which appeared in the November 2016 issue of Comic Ran in September 2016.
The serialized novels inspired the first live-action television adaptation in 1969, as well as three subsequent series and a 1995 live-action film.