The December issue of LEED Publishing Co., Ltd.’s Comic Ran magazine revealed on Wednesday that Sentarō Kubota and Takao Saito’s manga adaptation of Shōtarō Ikenami’s Onihei Crime Reports in Edo (Onihei Hankachō) novel series will continue on “without changes.”
Kubota and Saito launched the Onihei Crime Reports in Edo manga in Comic Ran in 1993.
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).
The serialized novels inspired the first live-action television adaptation in 1969, as well as three subsequent series and a 1995 live-action film.