The manga won the Short Work Prize at the 21st Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize awards in 2017.
NHK revealed on Tuesday that the television anime of Kaoru Fukaya’s Yomawari Neko (Nightwatch Cat) 8-panel manga will premiere on the channel in March, and will have 15 episodes that will air five at a time on March 14, 20, and 27.
The anime will star Takayuki Yamada as Heizō Endō and Atsumi Tanezaki as Jūrō.
Kodansha began publishing the manga on its MoAE site in 2016.