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Muse Malaysia Licenses Police in a Pod Anime
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Muse Malaysia announced on Saturday that it has licensed the television anime of Miko Yasu's Police in a Pod (Hakozume: Kōban Joshi no Gyakushū) manga. The company will announce distribution details for the anime at a later date.
The anime will premiere on the AT-X channel on January 5 at 11:30 p.m., and it will also run on Tokyo MX, KBS Kyoto, Sun TV, TV Aichi, and BS NTV.
The police comedy centers on female police officer Kawai, who had enough of a career she wasn't even that into. She was about to hand in her resignation, when the unthinkable happened — she met the new, female director of her station! And after spending a little time with this gorgeous role model, Kawai realizes that maybe she isn't quite done being an officer after all.
Yūzō Satō (The Gokusen, Kaiji) is directing the anime at Madhouse, and Ryunosuke Kingetsu (Ninja Nonsense, Samurai Girls) is in charge of the series scripts. Kei Tsuchiya (Laidbackers, Shōnen Hollywood - Holly Stage for 49) is designing the characters.
Singer Riko Azuna is contributing the opening theme song "Shiranakya" (I Gotta Know), and singer nonoc is contributing the opening theme song "Change."
Yasu launched the manga in Kodansha's Morning magazine in November 2017, and Kodansha published the manga's 18th compiled book volumes on August 23. Kodansha Comics is publishing the manga in English. The manga was nominated for the 66th Shogakukan Manga Awards last year and the 45th Annual Kodansha Manga Awards this year. It was also #22 on Da Vinci Magazine's most recent manga ranking for "Book of the Year."
The manga already inspired a live-action television series that premiered on July 7 and ended in September.
