Cancelled Jump Manga Chojo Gets Anime Revival This October

Most anime revivals celebrate long-running hits with years of chapters to draw from. Super Psychic Policeman Chojo is something stranger: a full television anime for a comedy manga that Shonen Jump already cancelled. The psychic-cop gag series premieres in Japan on October 6, 2026, and a fresh trailer just locked in the opening and ending theme songs along with an eight-actor voice cast.

The setup is gloriously lazy. Meguru Chojo is a police officer with genuine psychic powers, and he uses them for almost everything except actual police work. His partner is Nao Ippongi, a rookie whose judo black belt and immense strength earned her the nickname Gorilla. The two blunder through cases at the West Chinjuku Police Station, solving crimes mostly by accident, according to the English edition's publisher. This anime revival hands that premise to a studio and a creative team with real comedy chops.

From axe to airdate: the unlikely timeline

The manga's backstory makes the adaptation genuinely unusual. Shun Numa's original series ran in Weekly Shonen Jump from February 2024 to June 2025, ending after 65 chapters that were collected into eight volumes. For context, that is barely over a year of serialization in a magazine where cancellation often means a series vanishes into obscurity.

The anime was announced shortly after the manga ended, a turnaround that surprised even seasoned Jump readers. Casting and main-visual reveals followed across the summer of 2026, and the second full trailer landed on September 22, 2026 with the theme songs attached. Each reveal added credibility to the project: this was not a cheap cash-in on a dead property, but a fully staffed production with known names across the credits. ComicBook notes the speed of the turnaround as the most remarkable part of the story.

The cast and crew behind the comeback

Arvo Animation is producing the series, with Junichi Yamamoto directing. Yamamoto's recent credits include Maebashi Witches, and he shares headline duties with Hayashi Mori on series composition and scripts and Masakatsu Sasaki, known for We Never Learn: BOKUBEN, on character designs. It is a lineup built for bright, fast-paced comedy rather than prestige drama, which fits a gag manga perfectly.

The voice cast mixes established names with rising talent. Yusuke Kobayashi leads as Meguru Chojo, Riko Aono voices Nao Ippongi, and Maria Naganawa plays Robo-kun. The supporting cast includes Daisuke Ono as Yuki Inukai, Toshiya Miyata as Hajime Keinain, Nobuaki Kanemitsu as Hossan, Kanna Nakamura as Lily Togari, and Kazuki Ura as Heisuke Ban, Anime News Network reports. The opening theme, "That's! Chojo," is performed by the Japanese boy band M!LK and features prominently in the new trailer. The ending theme is "Mata Ashita," which translates to "See You Tomorrow," performed by Shifuku Poncho.

Where to watch the fall debut

The premiere is set for the Tuesday anime block on Kansai TV, Fuji TV, and affiliated stations across Japan, airing at 11:00 p.m. Japan time on October 6, 2026, which is 10:00 a.m. Eastern. International viewers have partial good news: AniTrendz reports the show will stream on Crunchyroll in select countries and territories, though the full list of regions has not been published and no other platforms have confirmed pickups. If you are outside Japan, expect further distribution announcements closer to airdate.

The debut lands in one of the busiest fall seasons in recent memory. Our Fall 2026 anime season watchlist breaks down everything else arriving this October, and the Anime & Animation hub is tracking every premiere as schedules get confirmed. English-speaking readers can also catch up on the source material, since the manga is available in English from VIZ Manga, which describes the story as a comedic whirlwind of crime-solving and bad luck.

How far can a cancelled comedy go?

Here is the honest counterpoint to the hype. The anime has only a short run of source material to draw on, which raises the obvious question: how many episodes can one short gag manga support? A dense action series would run dry fast, but Chojo has an advantage its genre provides. Gag comedies do not depend on strict plot continuity, which gives the writing staff room to expand sketches, invent new cases, and keep the psychic-cop premise running past the manga's ending.

There is precedent for exactly this kind of second life. Black Torch, another cancelled Jump series, received its anime adaptation this past summer, and its creator has spoken openly about the possibility of continuing the story with original material. Chojo fits that pattern even more comfortably, since its loose gag structure invites new material rather than demanding it. Creator Shun Numa has meanwhile moved on to a new Jump serial, The Ura Files, which reportedly took off quickly in its first chapters, so the anime team will likely steer the show's future on its own.

Unlike most anime revivals, which bank on nostalgia for franchises with decades of history, this one is betting that a short-lived comedy was cancelled before it found its audience. October 2026 will tell whether television gives it the second chance the magazine never did.