The Fall 2026 Anime Preview Guide

Super Psychic Policeman Chojo

On her first day at the West Chinjuku Police Station, Ippongi realizes she got the short end of the stick: Her new partner, Chojo, uses his psychic powers to do everything except work. But after some yakuza threaten to take over Ippongi's family's dojo, Chojo begins to take his job more seriously, and the pair embark on a comedic whirlwind solving crimes, catching bad guys, and blundering their way through life as police officers.

Super Psychic Policeman Chojo is based on the manga series by Shun Numa. The anime series is streaming on Crunchyroll on Tuesdays.

Originally a gag manga that padded the pages of Shonen Jump between 2024 and 2025, Super Psychic Policeman Chojo isn't a headliner Jump anime adaptation, but it carries the magazine's seal of approval, and that marker of quality shows in this episode. As the title suggests, Super Psychic Policeman Chojo is basically KoichiKame: Tokyo Beat Cops but with the titular Chojo's psychic powers and idiosyncratic attitude driving the humor. When rookie judo prodigy Nao Ippongi joins his team, the straight-laced young woman is quickly pulled into Chojo's pace and starts resolving cases ranging from locked smartphones to yakuza turf wars in the most bizarre way possible.

Even if the first episode of Super Psychic Policeman Chojo didn't quite grip me with its fairly tepid sight gags and pretty basic referential humor, there's enough going on under the hood to make me watch at least through episode three. While Chojo is nakedly a smug jerk, the way he reaches his egotistical dismissiveness interests me as a former gifted and talented kid (and current gifted and talented adult). Being so talented that you can resolve any problem easily can be super socially isolating, and I can totally see how Chojo's powers would inevitably turn him into a misanthropic, if not hyper-competent, weirdo. I hope Super Psychic engages with this theme more in its next few episodes, as I do think there's a kernel of an interesting idea there, but regardless, it seems like we're set to get at least a couple of other socially informed cartoon characters in the next episode.

While I normally find media where the police are the protagonists tends to fall into copaganda, Super Psychic Policeman Chojo is so overtly unserious that my reflex didn't trigger for this show. Chojo is so socially inept, and Ippongi is so out of her depth that the two being police officers felt entirely like a framing device rather than even a subtextual attempt to soften the image of police departments. To be honest, this feels like a firmly middle-of-the-pack anime in terms of both quality and potential popularity, but it did just enough for me that I feel like being kind to it in this review.

It's going to need to get a lot more interesting and quite a bit funnier pretty quickly if it's going to stand out at all this season, but there are definitely worse shows airing than Super Psychic Policeman Chojo this season.

When it comes to covering anime comedies for the Preview Guide, I have one very simple rule for defining success or failure: It has to make me laugh. That's really all there is to it. You may be surprised to learn just how many would-be chucklefests have failed in this task. While far from a perfect first outing, the premiere of Super Psychic Policeman Chojo successfully made me laugh. Ergo, we have a positive score up there in the rating doohickey.

To be more specific, Super Psychic Policeman Chojo has a real knack for comedic timing, which pairs well with its colorful and bubbly visuals. It earned a chuckle from me when we see the titular Chojo breaking his too-cool facade and acting like a total doofus when he shows off his psychic yo-yo tricks for a couple of kids that just end up calling him a pile of dog crap. I also enjoyed the montage of tiny officer Nao Ippongi mercilessly judo-tossing everyone and anyone that acted a fool in her line of sight. We even get a good sign-off gag right as the credits start to roll, when Nao learns that Chojo's willingness to give her the credit of taking down the mob of gangsters outside her family dojo is starting to give her the reputation of being her own kind of terrifying Monster of Chinjuku.

Really, Nao is doing so much of the heavy lifting when it comes to carrying this series. She's spunky, badass, a bit of an airhead, and—most important of all—eminently likeable. Sure, she probably has a bit too much faith in the notion of policemen being inherently good people, which makes even less sense when you learn that she got assigned to be Chojo's partner after judo-flipping a precinct pervert that got a bit too handsy. Still, Nao is good folks, and I think a lot of the appeal of keeping up with Super Psychic Policeman Chojo will come from getting to hang out with Nao every week.

The biggest complaint I have about the show so far actually comes down to the titular Super Psychic Policeman himself. I don't mind that Chojo comes across as a standoffish dick who regularly abuses his extraordinary psychic powers to scare and push away everyone around him. That basically comes with the territory of being a superpowered cop. My issue is that Chojo just isn't very interesting yet. Outside of the moments where he's contributing to the comedy, Chojo doesn't make much of an impression beyond the collection of tropes that define his powers and personality. He doesn't have a whole lot of chemistry with Nao yet, either, which could be a problem down the road. For now, though, Super Psychic Policeman Chojo has earned another week or two's worth of my time, because it did make me laugh. That's more than most anime comedies can attest to, honestly.

As we've all discovered at some point, you can't choose your coworkers. Sometimes you get the kind, understanding boss who doesn't bat an eye when you have a parent care emergency, and sometimes you get the principal who doesn't like it when you work to eradicate bullying in your classroom. And sometimes, if you're really unlucky, you get the psychic cop, the bane of the entire police department. I think you can guess which one Ippongi has landed.

As far as goofy workplace comedies go, this one is pretty darn fun. Ippongi has been reassigned to the least desirable police box in the city after she used her judo skills on a sexual harasser, which makes her the partner of Chojo, the resident psychic cop. “Psychic” is doing a lot of work here, because as far as I can tell from this episode, he's clairvoyant, telepathic, and telekinetic, and all of it annoys or endangers those around him. The man goes from reading an old guy's mind to retrieve his cellphone password to doing yo-yo tricks with a wrecking ball to impress a couple of kids inexplicably wandering the streets of Tokyo at night. He is the definition of a loose cannon, and poor Ippongi is stuck trying to figure out if she likes that about him or if he's the worst person she's ever met.

A couple of places in this episode made me smile or chuckle, and I think it's a good sign that only one involved Chojo's powers. The other is just a regular observation about older people and technology that's absolutely spot-on and delivered beautifully. It's funny to watch Chojo one-up little kids with his yo-yo (or wrecking ball); it's another to zero in on an everyday bit of ridiculousness and to treat both situations with the same comedic heft. This episode understands that you don't need to be over-the-top to be funny, and that bodes well for it going forward. Psychic gags can only have so many variations, but old guys not knowing how to use their smartphones are forever.

The show's stylized look largely works for it. There's something unsettling about Ippongi's eyes, but the blocky style and the blue light when Chojo's using his powers both highlight the bizarre world this takes place in. Ippongi can also generally hold her own, making her more than just the legs of the operation, and I hope that as she and Chojo spend more time together, they're able to work out a way to put both of their special skills together, even if Ippongi doesn't want to be on the same level as him. This isn't deep, but it is a lot of fun, and if it can keep up this balance of jokes, it could be one of the season's more amusing offerings.