# October 11 2019 Premiere & Timeslot Announced for Original TV Anime “Kabukicho Sherlock” <img src="http://a.nime.me/0158/0030/october-11-2019-premiere--90.png"> The official website of animation studio Production I.G. has just announced that their original TV anime series <i>Kabukicho Sherlock</i> will be part of the late-night programming block <i>”Animeism”</i>. Furthermore, the animation studio has announced October 11 as the official release date of the series. <i>Kabukicho Sherlock</i> is a modern-day reimagination of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s characters as amateur sleuths living in modern-day Tokyo’s red light district trying to solve a series of killings dubbed as the “Jack the Ripper Murders”. The show’s official website describes the anime’s story as such: <i>”The East Side of Shinjuku Ward … The neon-lit Kabuki-chō district stretches across the center of this chaotic city. Where light shines, there are also deep shadows. Yet even deep in this darkness where evildoers lurk, the light of a detective tenement shines. The tenement run by Mrs. Hudson has seven peculiar, shady individuals. The curtains has risen on this stage on the night when a bizarre murder by Jack the Ripper has occurred. Is this suspense? No, comedy? An indistinguishable drama is about to begin…”</i> Below is the third official trailer of the series, which you can also check out: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fdXmN3nx5zk" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> <i>Kabukicho Sherlock</i> is directed by Ai Yoshimura (<i>My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU</i>), with Taku Kishimoto (<i>ERASED, Joker Game</i>) in charge of writing the scripts. Character design is done by Toshiyuki Yahagi (<i>Persona 5 The Animation</i>) and music is composed by Takuro Iga (<i>Tsuki ga Kirei</i>). The anime’s OP is sung by EGO-WRAPPIN’. Previously-announced main cast are: • Katsuyuki Konishi as Sherlock Holmes • Yūichi Nakamura as John H. Watson • Seiichirō Yamashita as James Moriarty • Sōma Saitō as Fuyuto Kyogoku • Nao Tōyama as Mary Morstan • Mariko Higashiuchi as Lucy Morstan • Yutaka Aoyama as Michel Belmont • Tatsumaru Tachibana as Toratarō Kobayashi • Junichi Suwabe as Mrs. Hudson Source: <a href="https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2019/08/14/kabukicho-sherlock-tv-anime-digs-for-clues-in-october-of-2019">Crunchyroll News</a>