Japan's NTV broadcast network featured a live action Inspector Zenigata TV special and subsequent series with Ryohei Suzuki, ("Hentai Karmen", "Gatchaman" both 2013) starring as the Inspector. The show follows the character as a brilliant, doggedly capable IPCO officer successfully chasing down an assortment of criminals. Joining Suzuki are Atsuko Maeda and Takahiro Miura as the Inspector's neophyte detective aides. The series and special both were presented on Hulu Japan in February 2017. It revealed the first poster visual on January 16, 2017.