If you can read this in Japanese and LOL, then you are Japanese!
What you find in this series, is almost every aspect of traditional and modern Japanese life depicted in one small police box next to a park in Tokyo.
Actually its a hell of a lot more then that, with everything from simple Japanese "つっこみ” and "ぼけ” to complex workings of Japanese society at both a political and social level.
The cast is huge but grounded on 3 main characters: Yrotsu, Reiko, and Nakagawa.
And really, anything more on this CLASSIC from a beginner reviewer like me would just be letters, so FIND IT AND
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 Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Kochikame, This is the Police Station in Front of Kameari Park in Katsushika Ward, Robot Santapei Japanese: こちら葛飾区亀有公園前派出所 InformationType: Manga
Volumes: 200
Chapters: 1957
Status: Finished
Published: Sep 21, 1976 to Sep 17, 2016
Demographic:
Shounen
Serialization:
Shounen Jump (Weekly) Authors:
Akimoto, Osamu (Story & Art) Statistics Ranked: #30272 2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #6658
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May 22, 2024
I find it hilarious that such a "historical masterpiece" (historical: started in 1976 and influenced the whole generation) has no review, until someone write a better one, I will keep this here.
Kochikame starts as a story of Kankichi that does everything a policeman shouldn't do: abuse of authority, harassment, bribe, is always lazy and is quite useless for someone working on a police station. As the story goes, the scale of the scenario become worldwide, alternating from the standpoint of a comedic character working on a local police station to his tries on internet business, coffee making, trading, tourism, fitness ventures... This become possible ... |
