KochiKame: Tokyo Beat Cops: Difference between revisions

'''''KochiKame: Tokyo Beat Cops''''' (Japanese: ''Kochikame'', short for ''[[Long Title|Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Koen Mae Hashutsujo]]'', which translates to ''This Is the Police Station in Front of Kameari Park in Katsushika Ward'') is a comedy manga in [[Shonen Jump|Weekly Shonen Jump]] written by Osamu Akimoto. The main character is Kankichi Ryotsu, a lazy, street-wise cop with [[Salaryman]] tendencies, like playing Pachinko, betting at the horses or trying his luck at custom get-rich-quick schemes. Some times, he even does police work.

 

 

The series owes its longevity (and lack of chapter numbers) to the fact that it hardly ever uses continuing plots. Instead, each chapter is a self-contained comedy tale, usually involving Ryotsu trying to get rich via some sort of scheme, which invariably backfires horribly. The straightforward plots mean that generations of Japanese kids have been able to enjoy the series without prior knowledge of previous stories. The series has remained fresh by taking most of its humor from pop culture and real world events: often Ryo's latest scheme involves capitalizing on some current fad or event in the news.

{{quote|"He can be run over by a train and nothing will happen to him!"}}

** Semi-subverted on an episode where he is actually hit by a train and ''he does die'', but of course he's alive and kicking [[Status Quo Is God|by the end of the episode]].

* [[Nosebleed]]: Ex mercenary cop, Volvo Saigo is very unaccustomed with women. He gets a nosebleed whenever he's in sexual contact, physically or mentally, with a woman.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: The Chief, Akimoto and Nakagawa. ''Usually'', since all three lose it from time to time.

* [[Shout-Out]]: The [[Show Within a Show|in-series]] [[Dating Sim]] "Dokidoki Memorial", a parody of ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]''. It even has for its main heroine a character named "Saori Saotome", written with composite kanjis of the names of ''Tokimemo'' heroines Saki Nijino ("Sa"), Shiori Fujisaki ("Ori"), and Yumi Saotome, and is voiced in the anime version by Shiho Kikuchi, the seiyuu of ''Tokimemo'' heroine Miharu Tatebayashi.

* [[Status Quo Is God]]: There is some sort of vague and nebulous continuity, but every major change (such as Ryotsu leaving the Police Station "for good" or getting engaged) is undone before the end of the episode.

* [[Trouser Space]]: Special Detective Kitano who only wears a necktie, a speedo, and pistols often pulls out a banana or a cell phone from his speedo and is not space consuming. His items don't don't appear when he fights completely unarmed by removing his weapons and his speedo.