Tokkō

Tokkō (特公) is a Seinen manga of Tōru Fujisawa. The history is rather dark, tending towards the horror, and graphically enough forces and bloody.

It is the subject of an adaptation in Anime since the April 16th 2006 on the Japanese chain WOWOW.

There exist three versions different from the history: that of the prepublication, that of the publication in volumes (mainly a regrouping of the chapters of the preceding one) and that of animates.

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Many volumes: 2 + 1 for Tokkō phantom hunter, a parallel history.
Start date of publication: February 24th 2004, in the magazine Afternoon
Appeared at: Kōdansha
Statute: Finished publication but “open” history (animates it goes besides further in the history than the manga)

Synopsis

A young police inspector of the mobile section of mobile investigation ( Tokki ), Shindō, and his/her sister must face their past. Victims of an unexplained catastrophe having carried their parents, the two young adults see appearing monsters called Phantom emerging from the depths and which are caught some with the human beings. These cases secret and are managed by the section Tokkō (Special section of public safety), composed inspectors of age similar to our 2 protagonists and in particular of an young woman who haunted the dreams of Shindō. This one decides to avenge his/her parents died in the mysterious accident for Machida and enters Tokkō, after a test of particular establishment….

Characters

Ranmaru Shindō (): Inspector of Tokki, survivor of the disaster of Machida, it wishes to avenge his parents who left the life there. It rève often of Sakura.
Saya Shindō (): Sister of Ranmaru, it helps and accompanies her brother by best than it can in her quète.
Sakura Rokujō (): Inspector of Tokkō, of which it is one of most powerful elements the.
Kureha Suzuka ()
Ryuko Ibuki (, only in animates)
Takeru Imekai ()

Animate

The adaptation animates some comprises 13 25 minutes episodes, diffused from April 15th, 2006 to July 29th of the same year on WOWOW. It is carried out by Masashi Abe, on a Scénario of Mitsuhiro Yamada, helped by the Character designer Koji Watanabe and the studio AIC Spirits.

The first episode of Tokkō was diffused 2 times at the Cannes festival

Episodes

Differences with the manga

Contrary to the manga, Ranmaru remains a long time in Tokki. It inquires there under the dictatorial orders of its chief who wishes to update the secrecy, in spite of the warnings of Tokkō.

It is very quickly much nearer to Sakura, in spite of the fact that they do not work together. They evoke memories of childhood and it saves it several times.

It would seem that animates it also presents elements of the manga Tokkō phantom hunter, in particular Araragi Itsuto and its Mayu sister.

Music

Opening: Nothing , sung by dB
Ending: Sherry , sung by dB

Seiyuus

Fumiko Orikasa : Sakura Rokujō
Kenichi Suzumura : Ranmaru Shindō
Akemi Kanda : Saya Shindō
Hiroshi Tsuchida : Shogo Muramasa
Kana Ueda : Suzuka Kureha
Rio Natsuki: Ryoko Ibuki
Wataru Takagi : Kaoru Kunikida

Anecdotes

() Is a unit which really existed. Created at the beginning of the XXe century, it tracked the dissidents, halfway between the political police, the secret services and a police force of the thought which could have inspired George Orwell. If one can see a bond in the taste of the secrecy and for a small share in the fact of controlling what the public knows, Tokkō of animates has fortunately only little to do with the historical police force.

External bonds

the series on WOWOW
Official site of the series

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