Kochikame: Tokyo Beat Cops chapter 0: "Ryo-San of the Apology Report"

Upon her discovery that the scanlation that exists for Kochikame is awful, Hichikarah decided to do chapter 0 mostly by herself, now in full color. Not to say we weren't involved too, it still went through a round of rewrites and No More Cheese Dip giving it a swanky English cover and doing the beginning insert pages and table of contents. This was mostly worked on by her to kill time in between projects and took very little time away from existing projects. If you want more Kochikame let us know.

Kind of interesting to see this is before any of the identifiable iconography of this series was established such as Ryotsu's distinct unibrow, and the team at the koban is very small.


And here's the Kochikame theme if you need something to get you in the mood to read it.

For context, this was Osamu Akimoto's (the author) first major work. He had submitted this story for a contest held by Shueisha where the winner would get their oneshot published in Young Jump. The oneshot proved really popular, so after a couple months Shueisha ordered a full serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump where it continued until 2016. This story being a pilot chapter and not a part of the serialization has led to it being numbered as chapter 0. To celebrate the manga's triumphant ending, Shueisha in 2016 republished the story in full color in the 42nd issue of Weekly Shonen Jump in 2016. Hichi happened to have access to a digital version of that specific issue, so that is where the scans used here are sourced from.

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