Kochikame: Tokyo Beat-Cops chapter 1: "The Young Officers of Downtown"

Chapter 1, the first chapter proper of the serialization. Once again, this was largely Hichikarah's work made in an attempt to give people a good scanlation over that awful original.

Some interesting things Hichikarah wanted me to note here is that here: Nakagawa isn't here, as he was implied to have been left to monitor the Koban on that small island. We're introduced to Terai, the officer Ryotsu in chapter 0 said was in the hospital. We also get introduced to Totsuka, a character who was not very popular with readers and did thusly did not last very long as Ryotsu's main partner. Akimoto also draws a lot of funny background characters that look very unnatural silently walking around in Tokyo, such as a super detailed US army man, or a guy with an open carry pistol on his pants while wearing a shirt that just says "gun" all over. So it's kind of interesting to see the manga in a sort of growing pains phase and its still very amusing.

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

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