More Kochikame! I find it really amusing that the synopsis for this series on Mangadex and all other manga reading websites specifically mention a big part of this series is a "lack of actual police work", when a core part of all the chapters thus far has been police work. Chapter 0 saw them writing incident reports for mistakes made, chapter 1 focused on them going on a beat patrol, chapter 2 was about solving a civil disturbance involving a homeless man, that previous chapter was the only thus far to not have a story involving police work specifically.
In this chapter Ryotsu does a junkai renraku, which is when local police officers in Japan go door to door to gather information on the residents for use in emergency situations. This chapter covers something unique to Japanese police-work, so why does this series have this reputation in the west as a series where no actual police work is done?
I would say ignorance, but there's 2000+ chapters for this thing to devolve into wild over top tomfoolery with no actual police work happening, so we'll just have to wait a couple years into this translation and see. Still crazy to me so far that this this is considered the growing pains era of the series, and we're still 15-20 volumes away from when Akimoto thinks the manga started getting good. I've enjoyed all the chapters so far quite a bit.
You can download this chapter here!
I've been looking for a proper translation of Kochikame for so long! I'm so glad it's being done (and done so well!) now. Keep up the good work!
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