History Manga / Jiraishin

%% * CoolGuns: The Glock with the Tokarev. Not too many otherwise.

* CoolGuns:
** Park's got a Beretta 92F when he covertly came into Japan.
** Kyoya got a Glock 17 from an underground informant he personally knows from his detective days.

''Jiraishin'' follows a [[MysteryOfTheWeek case-of-the-week]] format (it has no ongoing storyline and only a few recurring characters), where the culprits are usually extraordinarily horrible criminal. Kyoya Ida is a detective and a [[SociopathicHero really, really sinister guy]]. The world is not a happy place, but he deals with it...and, by "deals with it", he ensures that [[KnightTemplar justice is served no matter how morally wrong he appears to be]]. In ''Jiraishin Diablo'', Ida has left the force while suffering from Keratoconus before he met with a police detective and a grown up Aya Koike in investigating what really happening in Amakura Island after most of its inhabitants were killed by an unknown disease. As the three work to investigate the mysterious deaths, they learn that [[spoiler:that the [[GovernmentConspiracy Japanese government has covered up the deaths due to the possible use of a WMD against the island's inhabitants.]]]]

* ActionGirl: Eriko could be considered one, considering her line of work.

* ArmCannon: Anything is a cannon in Kyoya's hands.

* AuthorAppeal:
* BackToBackBadasses: In the photography arc [[spoiler: the photographer and the lone hitman make a pretty good team.]]

* BewareTheQuietOnes: Kyoya maybe stoic but if you hurt any innocent civilians or his friends, then say your prayers because you're going to get a bullet in your brain.

* BodyHorror: Most of the cases that Kyoya handled have a lot of gruesome deaths.
* BoomHeadshot: Kyouya is a really a good shot.
* CoolGuns: The Glock with the Tokarev. Not too many otherwise.

* CreepyChild: Aya Koike.

* DeadPartner: [[spoiler:Tsuyoshi Yamaki]].

* DullSurprise: Nothing...... Absolutely ''nothing'' can surprise Kyouya.
* TheDeterminator: Lots of chapter specific characters.

* FairCop: Both Kyoya and Eriko.

* GoodCopBadCop: Yamaki and later, Eriko take the good cop routine while Kyoya takes the bad cop role.
* IneffectualLoner: Kyoya gets a partner named Tsuyoshi Yamaki. [[spoiler:After he's gunned down]], he's partnered with Eriko Aizawa.
* InstantDeathBullet: See AnyoneCanDie.

* MindScrew: All the weird imagery.

* NotQuiteDead: Averted. Most deaths are final.
* NotSoDifferent: The antagonists and Kyoya are always kindred spirits in some regard (i.e. they are both morbid).
* OneManArmy: Kyoya. Period.

* PerpetualFrowner: Kyoya, though he does show some emotions particularly when he's with some of the people who are close to him.

* StartOfDarkness: Odds are the chapter will have a flashback to one, or the chapter itself will be one.
* TheStoic: Kyoya doesn't talk much, except to a few people he knows.
* StormingTheCastle: Most of the time with Kyoya.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Kyoya.

* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Most of the detectives including Tsuyoshi and Eriko. Includes most of the bad guys/gals too.

* WorldHalfEmpty: Kyoya's view of the world as a police officer.

* CoolGuns: Park's got a Beretta 92F when he covertly came into Japan.

* EtTuBrute: Park does this after killing off the diplomat and his bodyguard escorts in Tokyo due to his disgust [[spoiler:of people being left by their governments without helping them like the Amakura survivors.]]

''Jiraishin'' is an ultra dark detective manga by Creator/TsutomuTakahashi. The title literally means "Landmine Quake". The manga ran on Kodansha's ''Monthly Afternoon'' manga anthology from 1992 to 1999. A sequel series by the same author, ''Jiraishin Diablo'', begun serialization in 2008 and ended in 2011 with 3 volumes. There was also a short-lived English adaptation that was published during the late 90's by Mixx Zine (the predecessor of {{Tokyopop}}) under the title of ''Ice Blade''. 19 Volumes were published in Japan with 10 Bunko/Aizobans published subsequently. It has been published in French, German, Italian, Korean and Mandarin Chinese. Jiraishin won the General Category Award under the 23rd Kodansha Manga Awards in 1999

'''''Jiraishin''''' is an ultra dark detective manga by Creator/TsutomuTakahashi. The title literally means "Landmine Quake". The manga ran on Kodansha's ''Monthly Afternoon'' manga anthology from 1992 to 1999. A sequel series by the same author, ''Jiraishin Diablo'', begun serialization in 2008 and ended in 2011 with 3 volumes. There was also a short-lived English adaptation that was published during the late 90's by Mixx Zine (the predecessor of {{Tokyopop}}) under the title of ''Ice Blade''. 19 Volumes were published in Japan with 10 Bunko/Aizobans published subsequently. It has been published in French, German, Italian, Korean and Mandarin Chinese. Jiraishin won the General Category Award under the 23rd Kodansha Manga Awards in 1999

* BadAss: Kyouya and many of the chapter specific characters.

'''''Jiraishin''''' is an ultra dark detective manga by Creator/TsutomuTakahashi . The title literally means "Landmine Quake". The manga ran on Kodansha's ''Monthly Afternoon'' manga anthology from 1992 to 1999. A sequel series by the same author, ''Jiraishin Diablo'', begun serialization in 2008 and ended in 2011 with 3 volumes. There was also a short-lived English adaptation that was published during the late 90's by Mixx Zine (the predecessor of {{Tokyopop}}) under the title of ''Ice Blade''. 19 Volumes were published in Japan with 10 Bunko/Aizobans published subsequently. It has been published in French, German, Italian, Korean and Mandarin Chinese. Jiraishin won the General Category Award under the 23rd Kodansha Manga Awards in 1999

'''''Jiraishin''''' is an ultra dark detective manga by [=TsutomuTakahashi=]. The title literally means "Landmine Quake". The manga ran on Kodansha's ''Monthly Afternoon'' manga anthology from 1992 to 1999. A sequel series by the same author, ''Jiraishin Diablo'', begun serialization in 2008 and ended in 2011 with 3 volumes. There was also a short-lived English adaptation that was published during the late 90's by Mixx Zine (the predecessor of {{Tokyopop}}) under the title of ''Ice Blade''. 19 Volumes were published in Japan with 10 Bunko/Aizobans published subsequently. It has been published in French, German, Italian, Korean and Mandarin Chinese. Jiraishin won the General Category Award under the 23rd Kodansha Manga Awards in 1999

The series has ended as Takahashi is now pursuing a new manga called ''Manga/HitoHitoriFutari''.

[[caption-width-right:280:Iida stares down right at your soul.]]

* ArtEvolution: Near the middle of the series.