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''Kurokôchi'' (クロコーチ, Kurokōchi) is an Award-winning half PoliceProcedural half {{ConspiracyThriller}} {{Seinen}} manga written by Takashi Nagasaki and drawn by Kōji Kōno, prepublished from February 2012 to February 2018 and compiled in 24 volumes.
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''Kurokôchi'' (クロコーチ, Kurokōchi) is an Award-winning half PoliceProcedural half {{ConspiracyThriller}} ConspiracyThriller {{Seinen}} manga written by Takashi Nagasaki and drawn by Kōji Kōno, prepublished from February 2012 to February 2018 and compiled in 24 volumes.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Kurokôchi has never revealed his motives for solving his cases. One time he claimed that he wanted to do good for once, another time he claimed that he was eliminating the competition by tackling other corrupt policemen. He notably managed to steal the funds of the Sakura Assembly while stopping [[spoiler: Hideo Takahashi]] from continuing murdering people.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Kurokôchi has never revealed his motives for solving his cases. One time he claimed that he wanted to do good for once, another time he claimed that he was eliminating the competition by tackling other corrupt policemen. He notably managed to steal the funds of the Sakura Assembly Council while stopping [[spoiler: Hideo Takahashi]] from continuing murdering people.
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* TheBadGuysAreCops: The police in the series is incredibly corrupt, as seen when Kurokochi himself appears to be the most benign compared to the conspiracies and unofficial hitmen that come from the police. Sawatari reveals the existence of the Sakura Assembly, a covert group within the police tasked with dealing with anything susceptible of tarnishing the reputation of the police through illegal ways, mostly murder.
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* TheBadGuysAreCops: The police in the series is incredibly corrupt, as seen when Kurokochi himself appears to be the most benign compared to the conspiracies and unofficial hitmen that come from the police. Sawatari reveals the existence of the Sakura Assembly, Council, a covert group within the police tasked with dealing with anything susceptible of tarnishing the reputation of the police through illegal ways, mostly murder.
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* BenevolentConspiracy: The Sakura Assembly is, at heart, a group made of policemen aiming to help the Police under the radar and compensate the police officers' families in case they die. However, the struggle over its large funds of 30,000,000,000 yen between the senior members of the Assembly has corrupted its goals and methods.
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* BenevolentConspiracy: The Sakura Assembly Council is, at heart, a group made of policemen aiming to help the Police under the radar and compensate the police officers' families in case they die. However, the struggle over its large funds of 30,000,000,000 yen between the senior members of the Assembly Council has corrupted its goals and methods.
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* CrusadingLawyer: Yataro Echigo, an incorruptible prosecutor who tackles on Sawatari and the Sakura Assembly to uphold the law. The one time he was forced by his family and superiors to take a bribe, he never used it, even to save his son.
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* CrusadingLawyer: Yataro Echigo, an incorruptible prosecutor who tackles on Sawatari and the Sakura Assembly Council to uphold the law. The one time he was forced by his family and superiors to take a bribe, he never used it, even to save his son.
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* TheDogWasTheMastermind: [[spoiler:Hideo Takahashi]], a seemingly lower ranked goon of the Sakura Assembly, is in fact the real head.
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* TheDogWasTheMastermind: [[spoiler:Hideo Takahashi]], a seemingly lower ranked goon of the Sakura Assembly, Council, is in fact the real head.
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* DominoRevelation: Kurokôchi and Seike's investigation of the Sakura Assembly naturally lead to the reveal of one secret after the other. When its existence is revealed, the question of how it can operate leads to them being connected to the 300,000,000 yen robbery, then [[spoiler: the reveal that a commissar's son committed it]] [[spoiler: then said that robber became the head of the Assembly]],[[spoiler: his former name was Hideto Kiritani]], [[spoiler: but he switched name with another person who became Hideo Takahashi the identity Kiritani was supposed to take, fooling the Assembly]].
** Afterward, Shingo's investigations of his father's suspicious death lead to the discovery of the 400 Blows terrorist group, then [[spoiler: their infiltration of one of the police's top position]]. After the 400 Blows are thwarthed, one of their puppets then reveals that even above the Sakura Assembly and the 400 Blows lies another secret and even more powerful organization named Susanoo's Cherry Tree.
** Afterward, Shingo's investigations of his father's suspicious death lead to the discovery of the 400 Blows terrorist group, then [[spoiler: their infiltration of one of the police's top position]]. After the 400 Blows are thwarthed, one of their puppets then reveals that even above the Sakura Assembly and the 400 Blows lies another secret and even more powerful organization named Susanoo's Cherry Tree.
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* DominoRevelation: Kurokôchi and Seike's investigation of the Sakura Assembly Council naturally lead to the reveal of one secret after the other. When its existence is revealed, the question of how it can operate leads to them being connected to the 300,000,000 yen robbery, then [[spoiler: the reveal that a commissar's son committed it]] [[spoiler: then said that robber became the head of the Assembly]],[[spoiler: Council]],[[spoiler: his former name was Hideto Kiritani]], [[spoiler: but he switched name with another person who became Hideo Takahashi the identity Kiritani was supposed to take, fooling the Assembly]].
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** Afterward, Shingo's investigations of his father's suspicious death lead to the discovery of the 400 Blows terrorist group, then [[spoiler: their infiltration of one of the police's top position]]. After the 400 Blows are thwarthed, one of their puppets then reveals that even above the SakuraAssembly Council and the 400 Blows lies another secret and even more powerful organization named Susanoo's Cherry Tree.
** Afterward, Shingo's investigations of his father's suspicious death lead to the discovery of the 400 Blows terrorist group, then [[spoiler: their infiltration of one of the police's top position]]. After the 400 Blows are thwarthed, one of their puppets then reveals that even above the Sakura
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* EnemyMine: Kurokôchi enlists Sawatari's help against the Sakura Assembly so they share their enormous funds.
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* EnemyMine: Kurokôchi enlists Sawatari's help against the Sakura Assembly Council so they share their enormous funds.
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* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: Takeshi Endo, one of the founder of the Sakura Assembly and Seike's mentor, is killed by the Sakura Assembly because he spilled the secrets of the Assembly. [[spoiler: However, it is revealed that Hideo Takahashi had him killed because he feared that Endo knew he wasn't the real Kiritani]].
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* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: Takeshi Endo, one of the founder of the Sakura Assembly Council and Seike's mentor, is killed by the Sakura Assembly Council because he spilled the secrets of the Assembly.Council. [[spoiler: However, it is revealed that Hideo Takahashi had him killed because he feared that Endo knew he wasn't the real Kiritani]].
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* TheManBehindTheMan: When Kurokôchi and Seike investigate the Sakura Assembly, they first discover that [[spoiler: Heizo Shiroo]] is the head of the group. However [[spoiler: Shiroo]] became a figurehead for the real mastermind [[spoiler: Hideto Takahashi]].
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* TheManBehindTheMan: When Kurokôchi and Seike investigate the Sakura Assembly, Council, they first discover that [[spoiler: Heizo Shiroo]] is the head of the group. However [[spoiler: Shiroo]] became a figurehead for the real mastermind [[spoiler: Hideto Takahashi]].
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* MeaningfulName: The Sakura Assembly refers to Toyama Kinshirô, a folklore hero who defended the innocent and had a cherry tree tattoo on the arm.
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* MeaningfulName: The Sakura Assembly Council refers to Toyama Kinshirô, a folklore hero who defended the innocent and had a cherry tree tattoo on the arm.
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* ThePerfectCrime: The 300,000,000 yen robbery, a daring heist whose culprit was never found. [[spoiler: In reality subverted, as Hideto Kiritani, the culprit, was rapidly caught by the Public Security Investigation Agency, who kept silent about it because the burgeoning Sakura Assembly used the money as their fund]].
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* ThePerfectCrime: The 300,000,000 yen robbery, a daring heist whose culprit was never found. [[spoiler: In reality subverted, as Hideto Kiritani, the culprit, was rapidly caught by the Public Security Investigation Agency, who kept silent about it because the burgeoning Sakura Assembly Council used the money as their fund]].
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* ProfessionalKiller: The assassin "Momotaro" and his disciple are a secret group of Japanese assassins at the orders of the Sakura Assembly.
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* ProfessionalKiller: The assassin "Momotaro" and his disciple are a secret group of Japanese assassins at the orders of the Sakura Assembly.Council.
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Yataro Echigo and Kurokôchi temporarily work together to arrest the Sakura Assembly. Although Echigo is a CrusadingLawyer and Kurokôchi a DirtyCop, Echigo still considers him a comrade.
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Yataro Echigo and Kurokôchi temporarily work together to arrest the Sakura Assembly.Council. Although Echigo is a CrusadingLawyer and Kurokôchi a DirtyCop, Echigo still considers him a comrade.
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* ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: Averted, the senile father of [[spoiler: Hideto Kiritani]] can still recognize his son even after decades of absence. Him recognizing [[spoiler: Kurizuka]] as his son and beginning to publicly ramble about it caused [[spoiler: Hideo to fear that someone discovered that he wasn't the real Hideto and thus unable to receive Hideto's 300 million yen and begin his killing spree inside the Sakura Assembly]].
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* ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: Averted, the senile father of [[spoiler: Hideto Kiritani]] can still recognize his son even after decades of absence. Him recognizing [[spoiler: Kurizuka]] as his son and beginning to publicly ramble about it caused [[spoiler: Hideo to fear that someone discovered that he wasn't the real Hideto and thus unable to receive Hideto's 300 million yen and begin his killing spree inside the Sakura Assembly]].Council]].
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* WarForFunAndProfit: Susanoo's Cherry Tree's ultimate goal. [[spoiler:They want to spur Japan into a militaristic stance so that the country has a proper army and becomes indispensable to the United States as a military ally in Asia. To do so, they engineer a fake terrorist attack in the Shinkansen and try to poison the Assembly to lead to reelections. While the attacks are averted, their mere attempt is enough to shake public opinion into worrying about their national security anyway.]]
* YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith: Whenever Seike or Kurokôchi butt head with a powerful politician or TheConspiracy. Sawatari, for instance, warns Yataru Echigô about the Sakura Assembly.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Takahashi decides to kill one of his two accountants because after hiding the Sakura's Assembly's money in off-shore accounts, he only needs one of them. He thus forces them to play RussianRoulette.
* YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith: Whenever Seike or Kurokôchi butt head with a powerful politician or TheConspiracy. Sawatari, for instance, warns Yataru Echigô about the Sakura Assembly.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Takahashi decides to kill one of his two accountants because after hiding the Sakura's Assembly's money in off-shore accounts, he only needs one of them. He thus forces them to play RussianRoulette.
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* WarForFunAndProfit: Susanoo's Cherry Tree's ultimate goal. [[spoiler:They want to spur Japan into a militaristic stance so that the country has a proper army and becomes indispensable to the United States as a military ally in Asia. To do so, they engineer a fake terrorist attack in the Shinkansen and try to poison the Assembly Council to lead to reelections. While the attacks are averted, their mere attempt is enough to shake public opinion into worrying about their national security anyway.]]
* YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith: Whenever Seike or Kurokôchi butt head with a powerful politician or TheConspiracy. Sawatari, for instance, warns Yataru Echigô about the SakuraAssembly.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Takahashi decides to kill one of his two accountants because after hiding the Sakura'sAssembly's Council money in off-shore accounts, he only needs one of them. He thus forces them to play RussianRoulette.
* YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith: Whenever Seike or Kurokôchi butt head with a powerful politician or TheConspiracy. Sawatari, for instance, warns Yataru Echigô about the Sakura
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Takahashi decides to kill one of his two accountants because after hiding the Sakura's
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''Kurokôchi'' (クロコーチ, Kurokōchi) is an Award-winning half PoliceProcedural half {{SpyFiction}} {{ConspiracyThriller}} {{Seinen}} manga written by Takashi Nagasaki and drawn by Kōji Kōno, prepublished since from February 2012 to February 2018 and compiled in 21 24 volumes.
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* AndIMustScream: Sakuragi has created a drug based on datura, which completely paralyzes the body but lets the victim feel with all five senses. He gives the drug to Sawatari to get a new identity. As a sadist, Sawatari naturally uses the drug on his victims.
* AssassinOutclassin: Kurokôchi is a regular target for assassinations attempts because he's constantly investigating a GovernmentConspiracy. He's so far survived them all although they were all close calls.
* AssassinOutclassin: Kurokôchi is a regular target for assassinations attempts because he's constantly investigating a GovernmentConspiracy. He's so far survived them all although they were all close calls.
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* AndIMustScream: Sakuragi has created a drug based on datura, datura which completely paralyzes the body but lets the victim feel with all five senses. He gives the drug to Sawatari to get a new identity. As a sadist, Sawatari naturally uses the drug on his victims.victims, taking pleasure in the knowledge that his victims are completely helpless but can feel everything he does to them, including the part where he saws their limbs.
* AssassinOutclassin: Kurokôchi is a regular target for assassinations attempts because he's constantly investigating a GovernmentConspiracy. He's so far survived them all although they were all close calls. He notably manages to fend off a whole squad of assassins in full combat gear with high tech weaponry while he was crippled and alone, with only a shotgun and an automatic pistol, but also his trademark flair for sniffing out trouble and get out of it.
* AssassinOutclassin: Kurokôchi is a regular target for assassinations attempts because he's constantly investigating a GovernmentConspiracy. He's so far survived them all although they were all close calls. He notably manages to fend off a whole squad of assassins in full combat gear with high tech weaponry while he was crippled and alone, with only a shotgun and an automatic pistol, but also his trademark flair for sniffing out trouble and get out of it.
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* TheBadGuysAreCops: Sawatari reveals the existence of the Sakura Assembly, a covert group within the police tasked with dealing with anything susceptible of tarnishing the reputation of the police through illegal ways, mostly murder.
* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: Subverted in the most case, interviews of suspects or witnesses begin with the interviewee reluctant to say anything but through bargain, they usually reveal something important.
* BeneathTheMask: Beneath his self-assured persona, Kurokôchi hides a great deal of self-loathing.
* BenevolentConspiracy: The Sakura Assembly is at heart, a group made of policemen aiming to help the Police under the radar and compensate the police officers' families in case they die. However, the struggle over its large funds of 30,000,000,000 yen between the senior members of the Assembly has corrupted its goals and methods.
* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: Subverted in the most case, interviews of suspects or witnesses begin with the interviewee reluctant to say anything but through bargain, they usually reveal something important.
* BeneathTheMask: Beneath his self-assured persona, Kurokôchi hides a great deal of self-loathing.
* BenevolentConspiracy: The Sakura Assembly is at heart, a group made of policemen aiming to help the Police under the radar and compensate the police officers' families in case they die. However, the struggle over its large funds of 30,000,000,000 yen between the senior members of the Assembly has corrupted its goals and methods.
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* TheBadGuysAreCops: The police in the series is incredibly corrupt, as seen when Kurokochi himself appears to be the most benign compared to the conspiracies and unofficial hitmen that come from the police. Sawatari reveals the existence of the Sakura Assembly, a covert group within the police tasked with dealing with anything susceptible of tarnishing the reputation of the police through illegal ways, mostly murder.
* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: Subverted inthe most case, cases, interviews of suspects or witnesses begin with the interviewee reluctant to say anything but through bargain, bargain or coercion, they usually reveal something important.
* BeneathTheMask: Beneath his self-assured persona, Kurokôchi hides a great deal ofself-loathing.
self-loathing. Kurokochi also uses his reputation as a DirtyCop to hide his real investigations to his colleagues whom he doesn't trust.
* BenevolentConspiracy: The Sakura Assemblyis is, at heart, a group made of policemen aiming to help the Police under the radar and compensate the police officers' families in case they die. However, the struggle over its large funds of 30,000,000,000 yen between the senior members of the Assembly has corrupted its goals and methods.
* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: Subverted in
* BeneathTheMask: Beneath his self-assured persona, Kurokôchi hides a great deal of
* BenevolentConspiracy: The Sakura Assembly
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* ShoutOut: The terrorist group The 400 Blows refers to the UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave movie "Film/The400Blows".
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* ShoutOut: The terrorist group The 400 Blows refers to the UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave movie "Film/The400Blows". Lampshaded by Torio who speaks French and liked French film director Creator/FrancoisTruffaut during the 60s.
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* WarForFunAndProfit: Susanoo's Cherry Tree's ultimate goal. [[spoiler:They want to spur Japan into a militaristic stance so that the country has a proper army. To do so, they engineer a fake terrorist attack in the Shinkansen and try to poison the Assembly to lead to reelections. While the attacks are averted, their mere attempt is enough to shake public opinion into worrying about their national security anyway.]]
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* WarForFunAndProfit: Susanoo's Cherry Tree's ultimate goal. [[spoiler:They want to spur Japan into a militaristic stance so that the country has a proper army.army and becomes indispensable to the United States as a military ally in Asia. To do so, they engineer a fake terrorist attack in the Shinkansen and try to poison the Assembly to lead to reelections. While the attacks are averted, their mere attempt is enough to shake public opinion into worrying about their national security anyway.]]
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* ColorMotif: The members of the General Council of the National Police Agency all refer to a different color: Akana is red, Aonuma blue, Koya is navy blue, Meguro is black and Shirasu white.
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* ColorMotif: Many characters have names that allude to colors, beginning with Kurokochi whose name has the character for "black". The members of the General Council of the National Police Agency all refer to a different color: Akana is red, Aonuma blue, Koya is navy blue, Meguro is black and Shirasu white.white. Moreover, all chapters allude to colors in their titles.
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* AccompliceByInaction: Many characters are knowing but silent secret keepers for this or that conspiracy. However, Kurokochi stands out because he became this for [[spoiler:one of Sawatari's murders and he seeks to bring Sawatari to justice and atone for this crime]].
* AndIMustScream: Sakuragi has created a drug based on datura, which completely paralyzes the body but lets the victim feel with all five senses. He gives the drug to Sawatari to get a new identity. As a sadist, Sawatari naturally uses the drug on his victims.
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: Kurokochi usually presents his bribes as preemptive gifts to himself so that he doesn't leak a secret. All politicians are savvy enough to see it as bribe but they care too much about their reputation and hand out the money all the same.
* BombThrowingAnarchists: One of Kyoji Torio's main skills. Having been taught how to make bombs in his youth by extremists, he's refined his skill to hide bombs in the most inconspicuous places with complex triggers. Torio is notably responsible for a police station bombing. [[spoiler:Moreover, because Torio turns one of Sakuragi's clocks into a bomb, he and Kurokochi manages to kill the old man after Torio's death]].
* BombThrowingAnarchists: One of Kyoji Torio's main skills. Having been taught how to make bombs in his youth by extremists, he's refined his skill to hide bombs in the most inconspicuous places with complex triggers. Torio is notably responsible for a police station bombing. [[spoiler:Moreover, because Torio turns one of Sakuragi's clocks into a bomb, he and Kurokochi manages to kill the old man after Torio's death]].
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* TheChessmaster: Kurokôchi who can manipulate everyone around him thanks to his ObfuscatingStupidity and connections to different collaborators.
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* TheChessmaster: Kurokôchi who can manipulate everyone around him thanks to his ObfuscatingStupidity and connections to different collaborators.politicians and criminals alike The only people who are able to match him are Sawatari, the extremely influential former governor of Kanagawa Prefecture who has many more politicians and government officials in his pockets and international criminal connections.
* CoolMask: The unknown Dodaijin men who enter in contact with Kurokochi and warn him about various threats.
* DateRape: Kensuke Sakuragi runs a ring of date rapes, with him and other students seducing girls with their good looks and then raping them. Worse, Shigeru has also drugged a girl and left her to Sawatari.
* DeadPersonImpersonation: Sawatari is not the real Kazunari Sawatari. It is revealed that Kazunori Sawatari died as a child from war bombardments but that another youngster then took his identity. That same youth is now the Sawatari everyone knows.
* DeadPersonImpersonation: Sawatari is not the real Kazunari Sawatari. It is revealed that Kazunori Sawatari died as a child from war bombardments but that another youngster then took his identity. That same youth is now the Sawatari everyone knows.
* EvilOldFolks: Three of the most evil characters in the series are old men. Kazunari Sawatari is a serial rapist and murderer with a sadistic streak who targets schoolgirls. [[spoiler:Tatsunori Sakuragi]] is a sly far-right extremists who has killed and plans to kill hundreds of people with his poison to spur Japan into becoming a country at war. [[spoiler:Hideto Takahashi]] is a greedy psychopath who grows from murderous soldier to murderous officer of the public security, killing several people just to keep his money.
* FemaleFlatfootAndSnarkyGuy: Subverted. After the Susanoo case, Kurokochi is paired with the young and seemingly upbeat Yume Asaki, a freshly arriver police officer. However, Yume reveals that she's actually a real piece of work who manhandles sexual predators and is not without her own instincts as policewoman, impressing Kurokochi who realizes that she perhaps is even more unusual than him.
* FriendInTheBlackMarket: Sekiro has many friends among petty criminals, from owners of shady bars to counterfeit smugglers and arms dealers. He usually checks on them to learn the latest in the underworld.
* FemaleFlatfootAndSnarkyGuy: Subverted. After the Susanoo case, Kurokochi is paired with the young and seemingly upbeat Yume Asaki, a freshly arriver police officer. However, Yume reveals that she's actually a real piece of work who manhandles sexual predators and is not without her own instincts as policewoman, impressing Kurokochi who realizes that she perhaps is even more unusual than him.
* FriendInTheBlackMarket: Sekiro has many friends among petty criminals, from owners of shady bars to counterfeit smugglers and arms dealers. He usually checks on them to learn the latest in the underworld.
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* HoneyTrap: Ayaka Midoriyawa from the National Agency is (maybe) sent to seduce Seike into working against Kurokôchi.
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* HoneyTrap: Ayaka Midoriyawa from the National Agency is (maybe) sent to seduce Seike into working against Kurokôchi.Kurokôchi. However, she also genuinely falls in love with Seike and ends up being an uneasy ally to the both of them.
* ILetGwenStacyDie: Seike is broken by Midorikawa's death and he blames himself for not having been able to protect her. It leads to a temporary HeroicBSOD.
* ILetGwenStacyDie: Seike is broken by Midorikawa's death and he blames himself for not having been able to protect her. It leads to a temporary HeroicBSOD.
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* AMacGuffinFullOfMoney: Sawatari uses what is called the "M Funds", a huge stockpile of money given to a certain Shigeru Momota by various politicians all around the world.
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* RefugeInAudacity: Sawatari's method to appeal to the population. He presents himself as a politically incorrect strongman, building himself an image of tough guy who can man the other madmen around the world in position of power, and who has the will to make revolutionary reforms. The public eats it up, and Sawatari becomes a favorite in the elections to become Prime Minister.
* RevisitingTheColdCase: While Seike and Kurokochi officially investigate recent crimes, it often leads them to revisit famous criminal cases of post-war Japan that happened decades ago, sometimes with only one elderly witness to interrogate. It's because said cases have a link to their current cases and will help solve what the current culprit is doing.
* RevisitingTheColdCase: While Seike and Kurokochi officially investigate recent crimes, it often leads them to revisit famous criminal cases of post-war Japan that happened decades ago, sometimes with only one elderly witness to interrogate. It's because said cases have a link to their current cases and will help solve what the current culprit is doing.
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* SurrogateSoliloquy: Sawatari has the creepy habit of putting his victims' clothes on mannequins and talk to them as if they were his personal harem. He also remembers the names of decades old victims, acting as if they had aged with time.
* SwordCane: Torio has an umbrella whose shaft hides a sword. He thus comes armed in all situations and always takes enemies by surprise when he unsheathes it. Kurokochi is notably crippled by the sword and Torio then uses the sword to kill one of Sakuragi's henchmen.
* SwordCane: Torio has an umbrella whose shaft hides a sword. He thus comes armed in all situations and always takes enemies by surprise when he unsheathes it. Kurokochi is notably crippled by the sword and Torio then uses the sword to kill one of Sakuragi's henchmen.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Sawatari manages to become one despite a smear campaign that reveals (without actual proof) that he's a murderer and a rapist. Despite the negative publicity, Sawatari is a charismatic politician whose great promises and shows of toughness to a currently worried Japan have swayed the public opinion in his favor, to the point he's a favorite in the elections to become Prime Minister.
* WarForFunAndProfit: Susanoo's Cherry Tree's ultimate goal. [[spoiler:They want to spur Japan into a militaristic stance so that the country has a proper army. To do so, they engineer a fake terrorist attack in the Shinkansen and try to poison the Assembly to lead to reelections. While the attacks are averted, their mere attempt is enough to shake public opinion into worrying about their national security anyway.]]
* WarForFunAndProfit: Susanoo's Cherry Tree's ultimate goal. [[spoiler:They want to spur Japan into a militaristic stance so that the country has a proper army. To do so, they engineer a fake terrorist attack in the Shinkansen and try to poison the Assembly to lead to reelections. While the attacks are averted, their mere attempt is enough to shake public opinion into worrying about their national security anyway.]]
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* ShoutOut: The terrorist group The 400 Blows refers to the UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave movie "[[Film/TheAdventuresOfAntoineDoinel Les 400 coups]]".
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* ShoutOut: The terrorist group The 400 Blows refers to the UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave movie "[[Film/TheAdventuresOfAntoineDoinel Les 400 coups]]"."Film/The400Blows".
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* SleazyPolitician: Many of the minor politicians who appear in the story are guilty of minor crimes such as soliciting prostitutes or influence peddling. All of them have to bribe Kurokôchi to keep their reputation intact generously.
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* SleazyPolitician: Many of the minor politicians who appear in the story are guilty of minor crimes such as soliciting prostitutes or influence peddling. All of them have to generously bribe Kurokôchi to keep their reputation intact generously.intact. On the other hand, most are loyal to their political beliefs and are still decent people.
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* AlwaysMurder: Shingo Seike works at the First Brigade of Kanagawa Prefecture which is always in charge of murder cases.
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* AlwaysMurder: Shingo Seike works at the First Brigade of Kanagawa Prefecture which is always in charge of murder cases, thus his constant handling of murder cases.
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* BadassDecay: The Akaba clan were once feared Yakuza, but have since become puppets at the hand of the Sakura Assembly.
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* BadassLongCoat: Contrary to most of the police's staff, Kurokôchi wears a long coat whenever he's out, which occasionally makes him look badass.
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* BadassLongCoat: Contrary to most of the police's staff, Kurokôchi wears a typical hard-boiled detective's long coat whenever he's out, which occasionally makes him look badass.badass. Because latter cases happen in summer, he doesn't wear it anymore.
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''Kurokôchi'' (クロコーチ, Kurokōchi) is an Award-winning half PoliceProcedural half {{SpyFiction}} {{Seinen}} manga written by Takashi Nagasaki and drawn by Kōji Kōno, prepublished since February 2012 and compiled in 17 volumes.
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''Kurokôchi'' (クロコーチ, Kurokōchi) is an Award-winning half PoliceProcedural half {{SpyFiction}} {{Seinen}} manga written by Takashi Nagasaki and drawn by Kōji Kōno, prepublished since February 2012 and compiled in 17 21 volumes.
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* BrokenPedestal: Seike used to hold the National Police Agency in high esteem due to his passion for justice. However, after several cases, he sees how corrupt the organisation really is and that even the supposed "clean" members of the General Council put the Police's interest above real justice. It leads him to quit the Police.
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* AssassinOutclassin: Kurokôchi is a regular target for assassinations attempts because he's constantly investigating a GovernmentConspiracy. He's so far survived them all albeit without risk for his life.
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* AssassinOutclassin: Kurokôchi is a regular target for assassinations attempts because he's constantly investigating a GovernmentConspiracy. He's so far survived them all albeit without risk for his life.although they were all close calls.
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* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Kurokôchi, which is obligatory for any competent cop. Yet, it is not the focus of the series, as Kurokôchi's investigations involve more interrogating people than analyzing clues.
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* AssassinOutclassin: Kurokôchi is a regular target for assassinations attempts because he's constantly investigating a GovernmentConspiracy. He's so far survived them all albeit without risk for his life.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Kurokôchi, which is obligatory for any competent cop. Yet, it is not the focus of the series, as Kurokôchi's investigations involve more interrogating people than analyzing clues. His brilliance comes from his ability to link the clues together with witnesses' revelations and his own knowledge of criminals and their mindset. Thanks to that he can guess what others are most likely to do and why, and can discern truths from lies faster than his coworkers. It regularly gives him an edge against organizations who should be way above his ability to stop.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Kurokôchi, which is obligatory for any competent cop. Yet, it is not the focus of the series, as Kurokôchi's investigations involve more interrogating people than analyzing clues. His brilliance comes from his ability to link the clues together with witnesses' revelations and his own knowledge of criminals and their mindset. Thanks to that he can guess what others are most likely to do and why, and can discern truths from lies faster than his coworkers. It regularly gives him an edge against organizations who should be way above his ability to stop.
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** Afterward, Shingo's investigations of his father's suspicious death lead to the discovery of the 400 Blows terrorist group, then [[spoiler: their infiltration of one of the police's top position]]. After the 400 Blows are thwarthed, one of their puppets then reveals that even above the Sakura Assembly and the 400 Blows lies another secret and even more powerful organization named Susanoo's Cherry Tree.
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* MasterPoisoner: Susanoo's Cherry Tree has been secretly perfecting chemical weapons and poisons for decades after the end of the war. Their latest product is a timed poison which becomes lethal only when the target ingests two innocuous drinks, which works even at an one hour interval and thus making the culprit untraceable.
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* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: By the end of the 400 Blows arc, Kurokôchi has begun to use a shotgun to bring extra firepower whenever needed. In Japan where firearms are strictly controlled, people are always surprised to see him wield this weapon.
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* UndercoverCopReveal: [[spoiler:Kyoji Torio]] is revealed to have been an undercover policeman who had to infiltrate the far-leftist groups of the time when he was young.
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* ShoutOut: The terrorist group The 400 Blows refers to the FrenchNewWave movie "[[Film/TheAdventuresOfAntoineDoinel Les 400 coups]]".
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One night, the representative of the majority at the prefectural assembly Bungo Gôda has murdered a prostitute named Rina Akamatsu, and calls Kurokôchi to fix the crime scene, at a price. The next day, Seike is assigned to the murder and is teamed up with Kurokôchi to help solve the case, but also watch him for any infraction. Soon, Seike discovers that behind the crooked cop persona, Kurokôchi is using his influence to solve crimes whose culprits are beyond the power of the police, notably Kazunari Sawatari, Kanagawa's Governor who controls the Police Prefecture. To bring Sawatari to justice, Kurokôchi makes use of his long experience in the police, his keen investigative skills, and his willingness to hit even lower than the dirtiest of politicians. Seeing this, Seike chooses to brush Kurokô chi's bribes under the rug and cooperates with him in his cases.
As the cases involve more and more powerful officials, Kurokô chi and Seike are embroiled in even more complex and dangerous crimes involving multiple [[GovernmentConspiracy Government Conspiracies]] and have to dig up the secrets of the Japanese government.
As the cases involve more and more powerful officials, Kurokô chi and Seike are embroiled in even more complex and dangerous crimes involving multiple [[GovernmentConspiracy Government Conspiracies]] and have to dig up the secrets of the Japanese government.
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One night, the representative of the majority at the prefectural assembly Bungo Gôda has murdered a prostitute named Rina Akamatsu, and calls Kurokôchi to fix the crime scene, at a price. The next day, Seike is assigned to the murder and is teamed up with Kurokôchi to help solve the case, but also watch him for any infraction. Soon, Seike discovers that behind the crooked cop persona, Kurokôchi is using his influence to solve crimes whose culprits are beyond the power of the police, notably Kazunari Sawatari, Kanagawa's Governor who controls the Police Prefecture. To bring Sawatari to justice, Kurokôchi makes use of his long experience in the police, his keen investigative skills, and his willingness to hit even lower than the dirtiest of politicians. Seeing this, Seike chooses to brush Kurokô chi's Kurokôchi's bribes under the rug and cooperates with him in his cases.
As the cases involve more and more powerful officials,Kurokô chi Kurokôchi and Seike are embroiled in even more complex and dangerous crimes involving multiple [[GovernmentConspiracy Government Conspiracies]] and have to dig up the secrets of the Japanese government.
As the cases involve more and more powerful officials,
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* BadassGrandpa: Hideo Takahashi [[spoiler: aka Momotaro]], a veteran of [[spoiler: TheVietnamWar]] able to take on [[spoiler: his assassin disciples]] at their prime while being way over 50.
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* BadassGrandpa: Hideo Takahashi [[spoiler: aka Momotaro]], a veteran of [[spoiler: TheVietnamWar]] UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar]] able to take on [[spoiler: his assassin disciples]] at their prime while being way over 50.
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Hideo Takahashi [[spoiler: real name Hideto Kiritani]] was a patriotic and promising teenager who had a strong moral compass. Being sent to TheVietnamWar and then spending 20 years hunting down terrorists changed him into a villain out for blood. [[spoiler: Subverted as Hideo isn't Hideto in reality but one of Hideto's comrades in Peach Tom who switched identity with him.]]
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Hideo Takahashi [[spoiler: real name Hideto Kiritani]] was a patriotic and promising teenager who had a strong moral compass. Being sent to TheVietnamWar UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar and then spending 20 years hunting down terrorists changed him into a villain out for blood. [[spoiler: Subverted as Hideo isn't Hideto in reality but one of Hideto's comrades in Peach Tom who switched identity with him.]]
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* TheVietnamWar: Although Japan never officially participated in it, it is revealed that they sent several agents during the war, so someone in the government knew how a war was really like.
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Hideo Takahashi [[spoiler: real name Hideto Kiritani]] was a patriotic and promising teenager who had a strong moral compass. Being sent to TheVietnamWar and then spending 20 years hunting down terrorists changed him into a CompleteMonster out for blood. [[spoiler: Subverted as Hideo isn't Hideto in reality but one of Hideto's comrades in Peach Tom who switched identity with him.]]
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Hideo Takahashi [[spoiler: real name Hideto Kiritani]] was a patriotic and promising teenager who had a strong moral compass. Being sent to TheVietnamWar and then spending 20 years hunting down terrorists changed him into a CompleteMonster villain out for blood. [[spoiler: Subverted as Hideo isn't Hideto in reality but one of Hideto's comrades in Peach Tom who switched identity with him.]]
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* ShoutOut: The terrorist group The 400 Blows refers to the FrenchNewWave movie "[[Film/TheAdventuresOfAntoineDoinel Les 400 coups]]".
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* YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith: Whenever Seike or Kuroôchi butt head with a powerful politician or TheConspiracy. Sawatari, for instance, warns Yataru Echigô about the Sakura Assembly.
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* YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith: Whenever Seike or Kuroôchi Kurokôchi butt head with a powerful politician or TheConspiracy. Sawatari, for instance, warns Yataru Echigô about the Sakura Assembly.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Kurokôchi has never revealed his motives for solving his cases. One time he claimed that he wanted to do good for once, another time he claims that he's eliminating the competition by tackling other corrupt policemen. He notably manages to steal the funds of the Sakura Assembly while stopping Hideo Takahashi from conitnuing murdering people.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Kurokôchi has never revealed his motives for solving his cases. One time he claimed that he wanted to do good for once, another time he claims claimed that he's he was eliminating the competition by tackling other corrupt policemen. He notably manages managed to steal the funds of the Sakura Assembly while stopping [[spoiler: Hideo Takahashi Takahashi]] from conitnuing continuing murdering people.
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* BreakThemByTalking: Kyôji Torio is a specialist of convincing people of anything by taling to them. He's implied to have literally talked two men to death, one of them being a professional assassin, the other a KGB agent.
* ButNotTooForeign: Sadaharu Iwata aka Ivan, manager of the hostess bar Polyushko Polye is half-Russian half Japanese.
* ButNotTooForeign: Sadaharu Iwata aka Ivan, manager of the hostess bar Polyushko Polye is half-Russian half Japanese.
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* BreakThemByTalking: Kyôji Torio is a specialist of convincing people of anything by taling talking to them. He's implied to have literally talked two men to death, one of them being a professional assassin, the other a KGB agent.
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* ButNotTooForeign: Sadaharu Iwata aka Ivan, manager of the hostess bar PolyushkoPolye Polye, is half-Russian half Japanese.Japanese. He even considers himself more Japanese than Russian.
* ButNotTooForeign: Sadaharu Iwata aka Ivan, manager of the hostess bar Polyushko
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* ConMan: Seimei Kamonomiya real name Kiyoshige Miyaaki is a professional con artist who scares gullible people with stories of haunting and sells them trinkets at a high price.
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* ConMan: Seimei Kamonomiya real (real name Kiyoshige Miyaaki Miyaaki) is a professional con artist who scares gullible people with stories of haunting and sells them trinkets at a high price.
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* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Hideo Takahashi, a seemingly lower ranked goon of the Sakura Assembly, is in fact the real head.
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* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Hideo Takahashi, [[spoiler:Hideo Takahashi]], a seemingly lower ranked goon of the Sakura Assembly, is in fact the real head.
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* GratuitousEnglish: The codename "Peach Tom" designing [[spoiler: the Kiritani and Kurizuka duo]] is in gratuitous English even though it supposedly refers to a Japanese entity.
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* GratuitousEnglish: The codename "Peach Tom" designing [[spoiler: the duo of agents Kiritani and Kurizuka duo]] was part of]] is in gratuitous English even though it supposedly refers to a Japanese entity.
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Hideo Takahashi [[spoiler: real name Hideto Kiritani]] was a patriotic and promising teenager who had a strong moral compass. Being sent to TheVietnamWar and then spending 20 years hunting down terrorists changed him into a CompleteMonster out for blood. [[spoiler: Subverted as Hideo isn't Hideto in reality but one of Hideto's comrades in Peach Tom who switched identity with him.]]* HoneyTrap: Ayaka Midoriyawa from the National Agency is (maybe) sent to seduce Seike into working against Kurokôchi.
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Hideo Takahashi [[spoiler: real name Hideto Kiritani]] was a patriotic and promising teenager who had a strong moral compass. Being sent to TheVietnamWar and then spending 20 years hunting down terrorists changed him into a CompleteMonster out for blood. [[spoiler: Subverted as Hideo isn't Hideto in reality but one of Hideto's comrades in Peach Tom who switched identity with him.]]* ]]
* HoneyTrap: Ayaka Midoriyawa from the National Agency is (maybe) sent to seduce Seike into working against Kurokôchi.
* HoneyTrap: Ayaka Midoriyawa from the National Agency is (maybe) sent to seduce Seike into working against Kurokôchi.
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* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: Takeshi Endo is killed by the Sakura Assembly because he spilled the secrets of the Sakura Assembly. [[spoiler: However, it is revealed that Hideo Takahashi had him killed because he feared that Endo knew he wasn't the real Kiritani]].
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* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: Takeshi Endo Endo, one of the founder of the Sakura Assembly and Seike's mentor, is killed by the Sakura Assembly because he spilled the secrets of the Sakura Assembly. [[spoiler: However, it is revealed that Hideo Takahashi had him killed because he feared that Endo knew he wasn't the real Kiritani]].
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** Momotaro, a legendary assassin who operated during the 70's and 80's and supposedly had several disciples. [[spoiler: It is revealed that Momotaro died long ago]].[[spoiler: However Momotaro merely changed his identity and now operates as Hideto Takahashi]].
** Heizo Shiroo, a famously ruthless agent of the Public Security Agency.
** Heizo Shiroo, a famously ruthless agent of the Public Security Agency.
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** Momotaro, a legendary assassin who operated during the 70's and 80's and supposedly had several disciples. [[spoiler: It is revealed that Momotaro died long ago]].[[spoiler: However Momotaro merely changed his identity and now operates as Hideto Hideo Takahashi]].
** Heizo Shiroo, a famously ruthless agent of the Public SecurityAgency.Agency whose operations wiped out many terrorists organisations during his office.
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* PublicBathhouseScene: As Seike investigates the death of two russians near an onsen, he uses the occasion to relax in one, which is the occasion for some Fanservice with Midorikawa.
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* StartingANewLife: [[spoiler: The real]] Hideto Kiritani [[spoiler: switched names with Kurizuka]] to escape his past.
* StraightGay: Kenta Takamiya, an ex-yakuza whom Kurokôchi works with in his investigations is homosexual but nothing save a mention of his former attraction to Shinnosuke Ayakawa and his current crush on Seike. Otherwise he looks and acts like a thug. Overlaps with Gayngster.
* StraightGay: Kenta Takamiya, an ex-yakuza whom Kurokôchi works with in his investigations is homosexual but nothing save a mention of his former attraction to Shinnosuke Ayakawa and his current crush on Seike. Otherwise he looks and acts like a thug. Overlaps with Gayngster.
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* StartingANewLife: [[spoiler: The real]] Hideto Kiritani [[spoiler: switched names with Kurizuka]] his comrade and became Kurizuka in his stead]] to escape his past.
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* StraightGay: Kenta Takamiya, an ex-yakuza whom Kurokôchi works with in his investigations is homosexual but nothing save a mention of his former attraction to Shinnosuke Ayakawa and his current crush onSeike.Seike will tip off people. Otherwise he looks and acts like a thug. Overlaps with Gayngster.{{Gayngster}}.
* StraightGay: Kenta Takamiya, an ex-yakuza whom Kurokôchi works with in his investigations is homosexual but nothing save a mention of his former attraction to Shinnosuke Ayakawa and his current crush on
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* ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: Averted, the senile father of [[spoiler: Hideto Kiritani]] can still recognize his son even after years of not seeing him. Him recognizing [[spoiler: Kurizuka]] as his son and beginning to publicly ramble about it caused [[spoiler: Hideo to fear that someone discovered that he wasn't the real Hideto and thus unable to receive Hideto's 300 million yen and begin his killing spree inside the Sakura Assembly]].
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* ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: Averted, the senile father of [[spoiler: Hideto Kiritani]] can still recognize his son even after years decades of not seeing him.absence. Him recognizing [[spoiler: Kurizuka]] as his son and beginning to publicly ramble about it caused [[spoiler: Hideo to fear that someone discovered that he wasn't the real Hideto and thus unable to receive Hideto's 300 million yen and begin his killing spree inside the Sakura Assembly]].
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Takahashi decides to kill one of his two accountants because after hiding the Sakura's Assembly's money in off-shore accounts, he only needs one of them.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Takahashi decides to kill one of his two accountants because after hiding the Sakura's Assembly's money in off-shore accounts, he only needs one of them. He thus forces them to play RussianRoulette.
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* DrowningYourSorrows: Kurokôchi is devastated when he sees that his attempt to have Sawatari murdered resulted in Echigo's death instead. After hearing the late Echigo's wife ordering him to get away from her, he spends the next night drinking at a bar.
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* DrowningYourSorrows: DrowningMySorrows: Kurokôchi is devastated when he sees that his attempt to have Sawatari murdered resulted in Echigo's death instead. After hearing the late Echigo's wife ordering him to get away from her, he spends the next night drinking at a bar.
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* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Kurokôchi smokes, and has the habit of exhaling smoke in a menacing way as he proposes a shady deal and exposes his ChashireCatGrin.
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* MsFanservice: Ayaka Midorikawa is an attractive busty woman who gets very flirty with Seike and shares several PublicBathhouseScenes with him.
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Yataro Echigo and Kurokôchi temporarily work together to arrest the Sakura Assembly. Although Echigo is a CrusadingLawayer and Kurokôchi a DirtyCop, Echigo still considers him a comrade.
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Yataro Echigo and Kurokôchi temporarily work together to arrest the Sakura Assembly. Although Echigo is a CrusadingLawayer CrusadingLawyer and Kurokôchi a DirtyCop, Echigo still considers him a comrade.
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*AlwaysMurder: Shingo Seike works at the First Brigade of Kanagawa Prefecture which is always in charge of murder cases.
*AmbiguouslyEvil: Kurokôchi has never revealed his motives for solving his cases. One time he claimed that he wanted to do good for once, another time he claims that he's eliminating the competition by tackling other corrupt policemen. He notably manages to steal the funds of the Sakura Assembly while stopping Hideo Takahashi from conitnuing murdering people.
-->''Shingo Seike'':(Kurokôchi)'s either a genius or a demon.
*AmbiguouslyEvil: Kurokôchi has never revealed his motives for solving his cases. One time he claimed that he wanted to do good for once, another time he claims that he's eliminating the competition by tackling other corrupt policemen. He notably manages to steal the funds of the Sakura Assembly while stopping Hideo Takahashi from conitnuing murdering people.
-->''Shingo Seike'':(Kurokôchi)'s either a genius or a demon.
*BreakThemByTalking: Kyôji Torio is a specialist of convincing people of anything by taling to them. He's implied to have literally talked two men to death, one of them being a professional assassin, the other a KGB agent.
*ButNotTooForeign: Sadaharu Iwata aka Ivan, manager of the hostess bar Polyushko Polye is half-Russian half Japanese.
*BuxomIsBetter: The whole First Brigade has the hots for Ayaka Midorikawa who has unusually large breasts. Seike also visits the hostess bar Polyushko Polye who is full of big-breasted [[SensualSlav Sensual Slavs]] and is highly successful in Hokkaido.
*ButNotTooForeign: Sadaharu Iwata aka Ivan, manager of the hostess bar Polyushko Polye is half-Russian half Japanese.
*BuxomIsBetter: The whole First Brigade has the hots for Ayaka Midorikawa who has unusually large breasts. Seike also visits the hostess bar Polyushko Polye who is full of big-breasted [[SensualSlav Sensual Slavs]] and is highly successful in Hokkaido.
*ColorMotif: The members of the General Council of the National Police Agency all refer to a different color: Akana is red, Aonuma blue, Koya is navy blue, Meguro is black and Shirasu white.
*ConMan: Seimei Kamonomiya real name Kiyoshige Miyaaki is a professional con artist who scares gullible people with stories of haunting and sells them trinkets at a high price.
*ConMan: Seimei Kamonomiya real name Kiyoshige Miyaaki is a professional con artist who scares gullible people with stories of haunting and sells them trinkets at a high price.
*CorruptCorporateExecutive: Shinnosuke Ayakawa, a young successful IT businessman, rapes prostitutes and has murdered a journalist who caught on to this.
*CrusadingLawyer: Yataro Echigo, an incorruptible prosecutor who tackles on Sawatari and the Sakura Assembly to uphold the law. The one time he was forced by his family and superiors to take a bribe, he never used it, even to save his son.
*DeliberateInjuryGambit: Miss Ide throws herself under Kurokôchi's car to stop him from follow Kaga. When Kurokôchi then checks on her, Ide is able to stun him with a taser and kidnap him.
*TheDogWasTheMastermind: Hideo Takahashi, a seemingly lower ranked goon of the Sakura Assembly, is in fact the real head.
*DrowningYourSorrows: Kurokôchi is devastated when he sees that his attempt to have Sawatari murdered resulted in Echigo's death instead. After hearing the late Echigo's wife ordering him to get away from her, he spends the next night drinking at a bar.
*DeliberateInjuryGambit: Miss Ide throws herself under Kurokôchi's car to stop him from follow Kaga. When Kurokôchi then checks on her, Ide is able to stun him with a taser and kidnap him.
*TheDogWasTheMastermind: Hideo Takahashi, a seemingly lower ranked goon of the Sakura Assembly, is in fact the real head.
*DrowningYourSorrows: Kurokôchi is devastated when he sees that his attempt to have Sawatari murdered resulted in Echigo's death instead. After hearing the late Echigo's wife ordering him to get away from her, he spends the next night drinking at a bar.
*EnemyMine: Kurokôchi enlists Sawatari's help against the Sakura Assembly so they share their enormous funds.
*GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Kurokôchi smokes, and has the habit of exhaling smoke in a menacing way as he proposes a shady deal and exposes his ChashireCatGrin.
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* HoneyTrap: Ayaka Midoriyawa from the National Agency is (maybe) sent to seduce Seike into working against Kurokôchi.
* IHaveManyNames: Momotaro, or to some [[spoiler: Hideo Takahashi]] [[spoiler: but in reality his name is Kurizuka]]
* IHaveManyNames: Momotaro, or to some [[spoiler: Hideo Takahashi]] [[spoiler: but in reality his name is Kurizuka]]
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* IHaveManyNames: Momotaro, or to some [[spoiler: Hideo Takahashi]] [[spoiler: but in reality his name is Kurizuka]]
*JesusTaboo: Averted, as the School of The Shining Light directly refers to Jesus, and even advertises a whip as the whip Jesus used during the Cleansing of the Temple.
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* MurderInc: The assassin "Momotaro" and his disciple are a group whose only role is to carry out murders for their clients.
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*MeaningfulName: The Sakura Assembly refers to Toyama Kinshirô, a folklore hero who defended the innocent and had a cherry tree tattoo on the arm.
*MsFanservice: Ayaka Midorikawa is an attractive busty woman who gets very flirty with Seike and shares several PublicBathhouseScenes with him.
*NeckSnap: Hideo, still bloody from a fight with [[spoiler: two of his assassin disciples]], still has the strength to snap [[spoiler: Shinnosuke]]'s neck when the latter stabs him from behind.
*ObfuscatingStupidity:
** On the outside, Kurokôchi acts like a stereotypical DirtyCop, but in reality, most of his actions are carefully planned to manipulate his entourage.
** Agent Kurebayashi who looks and acts the dimwit, but in reality is also working for the Agency to hinder Kurokôchi although the latter quickly sees through him.
*PathOfInspiration: The School of The Shining Light is a sect whose doctrine gratuitously interprets the Bible to brainwash its members into donating to the cult or buying its goodies.
*ObfuscatingStupidity:
** On the outside, Kurokôchi acts like a stereotypical DirtyCop, but in reality, most of his actions are carefully planned to manipulate his entourage.
** Agent Kurebayashi who looks and acts the dimwit, but in reality is also working for the Agency to hinder Kurokôchi although the latter quickly sees through him.
*PathOfInspiration: The School of The Shining Light is a sect whose doctrine gratuitously interprets the Bible to brainwash its members into donating to the cult or buying its goodies.
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*PoliceBrutalityGambit: When Kurokôchi is framed for Seimei Kamonomiya's murder, and forced to sign a confession after a beating session, Kurokôchi swipe his hands over a bleeding wound and slams them into the sheets, making the confession worthless since they prove they have been obtained through torture.
* ProfessionalKiller: The assassin "Momotaro" and his disciple are a secret group of Japanese assassins at the orders of the Sakura Assembly.
*PublicBathhouseScene: As Seike investigates the death of two russians near an onsen, he uses the occasion to relax in one, which is the occasion for some Fanservice with Midorikawa.
*ScamReligion: Kurokôchi mentions that buying a cult is a good way to launder money and evade taxes since the Japanese government doesn't tax them.
* ProfessionalKiller: The assassin "Momotaro" and his disciple are a secret group of Japanese assassins at the orders of the Sakura Assembly.
*PublicBathhouseScene: As Seike investigates the death of two russians near an onsen, he uses the occasion to relax in one, which is the occasion for some Fanservice with Midorikawa.
*ScamReligion: Kurokôchi mentions that buying a cult is a good way to launder money and evade taxes since the Japanese government doesn't tax them.
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*StraightGay: Kenta Takamiya, an ex-yakuza whom Kurokôchi works with in his investigations is homosexual but nothing save a mention of his former attraction to Shinnosuke Ayakawa and his current crush on Seike. Otherwise he looks and acts like a thug. Overlaps with Gayngster.
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*ATasteOfTheLash: The guru of the School of the Shining Light is repeatedly whipped by his brainwashed followers convinced that he wants to atone for his sins despite his protestations. The whipping is so violent that at the end, a member says that she can see the bone under the flesh.
*TeethClenchedTeamwork: Yataro Echigo and Kurokôchi temporarily work together to arrest the Sakura Assembly. Although Echigo is a CrusadingLawayer and Kurokôchi a DirtyCop, Echigo still considers him a comrade.
*TeethClenchedTeamwork: Yataro Echigo and Kurokôchi temporarily work together to arrest the Sakura Assembly. Although Echigo is a CrusadingLawayer and Kurokôchi a DirtyCop, Echigo still considers him a comrade.
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*ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: Averted, the senile father of [[spoiler: Hideto Kiritani]] can still recognize his son even after years of not seeing him. Him recognizing [[spoiler: Kurizuka]] as his son and beginning to publicly ramble about it caused [[spoiler: Hideo to fear that someone discovered that he wasn't the real Hideto and thus unable to receive Hideto's 300 million yen and begin his killing spree inside the Sakura Assembly]].
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Takahashi decides to kill one of his two accountants because after hiding the Sakura's Assembly's money in off-shore accounts, he only needs one of them.
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One night, the representative of the majority at the prefectural assembly Bungo Gôda has murdered a prostitute named Rina Akamatsu, and calls Kurokôchi to fix the crime scene, at a price. The next day, Seike is assigned to the murder and is teamed up with Kurokôchi to help solve the case, but also watch him for any infraction. Soon, Seike discovers that behind the crooked cop persona, Kurokôchi is using his influence to solve crimes whose culprits are beyond the power of the police, notably Kazunari Sawatari, Kanagawa's Governor who controls the Police Prefecture. To bring Sawatari to justice, Kurokô chi makes use of his long experience in the police, his keen investigative skills, and his willingness to hit even lower than the dirtiest of politicians. Seeing this, Seike chooses to brush Kurokô chi's bribes under the rug and cooperates with him in his cases.
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One night, the representative of the majority at the prefectural assembly Bungo Gôda has murdered a prostitute named Rina Akamatsu, and calls Kurokôchi to fix the crime scene, at a price. The next day, Seike is assigned to the murder and is teamed up with Kurokôchi to help solve the case, but also watch him for any infraction. Soon, Seike discovers that behind the crooked cop persona, Kurokôchi is using his influence to solve crimes whose culprits are beyond the power of the police, notably Kazunari Sawatari, Kanagawa's Governor who controls the Police Prefecture. To bring Sawatari to justice, Kurokô chi Kurokôchi makes use of his long experience in the police, his keen investigative skills, and his willingness to hit even lower than the dirtiest of politicians. Seeing this, Seike chooses to brush Kurokô chi's bribes under the rug and cooperates with him in his cases.
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* DominoRevelation: Kurokôchi and Seike's investigation of the Sakura Assembly naturally lead to the reveal of one secret after the other. When its existence is revealed, the question of how it can operate leads to them being connected to the 300,000,000 yen robbery, then [[spoiler: the reveal that a commissar's son committed it]] [[spoiler: then said that robber became the head of the Assembly]],[[spoiler: his former name was Hideto Kiritani]], [[spoiler: but he switched name with another person who become Hideo Takahashi the identity Kiritani was supposed to take, fooling the Assembly]].
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* DominoRevelation: Kurokôchi and Seike's investigation of the Sakura Assembly naturally lead to the reveal of one secret after the other. When its existence is revealed, the question of how it can operate leads to them being connected to the 300,000,000 yen robbery, then [[spoiler: the reveal that a commissar's son committed it]] [[spoiler: then said that robber became the head of the Assembly]],[[spoiler: his former name was Hideto Kiritani]], [[spoiler: but he switched name with another person who become became Hideo Takahashi the identity Kiritani was supposed to take, fooling the Assembly]].
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* GratuitousEnglish: The codename "Peach Tom" designing [[spoiler: the Kiritani and Kurizuka duo]] is in gratuitous english even though it supposedly refers to a Japanese entity.
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* GratuitousEnglish: The codename "Peach Tom" designing [[spoiler: the Kiritani and Kurizuka duo]] is in gratuitous english English even though it supposedly refers to a Japanese entity.
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* InfoDrop: Newspapers and TV broadcast are a recurring way of introducing important pieces of information, notably introducing politicians or reminding the reader of what happened.
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* InfoDrop: Newspapers and TV broadcast broadcasts are a recurring way of introducing exposing important pieces of information, notably introducing politicians or reminding the reader of what happened.
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* TheManBehindTheMan: When Kurokôchi and Seike investigate the Sakura Assembly, they first discover that [[spoiler: A boldHeizo Shiroo]] is the head of the group. However [[spoiler: Shiroo]] became a figurehead for the real head [[spoiler Hideto Takahashi]].
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* TheManBehindTheMan: When Kurokôchi and Seike investigate the Sakura Assembly, they first discover that [[spoiler: A boldHeizo Heizo Shiroo]] is the head of the group. However [[spoiler: Shiroo]] became a figurehead for the real head [[spoiler mastermind [[spoiler: Hideto Takahashi]].
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* ShownTheirWork: The plot accurately depicts how the Japanese police works and makes a ton of reference to the history of criminality in Japan.
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* ShownTheirWork: The plot accurately depicts how the Japanese police works work and makes a ton of reference to the history of criminality in Japan.
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* CompleteMonster:
** Kazunari Sawatari, a CorruptPolitician who rapes schoolgirls then murders left and right to keep this secret.
** [[spoiler: Hideo Takahashi]] [[spoiler: aka Kurizuka]]. An unrepentant murderer who horribly killed civilians and comrades alike during TheVietnamWar and then committed murders in the Sakura Assembly to [[spoiler: keep Kiritani's 300,000,000 yen in case anyone discovered his false identity]].
** Kazunari Sawatari, a CorruptPolitician who rapes schoolgirls then murders left and right to keep this secret.
** [[spoiler: Hideo Takahashi]] [[spoiler: aka Kurizuka]]. An unrepentant murderer who horribly killed civilians and comrades alike during TheVietnamWar and then committed murders in the Sakura Assembly to [[spoiler: keep Kiritani's 300,000,000 yen in case anyone discovered his false identity]].
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* TheBadGuysAreCops: Sawatari reveals the existence of the Sakura Assembly, a covert group within the police tasked with dealing with anything susceptible of tarnishing the reputation of the police through illegal ways, mostly murder.
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* DominoRevelation: Kurokôchi and Seike's investigation of the Sakura Assembly naturally lead to the reveal of one secret after the other. When its existence is revealed, the question of how it can operate leads to them being connected to the 300,000,000 yen robbery, then [[spoiler: the reveal that a commissar's son committed it]] [[spoiler: then said that robber became the head of the Assembly]],[[spoiler: his former name was Hideto Kiritani]], [[spoiler: but he switched name with another person who become Hideo Takahashi the identity Kiritani was supposed to take, fooling the Assembly]].
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*GratuitousEnglish: The codename "Peach Tom" designing [[spoiler: the Kiritani and Kurizuka duo]] is in gratuitous english even though it supposedly refers to a Japanese entity.
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* InTheBlood: Shingo follows his father's footsteps as a policeman trying to uphold justice.
* IWorkAlone: Enforced in Kurokôchi's case. Despite being an inspector and thus able to manage a team of police officers, his superiors refuse to assign anyone to him for fear he corrupts them.
* IWorkAlone: Enforced in Kurokôchi's case. Despite being an inspector and thus able to manage a team of police officers, his superiors refuse to assign anyone to him for fear he corrupts them.
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* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: Hideto Kiritani was described as a highly patriotic teenager which caused him to criticizes the police force's flaw all the more intensively. [[spoiler: Him planning the 300,000,000 yen robbery was intended as a wake-up call for the police who never handled big difficult crimes before]].
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* PocketProtector: A large bundle of banknotes saves Kurokôchi from a bullet to the chest by cushioning it so it doesn't reach the vitals.
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* ShownTheirWork: The plot accurately depicts how the Japanese police works and makes a ton of reference to the history of criminality in Japan.
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* TrainingFromHell: It is revealed that the Japanese Government trained a group of specialized intelligence agents or assassins by [[spoiler: sending them into the Vietnam War]].
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''Kurokôchi'' (クロコーチ, Kurokōchi) is an Award-winning half PoliceProcedural half {{SpyFiction}} {{Seinen}} manga written by Takashi Nagasaki and drawn by Kōji Kōno, prepublished since February 2012 and compiled in 14 volumes.
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''Kurokôchi'' (クロコーチ, Kurokōchi) is an Award-winning half PoliceProcedural half {{SpyFiction}} {{Seinen}} manga written by Takashi Nagasaki and drawn by Kōji Kōno, prepublished since February 2012 and compiled in 14 17 volumes.
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* YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith: A staple of any suspect being interrogated by the police. Sawatari, for instance, warns Yataru Echigô about the Sakura Assembly.
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* YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith: A staple of any suspect being interrogated by the police.Whenever Seike or Kuroôchi butt head with a powerful politician or TheConspiracy. Sawatari, for instance, warns Yataru Echigô about the Sakura Assembly.
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At the Kanagawa Police Prefecture, Inspector Keita Kurokôchi is a textbook DirtyCop. Having a position at the second brigade of the Prefecture tasked with investigating organized crime and white-collar crimes, Kurokôchi knows every local politician's little secrets and their bribes allow him to live in luxury. In the contrary, Commissioner Shingo Seike is a NaiveNewcomer at the Prefecture full of idealism.
One night, the representative of the majority at the prefectural assembly Bungo Gôda has murdered a prostitute named Rina Akamatsu, and calls Kurokôchi to fix the crime scene, at a price. The next day, Seike is assigned to the murder and is teamed up with Kurokôchi to help solve the crime, but also watch him for any infraction. Soon, Seike discovers that behind the crooked cop persona, Kurokôchi is using his influence to solve crimes whose culprits are beyond the power of the police, notably Kazunari Sawatari, Kanagawa's Governor who controls the Police Prefecture. In order to bring Sawatari to justice Kurokôchi makes uses of his long experience in the police, his keen investigative skills, and his willingness to hit even lower than the dirtiest of politicians. Seeing this, Seike chooses to brush Kurokôchi's bribes under the rug and cooperates with him in his cases.
As the cases involves more and more powerful officials, Kurokôchi and Seike are embroiled in even more intricate and dangerous crimes involving multiple [[GovernmentConspiracy Government Conspiracies]] and have to dig up the secrets of the Japanese government.
One night, the representative of the majority at the prefectural assembly Bungo Gôda has murdered a prostitute named Rina Akamatsu, and calls Kurokôchi to fix the crime scene, at a price. The next day, Seike is assigned to the murder and is teamed up with Kurokôchi to help solve the crime, but also watch him for any infraction. Soon, Seike discovers that behind the crooked cop persona, Kurokôchi is using his influence to solve crimes whose culprits are beyond the power of the police, notably Kazunari Sawatari, Kanagawa's Governor who controls the Police Prefecture. In order to bring Sawatari to justice Kurokôchi makes uses of his long experience in the police, his keen investigative skills, and his willingness to hit even lower than the dirtiest of politicians. Seeing this, Seike chooses to brush Kurokôchi's bribes under the rug and cooperates with him in his cases.
As the cases involves more and more powerful officials, Kurokôchi and Seike are embroiled in even more intricate and dangerous crimes involving multiple [[GovernmentConspiracy Government Conspiracies]] and have to dig up the secrets of the Japanese government.
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At the Kanagawa Police Prefecture, Inspector Keita Kurokôchi is a textbook DirtyCop. Having a position at the second brigade of the Prefecture tasked with investigating organized crime and white-collar crimes, Kurokôchi knows every local politician's little secrets and their bribes allow him to live in luxury. In On the contrary, Commissioner Shingo Seike is a NaiveNewcomer at the Prefecture full of idealism.
One night, the representative of the majority at the prefectural assembly Bungo Gôda has murdered a prostitute named Rina Akamatsu, and calls Kurokôchi to fix the crime scene, at a price. The next day, Seike is assigned to the murder and is teamed up with Kurokôchi to help solve thecrime, case, but also watch him for any infraction. Soon, Seike discovers that behind the crooked cop persona, Kurokôchi is using his influence to solve crimes whose culprits are beyond the power of the police, notably Kazunari Sawatari, Kanagawa's Governor who controls the Police Prefecture. In order to To bring Sawatari to justice Kurokôchi justice, Kurokô chi makes uses use of his long experience in the police, his keen investigative skills, and his willingness to hit even lower than the dirtiest of politicians. Seeing this, Seike chooses to brush Kurokôchi's Kurokô chi's bribes under the rug and cooperates with him in his cases.
As the casesinvolves involve more and more powerful officials, Kurokôchi Kurokô chi and Seike are embroiled in even more intricate complex and dangerous crimes involving multiple [[GovernmentConspiracy Government Conspiracies]] and have to dig up the secrets of the Japanese government.
One night, the representative of the majority at the prefectural assembly Bungo Gôda has murdered a prostitute named Rina Akamatsu, and calls Kurokôchi to fix the crime scene, at a price. The next day, Seike is assigned to the murder and is teamed up with Kurokôchi to help solve the
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!!''Kurokôchi'' contains example of the following tropes:
* BenevolentConspiracy: The Sakura Assembly is at heart, a group made of policemen aiming to help the Police under the radar and compensate the policemen's family in case they die. However, the eventual struggle over its enormous funds of 30,000,000,000 yen between the senior members of the Assembly tarnish it.
* BenevolentConspiracy: The Sakura Assembly is at heart, a group made of policemen aiming to help the Police under the radar and compensate the policemen's family in case they die. However, the eventual struggle over its enormous funds of 30,000,000,000 yen between the senior members of the Assembly tarnish it.
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!!''Kurokôchi'' contains example examples of the following tropes:
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Kurokôchi, which is obligatory for any competent cop. Yet, it is not the focus of the series, as Kurokôchi's investigations involve more interrogating people than analyzing clues.
* BadassDecay: The Akaba clan were once feared Yakuza, but have since become puppets at the hand of the Sakura Assembly.
* BadassGrandpa: Hideo Takahashi [[spoiler: aka Momotaro]], a veteran of [[spoiler: TheVietnamWar]] able to take on [[spoiler: his assassin disciples]] at their prime while being way over 50.
*BadassLongCoat: Contrary to most of the police's staff, Kurokôchi wears a long coat whenever he's out, which occasionally makes him look badass.
* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: Subverted in the most case, interviews of suspects or witnesses begin with the interviewee reluctant to say anything but through bargain, they usually reveal something important.
* BeneathTheMask: Beneath his self-assured persona, Kurokôchi hides a great deal of self-loathing.
* BenevolentConspiracy: The Sakura Assembly is at heart, a group made of policemen aiming to help the Police under the radar and compensate thepolicemen's family police officers' families in case they die. However, the eventual struggle over its enormous large funds of 30,000,000,000 yen between the senior members of the Assembly tarnish it.has corrupted its goals and methods.
* BigFancyHouse: The second chapter shows that Kurokôchi lives in a western-style manor equipped with luxurious furniture.
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* CheshireCatGrin: Kurokôchi nearly always has a knowing grin to show that he's always up to something. To most people, it looks like a SlasherSmile as he's publicly a DirtyCop.
* TheChessmaster: Kurokôchi who can manipulate everyone around him thanks to his ObfuscatingStupidity and connections to different collaborators.
* CompleteMonster:
** Kazunari Sawatari, a CorruptPolitician who rapes schoolgirls then murders left and right to keep this secret.
** [[spoiler: Hideo Takahashi]] [[spoiler: aka Kurizuka]]. An unrepentant murderer who horribly killed civilians and comrades alike during TheVietnamWar and then committed murders in the Sakura Assembly to [[spoiler: keep Kiritani's 300,000,000 yen in case anyone discovered his false identity]].
* CoolCar: Kurokôchi has a luxurious sports car given to him as a bribe. He seldom uses it though.
* CorruptPolitician: Sawatari, the former governor of Kanagawa who committed murder multiple times and is a pedophile who abused schoolgirls.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Kurokôchi, which is obligatory for any competent cop. Yet, it is not the focus of the series, as Kurokôchi's investigations involve more interrogating people than analyzing clues.
* BadassDecay: The Akaba clan were once feared Yakuza, but have since become puppets at the hand of the Sakura Assembly.
* BadassGrandpa: Hideo Takahashi [[spoiler: aka Momotaro]], a veteran of [[spoiler: TheVietnamWar]] able to take on [[spoiler: his assassin disciples]] at their prime while being way over 50.
*BadassLongCoat: Contrary to most of the police's staff, Kurokôchi wears a long coat whenever he's out, which occasionally makes him look badass.
* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: Subverted in the most case, interviews of suspects or witnesses begin with the interviewee reluctant to say anything but through bargain, they usually reveal something important.
* BeneathTheMask: Beneath his self-assured persona, Kurokôchi hides a great deal of self-loathing.
* BenevolentConspiracy: The Sakura Assembly is at heart, a group made of policemen aiming to help the Police under the radar and compensate the
* BigFancyHouse: The second chapter shows that Kurokôchi lives in a western-style manor equipped with luxurious furniture.
ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections:
* CheshireCatGrin: Kurokôchi nearly always has a knowing grin to show that he's always up to something. To most people, it looks like a SlasherSmile as he's publicly a DirtyCop.
* TheChessmaster: Kurokôchi who can manipulate everyone around him thanks to his ObfuscatingStupidity and connections to different collaborators.
* CompleteMonster:
** Kazunari Sawatari, a CorruptPolitician who rapes schoolgirls then murders left and right to keep this secret.
** [[spoiler: Hideo Takahashi]] [[spoiler: aka Kurizuka]]. An unrepentant murderer who horribly killed civilians and comrades alike during TheVietnamWar and then committed murders in the Sakura Assembly to [[spoiler: keep Kiritani's 300,000,000 yen in case anyone discovered his false identity]].
* CoolCar: Kurokôchi has a luxurious sports car given to him as a bribe. He seldom uses it though.
* CorruptPolitician: Sawatari, the former governor of Kanagawa who committed murder multiple times and is a pedophile who abused schoolgirls.
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* DirtyCop: Kurokôchi is one, hiding the local politicians' white-collar crimes or worse against bribes and informations. However, it becomes clear that far more malevolent agents of the Police are hidden within the organization.
* TheManBehindTheMan:
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* MurderInc:
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* DirtyCop: Kurokôchi is one, hiding the local politicians' white-collar crimes or worse against bribes and informations. information. However, it becomes clear apparent that far more malevolent agents of the Police are hidden within the organization.
*TheManBehindTheMan:
GoodIsNotNice: Kurokôchi works to put criminals behind bars, but is a jerk to his colleagues. He doesn't hesitate to manipulate emotionally, blackmail, or even murder to fulfill his objectives.
*MurderInc:
HeKnowsTooMuch: Most of the minor victims in the series were killed because they knew the secrets of a powerful CorruptPolitician. For instance, Kurokôchi is pursuing Sawatari for the murder of Soji Toyama, a web designer who learned that Sawatari had killed an underage sex slave.
* HoneyTrap: Ayaka Midoriyawa from the National Agency is (maybe) sent to seduce Seike into working against Kurokôchi.
* IHaveManyNames: Momotaro, or to some [[spoiler: Hideo Takahashi]] [[spoiler: but in reality his name is Kurizuka]]
* InfoDrop: Newspapers and TV broadcast are a recurring way of introducing important pieces of information, notably introducing politicians or reminding the reader of what happened.
* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: Takeshi Endo is killed by the Sakura Assembly because he spilled the secrets of the Sakura Assembly. [[spoiler: However, it is revealed that Hideo Takahashi had him killed because he feared that Endo knew he wasn't the real Kiritani]].
* LivingLegend:
** Momotaro, a legendary assassin who operated during the 70's and 80's and supposedly had several disciples. [[spoiler: It is revealed that Momotaro died long ago]].[[spoiler: However Momotaro merely changed his identity and now operates as Hideto Takahashi]].
** Heizo Shiroo, a famously ruthless agent of the Public Security Agency.
* TheManBehindTheMan: When Kurokôchi and Seike investigate the Sakura Assembly, they first discover that [[spoiler: A boldHeizo Shiroo]] is the head of the group. However [[spoiler: Shiroo]] became a figurehead for the real head [[spoiler Hideto Takahashi]].
* ManipulativeBastard: In his quest to bring whoever he's investigating to justice, Kurokôchi doesn't hesitate to blackmail or emotionally coerce people into doing whatever he wants them to do. Blackmail, lying, ObfuscatingStupidity, are a few of his methods. One of the reasons for his success is that he easily does that and can plan ahead with the predictable actions of those he manipulates.
* MurderInc: The assassin "Momotaro" and his disciple are a group whose only role is to carry out murders for their clients.
* NaiveNewcomer: At the beginning of the series, Seike is still an idealistic newbie at the prefecture who's disgusted by Kurokôchi. As the story goes on, he discovers that many policemen are way more corrupt than his partner.
* ThePerfectCrime: The 300,000,000 yen robbery, a daring heist whose culprit was never found. [[spoiler: In reality subverted, as Hideto Kiritani, the culprit, was rapidly caught by the Public Security Investigation Agency, who kept silent about it because the burgeoning Sakura Assembly used the money as their fund]].
* ObfuscatingStupidity: On the outside, Kurokôchi acts like a stereotypical DirtyCop, but in reality, most of his actions are carefully planned to manipulate his entourage.
* PermaStubble: Kurokôchi, befitting his image as a DirtyCop.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Seike prefers to stay silent about Kurokôchi's bribes to focus on his cases despite the fact that they were teamed up specifically so that Seike could report on the bribes.
* SleazyPolitician: Many of the minor politicians who appear in the story are guilty of minor crimes such as soliciting prostitutes or influence peddling. All of them have to bribe Kurokôchi to keep their reputation intact generously.
* StartingANewLife: [[spoiler: The real]] Hideto Kiritani [[spoiler: switched names with Kurizuka]] to escape his past.
*StreetSmart: Kurokôchi has an in-depth knowledge of how any criminal works, has a knack for finding the outrageous yet better option whenever he's cornered and is mostly unfazed by everything that's happening to him.
* TradingBarsForStripes: After being caught for [[spoiler: the 300,000,000 yen robbery]], [[spoiler:Hideto Kiritani became a soldier for the Japanese Government for twenty years]].
* TheVietnamWar: Although Japan never officially participated in it, it is revealed that they sent several agents during the war, so someone in the government knew how a war was really like.
* YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith: A staple of any suspect being interrogated by the police. Sawatari, for instance, warns Yataru Echigô about the Sakura Assembly.
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* HoneyTrap: Ayaka Midoriyawa from the National Agency is (maybe) sent to seduce Seike into working against Kurokôchi.
* IHaveManyNames: Momotaro, or to some [[spoiler: Hideo Takahashi]] [[spoiler: but in reality his name is Kurizuka]]
* InfoDrop: Newspapers and TV broadcast are a recurring way of introducing important pieces of information, notably introducing politicians or reminding the reader of what happened.
* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: Takeshi Endo is killed by the Sakura Assembly because he spilled the secrets of the Sakura Assembly. [[spoiler: However, it is revealed that Hideo Takahashi had him killed because he feared that Endo knew he wasn't the real Kiritani]].
* LivingLegend:
** Momotaro, a legendary assassin who operated during the 70's and 80's and supposedly had several disciples. [[spoiler: It is revealed that Momotaro died long ago]].[[spoiler: However Momotaro merely changed his identity and now operates as Hideto Takahashi]].
** Heizo Shiroo, a famously ruthless agent of the Public Security Agency.
* TheManBehindTheMan: When Kurokôchi and Seike investigate the Sakura Assembly, they first discover that [[spoiler: A boldHeizo Shiroo]] is the head of the group. However [[spoiler: Shiroo]] became a figurehead for the real head [[spoiler Hideto Takahashi]].
* ManipulativeBastard: In his quest to bring whoever he's investigating to justice, Kurokôchi doesn't hesitate to blackmail or emotionally coerce people into doing whatever he wants them to do. Blackmail, lying, ObfuscatingStupidity, are a few of his methods. One of the reasons for his success is that he easily does that and can plan ahead with the predictable actions of those he manipulates.
* MurderInc: The assassin "Momotaro" and his disciple are a group whose only role is to carry out murders for their clients.
* NaiveNewcomer: At the beginning of the series, Seike is still an idealistic newbie at the prefecture who's disgusted by Kurokôchi. As the story goes on, he discovers that many policemen are way more corrupt than his partner.
* ThePerfectCrime: The 300,000,000 yen robbery, a daring heist whose culprit was never found. [[spoiler: In reality subverted, as Hideto Kiritani, the culprit, was rapidly caught by the Public Security Investigation Agency, who kept silent about it because the burgeoning Sakura Assembly used the money as their fund]].
* ObfuscatingStupidity: On the outside, Kurokôchi acts like a stereotypical DirtyCop, but in reality, most of his actions are carefully planned to manipulate his entourage.
* PermaStubble: Kurokôchi, befitting his image as a DirtyCop.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Seike prefers to stay silent about Kurokôchi's bribes to focus on his cases despite the fact that they were teamed up specifically so that Seike could report on the bribes.
* SleazyPolitician: Many of the minor politicians who appear in the story are guilty of minor crimes such as soliciting prostitutes or influence peddling. All of them have to bribe Kurokôchi to keep their reputation intact generously.
* StartingANewLife: [[spoiler: The real]] Hideto Kiritani [[spoiler: switched names with Kurizuka]] to escape his past.
*StreetSmart: Kurokôchi has an in-depth knowledge of how any criminal works, has a knack for finding the outrageous yet better option whenever he's cornered and is mostly unfazed by everything that's happening to him.
* TradingBarsForStripes: After being caught for [[spoiler: the 300,000,000 yen robbery]], [[spoiler:Hideto Kiritani became a soldier for the Japanese Government for twenty years]].
* TheVietnamWar: Although Japan never officially participated in it, it is revealed that they sent several agents during the war, so someone in the government knew how a war was really like.
* YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith: A staple of any suspect being interrogated by the police. Sawatari, for instance, warns Yataru Echigô about the Sakura Assembly.
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At the Kanagawa Police Prefecture, Inspector Keita Kurokôchi is a textbook DirtyCop. Having a position at the second brigade of the Prefecture tasked with investigation organized crime and white-collar crimes, Kurokôchi knows every local politician's little secrets and the politicians' bribes allow him to live in luxury. In the contrary, Commissioner Shingo Seike is a NaiveNewcomer at the Prefecture full of idealism. One night, the representative of the majority at the prefectural assembly Bungo Gôda has murdered a prostitute named Rina Akamatsu, and calls Kurokôchi to fix the crime scene, at a price. The next day, Seike is assigned to the murder and is teamed up with Kurokôchi to help solve the crime, but also watch him for any infraction. Soon, Seike discovers that behind the crooked cop persona, Kurokôchi is using his influence to solve crimes whose culprits are beyond the power of the police, notably Kazunari Sawatari, the Governor who controls the Police Prefecture. In order to bring Sawatari to justice Kurokôchi makes uses of his long experience in the police, his keen investigative skill, and his willingness to hit even lower than the dirtiest of politicians. Seeing this, Seike chooses to brush Kurokôchi's bribes under the rug and cooperates with him in his cases. As the cases involves more and more powerful officials, Kurokôchi and Seike are embroiled in even more intricate and dangerous crimes involving multiple [[GovernmentConspiracy Government Conspiracies]] and have to dig up the secrets of the Japanese governments.
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At the Kanagawa Police Prefecture, Inspector Keita Kurokôchi is a textbook DirtyCop. Having a position at the second brigade of the Prefecture tasked with investigation investigating organized crime and white-collar crimes, Kurokôchi knows every local politician's little secrets and the politicians' their bribes allow him to live in luxury. In the contrary, Commissioner Shingo Seike is a NaiveNewcomer at the Prefecture full of idealism. idealism.
One night, the representative of the majority at the prefectural assembly Bungo Gôda has murdered a prostitute named Rina Akamatsu, and calls Kurokôchi to fix the crime scene, at a price. The next day, Seike is assigned to the murder and is teamed up with Kurokôchi to help solve the crime, but also watch him for any infraction. Soon, Seike discovers that behind the crooked cop persona, Kurokôchi is using his influence to solve crimes whose culprits are beyond the power of the police, notably Kazunari Sawatari,the Kanagawa's Governor who controls the Police Prefecture. In order to bring Sawatari to justice Kurokôchi makes uses of his long experience in the police, his keen investigative skill, skills, and his willingness to hit even lower than the dirtiest of politicians. Seeing this, Seike chooses to brush Kurokôchi's bribes under the rug and cooperates with him in his cases. cases.
As the cases involves more and more powerful officials, Kurokôchi and Seike are embroiled in even more intricate and dangerous crimes involving multiple [[GovernmentConspiracy Government Conspiracies]] and have to dig up the secrets of the Japanesegovernments.
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One night, the representative of the majority at the prefectural assembly Bungo Gôda has murdered a prostitute named Rina Akamatsu, and calls Kurokôchi to fix the crime scene, at a price. The next day, Seike is assigned to the murder and is teamed up with Kurokôchi to help solve the crime, but also watch him for any infraction. Soon, Seike discovers that behind the crooked cop persona, Kurokôchi is using his influence to solve crimes whose culprits are beyond the power of the police, notably Kazunari Sawatari,
As the cases involves more and more powerful officials, Kurokôchi and Seike are embroiled in even more intricate and dangerous crimes involving multiple [[GovernmentConspiracy Government Conspiracies]] and have to dig up the secrets of the Japanese
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''Kurokôchi'' (クロコーチ, Kurokōchi) is an Award-winning half PoliceProcedural half {{Thriller}} {{SpyFiction}} {{Seinen}} manga written by Takashi Nagasaki and drawn by Kōji Kōno, prepublished since February 2012 and compiled in 14 volumes.
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*CowboyCop: Kurokôchi is one, although more manipulative than most. He doesn't hesitate to use blackmail, bribing, lying and sometimes murder if need be if it means having a culprit get his comeuppances.
*DirtyCop: Kurokôchi is one, hiding the local politicians' white-collar crimes or worse against bribes and informations. However, it becomes clear that far more malevolent agents of the Police are hidden within the organization.
*TheManBehindTheMan:
*MurderInc:
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At the Kanagawa Police Prefecture, Inspector Keita Kurokôchi is a textbook DirtyCop. Having a position at the second brigade of the Prefecture tasked with investigation organized crime and white-collar crimes, Kurokôchi knows every local politician's little secrets and the politicians' bribes allow him to live in luxury. In the contrary, Commissioner Shingo Seike is a NaiveNewcomer at the Prefecture full of idealism. One night, the representative of the majority at the prefectural assembly Bungo Gôda has murdered a prostitute named Rina Akamatsu, and calls Kurokôchi to fix the crime scene, at a price. The next day, Seike is assigned to the murder and is teamed up with Kurokôchi to help solve the crime, but also watch him for any infraction. Soon, Seike discovers that behind the crooked cop persona, Kurokôchi is using his influence to solve crimes whose culprits are beyond the power of the police, notably Kazunari Sawatari, the Governor who controls the Police Prefecture. In order to bring Sawatari to justice Kurokôchi makes uses of his long experience in the police, his keen investigative skill, and his willingness to hit even lower than the dirtiest of politicians. Seeing this, Seike chooses to brush Kurokôchi's bribes under the rug and cooperates with him in his cases. As the cases involves more and more powerful officials, Kurokôchi and Seike are embroiled in even more intricate and dangerous crimes involving multiple [[GovernmentConspiracy Government Conspiracies]] and have to dig up the secrets of the Japanese governments.
''Kurokôchi'' (クロコーチ, Kurokōchi) is an Award-winning half PoliceProcedural half {{Thriller}} {{Seinen}} manga written by Takashi Nagasaki and drawn by Kōji Kōno, prepublished since February 2012 and compiled in 14 volumes.
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At the Kanagawa Police Prefecture, Inspector Keita Kurokôchi is a textbook DirtyCop. Having a position at the second brigade of the Prefecture tasked with investigation organized crime and white-collar crimes, Kurokôchi knows every local politician's little secrets and the politicians' bribes allow him to live in luxury. In the contrary, Commissioner Shingo Seike is a NaiveNewcomer at the Prefecture full of idealism. One night, the representative of the majority at the prefectural assembly Bungo Gôda has murdered a prostitute named Rina Akamatsu, and calls Kurokôchi to fix the crime scene, at a price. The next day, Seike is assigned to the murder and is teamed up with Kurokôchi to help solve the crime, but also watch him for any infraction. Soon, Seike discovers that behind the crooked cop persona, Kurokôchi is using his influence to solve crimes whose culprits are beyond the power of the police, notably Kazunari Sawatari, the Governor who controls the Police Prefecture. In order to bring Sawatari to justice Kurokôchi makes uses of his long experience in the police, his keen investigative skill, and his willingness to hit even lower than the dirtiest of politicians. Seeing this, Seike chooses to brush Kurokôchi's bribes under the rug and cooperates with him in his cases. As the cases involves more and more powerful officials, Kurokôchi and Seike are embroiled in even more intricate and dangerous crimes involving multiple [[GovernmentConspiracy Government Conspiracies]] and have to dig up the secrets of the Japanese governments.
''Kurokôchi'' (クロコーチ, Kurokōchi) is an Award-winning half PoliceProcedural half {{Thriller}} {{Seinen}} manga written by Takashi Nagasaki and drawn by Kōji Kōno, prepublished since February 2012 and compiled in 14 volumes.
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