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''Midnight Occult Civil Servants'' ([[MarketBasedTitle known as Mayonaka no Okaruto Kōmuin in Japan]]) is a 2015 UrbanFantasy manga, which also includes a 2018 novel and 2019 anime TV adaptation, written by Yōko Tamotsu and published under Kadokawa Shoten with 10 volumes being published. The anime is being streamed by Crunchyroll (with cooperation from Funimation with an English voice track) in English and in Mandarin Chinese by bilibili.

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''Midnight Occult Civil Servants'' ([[MarketBasedTitle known as Mayonaka (''Mayonaka no Okaruto Kōmuin in Japan]]) Kōmuin'') is a 2015 an UrbanFantasy manga, manga written and illustrated by Yōko Tamotsu, which also includes began serialization in the {{shoujo|Demographic}} magazine ''Monthly Asuka'' in 2015. The manga has been adapted to a 2018 novel and 2019 anime TV adaptation, written by Yōko Tamotsu and published under Kadokawa Shoten with 10 volumes being published. The adaptation; the anime is being streamed by Crunchyroll (with cooperation from Funimation with an English voice track) in English and in Mandarin Chinese by bilibili.
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* AdultFear: Episode 10 ends with baby insectoid another being burnt and their mother being late to save them.

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* AllMythsAreTrue: Aside from pretty much every entity from Myth/JapaneseMythology, angels, various European mythical creatures and even Latin American ''deities'' are all among the Anothers encountered by the Nocturnal Community Relations Division. They all appear to have backstories mostly consistent with the myths they originated from.



* FantasyKitchenSink: Every supernatural entity from any mythology appears to be exist in the universe.

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* FantasyKitchenSink: CrossoverCosmology: Aside from pretty much every entity from Myth/JapaneseMythology, angels, various European mythical creatures and even Latin American ''deities'' are all among the Anothers encountered by the Nocturnal Community Relations Division. They all appear to have backstories mostly consistent with the myths they originated from. Every supernatural entity from any mythology appears to be exist in the universe.
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* BitterSweetEnding: ""Sense of Loss and Proof of Despair" has Izumi and Kyoichi's sister rescued from Azazel. However, he seems to be targeting another woman just to revive his human wife.

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* BitterSweetEnding: ""Sense "Sense of Loss and Proof of Despair" has Izumi and Kyoichi's sister rescued from Azazel. However, he seems to be targeting another woman just to revive his human wife.
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'''Midnight Occult Civil Servants''' ([[MarketBasedTitle known as Mayonaka no Okaruto Kōmuin in Japan]]) is a 2015 UrbanFantasy manga, which also includes a 2018 novel and 2019 anime TV adaptation, written by Yōko Tamotsu and published under Kadokawa Shoten with 10 volumes being published. The anime is being streamed by Crunchyroll (with cooperation from Funimation with an English voice track) in English and in Mandarin Chinese by bilibili.

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'''Midnight ''Midnight Occult Civil Servants''' Servants'' ([[MarketBasedTitle known as Mayonaka no Okaruto Kōmuin in Japan]]) is a 2015 UrbanFantasy manga, which also includes a 2018 novel and 2019 anime TV adaptation, written by Yōko Tamotsu and published under Kadokawa Shoten with 10 volumes being published. The anime is being streamed by Crunchyroll (with cooperation from Funimation with an English voice track) in English and in Mandarin Chinese by bilibili.
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* VampireHickey: Officers with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police's Section Zero take on a case of vampires after they were able to see bite marks on a corpse. For officers who aren't blessed to see the supernatural, they can't see it and they think they're just a weird bunch.
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: The [=OAV=] showed Section Zero of the TMPD working on a vampire case.
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The manga takes place in modern times where the Japanese government establishes various Nocturnal Community Relations Divisions in Tokyo's 23 wards to police and oversee any problems with the supernatural, known officially as ''Anothers''. To cover up any incidents, they work closely with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.

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The manga takes place in modern times where the Japanese government establishes various Nocturnal Community Relations Divisions in Tokyo's 23 wards to police and oversee any problems with the supernatural, known officially as ''Anothers''. To cover up any incidents, they work closely with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.
Department's Section Zero.

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* AllMythsAreTrue: Aside from pretty much every entity from Myth/JapaneseMythology, angels, various European mythical creatures and even Latin American ''deities'' are all among the Anothers encountered by the Nocturnal Community Relations Division.

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* AllMythsAreTrue: Aside from pretty much every entity from Myth/JapaneseMythology, angels, various European mythical creatures and even Latin American ''deities'' are all among the Anothers encountered by the Nocturnal Community Relations Division. They all appear to have backstories mostly consistent with the myths they originated from.


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* FantasyKitchenSink: Every supernatural entity from any mythology appears to be exist in the universe.


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* StarfishLanguage: From the perspective of ordinary humans, the language spoken by the "Another" species. Arata is an useful asset to the [=NCRDs=] foremost because [[SuddenlyFluentInGibberish he can get past the language barrier via the Ears of Sand]].
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* AdultFear: Episode 10 ends with baby insectoid another being burnt and their mother being late to save them.

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* BitterSweetEnding: ""Sense of Loss and Proof of Despair" has Izumi and Kyoichi's sister rescued from Azazel. However, he seems to be targeting another woman just to revive his human wife.



* MultinationalTeam: The team has Theo, who is of British origin. The manga suggests that he was naturalized.

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* MultinationalTeam: The team has Theo, who is of British Irish origin. The manga suggests that he was naturalized.naturalized.
* PunchClockHero: Theo mentions time and time again that the NCRD is activated to intervene and save lives and not to defeat the hostile Anothers.
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* MultinationalTeam: The team has Seo, who is of British origin. The manga suggests that he was naturalized.

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* MultinationalTeam: The team has Seo, Theo, who is of British origin. The manga suggests that he was naturalized.
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* GasLeakCoverup: Implied to be used by the [=NCRD=] and police officers familiar with Anothers.

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* GasLeakCoverup: Implied to be used by the [=NCRD=] and police officers familiar with Anothers.Anothers to keep public attention away.



* UrbanFantasy: The manga takes place in (mostly) Shinjuku where the NCRD polices the city after dark in order to protect the public from supernatural incidents and have Arata use his Ears of Sand skill to mediate conflicts.

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* UrbanFantasy: The manga takes place in (mostly) Shinjuku where the NCRD polices the city after dark in order to protect the public from supernatural incidents and have Arata use his Ears of Sand skill to mediate conflicts.conflicts whenever possible.
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* GasLeakCoverup: Implied to be used by the [=NCRD=] and police officers familiar with Anothers.
-->'''Yokoyama''': "I guess we can always say there was another gas leak."
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* RookieRedRanger: Miyako Arata is reincarnation of Abe no Seimei and can communicate with the various Another species, yet he initially had no idea what was the real purpose of the Nocturnal Community Relations Division until he participated in their activities for the very first time. Bonus points for also being a RedHeadedHero.
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'''Midnight Occult Civil Servants''' ([[MarketBasedTitle known as Mayonaka no Okaruto Kōmuin in Japan]]) is a 2015 UrbanFantasy manga, which also includes a 2018 novel and 2019 anime TV adaptation, written by Yōko Tamotsu and published under Kadokawa Shoten with 10 volumes being published. The anime is being streamed by Crunchyroll (with cooperation from Funimation) in English and in Mandarin Chinese by bilibili.

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'''Midnight Occult Civil Servants''' ([[MarketBasedTitle known as Mayonaka no Okaruto Kōmuin in Japan]]) is a 2015 UrbanFantasy manga, which also includes a 2018 novel and 2019 anime TV adaptation, written by Yōko Tamotsu and published under Kadokawa Shoten with 10 volumes being published. The anime is being streamed by Crunchyroll (with cooperation from Funimation) Funimation with an English voice track) in English and in Mandarin Chinese by bilibili.

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'''Midnight Occult Civil Servants''' ([[MarketBasedTitle known as Mayonaka no Okaruto Kōmuin in Japan]]) is a 2015 UrbanFantasy manga, which also includes 2018 novel and 2019 anime TV adaptation, written by Yōko Tamotsu and published under Kadokawa Shoten with 10 volumes being published. The anime is being streamed by Crunchyroll (with cooperation from Funimation) in English and in Mandarin Chinese by bilibili.

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'''Midnight Occult Civil Servants''' ([[MarketBasedTitle known as Mayonaka no Okaruto Kōmuin in Japan]]) is a 2015 UrbanFantasy manga, which also includes a 2018 novel and 2019 anime TV adaptation, written by Yōko Tamotsu and published under Kadokawa Shoten with 10 volumes being published. The anime is being streamed by Crunchyroll (with cooperation from Funimation) in English and in Mandarin Chinese by bilibili.



** "The Trickster with Amber Eyes" revealed that the kyoshi incident Huehuecóyotl staged was from a missing person's case file from the NCRD desk.

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** "The Trickster with Amber Eyes" revealed that the kyoshi incident Huehuecóyotl staged was from a missing person's case file from the NCRD desk.desk.
** "The Parallel World Elevator of the City Hall Observation Deck" has Arata wondering if his Ears of Sand skill can prevent Pandora from taking women's memories of breaking up with their significant other.
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* BenevolentConspiracy: The NCRDs work together with Japanese law enforcement to conceal supernatural incidents from the world because they're not ready for it. Also, they can't communicate with them.

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* BenevolentConspiracy: The NCRDs [=NCRDs=] work together with Japanese law enforcement to conceal supernatural incidents from the world because they're not ready for it. Also, they can't communicate with them.

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'''Midnight Occult Civil Servants''' ([[MarketBasedTitle as Mayonaka no Okaruto Kōmuin]]) is a 2015 UrbanFantasy manga, which also includes 2018 novel and 2019 anime TV adaptation, written by Yōko Tamotsu and published under Kadokawa Shoten with 10 volumes being published.

The manga takes place in modern times where the Japanese government establishes various Nocturnal Community Relations Divisions in Tokyo's 23 wards to police and oversee any problems with the supernatural, known officially as ''Anothers''.

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'''Midnight Occult Civil Servants''' ([[MarketBasedTitle known as Mayonaka no Okaruto Kōmuin]]) Kōmuin in Japan]]) is a 2015 UrbanFantasy manga, which also includes 2018 novel and 2019 anime TV adaptation, written by Yōko Tamotsu and published under Kadokawa Shoten with 10 volumes being published.

published. The anime is being streamed by Crunchyroll (with cooperation from Funimation) in English and in Mandarin Chinese by bilibili.

The manga takes place in modern times where the Japanese government establishes various Nocturnal Community Relations Divisions in Tokyo's 23 wards to police and oversee any problems with the supernatural, known officially as ''Anothers''.
''Anothers''. To cover up any incidents, they work closely with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.



* BenevolentConspiracy: The NCRDs work together with Japanese law enforcement to conceal supernatural incidents from the world because they're not ready for it. Also, they can't communicate with them.



* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: The cast is filled with dashing young men.

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* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: The cast is filled with dashing young men. Justified that it's printed in a shoujo magazine.



** The 1st episode revealed that Arata is the modern incarnation of Abe no Seimei. And he's able to mediate conflicts between ''Another'' species with the Ears of Sand.

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** The 1st episode "Angels and Tengu Above the Shinjuku Skyline" revealed that Arata is the modern incarnation of Abe no Seimei. And he's able to mediate conflicts between ''Another'' species with the Ears of Sand.Sand.
** "The Trickster with Amber Eyes" revealed that the kyoshi incident Huehuecóyotl staged was from a missing person's case file from the NCRD desk.

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* AllMythsAreTrue: Aside from pretty much every entity from Myth/JapaneseMythology, angels, various European mythical creatures and even Latin American ''deities'' are all among the Anothers encountered by the Nocturnal Community Relations Division.
* BoringYetPractical: Among the tools in their disposal, the protagonists also have access to special police tape that generally does a decent job at setting up a barrier to keep most Another species from going overboard.
* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: The cast is filled with dashing young men.



* {{Reincarnation}}: Arata is Abe no Seimei reincarnated in the present and looking almost identical to his most famous incarnation. Furthermore, Seimei was the ancestor of the Miyako bloodline.
* RookieRedRanger: Miyako Arata is reincarnation of Abe no Seimei and can communicate with the various Another species, yet he initially had no idea what was the real purpose of the Nocturnal Community Relations Division until he participated in their activities for the very first time. Bonus points for also being a RedHeadedHero.



** The 1st episode revealed that Arata is the modern incarnation of Abe of Seimei. And he's able to mediate conflicts between ''Another'' species with the Ears of Sand.

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** The 1st episode revealed that Arata is the modern incarnation of Abe of no Seimei. And he's able to mediate conflicts between ''Another'' species with the Ears of Sand.
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'''Midnight Occult Civil Servants''' ([[MarketBasedTitle as Mayonaka no Okaruto Kōmuin]]) is a 2015 UrbanFantasy manga, which also includes 2018 novel and 2019 anime TV adaptation, written by Yōko Tamotsu and published under Kadokawa Shoten with 10 volumes being published.

The manga takes place in modern times where the Japanese government establishes various Nocturnal Community Relations Divisions in Tokyo's 23 wards to police and oversee any problems with the supernatural, known officially as ''Anothers''.

Miyako Arata is the newest recruit to work in Shinjuku's NCRD. Working under Kyoichi Sakaki, his job is to mediate and resolve any conflicts among various Another species while investigating any occult crimes committed in the city. With the help of a skill called Ears of Sand, used to understand the ''Another'' language, Miyako and his colleagues work to keep the peace in Shinjuku and prevent any events from affecting the city.

[[http://occultkoumuin.com/ The official site is here.]]

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!!''Midnight Occult Civil Servants'' provides examples of:

* GovernmentProcedural: A manga based on the inner workings of the city's bureaucracy (after dark).
* MarketBasedTitle: In Japanese, it's known as Mayonaka no Okaruto Kōmuin.
* MultinationalTeam: The team has Seo, who is of British origin. The manga suggests that he was naturalized.
* UrbanFantasy: The manga takes place in (mostly) Shinjuku where the NCRD polices the city after dark in order to protect the public from supernatural incidents and have Arata use his Ears of Sand skill to mediate conflicts.
* WhamEpisode:
** The 1st episode revealed that Arata is the modern incarnation of Abe of Seimei. And he's able to mediate conflicts between ''Another'' species with the Ears of Sand.

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